Big tech is a modern day sun-empire that everything orients itself around: even the alternatives. How can we banish the golden geese, re-enchant our tech practice, and make all this stuff feel fun aga...

Surveillance technology in health and social care like Oxevision is intrusive, coercive and not fit for purpose, and much of its development links to warfare. Why is it being commissioned, and where…

Global report provides an alternative to climate breakdown, political extremism and economic tensions

GFSC's goal is “help people use technology to do community stuff”. Today we're launching our manifesto for building this real world impact: shared infrastructure over products, capability over deficit...

The prime minister sets out his project of ‘renewal’, which includes a scheme to open up Europe for young people, admits Labour needs to act on its election drubbing, and questions donations to Reform...

The games industry is a big one, and it's easy to feel like an intruder. How'd I get in? In truder window! In actuality, I got in by making the games I wished existed and meeting a community of other ...

My last post we explained what GFSC does and why. Now the practical bit: how do we actually pay for it? And to answer that, we need to talk about something we've lost: shared distribution.

Our goal is to help community organisations do things together rather than individually. Each project is a different expression of that. Read our plan to build shared community infrastructure.

GFSC is starting four regular monthly drop-ins for: tech developers; artists and freelancers; community organisers; and writers and researchers. They're focussed on developing and supporting people to...

just kidding ........ unless ?? 👀 💰 💻 🧑‍🎨. A run-down of the 15 ways we could think of to get funding for your project: from the capitalist (venture capital) to the grassroots (direct donations). We c...

just kidding ........ unless ?? 👀 💰 💻 🧑‍🎨. A run-down of the 15 ways we could think of to get funding for your project: from the capitalist (venture capital) to the grassroots (direct donations). We c...

THE new Harry Potter TV series due to launch next year could conjure up a magical boost of more than £3billion to the UK economy.

Frederic Jameson famously said, “it’s easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism”. GFSC believe alternatives are not only possible, they’re already happening. Find out about our...

Oscar Wilde once wrote that “the problem with socialism is that it takes up too many evenings”. Possibly there is no greater culprit for these lost evenings than the scourge of consensus decision maki...

Technology for community liberation.