Translations:OPEN CALL HDSC2026 - Clouds to Commons: Regenerative Publishing Infrastructures/9/en

The material reality of our digital habits involves deep-sea internet cables, resource guzzling server farms, precious metals mined to produce chips and more “stuff” to make up what we have come to call “the cloud”. The tangible “stuff” that connects computing to everyday reality is largely owned, governed and designed by corporate big tech companies that make all their decisions based on profit maximisation. Sustainability, social equity and democracy are not at the center of how these everyday infrastructures are built, developed or maintained.