Ideas and practices
Balancing mission elements at Boudica.
Ideated model;
- Security as;
- a right conferred by social contract
- applied love and care
- rooted in knowledge and understanding
- something accessible to everyone
- an aspect of positive freedom
- a quality issue
- primarily relational
- situated in a changing culture
- a reflective (internal) and political (outward) practice
Maximise;
- Intellectual self-defence and critical thinking
- Moral intelligence and reasoning about technology
- Analytical skills needed for life in a technological society
- Compassion for the more vulnerable
- Valuing and sharing of knowledge
- Valuing and peaceful disputation of ideals
- Intellectual honesty, conviviality, mutuality, character
- Practical skills and craft with technology
- Purposefulness
- Persective and proper distance from technology
- Security as personal moral responsibility
- Responsible personal autonomy with technology
- Psychological Security
- Social Security
- Software Freedom and Digital Rights
Minimise:
- Confusion, agitation, FUD
- Abuse and potential for abuse/corruption
- Dependency, imobility, unawareness
- Unpreparedness, poor intelligence and planning
Practice;
- identify the most vulnerable to help with
- filter by most able to change and learn
- minimise FUD instead of spreading it for profit
- spread empowering but difficult knowledge
- security as resistance
- psychology
- strategies
- devices and craft
- alliance and community building
- planning change
- gradualism versus step/revolution
- honesty with people about complexity
- responding to side effects and blowback