The concept democratization of technology refers to the process by which technology is made available to an increasingly large segment of the population. There is perhaps no more powerful arbiter of such democratization than the Internet, which has become the platform by which developers around the globe build and share open source software.1 This software is in turn used to power millions of websites owned by Fortune 50 corporations, sovereign states, educational institutions, startups, organizations of all sorts, and individuals.
While there are plenty of great examples of collaboratively ...
