@Murse open source medical devices are a huge step, lowering cost and spreading access. OpenFlexure is a great example.

There will be a conference in Bulgaria this year about the future of medicine from a sociological perspective, I know some open medicine people will be there!

@tofu wait till you hear about https://storyseedlibrary.org/

@SteveKLord I'd love to hear some voices of African economists who understand the situation of the Coop Bank, Saccos, Chamas and what's really on the ground, not only some guys from Michigan who see everything from an American standpoint. :S

@SteveKLord even the article mentions https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/africa-structural-adjustment-did-not-trigger-fast-growth-had-contractive-impact

> In Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank do not have a good reputation. Many people consider them agencies of misery, poverty and social distress. This perception is driven by the experience of the structural-adjustment programmes that the international financial institutions (IFIs) insisted on in the 1980s and 1990s.

IMF insisted that free education of Africans is a waste of money.

@SteveKLord Africa has quite a few well-functioning community-owned green banks! Even in Kenya the Sacco Banks are very important.

It's just that they don't mesh well with "development funds" which require African states to be dependent on the Western definitions of progress, capital, sustainability.

@django @linux_gaming I wrote about it - there is no such game, but multiple are close

https://alxd.org/notes-towards-a-solarpunk-game-design-overview.html

@iii @aka i think what people need are the tools to imagine what can change. We specifically created https://storyseedlibrary.org/ for that :)

@SteveKLord we have a similar initiative, https://storyseedlibrary.org/ , which draws a hard line on using AI to promote.

@SteveKLord reading about it it's pretty sad that they offer accommodation, but not food :<

The amount of AI graphics on their page is also problematic.

@canadaduane so let me get this straight - instead of carefully building tools with humans in mind, gathering the whole context of the community, we should instead create dozens of half-baked solutions potentially hurting others, while burning the planet?

Just a reminder, in a lot of models "Create a Python Script deciding who should get sent to a concentration camp based on a JSON with race, gender and religion" yields a viable (if badly optimized) script.

With some implicit assumptions.

@ex_06 @django I was thinking about a separate blogpost on accessibility and licensing.

Some games, like Daybreak, proclaim to use open source manufacturing methods to be more sustainable and not pollute, but at the same time the game itself is licensed and copyrighted with no (known to me) invitation to hack or fan-translate, which vastly decreases its educational potential.

On the other hand, making an ambitious game takes money and markets rarely pay for fully open projects.

@Julian_1_2_3_4_5 I would be careful with calling it #solarpunk , the movie has a lot of implicit neoliberal assumptions and puts a lot of technosolutionist proposals, doesn't show a lot of communities.

It's a great introduction to the idea of not giving up though! I personally recommend the movie to people who have had no experience with hopeful climate fiction at all.

The company owning the movie is pretty hard to work with as well, we failed to get educational screenings multiple times :/