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  1. OK this is getting silly #tech4good Before I leave the group, I'm going to say something 😄

  2. Wow, I actually had a really good experience typing
    technology helps women
    into the Google News search. Very inspiring #Tech4Good & #ICT4D stories! I'll be featuring many of them on the Tech4Good and ICT4D subreddits.

  3. Follow-up to my piece on the Monsanto playbook.

    Most common response in the comments: "Nobody forced farmers to use the products. Farmer's choice."

    Yes, the contract was signed freely. In the same way, nobody forced anyone to sign a subprime mortgage in 2006. The system that made the alternative impossible was built deliberately.

    New piece covers:

    The agricultural treadmill (Cochrane, 1958): early adopters gain a temporary cost advantage; commodity prices fall as adoption spreads; the advantage disappears; and survivors consolidate. Rinse, repeat. The consistent winner in this dynamic is the technology vendor.

    The risk transfer: when the system fails, the input companies still profit. The banks still collect. The downside concentrates where the power doesn't.

    And the third squeeze: the precision ag platform that owns your field data when you leave.

    gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-28-the

    #RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #FarmDebt #FoodSovereignty #RuralAustralia #CorporatePower #Tech4Good

  4. I try to avoid LinkedIn unless I have to go there. But an AgTech investment post celebrating the "Monsanto playbook" as a model to replicate got under my nose badly enough that I had to write about it.

    Nobody who knows my work would call me anti-tech. But there's a hard line between technology that increases farmer capability and technology that engineers farmer dependency. The Monsanto playbook is the second kind.

    The playbook: own the genetics, bundle the chemicals, capture the data, engineer the debt. Charge the farmer for all of it. Call it innovation.

    Also in there: corporate capture of agricultural knowledge, India's farmer suicide crisis, Dark Emu and native grass seeds, and why a loaf of bread can be a political act.

    Tech4Good means the farmer gets more capable. Not more dependent.

    gaggl.com/blogs/2026-06-26-mon

    #RegenerativeAgriculture #AgTech #Tech4Good #Monocultures #FoodSovereignty #RentSeeking #FoodSystems #RuralAustralia #SlowFood

  5. Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Nepal, working as a Digital Learning Trainer in a rural school in Kaski district. Fundraising to add 25 computers & repair electrical + backup system so classes can run consistently.
    #Tech4Good #ICT4D
    Donate here:
    peacecorps.gov/donate/projects

  6. Volunteering opportunities in Oregon.
    reddit.com/r/OregonVolunteers/
    Use this subreddit to find volunteer roles, or to promote volunteer tasks & roles at your nonprofit or community group in Oregon.
    #Reddit #Tech4Good

  7. Want to help shape the future of in Europe?

    Join policymakers, industry leaders, researchers, and community voices at the EU 2026 — in person or online — January 30 in Brussels, Belgium!

    Linux Professional Institute (LPI) is proud to participate in the key event in Europe!

    Learn more: lpi.org/8pnk

    @OpenForumEurope

  8. Little World wird Open Source

    Es ist endlich soweit: Der Code von Little World ist Open Source, das heißt, wir stellen ihn offen einsehbar online.

    home.little-world.com/little-w

  9. Also see my list of United Nations initiatives launched through 2018 to promote the use of computers, feature phones, smart phones and various networked devices in development and humanitarian activities ( #Tech4Good / #ICT4D Initiatives).
    #History
    coyotebroad.com/development/un
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