Here we describe the planet layers of the full stack. We refer to them collectively as 'the planet region' of the real full stack.
The planet layers of the stack
# Planet layer Underlying the tech stack and its globalised material and energy consumption are extractive practices that profoundly impact the planet, notably in the South. The planet layer is a base layer of the full stack: the bedrock, the bottom line, the always-present background. And the global South, one way and another, is perhaps where everything will pivot eventually?
> The planet layer is **a commons of energy, water, country, interspecies wellbeing**. Of Fairtrade and fair work. Of continuity of culture and eldership: ancestors and the grandchildren's grandchildren.
All the layers of the full stack are co-present with one another, and all need to be inhabited by any robust inititative in contra-infrastructuring. Specifically, this 'bottom' layer of the full stack joins up with the 'top' layer: Civil society space > The civil society layer is a **commons of capability** to achieve wellbeing, mutuality, pluriverse and justice; across regions and across generations, for the grandchildren's grandchildren and all species.
Planet layer - *to be added xxx*
Below this line - migrate to Planet layer
See: South from the start
Fairtrade and fair work - to be developed.
Country - to be developed xxx
Energy and materials - to be developed xxx
Collapse and resilience - to be developed xxx
Permacomputing - to be developed xxx
Provisioning of the tech layers - to be developed xxx
Planet layer shopping list - tools to specifically facilitate actions in the Planet layer- *to be added xxx*
# Economy layer Since the real full stack is an interwoven complex of layered **practices**, every layer or space has 'an economy': a dynamic, pulsing constellation of contributions and extractions, privileges and obligations, material means and material hindrances; of powers. We mean 'a political economy' of course.
> The economy layer is **a commons of means of subsistence and wellbeing**, production, reproduction and cultivation: an economy of (plural kinds of) **contributions**. The 'real economy' of relations with(in) ecologies of wild nature, domesticated nature and digital means.
There is no viable infrastructure without careful attention to its real economy: the working relationships between contributions and means in the commons, and the powers that they carry and bestow.
Although every practice has 'a real economy' (of contributions and means, work and gifts, provisioning and mobilising) it matters to designate an explicit 'economy' layer in the stack. We very much welcome proposals that focus not only in the tech region but, at the same time, pay well developed attention to the contribution economy of activity in and around that space.
Notably, we welcome projects that pay careful attention to the relationships of **livelihood work** and gift work on one hand, and on the other hand to **the working of the commons** - in provisioning and curating, in mobilising and enjoying, in stewarding and defending. In the end, 'democratic tech' is about an entirely revised regime in the real economy, and this calls for investigation and focused evolutionary development in our ecology of funded projects too. See Regime change in the Seven Rs.
We're speaking of a 'political' economy, saturated with power(s) - the greatest of which are definitely not 'ours', are not domesticated in the way that we have fondly imagined production and consumption to be (despite the inhuman power of capital that organises a majority of 'the economy'), but belong to 'nature'. Unfortunately the recently emerged powers of the digital - 'the golemic', just a generation old - are not 'ours either; they are alien, unfamiliar, feral and - in the Digital Coup - weaponised, by bad actors who are personally as well as institutionally powerful.
Political economy has become a very complex matter in the past three generations. We welcome projects that have clear agendas in an economic landscape of this kind, focused on and/or mediated by infrastructures of digital means under substantially altered social relations.
Economy layer - *to be added*
Economy shopping list - *to be added*