Article ID: CBB662263992

Can Communities Produce Complex Technology? Looking Into Space for Insight (2021)

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This article examines a community producing complex space technology. We attempt to highlight which aspects of the community’s activities can help democratize high-tech development while providing a context for similar cases involved in developing and manufacturing nonhigh-technological artefacts. We discuss how this has been made possible by using a technology-determined organizational approach based on the CubeSat open platform infrastructure, blending formal and hands-on education, open communication, specific recruitment and working practices, and a genuine passion for technology. We identify as critical enablers for community-based collaborative development of space technology the open-source architecture standard called CubeSat Design Specifications, the modularization of work in subsystems and between different organizations, and the open and participatory approach work tasks distribution and decision making. Moreover, we argue that the digital/informational aspect of this technology allows the community to implement organizational practices that resemble how open-source movements over the internet produce complex digital artefacts like Wikipedia or Linux. ESTCube can shed light on community-driven complex technology development, providing lessons on what a democratized version of high technology would resemble and how open and digitalized technology can help develop the capacities of a community.

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Authors & Contributors
Marisol Campos Navarrete
Bo Ruberg
Konstantinos Koskinas
Nina Frahm
Ignacio Nuñez
Baudry, Jerome
Concepts
Technological innovation
Development of technology; change in technology
Communities
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Technology
Sustainable development
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
Places
Silicon Valley (California)
United States
South Africa
Russia
Greece
Germany
Institutions
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
European Commission
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine
European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN)
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