{"id":853,"date":"2025-01-13T09:34:42","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T09:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/?page_id=853"},"modified":"2025-03-28T15:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T15:52:15","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.narrativeinfrastructure.org\/blog\/home\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"ABOUT"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Citizen agency is in decline<\/h2>\n

Our Goal:<\/h4>\n

We want communities to value and build their narrative infrastructure the same way they value and build their transportation, water, communication, or electrical infrastructures.<\/p>\n

What is Narrative Infrastructure?<\/h4>\n

Narrative infrastructure is a civil infrastructure that impacts how cities evolve and grow. NarrativeInfrastructure.org<\/em> (N\u0130) is a Community Support Organization<\/em> founded in 2019 to help communities document their narrative infrastructure and utilize those stories to improve the quality of life in those communities. N\u0130 integrates the voice of the community with research, policy, and development through the medium of GIS and the best practices of ethnography, converting the mute archives of communities to create a world-class research infrastructure.<\/p>\n

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    Like gaps in our city structure<\/span><\/strong><\/h4><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    An infrastructure cannot be seen<\/strong><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n
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    Stories provide the framework<\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n
    that inspires what we see<\/strong><\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/li>\n <\/ul>\n <\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n<\/div><\/p>\n

    What challenges are the inspiration for this organization?<\/h4>\n
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    1. Individuals are increasingly isolated from social interactions, and local political interactions even more so. If they ever act politically, it is usually on a discreet issue.<\/li>\n
    2. Economic and policy proposals are largely built on statistics based on large groups, which rarely reinforces local character. In response, locals are disinclined to support such proposals.<\/li>\n
    3. Due in part to the increasing adoption of location-free digital socializing, the experience of diversity within our own communities has lost its primacy. This reinforces segregation by class and race, unraveling our inter-reliance.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      What is not this Organization?<\/h4>\n

      We do not support training Machine Learning Models on oral histories. The value of an oral history is its unique subject matter, which can only be debased by averaging the data with thousands or even dozens of other narratives. The individual agency of the speaker must be respected, and we do not allow our archive to be used for training data for Large Language Models, Deep Learning Models, or any other algorithmic neural network.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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      Qualities of Narrative \u0130nfrastructure<\/h3>\n

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