https://philipsheldrake.com/tags/platform-co-operativism/Recent content in Platform-Co-Operativism on Philip SheldrakeHugoen-gbMon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://philipsheldrake.com/2017/10/digital-life-collective-launches-co-operative-nurturing-tech-trust/Mon, 16 Oct 2017 00:00:00 +0000https://philipsheldrake.com/2017/10/digital-life-collective-launches-co-operative-nurturing-tech-trust/<p><a href="https://www.diglife.com" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"><img alt="screenshot from the diglife.com website" loading="lazy" src="https://philipsheldrake.com/images/screenshot-from-the-diglife.com-website.png"></a> </p> <p>The <a href="https://www.diglife.com" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Digital Life Collective</a> co-operative is officially launched today. Here&rsquo;s some text I helped develop for the new website to situate why our mission is important &hellip;</p> <hr> <p>Today, we cannot determine if technology is trustworthy else when it’s betraying our trust.</p> <p>Trust is a vital aspect of every friendship, every family, every society. When you and another person trust each other, you’ve worked out that your interests are suitably aligned. You both believe the other will behave in ways that ‘look out’ for the two of you, that serve you both well.</p> <p>Trust supports our interactions as social animals. We’ve evolved to look for clues that tell us how trustworthy another might be, and to explore ways to test and build that trust without really thinking about it. We end up with:</p> <p><em><strong>You trust someone else to do X.</strong></em></p> <p>What does trust mean in technological terms?</p>