What kinds of infrastructures are preferred?
Community-supported or peer-to-peer infrastructures enable bottom-up provisioning in ways that infrastructures designed for corporate and state purposes generally do not. Distributed infrastructures make commoning at broader scales easier and enhance social security. They not only enable the production of things that the market or state may fail to provide (or provide in different ways), such infrastructures help prevent concentrations of power.
# Examples - Guifi.net Guifi.net instead of corporate telecommunications. - Big Blue Button BigBlueButton instead of Zoom videoconferencing. - Jitsi or Jami Jitsi [https://www.jami.net instead of Skype for voice communications. - PeerTube PeerTube instead of YouTube fpr videos. - For irrigation infrastructure, there is a wide variety of commons-based systems around the world, including acequias in New Mexico (New Mexico Acequia Association) and Bisses Savièse , Suonen or the Wässermatten in Switzerland [https://www.band2.dieweltdercommons.de/essays/bewaesserungskanaele.html Bisses or, Suonen in Switzerland.
# Related Patterns - Make & Use Together - Use Convivial Tools - Rely on Heterarchy - Choose Commons-Friendly Financing - Actively Thwart Enclosure & Cooptation