Digital Infrastructure
Research and Development
Creating a sustainable future for the technology that powers our world
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Digital Infrastructure
Digital infrastructure is the code, policies, and standards powering the technology that permeates every aspect of life, such as hospitals, banking, and social media.
This infrastructure is under-maintained and undermined in ways that often favor corporate and government interests over the needs of the public.
We’re creating a community of researchers and practitioners to better understand the problem and to work together toward our common goal: a commons of technology, sustainably developed and maintained, for the benefit of everyone.
Our partners fund work in this space regularly. If you’d like to propose a project or join our funding partners, contact us using the form below, and we’ll be in touch.
Events
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February 16th 2022 +00:00 pm
Digital Infrastructure Community Call - February
Regular, open call for digital infrastructure project updates, news, questions and goings on.
past event
November 2nd 2021 +00:00 pm
Digital Infrastructure Community Call - November
Regular, open call for digital infrastructure project updates, news, questions and goings on.
past event
September 14th 2021 +00:00 pm
Digital Infrastructure Community Call - September
Regular, open call for digital infrastructure project updates, news, questions and goings on.
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Updates
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Tech For Forests Website
January 26th 2023 • By Narrira Lemos de Souza, Luciana Ferreira, Márcia Nóbrega, and Bruno Rigonato
Tech For Forests Update In the period between the beginning of 2021 and…
A Cooperative Model for Digital Infrastructure
November 21st 2022 • By Jorge E. Benet Sánchez-Noriega
A Cooperative Model for Digital Infrastructure Cooperatives are busines…
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Projects
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Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms
To what extent are F/OSS projects supported by waged labor, and how does this affect project cohesion and sustainability?
Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms This research project, which focuses on the sustainability of…
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Resources
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Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms
Research 'One-Pager'
Mathieu O’Neil, Laure Muselli, Mahin Raissi, Stefano Zacchiroli
Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms
Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms
Mathieu O’Neil, Laure Muselli, Mahin Raissi, Stefano Zacchiroli
Mapping the co-production of digital infrastructure by peer projects and firms
The coproduction of open source software by volunteers and big tech firms
Mathieu O’Neil, Laure Muselli, Mahin Raissi, Stefano Zacchiroli
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Our funders
Building toward a more diverse and well-funded ecosystem for critical digital infrastructure, the Ford Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation came together in 2018 to fund thirteen research projects that fill gaps in understanding of how digital infrastructure is built, maintained, and sustained.
To continue to advance this agenda, Ford Foundation, Sloan Foundation, Mozilla, Omidyar Network and Open Society Foundations launched a 2020 Digital Infrastructure RFP to further study the maintenance of digital infrastructure.
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Feel free to contact us if you want to be alerted when there's funding/be a funder. You can also contact us for any feedback, to say hi, or to show support to us or any of the projects.