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More and more community businesses are creating their own technology<\/strong>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n

From adapting existing digital products, to building brand new hardware and software, community businesses are making technology that local people can hold to account, delivers local benefits, and that fully meets their needs.<\/p>\n

Power to Change is committed to supporting community business as we know they enable communities to harness power and make places better. In light of the increasing influence of tech across all aspects of society, we recognise that something needs to be done to protect and ensure benefits are realised at a community level.<\/p>\n

That’s why we want to work collaboratively to explore and invest in the development of community tech by community business<\/strong>, ensuring communities have access and ownership of technology that meets their specific needs, respects their autonomy and ensures more value is realised within a place – be that a street, ward or town.<\/p>\n

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WHat you’ll find<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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1. What is community tech?<\/a><\/p>\n

2. The case for community tech<\/a><\/p>\n

3. Case studies<\/a><\/p>\n

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4. Blogs<\/a><\/p>\n

5. Funding programmes<\/a><\/p>\n

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What is community tech?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

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The term community tech means any hardware or software that delivers benefit to a community group<\/strong>, and which that community group has the authority to influence or control.<\/p>\n

A community group may create a piece of technology for their own use<\/strong> or use by other groups, or to be governed or adapted by other groups.<\/p>\n

This means community groups obtain influence or control over these technologies<\/strong> either because they created them, or have some ownership rights or other governance powers over them.<\/p>\n

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People <\/span>
powered<\/span>
tech<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Case for Community Tech<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

While a small number of very large companies might seem to dominate the digital landscape, the reality is that the Internet is full of alternatives and possibilities \u2013 of people making and sharing things for collective benefit. Over the last year we have met with and spoken to people from UK-based community organisations who are making and using technologies that generate benefit for and give power to communities. We have discovered what they have in common, the challenges they face, and the larger societal benefits that their approaches unlock.<\/p>\n

This report offers a vision that simultaneously:<\/p>\n