Wow! This issue is packed with ideas and alternative approaches to Canada’s present and future relations the US, and dare I say, approaches to democracy itself. Lot’s to think about and unpack. In future issues can you take a couple of these hacker principles and explain how the average Canadian can participate.
I would love to overlay an indigenous perspective on this Hacker Democracy you sketched out. More specifically, reimagine the indigenous critique as described by Graeber and Wendow In The Dawn of everything. The New World had tried so many forms of governance and when European imperialism landed on the continent the indigenous inhabitants had some critiques that have been largely forgotten. Now seems to be the time to reinvigorate those ideas and revisit them for this century and beyond. The hacker paradigm seems well suited for this collaboration
Interesting thoughts -- I wish I could be optimistic.
Take one area: experimentation is only possible in a distributed non-hierarchical environment.
Hierarchy is assumed within the Canadian political overton window, and I regularly have a hard time telling the difference between the "left" and the "right" for what amounts to Canada's political spectrum.
Technological illiteracy is regularly expressed with pride within Canadian culture and policy circles (including parliamentary committees), and those of us who actually seek to understand real-world technology and its relationship with governance/society are looked down upon.
BTW: Back in the 1980's I actually took a TSE course at Carleton. https://carleton.ca/tses/ . Very basic stuff, but still far beyond what I find most people are thinking about.
1) Hackers by definition are loners . How do you get them to work together for the common good of Canada?
2) Open source is published - OPEN FFS! How do we keep Canada’s competitors’ noses out of it?
3) Cloud computing is global. Sure Canadian Banks and large Canadian corporations (like telcos) insist their data stay on servers within Canada. But AWS, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. maintain worldwide cloud networks and infrastructures that also reside in the USA. Good luck isolating that.
Wow! This issue is packed with ideas and alternative approaches to Canada’s present and future relations the US, and dare I say, approaches to democracy itself. Lot’s to think about and unpack. In future issues can you take a couple of these hacker principles and explain how the average Canadian can participate.
I would love to overlay an indigenous perspective on this Hacker Democracy you sketched out. More specifically, reimagine the indigenous critique as described by Graeber and Wendow In The Dawn of everything. The New World had tried so many forms of governance and when European imperialism landed on the continent the indigenous inhabitants had some critiques that have been largely forgotten. Now seems to be the time to reinvigorate those ideas and revisit them for this century and beyond. The hacker paradigm seems well suited for this collaboration
Interesting thoughts -- I wish I could be optimistic.
Take one area: experimentation is only possible in a distributed non-hierarchical environment.
Hierarchy is assumed within the Canadian political overton window, and I regularly have a hard time telling the difference between the "left" and the "right" for what amounts to Canada's political spectrum.
Technological illiteracy is regularly expressed with pride within Canadian culture and policy circles (including parliamentary committees), and those of us who actually seek to understand real-world technology and its relationship with governance/society are looked down upon.
BTW: Back in the 1980's I actually took a TSE course at Carleton. https://carleton.ca/tses/ . Very basic stuff, but still far beyond what I find most people are thinking about.
1) Hackers by definition are loners . How do you get them to work together for the common good of Canada?
2) Open source is published - OPEN FFS! How do we keep Canada’s competitors’ noses out of it?
3) Cloud computing is global. Sure Canadian Banks and large Canadian corporations (like telcos) insist their data stay on servers within Canada. But AWS, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, etc. maintain worldwide cloud networks and infrastructures that also reside in the USA. Good luck isolating that.