Network Nations Alliance

Civil society born of networks, not borders. Join a global alliance building self-sovereign communities in the network age ↓

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1/ Network Nations are born from three major shifts in how we organize power and community 🧵⬇️

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📅 Tomorrow: Network Nation Monthly Community Call

We’ll be joined by Austin Wade Smith @_newcubes_ to explore the networked institutions of mutualist money and data in the 21st century. 🕸️💸📡

Join us here → https://t.co/B2sYyvYzZ5

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Very happy to announce that this forthcoming book will feature a chapter on Network Nations.

The chapter explores how new forms of networked coordination may reshape sovereignty, belonging, and governance beyond traditional institutional models.

❤️‍🔥More information here:

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A multidisciplinary exploration of #power, #democracy, and #freedom in the Digital Age by:

🧩 Audrey Tang (Civic Technologist) @audreyt
Cyber Ambassador of Taiwan; former Minister of Digital Affairs (2016–2024); @RadxChange

🧩 Primavera De Filippi (Legal Scholar) @yaoeo
Research Director at @CNRS; Faculty Associate at @BKCHarvard

🧩 Joachim Schwerin (Economist)
Researcher (PhD TU Dresden) on tokenisation, Web3 and DAOs; privacy activist (Digital Freedom Declaration); contributed e.g. to the MiCA Regulation

🧩 David Chaum (Cryptographer) @chaumdotcom
Pioneer of digital cash and foundational figure in modern cryptography

🧩 Denis Jaromil Roio (Hacktivist) @jaromil
PhD in Philosophy, applied cryptographer, and founder of @DyneOrg, a European open-source and digital sovereignty initiative

🧩 Felix Beer (Researcher) @felix_beer
Researcher on digital sovereignty and institutional innovation at the Institute for Future Studies and Technology Assessment @Harvard

🧩 Judith De Boer (Lawyer)
Partner at Hertoghs Advocaten and specialist in white-collar crime and tax litigation

🧩 Glen Weyl (Economist) @glenweyl
Co-Founder @MSFTResearch & @PluralityInst, co-author Radical Markets & @PluralityBook

🧩 Naomi Brockwell (Educator) @naomibrockwell
Founder and President of the @LudlowInstitute, a media and research initiative focused on technology and freedom

🧩 Piergiorgio Catti De Gasperi (Activist) @PG_CDG
Co-founder and Director of Web3Privacy Now

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An urgent call for privacy in the algorithmic age, The Politics of Privacy🔎 examines surveillance capitalism, decentralisation, and governance while 🗺️ mapping concrete paths to reclaim autonomy, rebuild trust, and realign technology with the public good.

How to get your copy 👇

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@web3privacy @yaoeo @felix_beer ❤️‍🔥

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The Politics of Privacy 📚 our upcoming book series on #power, #autonomy, and #democracy → https://t.co/UcplWKEPve — out June 14.

Featuring Primavera de Filippi (@yaoeo) & @felix_beer ’s essay: “Network Nations: Reconfiguring Sovereignty in the Digital Age”

Drawing from their work across the @BKCHarvard, @CNRS, and @metalabharvard, Primavera and Felix examine how decentralized technologies and new institutional models can create more participatory, adaptive, and democratic forms of coordination.

Primavera’s influential research on #blockchain #governance and digital commons, alongside Felix’s work on institutional innovation, protocol governance, and collective intelligence, grounds the essay in both critical theory and practical experimentation.

Together, they offer a compelling vision for how emerging technologies can strengthen cooperation across differences while rethinking the social infrastructures that underpin democratic life.

Find physical copies at the Neo-Cypherpunk Summit in Berlin next month: https://t.co/4HfS6xr9ih

[free air 🎐 🍉 @_newcubes_]

The "bowling leagues" of the 20th century with be networked institutions of mutualist money and data in the 21st. I'll be talking about the "thick middle" of political life and ways of thinking about the protocols that underpin it next Wed with friends from @networknations_

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📆 Our next Monthly Call is Wednesday, June 3rd and it is guaranteed to be a very pleasant and enlightening time!

🌟We’ll be joined by Austin Wade Smith, Executive Director of Regen Foundation and co-founder of River Computer, for a session on ecological institutions, digital sovereignty, and the governance of living systems. Expect a rich discussion on ecological governance, digital sovereignty, regenerative infrastructure, and different approaches to the rights of nature.

@_newcubes_, @RegenFdn
https://t.co/hq5SuoT6Z9

Join us: https://t.co/UMy8NYPe0d

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Excerpt from our last Network Nations community call with Polis Labs - an independent research institute studying the science of voluntary order.🌐
@Polis_Labs

Polis Labs explores how free communities coordinate, why they fail, and what frameworks help them endure - building intellectual and cultural infrastructure for the parallel society movement.

🤍Join the next call here: https://t.co/9GkUWJBjIz
🤍Learn more about Polis Labs: https://t.co/yoEYIV7ngC
🤍Explore Network Nations: https://t.co/PUlFhrqhVg

@suzanne_polis

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[Aim States @AimStates]

A simple distinction that people keep missing.

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@dorgo_eth @felix_beer @yaoeo 🌹🌐

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In great company with forthcoming research on Network Nations from @felix_beer and @yaoeo.

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Probably nothing, but we are up to publish a book on power, cryptography, democracy & sovereignty.

With great contibutions from
+ @yaoeo [a French legal scholar, Internet activist and artist] https://t.co/H7i42i6o9h

+ @chaumdotcom [legendary cryptographer]
https://t.co/yYqdSBkPRw

+ @naomibrockwell x @LudlowInstitute [exceptional privacy & free software advocate]

+ @jaromil x @DyneOrg [godfather of european anarchist hacker culture]

+ Judith De Boer + Joachim Schwerin [Alexey Pertsev lawyer meets former European Commision policymaker]

+ @audreyt + @glenweyl [Plurality excerpt from Taiwan cyber-ambassador at large + tech for democracy thinker]

Going out of the printing press in June!

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Most commentary treats & thinks about Network States and Network Nations as variations of the same phenomenon - crypto-coordinated communities experimenting with governance. but this is a category error. It is like confusing a joint-stock company with a city-state simply because both use double-entry bookkeeping.

We agree on the diagnosis & what tech to use - institutional decay is real & our current technological reality create an opening for new kinds of politys to emerge. But apart from that the approach is very different.

Importantly - Network State is an attempt to optimize the logic of the firm for territorial acquisition.

Network Nation is an attempt to optimize the logic of the commons for functional autonomy.

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Why bother with Network Nations? 🌐 (1/8)

Because many of today’s most important communities, problems, and forms of coordination no longer fit neatly inside inherited institutions.

Network Nations address this structural gap from two directions at once: expanding civic participation where institutions fall short, and building governance capacity in translocal spaces they do not reach.

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(8/8)🐦🐦 +🪨 Network Nations matter because they make political agency possible in the spaces where more and more of collective life now unfolds.

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(7/8) Network Nations can. By virtue of their translocal character and functional sovereignty, they reach into domains that existing institutions are structurally unable to inhabit.