we are a network-society that exports regenerative digital infrastructure to the world🌎 read the book, listen to the podcast, join a local chapter today 🌱🍄❤️
Set a reminder for this upcoming @Artizen Community Space! @EmilyLazar_SM and I will be co-hosting..
Let us discuss what is happening and organize 💁🏾♀️
https://t.co/rVKm1J5qXU
🚨New episode of AMAW out on YouTube and @substack: Why experts are WORSE at predicting the future than you
@danielerasmus spent 25 years doing scenario planning for banks, governments and companies. In 2006, a scenario he worked on helped one bank prepare for the 2008 financial crisis, it was one of only two banks in the world to grow its assets.
FULL EP ⬇️
How can NGOs harness AI & blockchain without leaving the communities they serve behind?
For ep. 270, Tiffany Wang of @flock_io & @ChainforGood joins us to explore how communities around the world are using AI & blockchain to drive local impact 🌱🌍
🎧 https://t.co/3KKp2zvPPG
We discuss:
🤖 How decentralized AI & blockchain can help NGOs innovate without losing control of sensitive community data
🌍 FLock's work as the AI Strategic Partner for the UNDP's SDG Blockchain Accelerator, and the projects transforming lives across Africa, Asia, and Latin America
⚡ How this technology is getting aid to people faster, and helping communities capture the value they create rather than losing it to intermediaries
🤝 How the Blockchain for Good Alliance is bringing together the UN, universities, and grassroots builders to turn good ideas into real-world impact
The @JuanBenet Podcast explores frontier ideas across AI, neuroscience, computing, and technology — with researchers and builders shaping what's next.
🎧 Listen and follow the podcast:
It was such a pleasure to sit and chat with our Solarpunk Champion @MontyMerlin and get a download of his lifestory at the beautiful valley of @FoolsValley
Brings back the good memories!~
🚨The first episode of All Models Are Wrong is out🚨
What the @Internetarchive founder predicted 50 years ago
I spoke with @brewster_kahle during @GETDWeb about his work on AI in the 80s, what went wrong with the web and the one time he tried to start a bank.
Episode 2 of Building for Good with G$ is live!✨
We continue our journey into the @gooddollarorg ecosystem with Governance Lead @samccarthy27 🎙️
We discuss the evolution of GoodDAO and the mission to build a healthy community-governed ecosystem🌱🌐
🎧 https://t.co/k6rgLmoIp5
We explore:
🗳️ Why GoodDollar is re-visioning it's community governance approach
🤝 How CoGov, a collaborative governance hackathon, invited the community to help design GoodDAO
💸 How the new House of Alignment is changing the way public goods are funded in the G$ ecosystem
🌱 Lessons on building a DAO that's healthy, sustainable, and community-led for the long term
The new short film Moloch launches today with a brilliant telling of the underlying competitive forces driving AI development and humanity off a cliff, unless we change the incentives and set guardrails now.
Watch!
https://t.co/bvzsXi8zm4
Missing the community vibes in Web3?
Join us tomorrow at 12pm ET for a special community space to reconnect with friends, share updates, discuss what's happening, and have some fun 🎙️💚
No agenda, just community 🤝
🗓️ Set a reminder: https://t.co/xSTS53rHJf
We've proven for over 2 years that our Solidarity Funding model delivers consistent results. You've helped make this happen.
We're hosting a session with the Democratic Tech Fund & Free Knowledge Institute to show how communities can fund ideas that matter.
Link in our bio
If you have some time this weekend to change your relationship to the weirdness of AI, want to try being an early adopter of the Inference Cooperative?
A member-governed platform with private, green-energy, and public models: https://t.co/NruQYYCbIc
Feeling disconnected? Miss the ReFi & Gitcoin spaces? In need of some community?
@samflan of @w3b3forgood & @DWSimon are co-hosting a space to reconnect builders, share updates, collaborate, and have some fun 🎙️💚
Let's bring back the vibes! RSVP 👇
https://t.co/xSTS53rHJf
Next weekend, we’re opening our doors at Commons Hub Brussels.
A day about nurturing the commons, digital independence and community. We’ll also talk about the Hub’s recent hack and our fundraising to keep it going.
4 Oct · Brussels ↓
Register here:
https://t.co/vPB2BCawTE
We're 5 days out from our next webinar. Join us alongside the Democratic Tech Fund and Free Knowledge Institute to see how solidarity funding is spreading to communities building technology in the commons.
Free to attend, no technical background needed.
Link in our bio.
If who controls a technology is what matters, then sharing control is the work. And sharing control means governance.
@lizbarry of @metagov_project on why that is a thing people do, not a thing you install.
https://t.co/Lt9MCw1n2U
Nonprofits are curious about AI, but also have good reason to be wary of it: energy use, safety, Big Tech power 🤖🤔
In Ep. 269, we unpack these concerns and highlight 8 ways NGOs & communities are using small, local & sovereign AI tools for good 🌍
🎧https://t.co/nfeA24rDEv
We discuss:
🤖 The three biggest concerns nonprofits have about AI: energy & water use, safety, and power concentrating with Big Tech
🔎 Eight ways impact orgs are using AI for humanitarian impact, from disaster mapping, to maternal health and protecting rainforests from illegal logging
🔐 What "sovereign AI" looks like in practice, including communities owning their data, training their own models, and running them locally
🧭 A simple checklist any nonprofit can use before bringing an AI tool into their work
300 people, three days, four venues spread around Boulder, Colorado.
One shared memory: a Bonfire
At ETHBoulder @ethereumboulder, hosted by the Regen Hub, Bonfires ran as an agentic concierge: a simple agent on Telegram, integrated with the ETHBoulder app, helping attendees self-guide around the venues and find the talks and events they wanted.
Attendees were encouraged to record sessions, ask questions, share their thoughts or concerns, basically anything with the agent. It was also listening to the group chat.
Every interaction was collated into a shared context graph, allowing for collective sensemaking across space and time in those three days.
The two-way street: organisers could understand the experience of attendees more deeply, giving them a reliable point of truth when assessing outcomes and producing materials afterwards.
The highlight was the Vibeathon. AG, one of the organisers, created Bonfires Forge: an agent that periodically scraped the shared graph and extracted potential projects from the context. Each was displayed with a product spec, ready for the Vibe Coders at the hackathon to immediately point their agents at and build.
The conference generated its own hackathon brief, from its own conversations.
Watch the Forge run: https://t.co/DcthxoRNv2 Full recap: https://t.co/WVn9VO8CG8
If you could ask the last conference you attended one question, what would it be?
✨Quadratic funding✨ means being able to distribute funds in a meaningful and democratic way.
@BrianInCrypto from @glider__ and @Evan_Mann from @RUMSHQ discuss QF in this latest instalment of Walk and Talk
Find out more at https://t.co/k0NG1uAB8j