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Technostructures is a non-profit organization aiming to foster an ecosystem of software:

  • which does not participate in reinforcing the impact of technology as a capitalist tool in the workspace, and those tools do not seek to increase work productivity, alienating its users,
  • whose conception is free from the influence of capitalism on technical systems : tools are not conditioned to the industrial environment (startups in particular), to its imperatives of profitability.

Code is political

Every app we use norms our interactions. Behind every code created, humans decided that sometimes, "computer says no", a common formula in business and administrative contexts.

What is to be done?

At Technostructures, we try to:

  • do curation (meaning editorialization) of software with a political approach, by design or because of the possible political uses of a tool, and propose a set of desirable technical features in the code ;
  • to help build, fund and implement new or existing software, among those whose political positioning makes them the most difficult to fund through the (meagre) existing channels of open source and free software funding.
  • et enfin, programmer des logiciels qui n’existent pas encore, mais qui should, dans le cadre d’un travail rémunéré dignement.
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Projects

Posca

Status: in development. Posca is the code name for an experimental social networking project based on Matrix. The aim is to implement the functionalities of the classic social networks (Twitter, Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, Discourse and Discord), in a unified interface and in a decentralized, interoperable way.

Kazarma

Status: development, release planned Q4 2023. Kazarma is a bridge between two decentralised protocols: Matrix and ActivityPub. Kazarma allows the exchange of private and public messages between Matrix users and users of ActivityPub platforms, such as Mastodon, PeerTube or Mobilizon.

Topos

Status: design. Topos is born from noticing that Twitter Spaces (a competitor to Clubhouse) lacked basic functions for organizing the debates. Topos is a standalone chat tool for plenums and assemblies organization: it takes care of moderation for turn-taking for speaking, adding motions and voting on them.

Imago

Status: design. Imago is a social network aiming to facilitate collaboration between collectives. Groups are connected in a social graph, with a unified interface for instant messaging, democracy and resource management.

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Technology which Empowers

Technostructures follows key principles when developing and supporting software to guarantee the protection and freedom of its' users.

Interoperability

In the history of computing, monopolies have been destroyed when their competition became compatible with the protocols and products of the monopolistic company. Cory Doctorow talks about "adversarial interoperability". In 2023, faced with an ever larger Big Tech, what lessons can there be?

Nous soutenons

Scrutin.app

Scrutin.app is a web and mobile application that makes it easy to organize elections using INRIA's Belenios cryptographic system.

Liquid

Liquid is a set of projects designed to simplify the use of the decentralized semantic SoLiD protocol.

Libr.events

Libr.events est un projet visant à libérer les données des réseaux sociaux fermés pour les reposter dans le Fediverse.

Wobbly

Wobbly est une idée de plateforme pour l’organisation sur le lieu de travail et une implémentation de concepts de sociocratie et de démocratie liquide.

YunoHost

YunoHost est une distribution Linux basée sur Debian dotée d’une interface web et d’un large catalogue d’applications permettant de faciliter l’auto-hébergement.

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