**Resources referenced in my September 2026 presentation at the Rideau Community Hub:** [(slides)](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1ZghYVsJYtXkZzeKB6LDo5AkhudSoEaAiOTFWELOVNbM/edit?slide=id.g40a0b838e2a_6_32#slide=id.g40a0b838e2a_6_32) - [The Social Dilemma](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaaC57tcci0) - [Tristan Harris: How a handful of tech companies control billions of minds every day](https://youtu.be/C74amJRp730?si=OGTS7UUl_c-NiaSl) - [Jaron Lanier: How we need to remake the internet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qQ-PUXPVlos) (TED Talk) - The first talk of Jaron Lanier's that I listened to and deeply inspired me. - [Jaron Lanier fixes the internet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Np5ri-KktNs) - Introduces the concept of mediators of individual data (MIDs), a more people-centred approach to internet data governance. Also see [A Blueprint for a Better Digital Society](https://eliassi.org/lanier_and_weyl_hbr2018.pdf). - Audrey Tang - ["Digital Social Innovation to Empower Democracy"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LscTx6DHh9I&t=602s) - ["Stories from the Future of Democracy"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DkhUO7LiGs&t=424s) - Also see: [Polis](https://pol.is/home2) - ["e-Estonia"](https://e-estonia.com/story/) - Carlota Perez: [Shaping the digital revolution towards smart, green, fair, and global growth](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0h1GC2z1rk&t=1s) - Daniel Schmachtenberger - [In Search of the Third Attractor](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XCXvzQdcug&t=401s) - [What is the tragedy of the commons?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CxC161GvMPc) - [The plural tech ecosystem](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1dFtNSNc42AUn9hYm2sACuGJKdZKRT8zgl0HAOXR57K0/edit?gid=509000983#gid=509000983) - My personal tracker of organizations creating alternatives to Big Tech - [[The Sustainable Podcast]] - A podcast about technology and society I made with one of my classmates from Estonia - [My MA thesis](https://digikogu.taltech.ee/en/Item/fcb9becf-75d6-482c-8648-7ae81705ef4a) - [Commons Fabric](https://commonsfabric.ca/) - [Ottawa Civic Tech](http://www.meetup.com/yow_ct)