Document
Course welcome, navigation & learning outcomes
Placeholder: course welcome and orientation for organisers, technologists and farmers.
Video
Why digital sovereignty matters (praxis course opening — Schola / KPL)
Opening session of the digital sovereignty praxis course, by Schola Campesina and the Kenyan Peasant League. (...
The impacts of big tech on food systems (IT for Change)
In this video, Sadhana Sanjay explains how "big tech" and "big ag" monopolies work together to concentrate pow...
A method for navigating needs and available technologies
Navigating technology assessment starting from user needs.
Module 1 overview & SMART learning outcomes
Placeholder: module overview and learning outcomes.
Presentation
Main message 1: Power concentration is astonishingly high
Placeholder: BigAg–BigTech mergers and partnerships; IPES-Food visual.
Main message 2: Power concentration undermines human rights
Placeholder: data extraction and monetisation, lock-ins and dependency loops, AI boosting corporate control.
Main message 3: Resist & build civic digital systems
Placeholder: civic digital systems rooted in territories and collective knowledge; ties to food sovereignty an...
What is digital / data sovereignty — definitions
Placeholder: working definitions of digital and data sovereignty.
Graphic
Visual: datafication & data extraction, boosted by AI
Placeholder graphic on datafication and data extraction.
Visual: civic digital systems from the ground up
Placeholder graphic: decentralised hosting, public libraries and other civic digital systems.
Audio
Naseegh & Suko audio — recentering grounded collective knowledge
Placeholder: audio piece on recentering grounded collective knowledge (source to be located).
Interactive
Interactive checkpoint questions: IT for Change video
Placeholder H5P: checkpoint questions over the big tech and food systems video.
Mastery quiz: definitions & why digital sovereignty matters
Placeholder H5P mastery quiz for Module 1.
References mini-library
Placeholder: IPES-Food, FIAN, IT for Change reports, podcasts and further reading.
Testimony: Tamisha Lee (JNRWP)
Testimony on digital sovereignty from Tamisha Lee, Jamaica Network of Rural Women Producers.
Testimony: Carren Katenya (AFSA)
Testimony on digital sovereignty from Carren Katenya, AFSA.
Testimony: Polycap Kalokwera (AFSA)
Testimony on digital sovereignty from Polycap Kalokwera, AFSA.
Testimony: Mariam Mayet (ACB)
Testimony from Mariam Mayet, African Centre for Biodiversity — digital sequence information, seeds and data ri...
Module 3 overview: purpose, transformation model, learner outcomes
Placeholder: overview of the community process module.
Session 1: Understanding the digital context (+ diagnostic template)
Placeholder lesson: connectivity, device access, literacy, hybrid systems, governance.
Session 2: Stakeholder & power analysis (+ stakeholder/power map template)
Placeholder lesson: data producers vs controllers; West Africa cocoa platform case.
Session 3: Needs definition (+ needs matrix template)
Placeholder lesson: problem, constraint, need; Ghana ICT failure case.
Session 4: Decision framework (+ digital decision framework template)
Placeholder lesson: what to digitise, what not, who decides; seed system cases.
Session 5: Technology selection (+ tool selection & system design template)
Placeholder lesson: ownership, openness, offline capability, cost, dependency risk; ODK and Mapeo cases.
Session 6: Data governance (+ governance framework template)
Placeholder lesson: ownership, access, storage, sharing; NGO- vs community-controlled data scenario.
Session 7: Market integration (+ market integration strategy template)
Placeholder lesson: value chain mapping and value leakage; soyabean, KPL and OFN cases.
Final session: Local Digital Sovereignty Strategy (+ strategy template)
Placeholder lesson consolidating all session outputs into a local strategy.
Presentation: Makueni community tech assessment (Barbara's talk)
Placeholder: community technology assessment in Makueni, Kenya.
Stories: Farm Hack & KPL decision-making processes
Placeholder: how Farm Hack and the Kenyan Peasant League make decisions about technology.
Presentation: Ethical Tech Assessment as quick-scan
Placeholder: the criteria used in the Ethical Tech Assessment (GOAT / Dorn Cox).
Extracts from Session 6 participants' contributions
Placeholder: curated extracts from praxis participants' data governance assignments.
Associated webinar — Technology assessment
Open discussion: what kind of technologies are supporting agroecology?
Testimony: Demrew Wossenyeleh (ASE)
Testimony from Demrew Wossenyeleh, Agri Service Ethiopia — organisational process and conditions.
Testimony: Cari Anna King (FIAN / LVC)
Testimony from Cari Anna King, FIAN / La Via Campesina — process and co-creation.
Testimony: Nicole Martin (Tekopora)
Testimony from Nicole Martin, Tekopora — building Speco and decentralised tools.
Testimony: Pablo Vannini (gcoop)
Testimony from Pablo Vannini, gcoop — a free-software cooperative perspective.
Ethical Tech Assessment (Dorn Cox)
Introducing the Ethical Tech Assessment approach.
Stories: Gaining digital sovereignty over social coordination tools
Placeholder: stories of communities taking control of their social coordination tools. (Intended link to be co...
Social Coordination — Module Introduction
Placeholder: introduction to the social coordination tool domain.
Chat Tools — overview
Placeholder: overview of sovereign chat tool options.
Signal — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Signal.
Telegram — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Telegram.
Forum Tools — overview
Placeholder: overview of forum tool options.
Self-built Forum — approaches and options
Placeholder: approaches and options for self-built forums.
Hylo — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Hylo.
Data Rights and the importance of controlling where our data live
Indigenous peoples' data rights in the digital era (IT for Change).
Speco software (Tekopora) — self-governed participatory guarantee systems
Speco, a solution for participatory guarantee systems by Tekopora.
EcoAgTube
EcoAgTube: a video platform outside YouTube.
Participatory mapping with Mapeo tool
Community mapping with CoMapeo.
The Guardian Connector initiative to control and triage your data
The Guardian Connector: controlling and triaging community data.
Data & Knowledge Repositories — Module Introduction
Placeholder: introduction to the data and knowledge repositories tool domain.
Data Collection / Survey Tools — Overview
Placeholder: overview of sovereign data collection and survey tools.
ODK — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Open Data Kit.
KoboToolbox — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: KoboToolbox.
Data Storage Tools — Overview
Placeholder: overview of sovereign data storage options.
Cryptpad — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: CryptPad.
Self-hosting solutions — approaches and options
Placeholder: approaches and options for self-hosting.
Video Storage & Sharing options
Placeholder: overview of video storage and sharing options.
EcoAgTube — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: EcoAgTube.
Food Coop Market software developed for KPL cooperatives
The Kenyan Peasant League's food coop market hub.
Open Food Network
Open Food Network: software connecting farmers and consumers.
Market Access — Module Introduction
Placeholder: introduction to the market access tool domain.
Organise and record sales — Overview
Placeholder: overview of tools to organise and record sales.
OFN — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Open Food Network.
Self-built market hub (KPL) — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: the KPL self-built market hub.
LiteFarm grounded perspective
A grounded perspective on using LiteFarm.
LiteFarm technical features
Technical features of the LiteFarm farm management tool.
Self-governed hardware: Farm Hack box
Farm Hack's path toward digital sovereignty through self-governed hardware.
Farm Management — Module Introduction
Placeholder: introduction to the farm management tool domain.
Digital Management Tools — Overview
Placeholder: overview of digital farm management tools.
FarmOS — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: farmOS.
LiteFarm — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: LiteFarm.
Modules — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description. (Ambiguous in source map — to clarify.)
Advocacy & Recognition — Module Introduction
Placeholder: introduction to the advocacy and recognition tool domain.
Document Practices, ancient knowledge & grassroots innovations — Overview
Placeholder: overview of tools for documenting practices, ancient knowledge and grassroots innovations.
Awana — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: Awana Digital.
Document Territories — Overview
Placeholder: overview of tools for documenting territories.
CoMapeo — Tool Description
Placeholder tool description: CoMapeo.
Tech support by Our Sci
How Our Sci provides technology support to communities.
Lessons learnt (praxis course)
Lessons learnt from running the digital sovereignty praxis course.
Perspectives
Sovereign Digital Tools
