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Nadia Gorchakova
@nadiagor.bsky.social
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Loving my journey with #coops and diving deep into the #neweconomy.
I’m into critiquing tech and its impact on the planet.
Background in climate justice and activism tech.
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A Local Power Plan that Works for Communities: www.common-wealth.org/publications...
A Local Power Plan that Works for Communities
www.common-wealth.org
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Clay sculpture by Montreal-based Italian artist Monica Mariniello, c 2010s.
Clay sculpture of a human figure sitting astride a panther. Clay sculpture of a human figure with a raised hand as if in conversation, sitting astride a large goat. Clay sculpture of a woman lying on a white platform with her legs curled up and her hands on her torso. Dried flowers and tall grasses spring up from her body. Clay sculpture of a human figure with a raised hand as if in conversation, sitting astride a large goat.
July 14, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Reposted by Nadia Gorchakova
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Don't pace around nervously! Read this new essay by me and Matt Dowse from the Centre for Sociodigital Futures.

What if innovation were rethought as if people, rather than firms, are the things that matter most?

www.promisingtrouble.net/blog/innovat...

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Promising Trouble 5 Nov Written By Rachel Coldicutt OBE and Dr Matt Dowse What good is innovation if it doesn't work for everyone? An open invitation to a thinking party on community-driven technologies and inclusive growth. Rather than accruing benefits only to a small, socially elite group of innovators, a truly modern innovation economy must seek to create more plural, more equitable opportunities that are accessible beyond major research institutions and massive tech corporations, that prioritise regeneration over extraction, and that uplift and empower people and communities in their diversity. "Small" in this case does not mean a lack of ambition; it denotes a lack of concentration - a tendency towards pluralism, and an embrace of many possible, parallel realities and futures that are imagined within limits. The resource intensive nature of modern technologies at scale make these steps urgent, and it seems likely that a shift to smaller-scale and more distributed approaches to computing will become an imperative over the coming decade. [4] 1. Funding: What needs to shift to make viable technology investment that prioritises long-term social returns rather than short-term profit and status? 2. Measurement: What are the metrics and measurement approaches that will make this attractive to policy makers? 3. Infrastructure: What infrastructures are needed to foster long-term, vision-led investments in technology capabilities that prioritise equitable, regenerative, health societies? 4. Intelligences: What interventions are needed to enable technologies to be created and altered to enable a "repertoire of intelligences" [5] rather than support returns to a small number of Silicon Valley companies and investors? 5. Organising: What methods of organising are needed? What does organising in this new normal look like? How can communities organise for a new innovation economy?
November 5, 2024 at 8:02 AM
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My field notes from Mozfest in Amsterdam earlier this year.
Still a daily source of inspiration!
Highlight - producing electricity with soil batteries #regenerativetech

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Nadia’s Field Notes from MozFest Amsterdam
A couple of weeks ago, I had the incredible experience of attending the Mozilla Festival (10-13 June) in...
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November 25, 2024 at 3:41 PM