Technostructures is a non-profit organization aiming to foster an ecosystem of software:
- which does not participate in the consolidation of technology as a tool of capitalist power over the workplace, or as a tool to augment the productivity of work along with the degree to which it is alienating,
- whose conception is free from the influence of capitalism on technical systems : tools are not conditioned to the industrial environment, or to its imperatives of profitability.
Code is political
Every app we use normalizes our interactions. Behind all the code, humans have decided that sometimes, "computer says no", a common formula in business and administrative contexts.
What is to be done?
At Technostructures, we try to:
- curate software with a political approach, by design or in support of political use cases, edit and publish lists of the best software (in a similar vein to "awesome lists" found online);
- assist in obtaining public funding for projects whose political positioning makes them more difficult to finance;
- and finally, produce software which doesn't exist yet, but should, while paying the people who make it happen decently.
Imago
Our main technical project, Imago exists to help groups federate and organize collectively.
It is made up of several phases:
- Posca, the "communications" part;
- Topos, the organization functions themselves (decision support, resource management, etc.);
- And finally the "Imago network", networking collectives through a knowledge graph.
