The Timbaktu Collective
believes that decentralized institutions are only developed through decentralized actions, the people will have to work out these alternatives themselves. The Collective hopes to build alternative autonomous institutions that would demonstrate these alternatives in practice. It is an alternative that seeks to make people believe in themselves, and wrest the initiative of social change in their own hands, within their own milieu rather than abdicate it to a state, which they have to constantly fight with or extend their begging bowl before.

The Collective hopes to promote alternative institutions that strengthen indigenous initiatives with their basis on interrelatedness, lack of hierarchy, internal democracy and trust. Through its actions the Collective hopes to challenge the dominant ideas that currently prevail on technology - its genesis, research and development, its innovation and diffusion, the notion of community and community worker and the support structures necessary for their growth.