We have created the Glimmers Toolkit to aid recovery for civil society organisations, and are calling for a Community Tech Stack, so the future of digital social infrastructure is not dependent on either big technology platforms or start-up “unicorns”.

There is an opportunity to regroup, to rethink structures, and to create imaginative solutions that set out a better future for more people.

Dealing with the practical difficulties of a coming recession will be tough; getting through it requires a shared, consistent and positive future for a post-Covid world.

Some dreams and ideas about the potential for the ways communities, activists and others can influence how technology is shaped.

A scrapbook of links and questions that explore how civil society might be in a digital world. How can non-technical experts get messy with technology?

This blog post introduces Glimmers, a collaborative research project led by Careful Industries and Plot.