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Digital Mobilization Field Guide

A technical field guide to digital products, and services that support the operations of organizations aligned with the pro-labor, pro-human rights, pro-free speech and anti-imperialist agenda of Doikayt Mobilization Labs. [TBD: need link]

Target Audience

Profile

You are in the right place if you are a technician working as IT staff or as a volunteer at such organizations, where you are tasked with:

• identification,
• evaluation,
• configuration,
• customization and
• ongoing maintenance and support of software and hardware that supports your group’s mission.

Proficiency Assumptions

You should be at least at ‘power user’ level, comfortable with:

• config files
• command line directives
• IT operations basics
  • Web, Internet, and cloud concepts
  • basic security

Unique Challenges

You likely need to deal with constraints that technicians in corporate, government and military settings don’t worry much about:

• shoe-string budgets,
• deplatforming risks, and
• ethical considerations

See New Submissions for further discussion of how these criteria factor into our structured protocol for recommending new products and services.

Site Organization

Content is organized as a shallow hierarchy, moving from broad generalized domains of organizational concern to operational areas within a domain (and potentially, an intervening sub-area) – all the way down to the level of individual tools (one per page).

• Domain →
  • Operational Area →
    • Operational Sub-area →
      • Task →
        • Candidate Tool

See Site Organization for more details.

How To Contribute

• Request an account from chris@datalackey.com
• Click here to submit a new tool, or click ‘New Submission’ in the sidebar from anywhere on the site

Long Term Vision

Wiki -> Database

We have formalized the procedure for adding new content to this site so that each entry for a recommended tool has a known structure (schema). We plan to leverage this known structure when we start feeding a database with this site’s content.

Database -> Tool for AI Agent

Longer term we plan to expose our content as a tool that be consumed by AI language models via Model Context Protocol. The goal is to enable conversations along the lines of: “I am looking for a low (or no) cost tool to streamline the process of submitting my organization’s weekly events to various community calendars.”