Community Tech benefits everyone.
We believe that investing in community organisations to use technology on their own terms can help strengthen democracy, create community wealth and enable us to take better care of each other.
What is Community Tech?
Community tech is technology built with, by and for communities, that is locally accountable and creates local value.
Find out more in our first report, and blog posts, and you can sign up to the mailing list here. Don't forget to tick the box to say you're interested in community tech updates!
Find out about the projects supported by first our first funding round in our blogposts.
For queries about the fund and Power to Change's work, please email communitytech@powertochange.org.uk. If you would like to get involved in our research and the Community Tech network email hello@promisingtrouble.net or follow us on twitter @carefultrouble.
Community Tech key partners are Power to Change and Promising Trouble
Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow
In our new report, Tech for Today - and for Tomorrow, we set out the vital role communities organisations play in enabling technology roll-out, and call on our next government to take urgent steps to ensure technology and innovation work for everyone across Britain.
Connected People and Places
Bricks and mortar remain essential for maintaining our social fabric. But technology is affecting the places that we live.
Tech is a contributor to declining high streets and regional imbalances in skills and investments. Surveillance, polarisation and the growing monopoly power of Big Tech platforms create further questions about who owns the future. Something must change.
This series of essays is a deep exploration into these uncertain times, and beyond.
Drawing from a range of community leaders, it showcases the many ways communities across the UK and around the world are proving there is a different way to use technology. One that puts it in the service of people and place.
Innovation happens everywhere.
While a small number of very large companies might seem to dominate the digital landscape, the reality is that the Internet is full of alternatives and possibilities – of people making and sharing things for collective benefit.
We have set out The Case for Community Tech, which sets out a vision for how hardware and software created by, with and for community organisations:
builds the resilience and impact of individual community organisations and the communities they are part of
contributes to the growth of place-based communities
promotes a more diverse and sustainable technology ecosystem
