Micro-coordination is the sociologists Richard Ling and Birgitte Yttri's name for the finely grained coordination and efficiencies we are able to find because we are all connected, everywhere.
So, for example, I might send a text saying "Can you get some milk on the way home?"
What happens if we scaled up these efficiencies by one notch, so that as well as being part of the intimacy of our personal and domestic lives they extended to our civic lives, but still at an intimate, local range: to the civic lives that we have no choice but to care about, because it's where we are?
What changes might happen if we made tools to be used for micro-coordination among small neighbourhood groups, activists and local public services?
So, for example, I might send a text saying "Can you get some milk on the way home?"
What happens if we scaled up these efficiencies by one notch, so that as well as being part of the intimacy of our personal and domestic lives they extended to our civic lives, but still at an intimate, local range: to the civic lives that we have no choice but to care about, because it's where we are?
What changes might happen if we made tools to be used for micro-coordination among small neighbourhood groups, activists and local public services?
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