alxd of the Story Seed Library

@SolarQueen @poVoq I only now saw this, but can confirm that we would love to see your contribution!

We also have a lot of linearts in https://storyseedlibrary.org/tags/coloring-book/ :D

@Murse open source medical devices are a huge step, lowering cost and spreading access. OpenFlexure is a great example.

There will be a conference in Bulgaria this year about the future of medicine from a sociological perspective, I know some open medicine people will be there!

@quercus @paris as the curator of the Library I can attest the image is not AI generated ;)

@SteveKLord I don’t have any good articles on that on hand, but I’ll get back to you when I do.

In the meantime, you might be interested in https://magazine.scienceforthepeople.org/vol27-2-political-economy-of-science/rethinking-open-science/

@SteveKLord yes, you’re right, I’m just cranky. I work with a lot of African activists and I’m just really annoyed by another Western economic approach of What Should Africa Do To Help Itself.

I’d love to see more focus on existing structures such as cooperatives which are really HUGE in a lot of Subsaharan countries.

The language of western economy stops us from seeing a lot of what’s there. What if the transport is not public or private, but communal, coop-owned instead?

@SteveKLord I’d love to hear some voices of African economists who understand the situation of the Coop Bank, Saccos, Chamas and what’s really on the ground, not only some guys from Michigan who see everything from an American standpoint. :S

@SteveKLord the way I read it supports IMF / World Bank by embracing the language they use to talk about finances.

What’s wrong with coop banks? Why does that state need to be involved (which would require IMF to be an intermediary)?

@SteveKLord even the article mentions https://www.dandc.eu/en/article/africa-structural-adjustment-did-not-trigger-fast-growth-had-contractive-impact

> In Africa, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank do not have a good reputation. Many people consider them agencies of misery, poverty and social distress. This perception is driven by the experience of the structural-adjustment programmes that the international financial institutions (IFIs) insisted on in the 1980s and 1990s.

IMF insisted that free education of Africans is a waste of money.

@SteveKLord Africa has quite a few well-functioning community-owned green banks! Even in Kenya the Sacco Banks are very important.

It’s just that they don’t mesh well with “development funds” which require African states to be dependent on the Western definitions of progress, capital, sustainability.