The British Digital Cooperative

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The british digital co operative is a new model for promoting technological development in the public sector. The idea was to make technology more closely tied to end user uses, rather than relying on technologists who come down from the mountain with good news. It's an approach that borrows from some aspects of product design in the private sector. And i think this becomes incredibly important when you think about developing in the public interest. Too often we are given material technological resources from surveillance, from business and enterprise, a soft ware in the capitalist sector. We kind of try and re work it into something that we can make use of.

Paris Marx is joined by Dan Hind to discuss the problems with the existing tech industry and its links to the state, and his proposal for reorienting technological development to promote human flourishing and a cooperative economy.

Dan Hind is the author of “The Return of the Public: Democracy, Power and the Case for Media Reform” and recently wrote a report called “The British Digital Cooperative: A New Model Public Sector Institution” for The Next System Project and Common Wealth. He’s also written for the Guardian, the New Socialist, and the New Scientist. Follow Dan on Twitter as @danhind.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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