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Developh is a community of practice towards critical technology. We gather, publish, research, and create to reclaim technology as a tool for liberation rather than oppression.


We were founded in Manila, Philippines in 2016 by Chia Amisola. We began as a student-run club in De La Salle Santiago Zobel with about 40 friends (there were 400 students in the year). In the past 7 years our programming has reached millions of Filipinos as we've run hundreds of events.


Our current focuses are on publishing, activations, and education related to digital preservation, internet art, and tech labor.

Our dreams lie with the interests of Filipino tech workers: where technologies serve the Filipino people.


Contact us about anything at hello@developh.org.



People


Chia Amisola
Founder & Organizer

Chia Amisola (they/them) is an internet + ambient artist born & raised in the Philippines, based in San Francisco. Their (web)site-specific art is an act of worldmaking constructing spaces, systems, and tools that posit worlds where creation is synonymous with liberation. Ambience is political: their environments tackle infrastructure, poetics, labor, and maintenance. Simply put, they wish to gather all the people they love in one place and explore how the internet might be that place.
chia.design
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If you're interested in volunteering, please reach out at hello@developh.org



Press, Awards, Engagements

Philippine Collegian: How DIY Archiving Disrupts Information Disorder Yale News Processing Foundation Yale University / Tsai CITY DEVCON PH Foundation for Media Alternatives UX PH Women Who Code Manila Preen: Meet the young Filipina CEO of Developh, a non-profit fighting injustice through tech Grace Hopper Celebration: Keynote AnitaB.org Student of Vision

Influences, Citations

Foundation for Media Alternatives Computer Professionals' Union BIEN Pilipinas School for Poetic Computation Arkibong Bayan Internet Archive Artists for Digital Right Network Sam Lavigne & Tega Brain

Themes

Infrastructure
Education
Labor rights
Internet culture
Right to Internet access
Digital justice
Web archival
Digital preservation
Media archaeology
Tech ethics
Internet poetics