#criticaldigitalinfrastructure — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #criticaldigitalinfrastructure, aggregated by home.social.
-
For anyone interested in #InfrastructureStudies or #CriticalDigitalInfrastructure, this is a fantastic article by Daniel Smith, Ash Kyd, Michael Reid (no relation) and Tim Leslie for the #ABC, uncovering the underwater #fibre #networking cables that provide #internet to Australians, and how they intersect with regional #geopolitics.
There are broader questions here about national capability and technological inter-dependence on other countries
But for me, it was another reminder of how much of our #infrastructure is hidden, unseen, yet able to shape our everyday lives. Surfacing hidden infrastructures helps us think critically about who's shaping those infrastructures, and for what purpose.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-06/the-cloud-under-the-sea/103137378
-
We need to promote this study to all of our governments: https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/library/study-about-impact-open-source-software-and-hardware-technological-independence-competitiveness-and #FOSSForSociety #CriticalDigitalInfrastructure #GreaterGood