Digital Space Made With Care
… starting in Dundee
ddcommons is building a different kind of internet, rooted in Dundee, shaped by care, and made for the communities that existing online spaces have failed.
We believe local communities can build something better: online spaces that are affirming, abuse-free, and genuinely shared. We are exploring what a community-led internet might look and feel like.
DD Commons is a place-based project that aims to establish an online network designed with care-led values in mind, providing a supportive and abuse-free community for collaboration and learning, serving its place and its people.
It came from a desire to:
- Provide a online space driven by care and community needs.
- Be online without fear, prejudice or judgement.
- Affirm that our lived-experiences are recognised, validated, and supported online.
- Increase digital inclusion, access and knowledge, and open up tech and digital opportunities for all.
Our aim
We are building an online network, and the physical server that powers it, shaped by care-led values rather than profit. Our goal is digital spaces that are affirming, inclusive, and free from the toxicity that has come to define so much of life online.
We began with a focus on women, because the mainstream internet was not built with women in mind and continues to fail them every day. That founding purpose still runs through everything we do. But we have grown. ddcommons now works with and for all communities whose voices are marginalised, silenced, or driven offline by abuse, prejudice, and exclusion.
Are you interested in helping to build an affirming, supportive digital space? We want to build this up from communities’ needs and desires, so we’d love to hear from you.