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Resolution 036: Democratic Tech Fund joins the Co-op Cloud Federation

  • Topic: Resolution 036: Democratic Tech Fund joins the Co-op Cloud Federation
  • Date: 2026-01-16
  • Deadline: 2026-01-30
  • Size: Large

Summary

The Democratic Tech Fund (DTF) is a Project-In-The-Making which has close affinity with Co-op Cloud in culture and stated goals. @mikemh and @wtebbens are active members of the community and can represent the Democratic Tech Fund. The DTF would like to join the Co-op Cloud Federation in order to establish a solid base for future collaboration.

The DTF is set up as a co-operative federation, with multi-stakeholder membership: to allow both individual as organisational membership, operational members (i.e. workers), collaborator members, council of steward members (elected) and institutional members (public and private funders).

A brief summary of the the intended goals of the DTF are as follows:

  • Build and provide the tech: Generating working configurations of tech infrastructure and services that address actual, perceived needs, drawing on the reserves of free-libre open- source software and constructing practices of material infrastructure that are under the review and steering of the communities they service.

  • Mobilise awareness towards adoption: highlighting the clear and present danger and our collective capacity to resist, re-make and re-imagine. There's a need for campaign work, media and visuals, and for intelligence and news about what has already been done.

  • Build the community: nurturing local, regional and trans-regional communities and networks that are capable to articulate these alternatives, to make the change together and to sustain the economic base for radically re-oriented infrastructure.

Please see the latest Work-In-Progress DTF concept note - v0.3 for more details. Founding members include the Free Knowledge Institute, Commons Network and Fundación Platoniq / Goteo.org. The Free Knowledge Institute is also the fiscal host of the DTF. Please see the website of the DTF itself for more information.

Please feel free to join #dtf2026:matrix.org to keep up with DTF project developments.