The Tech Impact Network is an international network of academic programmes established to rebalance power and restore agency in a world dominated by digital platforms.

The Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy is independent and, while it’s initial funding is from Minderoo Foundation, decisions concerning the Centre rest exclusively at Cambridge. The Centre is not under any obligation to Minderoo Foundation or its affiliates in how research funding is used.

Cooperating with other nodes in the Tech Impact Network, we will develop work on an accelerated timeline over the next five years to confront lawlessness, empower workers, and reimagine digital technology.

The work will translate into rigorous reform agendas, robust public engagement, and challenges to the current asymmetry of corporate-funded narratives on technology futures.

The tech ecosystem owes much of its unmitigated power to unparalleled market control, stifled public discourse, shrinking public institutions, and atomised dissent.

To counter this, the network’s strategy is one of collective action and collaboration, designed to provide communities with tools and techniques for resisting corporate tech and imagining pro-public futures