MetaGOAT Workshop: Collaborative GOAT Roadmap
Building on the GOAT Orientation Session and related GOAT mapping work. we’ll put together a plan for how we co-create and collaborate on actual FUNDED WORK as part of our pending and future GOAT proposals.
Much of the feedback from folks who have been involved in GOAT over the years is that they have found community and connection through participation in our events. People and their organizations have found allies, friends, and even collaborators resulting in large-scale funded projects. However, there has also been an overwhelming call for action, coordination, and mechanism to work together. Over the years there have been several proposals on how we can move to action via GOAT, from creating a cooperative to provide member services such as access to shared prior art advocates; to connecting our community with others who are already engaged in allied grass-roots actions. This additionally requires taking a more proactive role in bringing in missing voices in agtech conversations, from farmers and land stewards, to underserved minority groups, youth groups, program developers, and more. Taking inspiration from allied communities, we seek to develop a set of concrete actions to foster co-creation of trusted, people-centered, ecologically-oriented, and open technologies for resilient agriculture and food systems. Inspired by the notion of designing for the pluriverse (Arturo Escobar, 2018), we acknowledge that our community is not a monolith and our roadmap must make space for our members to converge on different actions. An initial GOAT roadmap and manifesto was drafted at the GOAT 2022 and revised in subsequent community calls.
This session targets the GOAT 2024 Proposal - Goal 3, as supported via a grant from the 11th Hour Project , a program of the Schmidt Family Foundation.
This will be a 60-min session to discuss, create, and plan next steps.
If you already know you’d like to participate, please let @sudokita know.