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field-label-hidden has-single"><div class="field__items"><div class="field__item"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>A women-led cooperative platform for reusing electronic equipment</strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">鈥淎 digital business model that has profit and accumulation as its purpose cannot be responsible with the environment. Women have to propose other ways of doing digital business that allow the continuity of life of all species on Planet Earth."</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Programa TIC-as</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">(<a href="https://programatic-as.com">https://programatic-as.com</a>)</span></p> <h6 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Introduction </strong></span></h6> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The participation of women in the development of digital technologies that move the world has been very limited. For more than 40 years, the average of women studying technology careers around the globe has not exceeded 15%; and this percentage is decreasing if one analyses those who are workers in the digital industry and the percentage of women who own technological ventures.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">This situation has two consequences. On the one hand, the vision of women has not been present in the technology that has been built: its business models, its purposes, its methodological approaches, and the exclusions it generates. These, among other aspects, have been led by a male, urban, white vision with a high purchasing power, that encourages excessive accumulation, the concentration of capital, the massive surveillance found in the digital society, and a negative impact on the environment.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">On the other hand, this also means that there is a space of opportunity to integrate the vision of women in the construction of the technologies that sustain the digital society. However, this should not be done with the sole purpose of filling the deficit of human talent that the digital industry urgently wants to address, but rather for women to produce another digital technology, with other approaches, with other business models and other purposes. The important thing is not only that women join the digital technologies sector, but that digital technologies are transformed with the participation of women.</span></p> <h6 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Letting women lead</strong></span></h6> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Since 2013, our Sul谩 Bats煤 Cooperative has led an important Central American regional programme called TIC-as<a href="#_ftn1" name="_ftnref1" id="_ftnref1">[1]</a> that aims to build female leadership in the digital sector in order to develop alternative visions of technology.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The TIC-as Programme network is made up of a diverse group of women from across the Central American territory: urban, rural, coastal, cross-border, migrant, Afrodescendant, Indigenous, young and adult.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Together we have created six principles that guide the creation of technology that we develop as women leaders in the digital industry:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The feminist digital technology that we create serves the immediate environment of the women who develop it.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The feminist digital technology that we create develops businesses that respect human rights and that do not turn work into precarious work.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The feminist technology we create uses data with consent and transparency and uses <em>inclusive</em> data (that is, data that does not exclude people, whether marginalised people, or people from different cultures and territories, and that represents the diverse and pluralistic ways of being and living).</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The feminist technology we create uses algorithms that are transparent to all people.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The feminist technology that we create is respectful of the Earth and is environmentally responsible.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Our ventures should be collective (all the workers are owners) and self-managed.<a href="#_ftn2" name="_ftnref2" id="_ftnref2">[2]</a></span></li> </ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">As can be seen, for us, the impact of the business model and way of conducting business on daily life is critical. Among other things, the business model behind the development and use of technology determines whether it is going to, for example, support data surveillance and disrespect for privacy and create job insecurity, or be environmentally responsible and create decent work. Given these principles, the Sul谩 Bats煤 cooperative promotes environmentally responsible digital ventures that address local problems, based on the circular economy, and that place the platform economy in the hands of women and communities.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">An example is the cooperative platform for young women from rural areas in Costa Rica that is dedicated to the reuse of electronic equipment, and is aimed at building economic social solidarity in the digital sector. The initiative was started two years ago, with the support of Mondragon University, the New York School and the APC network, and has the following basic characteristics:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><em>A cooperative platform:</em> The platformisation of the economy in the hands of large corporations is generating an excessive accumulation of capital, precarious work practices and the non-renewable exploitation of the environment that puts life on Earth in jeopardy. However, there is an opportunity to take advantage of the collaborative economy with the development of platforms that are in the hands of workers, and organised in collective (the workers are the owners) and self-managed ways into cooperatives.<a href="#_ftn3" name="_ftnref3" id="_ftnref3">[3]</a> The platform is the space for supply and demand; working people and consumers participate in the platform, working people are its owners and they manage it collectively.聽</span></li> </ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In the case that we present, the platform is owned by young women from rural areas who have graduated from technical colleges with skills such as building networks, technical support, and software development. They make up the cooperative platform and are the workers. The families who use the equipment that the young women rebuild also participate in decision making on the platform.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The cooperative decides on the evolution of the platform, on issues such as the ethics of algorithms and data, on the distribution of surpluses, and on the organisation of their work.</span></p> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><em>An environmentally friendly technology business:</em> The cooperative's business is the reuse of electronic equipment. Agreements are reached with companies in the free trade zones and other multinationals, as well as with other entities, to donate electronic equipment, especially the computers that they regularly change for their employees. A first assessment is made by the young women in order to not accept unusable equipment, before the discarded technology is collected.</span></li> </ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The young women rebuild computers by combining components and installing free/libre software (operating systems, productivity suites, and other complementary applications), and then sell them at very affordable prices to mainly rural families who require equipment for things like remote studying or for teleworking.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">The women who are part of the cooperative can work at home or in a workshop that has been set up. In addition, there is an inventory of tools needed for repairs that they can borrow and that is also managed through the platform.</span></p> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><em>This business solves multiple problems felt by the young, rural women who own the platform:</em></span> <ul><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It addresses the issue of electronic waste by reusing and reconfiguring electronic equipment. This is based on the right to repair as a strategy to deal with planned and perceived obsolescence.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It addresses the problem of the precariousness of work in the digital society. On the one hand, it creates job opportunities for young, rural women who, after finishing their school training, have not been able tomove to urban areas to work or study, and on the other, the working conditions are defined by the young women themselves as the owners of their production process.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It shows that there are other forms of businesses in the digital society that combine the platform economy with the social solidarity economy. This challenges the position that large corporations have of being the only developers of collaborative digital platforms.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">It builds the leadership of women in the digital economy, proposing other ways of creating platform technologies that respect the environment, dignify work and are based on a self-managed and collective economy. In addition, it shows how women can be workers and owners of digital companies using alternative business models.</span></li> </ul></li> </ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">In the 10 years that Sul谩 Bats煤 has been working on creating women leaders in the digital sector, the issue of environmental responsibility and the use of digital technologies to guarantee life on Earth has been at the heart of the project proposals by women across the territories.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">With this example of the cooperative platform for the reuse of electronic equipment developed by young, rural women, we want to demonstrate that the incorporation of women in the digital industry must involve new ways of developing technological products that address the problems that women see, with solutions proposed by women.</span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Because of this, it is necessary to create the conditions for women to propose alternative technologies and ways of using technologies and develop less predatory business models.</span></p> <h6 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Action steps</strong></span></h6> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Our project suggests the following action steps for developing environmentally friendly projects in Costa Rica and other countries:</span></p> <ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Explore new business models for digitally based companies whose primary purpose will not be for profit and accumulation. Without establishing other forms of digital economy, it is impossible for the industry to become less extractivist and more environmentally responsible.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Create the necessary conditions in the countries based on national plans and policies that support digital-based ventures with alternative business models.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Integrate women and Indigenous, Afrodescendant and rural populations, among others, who have been excluded from the digital industry in the construction of the technology that countries require, so that they are no longer considered solely as technology consumers.</span></li> <li><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Incorporate reflection on the environmental responsibility of the digital economy in academia, the public and private sectors and civil society.</span></li> </ul><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">聽</span></p> <h6 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><strong>Foonotes</strong></span></h6> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="#_ftnref1" name="_ftn1" id="_ftn1">[1]</a> <a href="https://programatic-as.com">https://programatic-as.com</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="#_ftnref2" name="_ftn2" id="_ftn2">[2]</a> For more details see: <a href="https://programatic-as.com/quienes-somos/">https://programatic-as.com/quienes-somos</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;"><a href="#_ftnref3" name="_ftn3" id="_ftn3">[3]</a> For more information on cooperative platforms, see: <a href="https://www.mondragon.edu/cursos/en/topics/strategy-entrepreneurship-and-innovation/platforms-cooperatives-now">https://www.mondragon.edu/cursos/en/topics/strategy-entrepreneurship-and-innovation/platforms-cooperatives-now</a></span></p> <p style="text-align: left;"></p> <p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Notes:</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">This report was originally published as part of a larger compilation: 鈥淕lobal Information Society Watch 2020: Technology, the environment and a sustainable world: Responses from the global South"</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) - Some rights reserved.</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">ISBN 978-92-95113-40-4</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif;">APC Serial: APC-202104-CIPP-R-EN-DIGITAL-330</span><br 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