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 ------- 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 👇

📆 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 austinwadesmith.com Join us: luma.com/vhoxuuyt

After a year of good work, we are publishing our first book 🦋 Find it at s26ber.web3privacy.info/

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.

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] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primav… @chaumdotcom [legendary cryptographer] en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_… @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!