Shareish: an open-source, map-based, web platform to facilitate diverse solidarity practices
We will present the Shareish, map-based, web platform and mobile app to foster diverse solidarity practices inspired by concepts of mutual aid, and the gift economy. Shareish aims at leveraging community assets through donations, free loans, requests of goods and services, free event announcements, and by enhancing the visibility of freely available resources from OSM and FallingFruit (solidarity fridges, public bookcases, give boxes, free falling fruits,...). On a Shareish instance, subjects have the ability to view localized items on a OSM-based map or in browsable lists, utilize search filters, contribute new content with detailed textual and visual descriptions, engage in discussions with other citizens, and receive notifications when new content is added in their neighborhood. The platform can be replicated and improved by communities seeking autonomy as its source code is distributed freely under a permissive open source license (https://github.com/shareish). A research demonstration server is available: https://shareish.org/
Keywords
mutual aid, non-monetary solidarity practices, radical cartography, human geography, post-growth, open-source, OpenStreetMap, computer-supported collaborative work