Community Technology
During my years as the Director of the Detroit Community Technology Project I wrote this handbook as a way of archiving 8+ years of knowledge gained from teaching communities technology in Detroit.
This 100+ page handbook will take you through the history of popular education while offering a step-by-step guide to developing community rooted technology workshops and curricula. The handbook introduces Community Technology as a series of educational practices, combining theories and methods by Paulo Freire, Myles Horton, Grace Lee Boggs, Bernice McCarthy, Susan Morris, Grant P Wiggins, and Jay McTighe.
The Handbook was used to build up capacity to teach communities to build their own internet infrastructure as a way of addressing digital redlining in Detroit. Vice did a documentary on this work called the Equitable Internet Initiative, a program I founded and ran from
2015-2019.
This book also was used to create Beat Match Brunch with Mother Cyborg. The program is now ran by the first few cohorts of DJ’s housed with in the Seraphine Collective in Detroit Michigan. Before leaving the handbook was used to teach those interested in caring on the program. The handbook encapsulates the methods and the practice of each one teach one.
Community Technology in Action
