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