Community tech allows community businesses the authority to influence and control the hardware or software they’re using, delivering benefits directly to the communities they serve.
The digital disconnect: taking digital social policy seriously
In our next essay, Rachel Coldicutt explores the urgent need for a community-centred approach to technology policy in the UK. From WhatsApp-powered community organising to the overlooked role of digital life in neighbourhood renewal, Rachel calls for a radical rethink of how innovation serves society.
Empowering Change: How Makers & Maintainers are transforming community technology
As we launch the Discovery Fund, meet some of the successful grantees and the challenges they are hoping to explore community tech-based solutions and ideas for.
Creating a more diverse and equitable community tech sector
Rosie and Fergus lead our community tech programme team, and are currently recruiting for the new Discovery Fund. Here Rosie shares how they are adapting and iterating the application processes to remove barriers for underrepresented groups and mitigate unconscious bias
The Community Tech: Makers and Maintainers fund focuses on building resilience of existing community tech already in use by community businesses across England. Meet the latest cohort and learn more about the programme.
