While the United States — the country that built the internet, that produced the developer culture that constructed the global digital infrastructure — struggles to reliably recognize its own voters, other nations are experimenting with Consul Democracy, with participatory budgeting, with digital cooperative governance, with community-owned communication infrastructure as a civic right rather than a commercial product.

Most developers venturing into agriculture miss the true value of the market. Agriculture is a culture-- it's right there in the name. Attempting to develop an application layer is fallacious at best, and a malicious attempt to capture farming community output in the same way major platforms capture attention at worst."

The Network Theory Applied Research Institute (NTARI), a 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing cooperative alternatives to extractive technology platforms, today announced the filing of U.S. copyrights on two of its flagship open-source software projects