Ethical EdTech

Education represents a valuable market for powerful technology companies, and the tools they offer often collect student data and normalize students’ use of their commercial services. This project seeks to collect, package, and make more readily available the wide variety of privacy-oriented, hackable, free/libre/open alternatives that frequently lack the marketing resources to compete for educators’ attention.

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EthicalEdTech.info, the project’s collaborative wiki

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New in CommunityRule: User Login, Rule Editing, and More

April 3, 2024

CommunityRule is a tool that helps make communities better by providing a central place where people can create and share governance designs for their communities. It offers nine simple templates for setting up community structures. Communities can follow, modify, or even decide not to use these templates. They are meant...

Now We Know: Exit to Community Is Possible

Jan. 3, 2024

Back in 2019, I made a plea: “ Startups Need a New Option: Exit to Community .” In some circles, at least, the argument quickly caught on. This is because, for startup companies, an exit through an acquisition or public offering is the goal that all else points toward. It...

“Not Just for Those Who Can Pay”: The Colorado Sun 2023 Public Benefit Report

Sept. 29, 2023

We at MEDLab are proud to have had the opportunity to produce the 2023 Public Benefit Report for the Colorado Sun, a pioneering, journalist-owned news organization that is strengthening the information ecosystem statewide. This report helps fulfill the Sun's obligation as a Colorado public benefit corporation, an incorporation structure that...

Cover of the book "Wealth Supremacy" by Marjorie Kelly

Where I Went Wrong: Marjorie Kelly on Why Advancing Ethical Business Isn't Enough

October 30, 2023, 11 a.m. to noon Mountain Time. In this webinar, Kelly draws on the lessons of her career—including her mistakes—to call for a movement that refuses to take the current system for granted.

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Recap: Local Tech Ecologies Conference

Aug. 28, 2023

Photo gallery On August 8, 2023, approximately fifty people from across the Rocky Mountain Front Range convened at the University Memorial Center at the University of Colorado in Boulder. They came for “ Local Tech Ecologies ,” a regional conference celebrating technology designed to empower local communities. After MEDLab director...

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Special Issue: Afterlives of the Californian Ideology

Aug. 15, 2023

In the International Journal of Communication , MEDLab director Nathan Schneider co-edited a special issue with Andreas Hepp and Anne Schmitz of the University of Bremen. The issue revisits the landmark mid-1990s essay "The Californian Ideology" by Richard Barbrook and Andy Cameron, a critique of the political economy then emerging...

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Conference: Local Tech Ecologies

August 8, 2023, University of Colorado Boulder. What if we valued local technology the way we value local food and local businesses?

"Network of friends" by kkgas, via Stocksy, a cooperative stock platform

Open Social Media: Nonprofits FTW

July 5, 2023 9-10:30 a.m. Mountain Time Free webinar In this webinar, we will hear from nonprofit leaders and technologies on how the emerging social networks related to their organizations' goals.

Open Social Media: Origin Stories

June 13, 2023 3-4:30 p.m. Mountain Time Free webinar This webinar presents some of Open Social Media's origin stories from speakers who have been involved in the development, culture, and communities of their platforms.

A regenerative policy agenda

March 28, 2023

Together with the Doughnut Economics Action Lab, MEDLab has just released a new resource on policy that could turn community ownership into the new normal in the economy, Regenerative Business Rising: How Policy Can Create an Economy Led by a Different Kind of Company . This tool is for policy-makers,...

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