Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure / Ford Foundation

Society runs on software but software building tools are buckling under the demand. In this report, Nadia Eghbal addresses the challenges.

Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure - Ford Foundation Learning Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure 14 July 2016 Research Reports Technology and Society Share: Share this page on Facebook Share this page on LinkedIn Download pdf (872.60 KB) Download pamphlet Download French pdf (872.60 KB) The Challenge Free, publicly available source code is the infrastructure on which all of digital society relies. It is vital to the functioning of governments, private companies, and individual lives. However, few realize that public code is

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