Building Blocks of the Peoples’ Digital Goods and Infrastructure (PDGI) Manifesto

Introduction In the first PDGI workshop, we tried defining PDGI and differentiating it from other public interest technology narratives. We also explored PDGI’s relationship with the market, the state, communities, emerging technologies like AI and the planet. Building on this momentum, the second PDGI workshop aimed at drawing points of convergence on these ideas to […]

Defining and Differentiating Peoples’ Digital Goods and Infrastructure

Insights from the first PDGI Workshop Introduction Digital infrastructure now mediates a large share of the relations between people, institutions and the state. Free and open-source software underpins much of it. Yet the infrastructure built on that foundation is often governed opaquely by a small number of public and private actors. Artificial Intelligence further deepens […]