Learning from Cows: Community Owned WiFi-Mesh

This is a deliberation on our experiences setting up a space that facilitates open and decentralized micro-movements. This space has seen a series of situated experiments in the intersections of social and technological practice. These experiments focused on inclusion on the grou … | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 1 year ago

How a Tech Worker Fought Back from Being Fired as a Union Organiser

I joined Kickstarter as a Senior Design and Tech Outreach Lead in 2016. I was fired three years later, after my best quarter, for being a visible organizer of the first tech company union in US history. | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 1 year ago

Tech4Bad: When Do We Say No?

Existing IT systems are enabling company activities that are unsustainable and damaging to the environment. ‘When should we as IT professionals stop maintaining them?’ ask Ian Brooks MBCS, Minna Laurell Thorslund, Aksel Biørn-Hansen and Elena Somova with the British Computing Soc … | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 1 year ago

Decentralising Digital: Artefacts from Hopeful Futures

Working with rural communities in Karnataka, India, Decentralising Digital is an ongoing research project seeking to co-create new narratives for decentralised digital futures. We are exploring how developments in emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things, the voice en … | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 2 years ago

Solar Protocol

Solar Protocol is a network of solar-powered servers that collectively host a web platform created by Tega Brain, Alex Nathanson and Benedetta Piantella. | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 2 years ago

Branch Magazine – Issue 2

Issue 2 of Branch, an online magazine for people who dream of a sustainable internet. | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 2 years ago

Branch: An online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable

Branch is an online magazine written by and for people who dream of a sustainable and just internet for all. We believe that the internet must serve our collective liberation and ecological sustainability. We want the internet to dismantle the power structures that delay climate … | Continue reading


@branch.climateaction.tech | 3 years ago