We build open source infrastructure for communities to offer an alternative (an antidote) to the opaque and proprietary tech that dominates elsewhere. Our code is public, improvements are shared, and anyone can contribute.
Join our contributor space here: github.com/orgs/Digital...
I guess we can add this to our running tab of horrifying policies.
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trying to think of a weaker and more contemptible response than this and failing
Housing organising involves sensitive data. When it’s mishandled, tenants take the risk, not institutions.
Together with Shared Assets, we made a GDPR guide for housing justice groups that’s about care, not compliance.
Get it here: drive.google.com/file/d/1DQO-...
Today I publish Who Owns Scotland 2025, an annual analysis of landownership across rural Scotland. The most significant finding is the continuing trend over past 15 years of fewer and fewer owners owning more and more of rural Scotland. andywightman.scot/2026/02/who-...
Read more in our article for the Winter issue of STIR, exploring inspiration & how-tos, from Leicester & London to Bristol & Sheffield:
#CommunityAssets #MycelialNetwork #StirToAction
www.stirtoaction.com/articles/pla...
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A common fictional narrative shows people with nonconforming identities finding self-acceptance in towns and cities.
This #LGBTQHistoryMonth, archivist Lottie Wood explores how author E. M. Barraud found the opposite, through rural work and the Women’s Land Army.
merl.reading.ac.uk/news-and-vie...
✨ We’ve just launched a new open source contributor space for people who want to support tech for good.
If you’re a developer, researcher, designer, or data person, you can now see what we’re working on and where support is needed. 🙏
github.com/orgs/Digital...
I Never Thought The Leopards Would Eat My Face, sobs woman who wrote innumerable opinion columns about how there were reasonable concerns about how regulations banning leopards eating people’s faces endangered women
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✉️ We just sent our monthly newsletter! It covered...
💚 A new GDPR handbook for housing justice groups
🛠️ A new open source contributor space that's now live
And more! Subscribe for future updates: digitalcommons.coop/contact/
I bumped into a very sweaty agitated man on the towpath in an affluent part of London once. It was Boris Johnson out for a jog. Terrifying. It’s true … you really don’t feel safe in London sometimes.
Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful by High Court!
Palestine Action should never have been proscribed as a 'terrorist organisation' - Cooper's doing so was massive overreach, setting a dangerous precedent for the banning of non-violent direct action groups
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...
We now know how the rich live.
What could help make more Nudges possible? Community businesses often struggle to get money quickly, to buy properties when they become available. Pre-agreed financing has been essential for Nudge but a more agile facility to fund community buyouts is needed.
Mpox diagnoses in the UK increased in January 2026.
Vaccination is available through routine NHS sexual health appointments for eligible groups.
@bashhuk.bsky.social @ukhsa.bsky.social @england.nhs.uk
www.thelovetank.info/news/mpoxfeb26
Campaigning is more effective when the system is visible.
Groups use Land Explorer to:
🔦 find who owns land & buildings
💪 spot unregistered or hidden land
& more..
We run 1-hour onboarding calls for orgs who want to use it in their campaigns.
✉️ Email: hello@digitalcommons.coop
Exciting news: this May sees the national release of OUR LAND.
A beautiful documentary feature film about the @righttoroam.bsky.social campaign, directed by Orban Wallace.
Trailer here 👇
www.youtube.com/watch?v=est-...
☎️ We now offer 1-hour Land Explorer onboarding / training calls for your group or org
Groups use the tool to find out who owns land, investigate sites, & connect local issues to wider ownership patterns, especially when info is hard to access or fragmented.
Email hello@digitalcommons.coop !
The UK housing crisis has a hidden layer: the info organisers need to build campaigns is paywalled & fragmented.
That's why we’re working with Shared Assets to build tools shaped by organisers themselves.
Uncover who owns what by using Land Explorer (it's free) digitalcommons.coop/land-explorer/
We just sent out our last newsletter of 2025. Highlights include...
💻 We’re hiring a part-time full stack developer (21 hrs/week): deadline 10 Jan 2026
🗺 The Co-operative World Map just passed 84,000 co-ops, with major new data added
And more.. ✉️ subscribe here: digitalcommons.coop/contact/
We’ve been working on a big update to the Co-operative World Map this month 🌍
It’s built with our tool Mykomaps & will soon show >84,000 co-ops worldwide, giving a much clearer picture of the scale and diversity of the global co-op movement.
If your co-op isn’t on it yet, get in touch!
We just sent out our last newsletter of 2025. Here's a preview...
💻 We’re hiring a part-time full stack developer (21 hrs/week): deadline 10 Jan 2026
🗺 The Co-operative World Map just passed 84,000 co-ops, with major new data added
And more...
Subscribe here: digitalcommons.coop/contact/
As Big Local comes to an end after 15 years & £200m+ invested, @londonfunders.bsky.social and @localtrust.org.uk are launching a new learning series to explore what happened.
The series will draw out lessons to apply to future place-based funding. Learn more:
💻 We’re hiring a Full Stack Developer!
This is a fully remote, flexible role (~3 days / 21 h/week). You'll be contributing to the delivery pipeline across our open source tools.
Come help make the digital commons a reality!
🔗 👉 for more info + application form: digitalcommons.coop/we-are-recru...
🌱 The Powys Food Map is live!
Built with Mykomaps + launched by the coop Cultivate.
It brings together farms, food projects, hubs + community groups across Powys, Wales so people can actually see their local food system in one place.
Take a look 👇
www.cultivate.uk.com/bwyd-powys-f...
The Countryside Right of Way (CRoW) Act succeeded in giving partial access across the nation.
A split image showing Canford Heath, Dorset: left side features a 1960s land utilization survey map with color-coded zones; right side displays a present-day satellite view, highlighting urban development over former heathland.
A historical land use map of Downham Market, Norfolk from the 1960s, shaded to show various land types like arable, urban, and woodland.
Four digitised maps showing land cover changes in Wolverhampton, England from 1930 to 2020, highlighting shifts from broadleaved woodland and grassland to arable land and urban areas.
New analysis of 1960s land use maps, many created by schoolchildren and students, reveals fresh insights on the timing and extent of habitat losses caused by post-war agricultural intensification and urban growth in England and Wales.
www.ceh.ac.uk/press/maps-c...
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#maps #LandUse
Swore you’d finish that project by the end of 2025?
I can help.
Please support this! It's not just about rivers/woods/moors. It's also about communities being able to refer to 'environmental' interests in towns/cities, things like buying a building with plans to retrofit it, or create habitats in & around a building...
