Independent researchers working to understand how digital infrastructures can be a critical response against climate change.
Are you a developer involved with free/open-source projects related to humanitarian or environmental causes? We just launched an online survey. Participate!
We are mapping free and open source softwares (FOSS) created to protect forests and land defenders.
We interview developers, so that we can understand their needs and challenges in creating and maintaining their projects.
We want to understand how FOSS projects can be better maintained or funded.
We are researching community engagement on FOSS projects, as well their user understanding of their products.
We want to support land and forest defenders by recommending them FOSS projects that are designed to help their daily lives against climate change. We want to support FOSS projects by making recommendations for new grants.
Sociologist working in the intersection of technology and society. Product researcher, security and privacy enthusiast.
Popular educator and doctoral candidate in Education. Researcher of autonomist movements and other ways of life on the borders between nature and technologies.
Anthropologist and ethnologist. PhD in Cultural Anthropology. Attentive to the ways in which traditional peoples transform their world from the impacts of large enterprises to the land where they live.
Philosopher. His doctoral research covered topics related to logic and computer science. He is currently researching how network communication technologies and data science affect power relations. He occasionally works as a web developer.
techforforests @ gmail.com (remove spaces)
This project is part of the 2021 Digital Infrastructure RFP supported by The Ford Foundation and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, in collaboration with the Open Collective Foundation.