Non-Aligned Technologies Movement

What is it?

The Non-Aligned Tech Movement (NATM) is a movement for the purposeful implementation of digital technologies in a way that affirms each community's power of self-determination and governance. We are a worldwide alliance of civil society organizations (in collaboration with allied players from the public and private sector) that seek to define and claim technosocial spaces beyond the profit-motivated model of Silicon Valley and the control-motivated model of the Chinese Communist Party, the two centers of power of a new colonial extractivist order. NATM seeks to promote a collection of models and platforms that allow communities to articulate their own approaches to development, sovereignty and individual and collective autonomy.

The idea to promote a NATM emerged from the work of Tierra Común members Juan Ortiz Freuler and Ulises A. Mejias, who serve as the coordinators.