Infrastructure manifest completed by Alex Wermer-Colan for 'Alternative Infrastructures for Digital Equity: Community-Based Internet Access'.

This is a web page representing in HTML format an infrastructure manifest filled out by Ursula Pawlick-Deger, Arianna Ciula, and Miguel Vieira, for Chapter 5 “Critical Studies of Tech Stacks: What Can Technologies Tell Us About a Lab Culture?” The manifest’s 18-row by 10-column spreadsheet is based on a template that was pre-structured with suggestions to authors about what kinds of infrastructure to declare. There are rows for infrastructures under the following labels: “land,” “materials,” “energy,” “transportation,” “architectural,” “civic, community, national, or regional,” “institutional,” “labor,” “research content,” “tools,” “networked platforms,” and “high-performance computing”. But the spreadsheet also allows authors to add other categories and to use free-form text in naming and describing infrastructure. The spreadsheet asks primarily for qualitative information and only some approximate quantitative data. Columns in the template ask for a description of each kind of infrastructure and also inquire about attributes of that infrastructure using true/false checkboxes or simple quantification on a Likert scale. True/false attributes include “control point for access to or use,” “open source, open access, or public resource/utility,” and “proprietary.” Attributes to be scored on a 1 to 10 Likert scale include: “how heavily used?,” “reliability,” and “satisfaction for user.” Other columns allow authors to register “ethical concerns” and add “comments.” The original spreadsheet of the manifest was transformed into HTML for more effective online presentation.