About this resource
This is a free, public resource about citizen infrastructure — technology that citizens build and use to act together on shared problems — and a growing toolkit of things you can actually use. You don’t need to be a member of anything to read it or use it.
The idea behind it
Section titled “The idea behind it”Most of the technology we use is built to make us more efficient as individuals. Citizen infrastructure starts from a different question: what would technology look like if its purpose were to help people act together? The north star is technology for collective action — where technology, democracy, and solidarity meet — and a citizen who is agentic and artisan, with a hand in shaping the tools their community runs on, rather than only using what the big platforms hand down.
→ More in what citizen infrastructure is.
Who stewards it
Section titled “Who stewards it”It’s published and maintained by the Citizen Infrastructure Builders Club (CIBC) — a group of people building technology for collective action. This wiki is the public-facing body of knowledge; the club itself lives elsewhere.
- Join the club → cibc.notion.site
- Support the work → opencollective.com/citizen-infra
It’s open
Section titled “It’s open”The whole resource is open and editable. Spot something wrong or missing? Use the “Edit page” link at the bottom of any page, or browse the source on GitHub.