E111| Shadow Work For A Wiser Web w/ Michel Bauwens, Ferananda Ibarra, Josh Field & Tim Adalin
Is there hope for the internet and decentralised communications technology? This dialogue explores the existential context, shadow, and potential associated with emerging network coordination technologies, with civilisation theorist and political economist Michel Bauwens, regenerative entrepreneur and collective intelligence practitioner Ferananda Ibarra, and technology design philosopher and Infinite Reality Engine co-founder Josh Field.
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Web3, transcendence, grief, balance, collective intelligence, structures, systemic challenges, power, relationship, cycles, technology, regenerative systems, balance, right relationship, transformation, social conditions, class
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As of 2007, Michel Bauwens is the founder of the Foundation for Peer-to-Peer Alternatives and works in collaboration with a global group of researchers in the exploration of peer production, governance, and property. He also co-founded the the Commons Strategies Group ( http://p2pfoundation.net/Berlin_Commons_Conference ). He is listed at #82, on the Post-Carbon Institute (En)Rich list, http://enrichlist.org/the-list/) for his contributions to positive social change.
Michel has taught on technology and related topics at St. Louis, Brussels, Payap University, Chiang Mai, and Dhurakit Pandit University, Bangkok; he has been Primavera Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam; and external expert at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences (2008, 2012). Michel Bauwens has advised the Board of the Union of International Associations (Brussels), Shareable magazine (San Francisco), the Zumbara Time Bank (Istanbul) and ShareLex (France); the “Association Les Rencontres du Mont-Blanc, Forum International des Dirigeants de l’Economie Sociale et Solidaire” (2013-). He was nominated as the Chair of the Technology/ICT working group, Hangwa Forum (Beijing, Sichuan), in charge of distributed manufacturing. He has been editor in chief of the magazine Wave, has written editorials for Al Jazeera English, articles for Shareable, along with peer-reviewed articles for scientific journals. He has co-produced the 3-hour TV documentary Technocalyps, with Frank Theys. Michel has written several books in Dutch, French, and English, such as Peer to Peer, the Commons Manifesto.
In the 1990s, after a first nine year stint as analyst for USIA, Michel worked as strategic knowledge manager for British Petroleum, editor in chief for riverland Publications, eBusiness Strategy director for Belgacom, and he created two internet start-ups, eCom (intranet/extranet) and KyberCo (interactive marketing) which were sold to Alcatel and Virtuaholdings respectively..”
You can read Michel’s Substack @ https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/ -
Ferananda Ibarra (Coventina Foundation), is a visionary social innovator and regenerative entrepreneur, bringing over fifteen years of experience with community building and currency design. Her background in collective intelligence, integral theories, and deep wealth design inform her creativity and facilitation of systems and organizations that can address our global challenges.
She is specifically interested in ‘building the commons’ as a way of incentivizing new patterns of collaboration, coordination, value generation and the embodiment of the principles of nature. Ferananda believes that nature shows us the most powerful keys to wholeness.
She works with Holo and Holochain in the space of distributed applications, decentralization, distributed ledger systems, and crypto-economies. Holo finished a successful Initial Community Offering (ethical ICO) and is creating a Distributed App and hosting Ecosystem.
Find Ferananda on Twitter @ https://x.com/fer_ananda?lang=en
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Josh Field is a founder and leading contributor to the Infinite Reality Engine, an open source 3D web framework for immersive creation. He explores the intersection of technology, culture and value in order to steer the digital towards wiser collaboration.
He is also a valued contributor to and member of the Voicecraft Network.
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Tim is the founder of Voicecraft and a philosopher with a focus on the relation between participation and transformation. You can connect with Tim individually @ https://www.timadalin.xyz
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