Working with ethical technology invites us to reimagine our digital lives as extensions of our values: community, care, and integrity. Many of today’s major platforms have shown how fragile and extractive our online ecosystems can be. Their drive to maximize profit has often come at the expense of user wellbeing, trust, and genuine connection. For those engaged in transition work, shifting toward more ethical tools helps us align our online actions with the regenerative futures we’re trying to build.
Ethical and open-source technologies offer alternatives that prioritise people and the planet over profit. They enable communities to organise, collaborate, and create in ways that strengthen relationships rather than deplete them. Messaging, project management, content sharing, and archiving can all be supported through community-owned or open-source platforms. These tools are designed with transparency, privacy, and collective stewardship in mind.
Through experimentation with ethical technologies such as Ghost, Bluesky, Mattermost, and Humhub (to name a few) we’ve discovered that there are no perfect platforms, only more mindful choices.
What matters is the practice of pausing before joining a new service and asking:Will this platform be a good custodian of our data? Will it support the kind of community we want to grow? What is the impact this technology has on the environment?
Exploring ethical technology is an act of transition in itself. It’s a way to make our digital infrastructure more regenerative, connected, and congruent with the living systems we serve.
Join the events
Every first week of the month we hold a specific webinar on a Transition Practice with a guest. On the third Tuesday of each month there is a collective wisdom sharing space. We align the theme of the webinars and the sharing space each month. The webinars take the form of workshops led by individual facilitators, while the Collective Wisdom space functions as an open space where everyone can share their learnings and experiences, from their unique contexts. This space encourages discussion and connection with others in the wider Transition movement. These two spaces complement each other and each can be attended as a one-off event.
Join the Collective Wisdom Session on Choosing Ethical Technology
Tuesday, November 17th at 16:00 UTC
Diving deeper
Master the art of Choosing Ethical Technologies
- The Ethical Tech Project is a think-and-do tank dedicated to educating, convening, and equipping technology builders to make design and engineering decisions that enable trust and foster human flourishing.|https://www.ethicaltechproject.org/
- The Center for Humane Technologies | https://www.humanetech.com
- Discover Open Source alternatives https://www.opensourcealternative.to/
- Deploy your favorite Open Source web apps in seconds. More added regularly | https://www.pikapods.com/apps
- Media Revolution | https://mediarevolution.org/
- De-Google https://ethicalrevolution.co.uk/de-google/
- De-Google your smartphone https://e.foundation/e-os/
- Collaborative tech alliance principles https://www.collaborative.tech/principles
- Enshittification discussed by Cory Doctorow & Lina M Khan https://youtube.com
- Generative AI perspective https://superrr.net/
- Article 'Build systems that do not strip away our attention but deepen it...' Indy Johar, The Alternative https://thealternative.org.uk/dailyalternative/2025/7/14/build-systems-indy-johar
Stay engaged
Opportunities to keep connected and learn more
This webinar is part of a 3-month series of webinars and community spaces sharing tangible practices and perspective around Technology exploring tech from psychological, physical, environmental and spiritual and other angles.
We have started a Tech in Transition space on our emerging digital, ethical, platform where people can continue the conversation between sessions, share resources and connect deeper to the ideas and practices shared in the webinar.
And to celebrate the launch of the Transition Platform we are hosting a raffle, which anyone who joins the platform between August and December will be automatically added into for a chance to win a free copy of Jay's book.
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