Locality-to-Locality Spreading with the Relational Tech Project

Abstract: Join us for a seminar presentation with Josh Nesbit and Deborah Tien from the Relational Tech Project all about their work on "Locality-to-Locality Spreading." These are tools to help neighborhood stewards from around the world share, learn, and remix ways of building community where they live. Learn more about their work in this blog and on the Relational Tech Project website.

​In their presentation, they will focus on three ways RTP is prototyping infrastructure to help with locality-to-locality spreading:

​Relational Tech Studio is where you can read our library of stories of local change, and remix tools enabling that change, such as a block-level information hub in the Outer Sunset, San Francisco; microgrant coordination for neighborhoods in the US; or community supply sharing websites around the world.

​Relational Tech Watcher is a feed that scans public GitHub code repositories tagged with #relational-tech to summarize recent changes. You can access Watcher through your Studio homepage, our updates website, or adding to your RSS feed.

​MCP (Model Context Protocol) is a standard that lets AI tools you’re already using connect to external context. Our Relational Tech MCP server essentially turns on a ‘relational tech mode’ for whatever AI you’re working with. Once you add it, your AI is hooked up to the Studio library, Watcher updates, and our core practices and guiding documents.

​They ask: How can we be slow and small relational tech gardeners, when there are so many other technology builders going fast and breaking things?

​"While we might be slower and smaller as gardeners of local tech, we don’t start from scratch like many other builders. Instead, we learn from other gardeners around the world, and we build on our local relationships, asking friends and neighbors who already know us to try out our tech and co-create together."

​We are thrilled to be hosting Josh and Deborah at Metagov Seminar!

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the discipline

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