Digital Stewardship

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[ Session Name ] Digital Stewardship [ Primary Space ] Digital Inclusion [ Secondary Space ] Decentralization

[ Submitter's Name ] Greta Byrum [ Submitter's Affiliated Organisation ] Resilient Communities NYC

[ Additional facilitators ] Janice Gates (Detroit Community Technology Project),Monique Tate (Detroit Digital Steward),NYC Digital Steward TBD

What will happen in your session?

The internet as we know it is controlled by powerful interests with little commitment to digital equity and safety. For vulnerable communities, this means unequal access and predatory data mining and profiling. Can we build a different internet rooted in community needs and ownership? In this session the Detroit Community Technology Project and Resilient Communities NYC will share the model of Digital Stewardship, an approach to collectively building internet infrastructure through community organizing and hands-on tech learning. Participants will get an in-depth look at how we’ve built and scaled Digital Stewardship as an adaptable, locally-led model, and a chance to think about what it might look like to practice DS in their own contexts for greater digital equity and self-determination.

What is the goal or outcome of your session?

We hope that by sharing our theory and practice of Digital Stewardship we can lead by example to shift the culture of technology. Beyond the quality of life improvements often developed via code academies, apps, or hackathons, we believe that training and supporting Digital Stewards in local communities can lead to deeper democracy and self-determination, especially for people who have historically been marginalized and excluded from political and economic power. While battles over Net Neutrality and internet governance rage, local communities must develop long-term, intersectional solutions to the problems of digital inequality and insecurity. Our goal is to share a model that allows communities to address digital ownership, risks, harms, and benefits collectively and collaboratively.

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Time needed

90 mins

[hannahkane]

This seems like a valuable session that could fit into either the Digital Inclusion or the Decentralization space.

Is this predominantly a case study? Perhaps it would fit in the Gallery space? Are there ways to make it an interactive session within the Learning Forum?

[hannahkane]

We're going to remove this from the Digital Inclusion space, because we want to give Decentralization a chance to review this.

[kenyatta1]

@flukeout this might be great for Web Lit!

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