#publicinfrastructure — Public Fediverse posts

The risks of normalising cycling in a car-dependent infrastructure
Where is the safe cycling infrastructure?

"Many Australians are interested in cycling but feel intimidated by riding in traffic. Others are uncertain about route planning, road rules or cycling infrastructure. In highly car-dependent places, cycling can feel unfamiliar, risky or at odds with car-related norms. Simply providing technology and infrastructure does not overcome this."

"Australia’s investment in cycling infrastructure remains essential. We need safer bike lanes, secure parking and better integration with public transport."
https://theconversation.com/people-are-more-likely-to-ditch-the-car-and-use-an-e-bike-if-they-feel-confident-and-safe-288102
#MobilityDesign #cycling #CarDependency #motorists #CarMinds #risks #infrastructure #FossilFuel #transition #PublicInfrastructure #PrivateVehicles #PublicTrabsport

What can I say… I like the cut of his jib. All that remains is to see how #Burnham will sail. He is certainly saying all of the right things to society at large and especially to those whose anger and frutrations require outlets, a safety valve to let off some steam, before *Repairs* begin. #AlboPM, *take note* if you value your legacy.

“In his first speech as prime minister on July 17, Burnham promised “good growth in every postcode”, saying his victory in the Makerfield by-election, which returned him to Westminster, was a call “on behalf of forgotten places everywhere up and down this country, for a return of the Labour they once knew”.

“We must recognise that this generation of politicians, myself included, have failed to challenge a political culture and an economic model that simply doesn’t work well enough for ordinary people.”

Burnham charts that failure to “a series of wrong-turns in the 1980s”.

“Four decades of the neoliberalism that began in the 1980s have not been kind to the places that built our party, nor to the communities across the UK in rural and coastal areas,” he said.

“Political power was centralised and economic power was privatised.”
Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-09/burnham-farage-grievance-politics-hanson-uk-prime-minister/107004586

#UKPol #AusPol #Economics #NeoLIberalism #StateCapture #PublicInfrastructure #UKLabour. #AusLabor

Artistic Transformation of a Dutch Power Substation into a Turquoise Wall

📰 Original title: Studio RAP Turns a Dutch Power Substation Into a Rippling Turquoise Wall

🤖 IA: It's not clickbait ✅
👥 Users: It's not clickbait ✅

View full AI summary https://en.killbait.com/artistic-transformation-of-a-dutch-power-substation-into-a-turquoise-wall.html?utm_source=mastodon_world&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=killbait.mastodon_world

#art #ceramicart #publicinfrastructure #urbandesign

'The suite is designed to help public authorities, education systems, and regulated industries move away from US‑based productivity clouds while retaining a familiar, Microsoft Office-style workflow for end users'

#publicInfrastructure #publicPolicy #foss #openSource

https://www.zdnet.com/article/euro-office-a-sovereign-cloud-based-office-suite-google-microsoft-alternative/

Recycling matters. But it arrives very late in the story.

A circular economy begins earlier: in design, repair, reuse, borrowing, public procurement, libraries, schools, and shared infrastructure.

Maybe the future is not about perfect consumers.

Maybe it is about better systems.

https://open.substack.com/pub/associationredefine/p/recycling-vs-circular-economy-reuse-repair?r=6l8ed8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

#CircularEconomy #Sustainability #RepairCulture #Reuse #SustainableCities #PublicInfrastructure #SystemsThinking #ClimateJustice

RE: https://eupolicy.social/@openfuture/116334604542398780

"The brief makes the case that the forthcoming #Cloud and #AI Development Act and the Digital Leadership window of the European Competitiveness Fund offer concrete opportunities to embed #publicdatastorage within the EU’s #digitalpolicy framework—not as a time-limited project, but as durable #publicinfrastructure deserving sustained public investment."

#digitalinfrastructure

लंदन की तर्ज पर दिल्ली की सड़कों का नया रूप: पैदल यात्रियों के लिए अलग लेन, पूरे इलाके रहेंगे गुलजार।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_london_like_raods_delhi_soon

#DelhiRoads #PedestrianFriendly #NightEconomy #UrbanPlanning #LondonModel #SmartCity #PublicInfrastructure #SPA #MCD #Delhi #News

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

Jahad Metro Plaza in Tehran: Reclaiming Infrastructure as Civic Space

Jahad Metro Plaza/ KA Architecture Studio. Photo © Mohammad Hassan Ettefagh Share Share Facebook Twitter Mai…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #ADNarrative #AgaKhanAwardforArchitecture #Architecture #Articles #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #AU #Australia #CivicDesign #Design #Entertainment #Iran #KAArchitectureStudio #PublicInfrastructure #Publictransport #UrbanDensity #UrbanIntervention #UrbanMobility
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/553629/

Making Infrastructure Visible: When Systems Become Architecture

CopenHill Energy Plant and Urban Recre…
#NewsBeep #News #Artsanddesign #ArchDailyTopic2026TheTechnosphere #Architecture #Arts #ArtsAndDesign #BIG #Cities #CivicDesign #Design #DesignSystems #Energy #EnergyPlant #Entertainment #IndustrialArchitecture #Infrastructure #Mecanoo #Port #PowerPlant #PublicInfrastructure #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #UrbanDesign #UrbanTranformation #ZahaHadidArchitects
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/466733/

https://www.democracynow.org/2026/2/9/headlines/federal_judge_orders_trump_admin_to_unfreeze_16_billion_in_funds_for_new_york_tunnel_project 

A federal judge has unfrozen $16 billion in funds withheld by Trump for rail infrastructure between NY & NJ. Friday’s court order c
Trump told Schumer that he would release the funds if Schumer supported renaming Dulles International Airport in Virginia and Penn Station in New York City after him. #TrumpNaziRegimeGrifters #PublicInfrastructure

The @EUCommission will be present across several sessions at #FOSDEM26 🇪🇺

Topics include:
👉 Open-source implementation of European Data Spaces (SIMPL)
👉 Interoperability & the DMA
👉 Cyber Resilience Act & engagement with FOSS
👉 Sustaining Free & Open Source Software
👉 Open source in railways & mobility

A strong signal that #EU digital policy is increasingly built with the FOSS ecosystem, not just around it.

#FOSDEM #FOSS #EUdigital #DigitalCommons #OpenSource #PublicInfrastructure

Government to sue Leviste firm over terminated solar contracts

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://news.bomboradyo.com/government-to-sue-leviste-firm-over-terminated-solar-contracts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=government-to-sue-leviste-firm-over-terminated-solar-contracts

"...[F]or those of us who have the luxury of not being in the trenches, it’s a good time to start talking about what a specifically socialist approach to municipal government might look like, especially when it comes to technology.

Fortunately, we have a historical precedent to help us think through this question. As Eric Blanc has argued, the experience of Milwaukee’s “sewer socialists” in the early twentieth century holds lessons for our current moment. Significantly, sewer socialism is a tradition that Mamdani himself has cited as inspiration. “Sewer socialism, to me, represents a belief that the worth of an ideology can only be judged by its delivery,” he said in an interview earlier this year.

The basic insight of sewer socialism is bringing people into your politics by improving their lives in obvious ways. “You win someone’s trust through an outcome” is how Mamdani puts it. The sewer socialists of Milwaukee made the case that municipal ownership of systems like sanitation, water, and power could deliver services more efficiently and more equitably than private ownership. They solved practical problems for their constituents while constructing working examples of a postcapitalist political economy in miniature.

The same method can be applied to the internet. Call it “digital sewer socialism.” Socialist elected officials in New York, Seattle, and beyond can craft policy interventions that increase the quality of life for residents by addressing the difficulties that arise in their relationship with technology. These interventions can be carried out in such a way that, by modeling socialist principles, they win wider support for socialist ideas."

https://jacobin.com/2025/12/digital-sewer-socialism-public-ownership

#USA #Socialism #SewerSocialism #DigitalSewerSocialism #PublicGoods #PublicInfrastructure

RE: https://mas.to/@Techaltar/115694998710882952

The US’s geopolitical maneuvers—real or perceived—remind us that sovereignty isn’t a gift; it’s a practice.
If tech stacks can be weaponized or alliances destabilized, the question isn’t whether we’ll take sovereignty seriously, but who gets to define it.

@Techaltar post hits the nerve: states guard borders and currencies, yet outsource the foundations of modern life—software, hardware, and data—to a handful of corporate monopolies. That’s not just technical risk; it’s political dependence.

Sovereignty today isn’t about flags or treaties. It’s control over protocols, algorithms, and the tools that shape how societies think and act. FLOSS and open hardware aren’t ideological luxuries—they’re the only credible path to digital self-determination.

Relying on closed, proprietary stacks means sovereignty on lease. When platforms can silence nations, throttle access, or hide backdoors, sovereignty becomes a slogan, not a system.

Institutions rarely lead change; they react when crises force the issue. Real transformation starts bottom-up—from a culture that values curiosity over convenience, and commons over consumption.

So what does it mean to take sovereignty seriously?

1. Treat open technology as public infrastructure.
Fund FLOSS and open hardware like we fund roads and clinics—stable, public investment. Tools like open-source procurement mandates, R&D tax credits, and redirecting portions of defense or digital transition budgets can anchor this shift.
But funding is not ownership: transparency laws and community-led governance must ensure open projects don’t become state surveillance tools.

2. Make tech literacy a civic right.
Sovereignty requires a public that understands the tools it depends on—not just code, but critical thinking about systems, incentives, and control. Tech education should be public, accessible, and lifelong.

3. Build alternatives, not only critiques.
The Fediverse, RISC-V, Framework, and Fairphone aren’t fringe—they prove ethical, functional alternatives exist. The goal isn’t purity; it’s adoption. Use and fund the systems you want to survive.

4. Recognize that openness ≠ isolation.
Open-source is interdependence under shared, auditable terms. Supporting open-source hubs in the Global South and funding translation, localization, and inclusive participation ensures sovereignty isn’t just for wealthy nations.

Regulation like the GDPR is a start, but true sovereignty means owning the stack, not patching around its edges.

The US’s geopolitical games may hasten this reckoning, but waiting guarantees dependency. Treat open-source as critical infrastructure now—not for ideology’s sake, but survival’s.

Because digital sovereignty isn’t a speech or a policy.
It’s something we build, line by line, together.

#TechSovereignty #DigitalSelfDetermination #FOSS #PublicInfrastructure #Fediverse #RightToRepair #SurveillanceCapitalism #BuildTheAlternative #FundTheCommons

COLUMN: Will Lafayette vote against its own interests again?

https://thecurrentla.com/2025/column-will-lafayette-vote-against-its-own-interests-again/

The view from Grogs
https://live.australiainstitute.org.au/2025/10/parliament-live-senate-estimates-gets-underway-all-the-days-events-as-it-happens/

Of course, this is the expected outcomes with every public infrastructure (Telecom sale) sold to the private sector. Falling service standards and profit taking priorities as long as profits are to be had, else the service tanks and privateers pull out without penalties.

#StateCapture #PrivatisationRuins #NeoliberalEconomics #ShortTermGains #LongTermFailures #InUnity #PublicInfrastructure #Optus #000Fiasco

Grateful that there is an achievable open water public pool about 10km away in my City of #Aachen, that I am able to ride there, enjoy a swim and a good start into the day. #cycling #publicInfrastructure

With its shutdown imminent, does anyone know of efforts to systematically save all the media archives from #CPB #NPR #PBS etc. for future generations?

Like this invaluable NPR #TinyDeskConcert by #Stromae? 💔

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6dkDepLX0rk&list=RD6dkDepLX0rk

#PublicMedia #PublicBroadcasting #PublicInfrastructure

came across this on Masto some time back.. the original image is from the link below:

https://bikeyface.com/2015/10/08/different-roads/

i did see an observation from Not Just Bikes saying that the last image still doesn't have public transit, which is true..

but lemme tell you Maina.. even the second stage is non-existent across most of Kenya.. 😄

it's a mess.. 😅

#PublicInfrastructure #Design #PublicTransit #Bikes #Politics #Kenya #RutoMustGo

"Between 2020 and 2024, grocery prices rose nearly 24 percent, outpacing both wages and overall inflation. Even with inflation slowing to just over 1 percent in 2024, grocery store sticker shock remains. For the wealthy, food takes up less than 5 percent of disposable income. But a box of Cheerios costs the same no matter how much money you make, and for low-income families, that share easily creeps up to 30 percent.

Because our food system is designed around corporate profit rather than public need, and because we lack the political imagination to envision otherwise, we tend to take this state of affairs for granted. But that doesn’t mean it isn’t outrageous.

The US grocery market is a picture of consolidation dominated by Kroger, Albertsons, Walmart, and Costco. These corporations don’t care about food access in a given neighborhood; they care about quarterly earnings. When profits dip, they shutter stores, leaving behind food deserts and economic sinkholes.

The grocery industry is shaped like an hourglass, with high-end specialty stores like Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s for affluent shoppers and dollar stores and discount warehouses for everyone else. The mid-tier supermarket, the one-stop shop that once anchored working-class neighborhoods, has stopped expanding, its growth hampered by decades of inequality and predatory corporate strategies."

https://jacobin.com/2025/08/municipal-grocery-stores-mamdani-infrastructure

#USA #NYC #Mandani #MunicipalGroceries #PublicInfrastructure

Radical Infrastructure
Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up

by Britt Paris https://comminfo.rutgers.edu/paris-britt

#ToFollow https://www.britt-paris.net/radical-infrastructures.html

#ToBePublished Jan 2026

https://www.ucpress.edu/books/radical-infrastructure/hardcover

#RecommendToLibrary

#Internet #PublicInfrastructure #book #OpenAccess

🌍 In Milan: the @NGICommons General Assembly just discussed the future of the #NGI and the new Open Internet Stack.

"The OIS label must carry the spirit of NGI," said @Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay.
If you wish to read more: https://commons.ngi.eu/2025/07/14/embracing-a-new-era-ngi-commons-general-assembly-in-milan/

The future is open—and it's being built now. 🛠️

🗓️ Save the date: NGI Policy Summit – 20 Nov 2025.

#OpenInternetStack #DigitalCommons #PublicInfrastructure

@martelinnovate
@openfuture
@OpenForumEurope
@cnrs
@linuxfoundation

ETH Zurich and EPFL to release a LLM developed on public infrastructure

https://ethz.ch/en/news-and-events/eth-news/news/2025/07/a-language-model-built-for-the-public-good.html

#HackerNews #ETHZurich #EPFL #LLM #PublicInfrastructure #AIforGood #LanguageModel

In groundbreaking news, a million-dollar bridge is about to let Bambi and friends cross the freeway like VIPs 🦌🚗—because apparently, the deer of Santa Monica have better access to public infrastructure than most humans. Nature: 1, Humanity: 0. 🌿🏆
https://www.thedrive.com/news/worlds-largest-wildlife-bridge-spanning-10-lanes-of-101-freeway-is-nearly-complete #BambiCrossing #VIPDeer #PublicInfrastructure #NatureWins #SantaMonica #HackerNews #ngated

Paris braces for 50-degree summers with urban cooling plan.

"The city of Paris is preparing for heatwaves with temperatures of up to 50 degrees Celsius in the coming years and plans to redesign buildings and public spaces to better protect the population."
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/paris-braces-50-degree-summers-165931782.html

Image:
Space-hungry cars in Bellingen yearning for more parking. Before this space became entombed in asphalt it had many mature trees on it.

#Fossilfuels #impacts #ClimateExtremes #ExtremeHeat #heatwaves #climate #ExitFossil #energy #PublicInfrastructure #asphalt #roads #PublicHealth #cars #Bellingen

Central Park’s Mosaics of Reservoir, Lake, Paths and Gardens | Wadada Leo Smith & Amina Claudine Myers (2024) #PublicInfrastructure #Walking

https://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/wadada-leo-smith-amina-claudine-myers-central-parks-mosaics-of-reservoir-lake-paths-and-gardens/

https://www.linkedin.com/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_publishing_post_new%3BMgL2CKTWQSyexrOQ7eYO2g%3D%3D

#DigitalCertificates #Cybersecurity #PublicInfrastructure #PKI #AutomationInSecurity #CertificateManagement #QuantumComputing #CybersecurityTrends #ITSecurity #InformationSecurity #Security #NHI #NonHumanIdentities
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