Legacy note

This project was part of Catalyst CIC’s final contribution towards tech justice. We’re keeping this page here as part of our static archive, so others can see and learn from what we did.

 

Though the Roadtrip is no longer active, its participants remain part of the wider network carrying the work forward.

About the Roadtrip

• How do we go about understanding communities’ experience of tech injustice?
• How do we reimagine ways for tech to liberate people?
• How do we design in a way that prioritises justice, fairness and equity?

These questions aren’t easy to answer. We believe one way is to centre minoritised communities and put their lived experience of tech injustice first.

This means going beyond typical user-centred design to find new ways to listen, collaborate and share power.

That could mean using feminist AI to challenge systemic discrimination. (See Chayn’s project output: Survivor AI)

Or prioritising adaptability, equity and community through emergent design practices.

Or perhaps creating tools that support community decision making.

And it might also look like:

• collating and archiving the work of our comrades in the global south
• digging deep into ideas of racial justice and community building in online spaces, or 
• exploring what decoloniality might mean for organisations.

We’ve been working openly by sharing what we learn as we go. In this way we support the wider tech justice movement. Read our collaborative blogs.

3 tech justice initiatives

Our approach is also funding 3 tech justice initiatives. Catalyst has a history of sparking new initiatives, but this is the first time we’ve done this with a focus on tech justice.

The project is creating:

• Community-driven insights and ideas for just or liberatory technology
• Increased awareness of tech justice issues
• A set of stories about how technology can liberate rather than discriminate
• Community engagement models we can reuse. Or that can inspire how we support other justice-led communities of resistance.

Governance: sociocracy and the project circle

The project is governed by a sociocratic circle.

• Nadine, facilitating Chayn’s work
• Yasmin and Puja, facilitating Camden Giving’s work
• Debs, facilitating Multitudes’ work
• Siana, leading storytelling across the project
• Quito, supporting partner organisations with expertise in tech justice
• Nikita, providing evaluation support, holding reflection sessions and  exploring decolonial governance with Chayn. 
• Zainab, designing and facilitating project evaluation activities with a decolonial lens
• Kayleigh, supporting sociocracy and carrying out research
• Hannah, steering the project and holding space.