Huh? What does “human-digital work” mean anyway?
Thanks for asking. For me, it’s work to increase public awareness in all sectors of society, from parents to teachers, decision makers and activists in general, that
YOUR civil rights and the quality of YOUR life depend every year more on how software is used AROUND you
Artificial Intelligence, automation, social media, robots, Digital Transformation, Smart Cities, “metaverses”, cryptocurrencies and much more are all just different faces of that one reality. A reality that would not and will not change, even if you could still live without ever using software personally.
This is what I mean by “human-digital work”:
I discovered that fact in the mid-1990s, through the “Free as in Freedom” software movement. Since then, I have explored, and done my best to share, all the good and bad implications of open vs closed digital technologies and standards for ethics, civil rights, politics, parenting, education, social development and the environment.
I do this primarily, but not exclusively, through:
- good old privacy-friendly, paywall-free blogging at The Stop (more than one million words since 2007)
- a Substack newsletter since early 2023
- many longer essays, reports and studies, independently or on commission, some also available as ebooks
- speaking around the world
- participating in, or proposing, several projects
- being a member of several organizations
To know what people say about all this work, you may read these endorsements.
Thanks in advance for
- supporting the activities above in any of these ways
- getting in touch to share ideas, and pointing me to people or interesting resources useful for my work