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title: Community Mapping Tools Exercise V1

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# Community Mapping Tools Exercise V1

## What do we want?

### Ben: 
- i want a tool that any community can use (offline or online) to identity different tools/resources that are available to them to help them with any challenge 

### elio: 
to be aware of their possibilities to sustain a community network on their own, and find the power and encouiragment to start a process

### nonlinear: 
a comprehensive voice for what at-risk communities want, need and accept

### Dana: 
a tool that allows recognizing the needs and desires of communities and can suggest proposals for applications . 

Friendly-use 

### fauno: 
something that helps in identifying needs, ideas, etc that need to be built with their communities, instead of throwing tools at stuff

### María: 
a tool to share and access tools/resources for CN/processes that seek to use digital tools in their/our own terms. Tied to the tools, to share and learn from the community needs and desires in which CN/processes are grounded. I imagine it also as a possibility to conenct and learn from each other's paths and stories.

### pospi: 
greater interdependence between humans and non-humans. A reduced (spatially) but deepened (slower, wiser) relationship with the metabolism of oneself and the land. Body-felt sensitivity in people when they sense a slip of plastic tumbling away from them. Time for people to relax and enjoy life. Time to grow your own food. Social interactions while you're growing it and eating it. Diversified interests. Spending more time away from the screen, and enjoying it more when you return to it. Opportunities to explore building systems (social and technological, in that order) to make those kinds of things happen as side-effects of their adoption.


## Why do we want it?

### nonlinear: 
the path to empower communities is laborious, confusing and frankly risky

### elio: 
because we want to extend or to guarantee the right to communication, and that implies diversity and plurality of voices. we need not to loose internet as a powerful tool for that. we don' t want to impose: we want to learn and create with other-others-us.

### Dana: 
because there are many tools that are already developed or are in the process of being developed that can respond to those needs and the dreams of the communities. For example: tools for content creation, georeferencing (such as mapping), chats, videoconferences, games, etc.

### Ben: 
- its difficult for a community to know whats available 
- its difficult for a community to know whats best of all the options that are available 
- Because a good decision cannot be made without knowledge of all things 
- when i am working with a community i want to be able to recommend some tools to them that I think they would like
- I cant build everything
- theres lots of amazing things that i dont know about

### fauno: 
many times we end up implementing tools that already exist because it's easier, but they're not developed from our perspectives and it's difficult to reinterpret them

### María: 
to know what we can learn/use and share from our diverse ongoing paths. Also to know that there are others going through similar processes and struggles and commitments and joys.

### pospi: 
because tools never fix everything or much of anything. Because building relationship with real people with real needs and struggles in real places is the only way to sense whether what you're doing is harmful or not. Because most technology has been mostly harmful to most people. Because adopting technology responsibly means being conscious of how technology shapes behaviour and action. Because we don't have to throw the baby out with the bath water and because there's stuff worth leveraging even though the whole computing stack is built, from the ground up, on the machinations of Western imperialism & war. Because the user interface is where culture really starts to matter, in an unavoidable "it's going to slap you in the face if you don't think about it and you're just going to replicate bad patterns" kind of way.

## How do we want it, how should it work?
### Dana: 
a tool that is easy to use, concrete, simple to view on cell phones and computers and that leads to the links where you can download the applications.

That different organizations, communities and groups can add according to what they have been working on. In addition, that it is divided into sections (health, communication, economy, mapping, content, security, etc.)

### nonlinear: 
a coalition, a one-stop shop that then distributes connections

### elio: 
easy, kind, festive, creative, open to different solutions, not as the only-way path of what we thought abt community networks

### Ben:
- i think it should extend from something that already exist (EDT Toolfinder)
- i want to make it so that many people can easily contribute to it
- i want it accessible online and offline
- I want the data to be accessible so that it can be visualised in a number of ways

### María:
Intuitive, agree with Dana on those kinds of themes or sections that we could workshop together. And also agree with Ben in that it should extend from something that already exists like EDT Toolfinder.

### pospi:

Composable, general-purpose, as utilitarian as possible. Avoid the imposition of culture in tool design. Allow expressions of community culture and norms through the recomposition of different software patterns & features.

## What difference will this make?

### nonlinear: 
less fatigue, cohesive voice. a sit on the table (to push for features in tools)

### elio: 
flip technology, recognaise diversity of technologies either, reclaim networks by reclaimng voices

### Ben:
- a community will be able to easily find the correct tool/resource for thier need
- they will be able to find who can help them if they need it
- they will be able to dream
- they can make decisions from a position of power/knowledge
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### Dana: 
Have different tools grouped together that can be used in community network deployment contexts. The idea is to be able to have experiences as a reference and not fill it with many applications.

### María:
It will be easier to access tools that are results of common dreams, desires and commitments accesible. I think it can become a network/place of trust in the sense that we know the tools available there share those (ultimately) community-based purposes. I really ñike the idea of experiences or stories as references of the tools, and not just the tools themselves (or what appstores would qualify with 1-5 stars heh).

## What resources do we think we need?

### nonlinear: 
- consultants to reach out to communities for a more direct help
- writers to
    - organize/update tools, guides
    - write case studies
    - reach out comunities (social media, newsletters, annual reports)
- translators
- help for implementation on communities (for communities themselves)
- dev/design/writing for website

### elio: 
money that stays in communities to have them involved in the process and recognises their knowledge and capacities, faiclitators with different levels of tecnhology knowledge (community networks), being humble, stay open to switch the model of technolgy if needed.


## What tools will be in the toolfinder
Criteria vs data associated to the tool
- can be self hosted
- be offline first
- opensource
- experiences 
    - ratings 
    - reviews
    - stories
    - number of communities using these tools

We can start by listing the tools that we use



## Reflections

- eager to get this work done 
- this work feels important
- glad to be a part of this community
    - a community of different voices
- there is a need for this type of a community
    - the collective action towards shared work and purpose
- there are other people that we can contribue to this 