GLOBAL TAPESTRY of ALTERNATIVES
G T A
This document briefly summarize the projects discussed and proposed in the context of the GTAGlobal Tapestry of Alternatives. This projects are directly connected with the GTA's 2020 Objectives (that are specified in our public roadmap). Here we also try to describe each project status, required allocated resources and funding needs.
Description: This is not a project itself, but it's listed here since its directly connected with the daily work, regular operations and infrastructure maintenance needed for the general GTA's process and also it's projects.
Needed actions and work:
Estimative needed time: 80 hs / month
Current status: Active
Funds:
Description: We defined a common pool to cover eventual costs that emerges from travels to conferences and gathering where core team members assist to present GTA.
Funds:
Description: Webinar series aims to facilitate sessions with activists, scholars, researchers, mobilisers, practitioners across the world who have engaged on exploring systemic alternatives. Started on April 2020 and already featured 8 sessions. More details here.
Needed actions and work:
Action Lines: [B] Disseminate
Estimative needed time: 40 hs / month (2 sessions per month)
Current status: Active
Funds:
Description: roduce a series of “thematic reports” showcasing real world examples coming from alternatives as a response to problems, crises and challenges in the context of the COVID-19 and other mayor global crises. This is explained in more detail here, and also part of this concept was included in the proposal for Swift Foundation. Some of this is initially conceptualized for the Formas proposal draft
Needed actions and work:
Action Lines: [B] Disseminate
Estimative needed time:
Current status: Active, currently starting with participation of John Foran's team
Funds
Description: The creation of a software tool aimed at collective mapping and collaborative production of knowledge about alternatives. It will have the following characteristics: will be developed and made available under the political, ethical and technical principles of Open Source Free Software; will be designed from a “pluriveral design ontology” (non eurocentric design approach); will operate as a web service and self-installable, allowing multiple distributed implementations; capabilities to interconnect the implementations and integrate a common meta-network; will work from an asynchronous collaborative dynamic between multiple users applying a commons-based peer production model, similar to a wiki. This is described in more detail in Antipode proposal and Swift Proposal. This project it's directly connected with the AHRC/ESRC project proposal draft (which is focused on visual narratives that relies on this mapping and documentation technology)
Needed actions and work:
Action Lines: [A] Documentate
Estimative needed time: 80hs/months for 1 year (phase 1)
Current status: On hold (there progress by some GTA's endorsers on the development of some of the tech components)
Funds:
Description: the provision of digital tools for alternative grassroots approaches, aimed to promote self-design process with technologeies adapted to a convivial perspective in order to “develop concrete and operational tools for Weavers to deepen their autonomy; expand and strengthen their networks; promote mapping and self-documentation of their members actions and practices. This project was submitted for funding as part of an asynchronous digital workshop proposal titled “Autonomous Communication and Transformative AlternativesAre activities and initiatives, concepts, worldviews, or action proposals by collectives, groups, organizations, communities, or social movements challenging and replacing the dominant system that perpetuates inequality, exploitation, and unsustainabiity. In the GTA we focus primarily on what we call "radical or transformative alternatives", which we define as initiatives that are attempting to break with the dominant system and take paths towards direct and radical forms of political and economic democracy, localised self-reliance, social justice and equity, cultural and knowledge diversity, and ecological resilience. Their locus is neither the State nor the capitalist economy. They are advancing in the process of dismantling most forms of hierarchies, assuming the principles of sufficiency, autonomy, non-violence, justice and equality, solidarity, and the caring of life and the Earth. They do this in an integral way, not limited to a single aspect of life. Although such initiatives may have some kind of link with capitalist markets and the State, they prioritize their autonomy to avoid significant dependency on them and tend to reduce, as much as possible, any relationship with them.: Convivial Tools for Transition Design from the Global South”, more details here.
Needed actions and work:
Action Lines: [A] Documentate ; [C] Connect
Estimative needed time: 40hs/months for 6 months
Current status: On hold
Funds:
Description: Creation of an “Alternatives Open Framework” used to help understand general common characteristics. It will include: a clear conceptualization of “types of alternatives”, spelling out the criteria and methodologies for understanding an alternative and enabling some distinctions so that collaborations, dialogue and mapping could be initiated and a series of cross-sectoral analysis and taxonomies that can help identify their relationship with several post-development narratives (good living, commons, Swaraj, etc.) and reveal their inherent principles, ethics and values. This is described in more detail in Antipode proposal
Needed actions and work:
Action Lines: [A] Documentate
Estimative needed time: 40hs/months for 12 months
Current status: On hold
Funds:
For one year:
Project | Allocated | Required | Funding sources |
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General Operations | 14.600$us7) | 14.600$us8) | Full Circle Foundation |
Webinar Series | None | ? | - |
Thematic Reports on Alternatives to Global Crises | 2.000$us | 20.000$us | EJ/CJ Hub and Swift Foundation |
Collaborative Mapping of Alternatives | - | 10.000$us | Swift Foundation and Wenner Grenn Foundation 9) |
Tools for Weavers and Grassroots alternatives | 4.600$us | 4.600$us | Wenner Grenn Foundation |
Alternatives Open Framework | - | 6.000$us | - |
TOTAL | 21.200$us | 55.200$us10) |
Funder | Ammount | Area |
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Wenner Grenn Foundation | 4.600$us | Development and infrastructure |
EJ/CJ Hub | 2.000$us | Content creation |
Swift Foundation | 10.000$us | Content creation and development |
TOTAL | 16.600$us |
We propose to distribute the funds in 4 areas: [1] Contents creation; [2] Mapping and documentation technologies; [3] Workshop for WGF and [4] Infrastructure costs and maintenance. Summary table:
Project | Ammount | |
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[1] Contents creation | 8.000 $us | |
[2] Mapping and documentation technologies | 6.000$us | |
[3] Workshop for WGF | 1.600$us | |
[4] Infrastructure costs | 1.000$us | |
TOTAL | 16.600$us |
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For the whole contents production we will allocate: TOTAL: 8000 $us
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Total ammount to distribute is 12.000 (10.000 from Swift and 2.000 from EJ/CJ Hub). Wenner-Grenn is not included since we didn't received it and still waiting re-confirmation from their side.
Project | Ammount | |
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[1] Contents creation: 1 report (coordinated by Vasna) and 10 webinars transcriptions | 4.000 $us | |
[2] Mapping and documentation technologies (first alpha version, half of the functionlities, 1 dataset) | 3.000$us | |
[3] Custom Server infrastructure costs | 1.000$us | |
TOTAL | 8.000$us |
Project | Ammount | |
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[1] Contents creation: 1 report (coordinated by Shrishtee) and 4 short videos of alternatives based on webinars topics | 4.000 $us | |
TOTAL | 4.000$us |