@SteveKLord yes, you're right, I'm just cranky. I work with a lot of African activists and I'm just really annoyed by another Western economic approach of What Should Africa Do To Help Itself.
I'd love to see more focus on existing structures such as cooperatives which are really HUGE in a lot of Subsaharan countries.
The language of western economy stops us from seeing a lot of what's there. What if the transport is not public or private, but communal, coop-owned instead?
@SteveKLord Africa has quite a few well-functioning community-owned green banks! Even in Kenya the Sacco Banks are very important.
It's just that they don't mesh well with "development funds" which require African states to be dependent on the Western definitions of progress, capital, sustainability.
@Valmond I don't think I'm seeing a question there, just topics ;)
Could my https://lenses.alxd.org/ help?
@Valmond feel free to ask them, I'm over here on Mastodon. I'm not experienced in Lemmy spaces, do you think that setting slrpnk.net/c/storySeedLibrary would make sense?
@SteveKLord reading about it it's pretty sad that they offer accommodation, but not food :<
The amount of AI graphics on their page is also problematic.
@stabby_cicada I previously reached out to a few artists who created Solarpunk art for games - and the copyright on these is pretty strict :/
@stabby_cicada the point of the Story Seed Library is to simplify the license and openly say "my work can be shared freely on the Internet". Without it, it gets complicated and its not obvious whether I can illustrate a blogpost by just crediting them.
Nothing against works outside of Creative Commons, I just want to build a repository of works we can all use freely :)
@SteveKLord I don't have any good articles on that on hand, but I'll get back to you when I do.
In the meantime, you might be interested in https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-political-economy-of-science/rethinking-open-science/