Today we are happy to announce The Tech We Want, a series of initiatives that we’ve been working on for a long time at the Open Knowledge Foundation and that has been guiding us in the way we develop software.
In recent years, technology has adopted a complex, wasteful, and expensive approach to serving its purpose, making it rare, even in the open movement, to find affordable, accessible, and sustainable software. There is an urgent need for the technology industry to re-think how software is developed, which tools do we use and how tech solutions are currently conceived, coded, and deployed.
The first practical and publicly faced intervention is The Tech We Want Online Summit. In this one-day event, OKFN is bringing together key voices working on public interest technologies to start a collective conversation about new practical ways to build software that is useful, simple, long-lasting and focused on solving people’s real problems.
The world is tired of falling down the endless rabbit holes of tech tools that have become the norm as if it’s the only way forward. The Tech We Want is our attempt to help build critical mass and put the issue on the agenda of developers and decision-makers everywhere.
The Online Summit is open to everyone, especially technology workers, developers, engineers and programming language specialists who are interested in taking a critical stand on today’s technologies.
Join us in building the tech we want and that the world needs!
Practical info
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Dates â 17 – 18 October 2024
đ Time â 10 am to 6.30 pm UTC (various sessions)
đ Online (link will be shared with registrant participants)
âšī¸ More information and programme â https://okfn.org/the-tech-we-want
đ Registration required â https://forms.gle/uThkiQYdEiEtNnNy5
Get involved
đŖ Open Call for Tech Demos â https://forms.gle/sPhRn4jVY92hxZqN9
đ The Tech We Want Manifesto (open for collaboration) â https://docs.google.com/document/d/10cWRtIJgSqxKE9qKp4sPRBlJpFvTtHzGLTBuN0SRz6c/edit?usp=sharing
