Governance of the Information Infrastructure
Over centuries, people have struggled to bring participatory governance to geographically-defined spaces (nations, states and provinces, municipalities).
Now, with our information spaces, we’re starting over.
One might say that your relationship with the maker of your phone or computer – a private enterprise – should not need participatory governance.
Perhaps that’s true.
If you do feel that that is true, then Osmio should have nothing to do with that relationship.
In that case, please watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwgpTDluufY.
Then ask yourself: does a company that behaves this way with its customers and with those whom the customer chooses to help with the maintenance and repair of the products which they own deserve your business?
We’re not suggesting that a private company should be compelled by some kind of law to adopt participatory governance. The Right To Repair movement has the right idea... but...
Wait! If you buy a computer or tablet or phone, it’s yours. You can do whatever you want with it. If you do illegal things with it, well, that’s the problem of public law enforcement, not some fake government concocted by its manufacturer. It’s up to you to decide what software you put into it, and how and by whom you choose to have it repaired.
Right To Repair is like advocating for a Right To Breathe law. If Silibandia (Silicon Valley plus the broadband and media industries) had not so blatantly manipulated the peoples’ perceptions to believe that it has the right to govern, Right To Repair wouldn’t even occur to us.
We have allowed makers of computers, operating systems, social networks and various online services to become governments. The leadership of those governments is with small groups consisting of managements and boards of directors.
If you agree that that needs to be reversed, you’ve come to the right place.
Learn how you can become active in the governance of your information home and the information spaces of which it is part.
How Do I Get Involved? leads to list of commissions and departments