Our universities, and we ourselves, depend on large tech conglomerates and their technologies for much of our research and teaching. At a moment when so much is being said about how to overcome this dependency, we need to share resources that help us bring this into our everyday practice. Here is a non-exhaustive list:

Storage drives

Video conferencing/ meetings

Messaging

Audio/ Podcasting Hosting

Tech Co-ops in Canada

There are also Nextcloud’s tools (Files, Talk, Collectives, Office), which power many cooperative providers : https://apps.nextcloud.com/featured

Rafael Grohmann

CLCF Co-Director & Assistant Professor

Rafael Grohmann is a Co-lead and Co-Director of the Creative Labour and Critical Futures (CLCF) cluster and an Assistant Professor of Media Studies (Critical Platform Studies) at the University of Toronto. Rafael is the leader of the DigiLabour initiative and founding editor of the Platforms & Society journal.