Skip to content

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

  • Topic: Resolution 036: Democratic Tech Fund joins the Co-op Cloud Federation
  • Date: 2026-01-19
  • Deadline: 2026-02-02
  • 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.

DTF are happy to pay the current recommended federation membership fee.

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