libraries also have long been important to the democratization of access to knowledge, and there’s a growing trend to develop libraries as sites where people can learn about and explore digital design.

institucionesque ayudan al progreso y mantenimiento de los valores democráticos, pues actúan como espacios públicos y lugares de encuentro en los que los ciudadanos pueden acceder libremente al conocimiento, cultura e información sin ningún tipo de censura (IFLA y UNESCO, 2001).

. By specifying representation as a value and highlighting connections between transparency and technology we can design ICTs for democracy

“Democracy is dying”

La autonomía es anticapitalista pero no es necesariamente socialista. Se puede describir en términos de democracia radical, autodeterminación cultural y autogobierno. Al vincular el diseño y la democracia el teórico del diseño Gui Bonsiepe (2005) define la democracia como la reducción de la heteronomía, es decir, de la dominación por fuerzas externas, y como el proceso por el cual los ciudadanos dominados se transforman en sujetos, abriendo espacios para la autodeterminación y los proyectos autónomos.

democracy requires space for collective action. As technologies and their communities of practice changed, new spaces were needed that reached beyond established collectivities of group, community, and organization. Hackathons and hackerspaces are two such genres of collectivity that encourage participation and collaboration towards explicitly egalitarian goals

The more pressing threat is that a fear of solution-ism and neoliberal connotations of “open data” together might dissuade political par-ticipation. Systemic social disparities are often intractable. The route to alleviate them has never been detachment or abandonment. Looking forward, we should pay attention to how data activism and advocacy might result in meaningful systematic change beyond the usual claims of “transparency.” To fulfill the possibilities for meaningful social change hinted at in their history, civic hackers might have to coordinate around specific mechanisms for change and articulate a deeper sense of democracy than the language of technology provides.