🌿 Principles Guiding GoalPost
1. Relational Infrastructure
We see technology as infrastructure that shapes how we live, relate, and organize. GoalPost is designed as a field of care where needs, offers, goals, and coordination are held in commons.
2. Rooted Responsibility
We are building what we need, not what we think others need. Our work is grounded in responsibility for our own lives, our own communities, our own digital experiences. What we share, we tend.
3. Care as a Design Principle
GoalPost is a form of slow care software. Every element, whether it’s the interface, privacy settings, multilingual design, or offline functionality is shaped by our commitment to care, not urgency or scale.
4. Design for the Margins
We prioritize communities with limited or unreliable internet, older devices, and histories of being underserved by tech. We design from the edges. That’s where the most life and potential contribution is held.
5. Commons Stewardship
GoalPost is relational infrastructure held in commons. It is neither corporate nor bureaucratic. We are not launching a product; we are nurturing a practice that others can adapt, co-steward, and extend.
🌱 Theory of Change
We live in a world where the digital infrastructures shaping our daily lives are largely controlled by for-profit corporations or distant bureaucracies. These systems extract, surveil, and fragment. They leave many behind. They weaken and fragment the relational ground we depend on.
But a different future is already possible.
We take responsibility for the tools we use. When we build, steward, and share what supports our own ways of living, we transform infrastructure from a mechanism of extraction, manipulation and surveillance into a metabolism of care.
GoalPost begins with a simple shift: We build what we want to have in our lives. And we offer it from there.
When communities co-create and share tools that reflect their values, the conditions for trust, mutual aid, and interdependence begin to regenerate.
When we design for offline use, older devices, and multiple languages, we reveal our connection to more kinds of bodies and ways of being.
When we tend technology as part of a commons, we stop waiting for someone else to fix the world and start weaving the one we can live in.
Change begins not with intervention, but with intention. With tools that serve relationships. With infrastructures that invite and support belonging.
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