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  Communities are the fabric of society.

  When we work together, we learn patience, compromise, shared responsibility, and ultimately trust. We develop empathy. We retain our dignity. We become more resilient. We become actively engaged in creating the society we deserve.

  Much of the technology we use, from the Internet, to open source software, to the software that runs the world's data centers was created open and free and remains so for everyone. Unfortunately, the vast majority of investments in technology today are aimed at providing more lucrative products and more centralized services; leaving communities behind.

  The Civil Society Technical Foundation works to empower civil society with open technologies. We are developing [**Wild Cloud**](/projects/wild-cloud)-- self-managed infrastructure management software allowing any community or organization to set up and run their own cloud infrastructure--simpler and dramatically less expensive than centralized clouds like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud; keeping your community's data and governance entirely within your control.

  We also curate [**Wild Directory**](https://git.civilsociety.dev/wild-cloud/wild-directory), a set of community-oriented open source applications that can be easily deployed on any Wild Cloud.

  We envision a future where communities of all sizes are empowered by their own technology.

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