The planet layers

Here we describe the planet layers of the full stack. We refer to them collectively as 'the planet band' of the real full stack.

> Note: This page hasn't yet been adapted to the expanded version of planet layer(s) below. It covers only 'planet' and not 'economy'. Watch this space xxx

# 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.

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

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.

# 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.

But it matters also to designate an explicit 'economy' layer in the stack. We very much welcome proposals that focus not only in the tech band but, at the same time, pay well developed attention to the contribution economy of activity in 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.

> The economy layer is **a commons of means of subsistence and wellbeing**, production, reproduction and cultivation. The 'real economy' of relations with(in) ecologies of wild nature, domesticated nature and digital means. A 'political' economy, saturated with power(s) - the greatest of which are definitely not 'ours'.

# Fundability xxx To be added Economy shopping list