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Since then, it has grown into one of the world's largest decentralized messaging ecosystems, used by governments, enterprises, open-source communities, and millions of individuals.\r\n\r\nIn this fireside conversation, Matthew Hodgson looks back on the journey from ambitious experiment to global infrastructure. What were the pivotal breakthroughs that allowed Matrix to succeed? Which technical bets paid off\u2014and which didn't? What lessons were learned about federation, governance, moderation, security, sustainability, and growing an open ecosystem?\r\n\r\nThe discussion will also explore the harder questions. Why has decentralized communication remained such a challenge? What tradeoffs proved unavoidable? Where did expectations collide with reality? And what would Matthew build differently if he were starting today?\r\n\r\nFinally, we'll turn toward the future. As peer-to-peer networking, local-first applications, AI, and personal ownership of data reshape the web, what role should Matrix play? What pieces of the decentralized stack are still missing? And what will it take to create communication systems that are resilient, interoperable, and genuinely controlled by the people who use them?\r\n\r\nThis is a candid conversation between fellow P2P technologists about twelve years of successes, setbacks, and hard-earned wisdom\u2014and what they reveal about the next generation of the decentralized internet.", "description": "TBD", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "Y88JBP", "name": "Matthew Hodgson", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/NUXH7S_SItEXey.webp", "biography": "Project Lead & co-founder of Matrix.org, CEO/CTO Element. Stubbornly trying to advance decentralised communication.", "public_name": "Matthew Hodgson", "guid": "a999a976-e5da-5a8f-a231-1cba1a9d7b05", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/Y88JBP/"}, {"code": "BQHWRU", "name": "Seph", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/MMZXGH_xRp1EPu.webp", "biography": "I'm quite disappointed with the modern world. Everyone is so boring. And our technology is so boring too! Even I got boring through most of my life. I've been on a big journey recently discovering how freeing it is to be wrong and bad at things. I love technology which pulls us together as a community, not atomises us. 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It will explain and discuss the model used by Autonomous Forest, examine the \"roads not taken\" (such as foundations/Stiftungen), and explore how this approach might be adapted for other applications, including as a digital organization without blockchain.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NR8UWA", "name": "Paul Seidler", "avatar": null, "biography": "Paul Seidler is an artist, researcher and programmer based in Berlin, whose work traverses networks \u2014 from creating decentralized protocols to deploying legal interventions. Since 2015, he has been working with blockchain-based technologies to investigate questions of value, ownership and encryption. 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His expertise is in computational approaches to self-governance and the cognitive science of collective behavior.\r\n\r\nHe is an associate professor in Communication at the University of California Davis, an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, and a Research Director at Metagov. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research in Walt Disney Imagineering, and a complex systems scholar at NECSI. Seth holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics (complex systems) from Indiana University and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.\r\n\r\nSeth\u2019s research has appeared in PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and Proceedings of the Royal Society. It has been covered in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and TEDx. 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This conversation traces that journey: the optimism of the early P2P movement, the rise of blockchains and federation, the lessons of Beaker Browser, and the creation of the AT Protocol. Along the way, Paul reflects on the tension between idealism and pragmatism, why protocols must ultimately serve people\u2014not just principles\u2014and what it takes to grow open infrastructure from thousands of enthusiasts to millions of users.\r\n\r\nReturning to DWeb Camp for this intimate fireside chat, Paul offers us a rare look inside one of the architects helping define the future of online public infrastructure.", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NF8SNB", "name": "Paul Frazee", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/SEHYJQ_oON7wu4.webp", "biography": "Paul Frazee is Chief Technology Officer and a founding engineer at Bluesky where he co-designed the AT Protocol. 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So how do we build new institutional lifeforms in response to the \"meta-crisis\" \u2014 the compounding failure of markets and states to manage biospheric collapse and the erosion of democratic life?", "description": "Modern political and economic discourse is trapped between two modern arrivals: the individual (the private) and the nation-state (the public). As Michael Novak observed, this binary excludes the \"thickest\" parts of social living. In the wake of the \"Bowling Alone\" phenomenon \u2014 the collapse of the civic associations and leagues that once formed the bedrock of society \u2014 we face a malnourished middle.\r\n\r\nThis matters urgently for two reasons that converge at DWeb Camp.\r\n\r\nThe biospheric tipping point: pure market solutions are extractive, and state solutions are failing to uphold the environmental vitality of their territories. As insurance markets pull out of high-risk zones, communities must develop the internal capacity to steward their own life-support systems.\r\n\r\nThe democratic crisis: the \"bottoming out\" of political life and the rise of authoritarianism can only be countered by rebooting associational life. New forms of meso-scale institution must act as the vessels for this renewed democracy, upholding the contextual integrity of data and resources against centralized extraction.\r\n\r\nThese are not separate problems. They are two expressions of the same structural failure: institutions designed for extraction cannot govern for regeneration. The question is what replaces them.\r\n\r\n## The thick middle\r\n\r\nWe begin from a design argument. Cybernetic principle tells us that the internal complexity of a system must match the complexity of the challenges it intends to engage. Current market and state models lack the requisite variety to process volatile, place-specific, ecologically entangled threats. What is needed are meso-beings: intermediary-scale entities such as guilds, bioregional councils, and associations that provide the coherence required to steward the commons we cannot help but hold in common \u2014 our shared information systems and our shared living systems.\r\n\r\nThis is not a nostalgic argument for returning to pre-modern forms. It is a proposal for new ones. We call them Ecological Institutions \u2014 meso-scale vessels essential for modern civic life, designed to grow institutional complexity from the ground up, at the scale where it is needed most.\r\n\r\n## Introducing the Institutional Development Kit\r\n\r\nThe Institutional Development Kit functions as a modular stack for building self-governing entities. Think of it as an SDK for hybrid institutions \u2014 organizations that are both digitally native and ecologically grounded, capable of operating across the analog-digital spectrum without collapsing into either pure tech solutionism or pure traditionalism.\r\n\r\nThe framework operates through three iterative components:\r\n\r\nConstituting establishes the membrane of identity. Who is in? What is the shared mission? Where are the boundaries of the self-governing entity? This is not a one-time founding act but an ongoing practice of boundary formation \u2014 the institutional equivalent of a living cell maintaining its integrity while remaining porous to its environment.\r\n\r\nSensemaking is the dual process of perception. Internally, it tracks conviction: the repeated commitment of members to show up, to invest attention, to dream together. Externally, it processes context: empirical data on river health, soil fatigue, fire risk, biodiversity indicators. The integration of these two streams \u2014 felt commitment and material reality \u2014 is what distinguishes an ecological institution from either a social club or a data platform.\r\n\r\nBindings formalize agreements to interact with the world. These include Living Covenants \u2014 social contracts that extend beyond human parties to include more-than-human subjects such as rivers, forests, and biomes \u2014 and Allocation Protocols for distributing resources in ways that strengthen an entity's resilience rather than subverting its integrity.\r\n\r\nThese components are not abstract code. They are rituals and protocols in action, weaving together legal, economic, and technological threads into a stable institutional fabric.\r\n\r\n## Where this is already happening\r\n\r\nIn East Africa, around Kirinyaga (Mount Kenya), the mountain functions as an institution without walls \u2014 a subject, a seed bank, and a water tower simultaneously. Ritual operates as the governance system, regulating water redirection and land use through generational observation and oral knowledge rather than bureaucratic paperwork. The IDK does not replace this; it asks what digital coordination can learn from it.\r\n\r\nIn Aotearoa (New Zealand), the Digital Waka project supports hap\u016b (M\u0101ori councils) in exercising self-determination through secure digital records that document governance and bio-cultural narratives. The Kaitiaki Agreement for the Moringaehe Reserve establishes a Living Covenant ensuring technology remains under hap\u016b authority and reflects tikanga M\u0101ori. Here, the IDK serves indigenous sovereignty rather than disrupting it.\r\n\r\nIn Catalonia, working with the BioFi Barcelona team on the Regenerate Catalunia program, the IDK uses low-barrier Allocation Protocols. These protocols fund local projects by measuring conviction \u2014 the way community members repeatedly show up and commit to collective dreams \u2014 building the capacity for more complex future governance. Start analog, build towards digital. Complexity grows with the community's capacity.\r\n\r\n## What this means for the decentralized web\r\n\r\nThe DWeb community has built extraordinary technical infrastructure: protocols for peer-to-peer communication, local-first data, federated identity, decentralized storage. But infrastructure without institutional form is scaffolding without a building. DAOs and peer-to-peer protocols are not just technical achievements; they are vessels of political life, essential to bringing resilience to this malnourished middle space. The question is whether we are building organizations complex enough to actually inhabit them.\r\n\r\nThis is where requisite variety becomes a DWeb problem. The decentralized institutions we build must be as complex as the challenges they engage, making ecological and social entanglement a design necessity rather than an afterthought. So the provocation is: how do we repurpose contemporary corporate instruments \u2014 legal wrappers, smart contracts, allocation mechanisms \u2014 and redirect them towards nourishing collective well-being? How can decentralized addressing systems give agency to biomes, rivers, and forests, allowing them to participate directly in protocols of civic care? And how do we build the technical capacity alongside the social readiness \u2014 the internal coherence a group needs to interact with global systems without being consumed by them?\r\n\r\nBy framing decentralization as a practical necessity for securing a collective future on a shared planet, this work elevates the DWeb mission from a technical experiment to a project of civic and ecological repair.\r\n\r\n## What we will do in the room\r\n\r\nThis is a 30-minute talk, not a lecture. We will spend the first 15\u201320 minutes laying out the argument: why the meso-scale matters, what social readiness looks like in practice, and how this is being applied across radically different contexts. The remaining time opens to the room. We are particularly interested in hearing from participants building decentralized tools who are encountering the governance gap \u2014 the moment when the protocol works but the community around it does not yet have the institutional form to sustain itself. That gap is exactly where this work lives.\r\n\r\nWe are not pitching a product. We are naming a design problem that sits at the intersection of decentralized technology and ecological governance, and sharing a body of work that is being tested in the field. The invitation is to think together about what it takes for the distributed web to become a living web \u2014 not just technically resilient, but institutionally alive.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "AVTJCB", "name": "Nena Jain and Austin Wade Smith", "avatar": null, "biography": "Nena and Austin are building the next generation of coordination interfaces for social, technical, and environmental resilience. For the past five years, they served as executive leadership at Regen Foundation, designing and implementing governance systems, token models, and public infrastructure for collective ownership and environmental decision-making across distributed stakeholders. In parallel, they developed a rigorous research program in this field, distilled in the recent book Ecological Institutions: Law, Economics, and Technology in a More-Than-Human World. 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These two models shown side by side act as a toolkit any group can fork for their own governance work.\r\n\r\nWe will also explore two other governance visualisation models including Nathan Schneider's [Community Rule]([url](https://www.researchgate.net/publication/353372040_Community_Rules_Simple_Templates_for_Great_Communities)) and Sohyeon Hwang's [Governance Cards]([url](https://crowcards.org/)).", "description": "", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WZGRFX", "name": "Liz Barry", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/ZSQFBX_c7dWWSI.webp", "biography": "Elizabeth \"Liz\" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. 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More at lizbarry.net.", "public_name": "Liz Barry", "guid": "b711a42f-5bd5-52dd-8bf4-d4d8a13a57f1", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/WZGRFX/"}, {"code": "TJ3WMN", "name": "Doug", "avatar": null, "biography": "How groups organise or govern themselves has been a fascination for over 10 years. The work Elinor Ostrom did on the Commons is big inspiration which computer science and other disciplines help me implement. I co-founded a residential, action centre in 2017, called Kanthaus, where my great ideas have to stand up to the cold light of day.", "public_name": "Doug", "guid": "58e78a27-8cd2-5ab0-bdc3-4bdfb6ffb831", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/TJ3WMN/"}, {"code": "7A7WGT", "name": "Dorn Cox", "avatar": null, "biography": "This is a Joint proposal - but happy to provide my Bio in addition to those of the other participants. - Dorn Cox is a Farmer, Author and Researcher and the editor of the Talk to the... Handbook and has been a steward of Farm Hack and the OpenTEAM federated infrastructure for nearly a decade. He convenes the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group and is the primary practitioner refining the question-design discipline that the tool implements.\r\nAnamika Dey (Honey Bee Network / SRISTI / GIAN) has spent more than a decade documenting and stewarding the Indian grassroots innovation archive \u2014 over a million records across three federated databases, with a working multilingual AI agent in production. Caroline (Schola Campesina) carries the European agroecology and CSIPM coordination thread. David Otieno (Kenyan Peasant League) provides the ground-truth demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used at the mobile-phone ceiling of accessibility. \r\nSJ Klein leads the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance at Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and active in the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, with thought-partner networks across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and the AI Commons House. SJ's background in mass-scale community-edited knowledge infrastructure \u2014 Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the broader open-knowledge tradition \u2014 is the discipline the AKC adapts from millions-of-contributors editing patterns to deep-interview stewardship patterns. Wikipedia is what happens when a community owns its own editorial discipline at scale; the AKC and the tool that supports it are what happens when that ownership extends from the textual content to the knowledge-mapping practice itself.", "public_name": "Dorn Cox", "guid": "ac90b218-8524-58a3-9d5d-c51da7f82fa4", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/7A7WGT/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZCKHRQ/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZCKHRQ/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "08a0b22e-6a8d-54b7-b5ef-2fa1d963344e", "code": "UTPA9Z", "id": 500, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T11:00:00+02:00", "start": "11:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-500-alte-holle-introduction", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UTPA9Z/", "title": "Alte H\u00f6lle Introduction", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "A general talk about the project Alte H\u00f6lle,\r\nthe people, the beginning and current state, projects and challenges", "description": "basicly 1-2 people showing images and improvising a somewhat coherent story that gives an idea of what Alte H\u00f6lle is about and how it came to be.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "XWLBGH", "name": "marv", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/7UXRDE_YDnaFLN.webp", "biography": "one among the hellcrew", "public_name": "marv", "guid": "ca48a7bb-36b1-5f89-b3b9-85ba0cd967bc", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/XWLBGH/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UTPA9Z/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UTPA9Z/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "416b2ebb-481f-5655-8ff6-adce677fefb4", "code": "ATLKXZ", "id": 504, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T11:30:00+02:00", "start": "11:30", "duration": "00:50", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-504-making-things-public-the-public-product-organization-as-a-vehicle-for-infrastructural-stewardship", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ATLKXZ/", "title": "Making Things Public: the Public Product Organization as a Vehicle for Infrastructural Stewardship", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Talk / Presentation - longer", "language": "en", "abstract": "As European policy moves towards support for an open Internet stack, we need to create sustainable, organizational vehicles to steward the society-scale products of these efforts.", "description": "For over 15 years, the Foundation for Public Code has worked with public administrations and their vendors to build largest scale collaborative networks around codebases that serve as digital public infrastructure and digital public goods. Initially often this work consisted of helping municipalities and states build capacity to architect, deliver and maintain code bases in collaboration with a large network of peer institutions.  These pieces of software infrastructure provide digital services like school system management, traffic management, participatory urbanism, and other key functions, both internally to public administration and to residents.  \r\n\r\nIn the last few years, we have come to realize that often these collaborative efforts can end poorly unless a suitable stewardship vehicle is created to sustainably coordinate and manage the efforts of all the participants around maintaining and developing the tool or platform that has been successfully deployed in its first context or two.  To address this we have developed a policy proposal for a new form of NGO that we call the Public Product Organization.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "RAUMBK", "name": "Ben Cerveny", "avatar": null, "biography": "Ben Cerveny is the president and chairman of the Foundation for Public Code. His work concerns the fundamental relationship of computation with society.\r\n\r\nFor more than 25 years Ben has worked as an executive, strategist, and designer in the context of operating systems, media applications, web services, products, the built environment, and digital games.\r\n\r\nBefore founding the Foundation for Public Code, he was a Design Fellow at Samsung, working with design teams across the company and leading a project on room-scale programmable environments.\r\n\r\nPreviously, he helped design the massively multiplayer game about collaborative creativity online that became Flickr [and also named it], founded the Experience Design Lab at Frogdesign, and was founder and CEO of Bloom Studios, whose data visualization iPad app Planetary was acquired by the Smithsonian Institution.\r\n\r\nHe has written and lectured extensively, and taught at UCLA, New York University, and the University College London. 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This talk will situate the audience in why the Democratic Tech Fund, what means \u201cdemocratic\u201d, \u201cdemocratic tech\u201d, \u201ctech fund\u201d and all together: what does DTF really stand for? How can this be a collective action network for the transition towards collective digital autonomy.", "description": "We are living through a decisive moment. Big Tech is openly aligning itself with autocratic political forces, extracting value from communities, and accelerating ecological collapse \u2014 all while monopolising the digital infrastructure that shapes how we communicate, organise, and live. And yet: the alternatives already exist. Thousands of projects, communities, and cooperatives across the world have been quietly building open, democratic, decentralised technology for decades. The question is no longer whether it's possible. The question is how we connect it, grow it, and sustain it.\r\nThe Democratic Tech Fund (DTF) is a response to that question. It is a transnational initiative rooted in four pillars, each addressing a structural dimension of the problem.\r\nOpen source and free knowledge are the foundation. Collaborative, freely licensed software is not only technically superior \u2014 it is the democratic alternative to proprietary enclosure. But open source alone has not been enough. Google, Microsoft, and Meta have all built empires on collectively produced knowledge and code, including now the training data for their AI systems. The DTF recognises that openness is necessary but insufficient without the social and economic structures to protect and sustain it.\r\nDecentralisation addresses the architecture of power. The early internet was built on open standards and interoperable protocols. Web 2.0 reversed that \u2014 platform capitalism replaced distributed infrastructure with centralised silos and hyperscale monopolies. The DTF is committed to a different web: one built with and for local communities, at the scale of cities and regions, interconnected and federated rather than controlled by a single company. Thousands of smaller communities, collaborating on shared goals, are not a weakness \u2014 they are the design.\r\nThe cooperative social and solidarity economy brings two centuries of worker and user self-organisation into the digital age. This is more than a legal form: it is a political commitment to divest from neoliberal extractivism and invest in a humanist, convivial economy. Concrete examples already show what's possible \u2014 CommonsCloud, initiated a decade ago in Barcelona, is a multistakeholder cooperative of workers and users running open source cloud services for hundreds of organisations and individuals. Platform cooperatives, worker-owned delivery networks, democratic video infrastructure: these exist, they work, and they need support to grow.\r\nCommoning \u2014 the practice of collectively governing shared resources under democratically agreed rules \u2014 is perhaps the oldest human economic tradition, and one of the most needed. The DTF is itself an attempt at commoning: members contribute what they can (time, money, expertise), draw on shared resources, and govern together under shared principles. It prioritises contributions over market exchange and community accountability over extraction.\r\nThe DTF was founded in summer 2025 by Free Knowledge Institute, Commons Network, Waag Futurelab, and Fundaci\u00f3n Platoniq/Goteo, following a co-creation gathering hosted by the Internet Archive in Amsterdam. It is now in prototype mode \u2014 and this talk shares what that looks like in practice.\r\nThe funding model is deliberately bottom-up, operating in stages. A base-level transition community of member organisations and individuals supports each other's shift towards digital autonomy, pooling time and resources. From within that community, local Funding Circles form to seed promising projects. Those projects then go to public crowdfunding \u2014 on platforms like Goteo \u2014 where crowd contributions are matched by public and private institutional funders, multiplying the impact of grassroots solidarity.\r\nThe DTF is not primarily a funding mechanism. It is an attempt to build the social capacity for the transition towards digital autonomy \u2014 connecting local and international networks, from Digital Independence days in Germany to cooperative cloud federations, and asking collectively: what is missing, what is most needed, what do we build next?\r\nWe go slowly because we want to reach far. Together we already have so much \u2014 let's share it, connect it, and build something that lasts.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "CCN7PM", "name": "Wouter Tebbens", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/DFTKYL_RSpmA8F.webp", "biography": "Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and collectives. Co-founder of the Democratic Tech Fund and director at the Free Knowledge Institute.\r\n\r\nIn the 2000s he set up the Free/Libre and Open Source working group of the Internet Society Netherlands, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute and coordinated two European Commission funded projects: the SELF project and the Free Technology Academy and participated in various others.\r\n\r\nIn the last decade he participated in Som Energia, the Spanish renewable energy cooperative; the School of the Commons Barcelona; was part of the p2p value research team studying >300 cases of commons-based p2p internet platforms; participated in the Digital DIY project on legal, ethical and economic aspects related to digital fabrication and DIY; co-founded The Things Network Catalonia and ran various pilots and projects with various municipalities around sensor data through the community network.\r\n\r\nIn order to seek sustainability for commons-oriented initiatives he conceived the Five Pillar model. In the context especially of la Comunificadora, a programme from Barcelona City to help teams create their commons-collaborative economy project, this model was developed further as the core organising model with specific canvases and workshop methodologies.\r\n\r\nWouter was one of the artifices behind the creation of the cooperative femProcomuns and helped create the initial projects and move them from under the wings of the FKI to the cooperative, including CommonsCloud, the open community network for the Internet of Things and the commons transition group.\r\n\r\nSince the pandemic he has been an operational member of The Online Meeting Cooperative (meet.coop), he has worked as the first director of the PublicSpaces Foundation in The Netherlands, is a collaborator at Commons Network and works in various projects to advance a commons-cooperative-regenerative vision.", "public_name": "Wouter Tebbens", "guid": "60d5227f-504b-59f1-96b1-7dae51cc0c5d", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/CCN7PM/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LD7UAE/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/LD7UAE/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "a4b1e6b7-ba33-56d6-9bdc-639e8ddd67f8", "code": "CNRNLU", "id": 474, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T15:15:00+02:00", "start": "15:15", "duration": "00:10", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-474-owning-the-means-of-coordination-decentralized-tools-for-worker-and-community-ownership", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CNRNLU/", "title": "Owning the Means of Coordination: Decentralized Tools for Worker and Community Ownership", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Lightning Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "Most cooperative organizations don't own their means of coordination: Stripe owns the payments, Discord owns the decisions, Google owns the membership records. This talk is about how cooperative governance could look on decentralized tech stacks, and explores new governance primitives this enables, such as votes that mix democracy with active participation, membership built through vouching rather than token purchase, and strategies for minimizing governance while maintaining accountability.", "description": "Cooperative organizations running on conventional infrastructure don't really own themselves. Their payments run through Stripe, their decisions live on Discord, their members are rows in a google sheet, and any of it can be censored, deplatformed, or shut off without consent. The case for cooperative organizations owning their own infrastructure is straightforward. **The harder question, and the one this talk takes on, is what that infrastructure should actually look like.**\r\n\r\nMost co-ops today operate on one-person-one-vote because it has strengths like legitimacy, simplicity, and equal standing but it also has limits: it can't distinguish active members from absent ones, can't reflect different stakes in different decisions, and can't easily be tuned as an organization matures and scale. On-chain cooperative infrastructure opens up a much wider design space. Voting signals can be composed and weighted. Membership can be encoded as a trust graph rather than a binary. Governance surfaces can be deliberately kept small so organizations don't ossify. Participation can be measured and folded into voting power. \r\n\r\nI'll work through three design choices we've made at poa.box, a no-code builder for worker and community-owned organizations, that try to use this space well.\r\n\r\nBlended voting combines democratic, quadratic, and participation-weighted signals in a single vote, with the weights tunable per-vote and per-organization. An organization gets to express its actual mix of values and change that mix as it matures instead of being locked into any single voting model's failure mode.\r\n\r\nVouch-based membership replaces token-purchase or KYC with human relationships of trust, encoded on-chain. It gives cooperative organizations Sybil resistance without identity infrastructure, and produces a membership graph that captures who actually trusts whom inside the organization.\r\n\r\nGovernance minimization keeps the voting surface deliberately small (controlled and highly accountable centralization) so not every member has to vote on every decision . Paired with inflationary tokens that cause voting power to decay for inactive members, it produces governance that stays responsive to who's actually showing up.\r\n\r\nI'll close by briefly discussing where this future would take us: voluntary inter-organizational federations that tax themselves for shared public goods, frontends that are forkable as a hedge against platform capture, and what cooperative infrastructure looks like when these primitives compose at scale.\r\n\r\n**Takeaways**\r\n\r\n- The design space that on-chain infrastructure opens up for cooperative governance, beyond one-person-one-vote\r\n- Blended voting as a way to compose democratic, quadratic, and participation-weighted signals in a single tunable mechanism\r\n- Vouch-based membership as a Sybil-resistant alternative to token-purchase or KYC\r\n- Why governance minimization matters more than governance maximization, and how inflationary tokens enforce it\r\n- How these primitives compose into federations, forkable frontends, and cooperative infrastructure at scale", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "BLZHTL", "name": "Hudson Headley", "avatar": null, "biography": "Hudson Headley is a protocol engineer dedicated to decentralized governance, worker ownership, and developing post-capitalist economic structures. He is the creator of poa.box, a no-code tool for worker and community owned infrastructure enabling collective governance, project and task management, and finances.  He also is a volunteer developer for bread.coop building all sorts of solidarity tech. His day job is working at Opacity Labs.", "public_name": "Hudson Headley", "guid": "b248e9aa-1764-57ef-90d0-8ad99a782577", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/BLZHTL/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CNRNLU/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/CNRNLU/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "73e21c08-b463-54c4-bc8f-7d53109312a3", "code": "UHWQ8D", "id": 752, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T15:30:00+02:00", "start": "15:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-752-how-to-sustain-open-source-software-in-the-era-of-ai-a-community-solution-of-prosperous-software-movement", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UHWQ8D/", "title": "How to Sustain Open Source Software in the Era of AI? A Community Solution of Prosperous Software Movement", "subtitle": "", "track": "Emergent Ideas", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "Open source powers a $100T+ digital economy; more than 99% of companies rely on OSS, 70%+ of production code comes from it, yet the maintainers carrying that infrastructure are barely funded and burning out, with 60% having quit or considered quitting,  while only a tiny fraction of companies give back. FOSS and OSS licenses were 40+ years old and were designed for another era. Prosperous Software Movement is trying to fix the value-capture failure in open source.", "description": "Open source built the internet in the last couple of decades, yet its future is in jeopardy. \r\n\r\nMore than 99% of companies rely on OSS, 70%+ of production code comes from it, and a $100T+ digital economy is built on licenses designed for another era. Yet the maintainers carrying that infrastructure are barely funded and burning out, with 60% having quit or considered quitting, while only a tiny fraction of companies give back.\r\n\r\n\u200bMost of us have felt some version of this. But it's worth being precise about why the model that got us here no longer ensures the ecosystem can sustain itself \u2014 and why AI is bringing the question to a head now.\r\n\r\n\u200bWhy the FOSS model no longer ensures sustainability\r\n\r\n\u200bThe dependency-graph visibility paradox. Value propagates upward through software stacks; compensation does not. The deeper a library sits below the application layer, the more critical it is to everything above \u2014 and the less visible it is to anyone with a budget. That isn't incidental; it's a structural property of how abstraction works. The organizations benefiting most from foundational infrastructure are precisely the ones most insulated from perceiving it.\r\n\r\n\u200bThe licenses predate the relationship they now govern. MIT, Apache, and GPL were built for communities with aligned incentives \u2014 peers sharing among researchers and hobbyists. They optimize for sharing, not for governing a power asymmetry between trillion-dollar enterprises and individual maintainers with no salary and no recourse. Companies free-ride because the license gives them every right to. The model was never designed for this relationship.\r\n\r\n\u200bVC incentives don't align with stewardship \u2014 and AI is compounding the gap. Venture capital is optimized for returns at exit, and funding your OSS dependencies produces no return at exit \u2014 it's pure externality from an LP's perspective. Even companies with genuine intentions face that structural pressure. And AI foundation models have now accelerated the extraction rate exponentially: training on open source corpora at scale, compressing decades of accumulated work into model weights, with no compensation mechanism proposed or enforceable. The clearest sign of the gap: when developers sued over models trained on millions of public repositories, the case became one of the most closely watched AI copyright disputes heading into 2026 \u2014 yet courts let the license claim proceed while largely dismissing the developers' demand for compensation. The extraction is visible. The recourse isn't.\r\n\r\n\u200bThis is the start of a conversation, not a conclusion.\r\n\r\n\u200bWe don't think anyone has fully solved this yet \u2014 ourselves included. The Prosperous Software Movement begins from a single conviction: that sustainability should be structural, not dependent on goodwill. Everything past that \u2014 what the mechanism is, who it serves, how it works \u2014 is exactly what we want to think through with the people who live this problem, rather than hand down as answers.\r\n\r\n\u200bSo we're gathering the community to begin.\r\n\r\n\u200bCome to:\r\n\r\n\u200b- Talk through, in the open, why the current model falls short\r\n\u200b- Meet maintainers, developers, and the companies that depend on them\r\n\u200b- Help shape what a more sustainable model could look like \u2014 and pressure-test the ideas, including ours\r\n\u200b- This is one of the first gatherings of a community we're hoping to build. Bring your perspective \u2014 that's the point.\r\n\r\nJoin our Telegram group to stay in touch: https://t.me/prosperous_software\r\nWe are also seeking advisors to help build the movement.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "KVHLZG", "name": "Will Scott", "avatar": null, "biography": "I want to support individuals coming together and finding community. My research focuses on understanding and removing limitations on Internet communication. This includes both imposed limitations like network interference, and creating unrealized communication models. I like thinking about network structure, measurement, and the evolution of the browser platform. I\u2019m interested in pursuing a combination of research, teaching, and software development.", "public_name": "Will Scott", "guid": "a98f31d2-2888-5e1c-8c40-aaaec1be5768", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/KVHLZG/"}, {"code": "7L7GFK", "name": "David Dao", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/TUNCGY_HVMHeyT.webp", "biography": "David Dao is Chief Scientist at GainForest.Earth and Econ & Gov Lead at Protocol Labs\r\n\r\nA pioneer in data valuation for machine learning, David holds a PhD in AI Systems from ETH Zurich. 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Long live the Mesh: a LARP\r\n\r\nJoin us for a brief Live Action Role Play where we'll simulate an internet shutdown and break into teams to try and get messages across between different people and locations using different transports and connection types.\r\n\r\nTesting Dash Chat, a p2p messenger built on p2panda and Iroh, that's developed in partnership with communities facing shutdowns around the world. Your playing and feedback helps us make Dash Chat better! Come play!", "description": "This is a working session, not a talk. You leave with the app on your phone and a real sense of how it behaves when the network goes away.\r\n\r\nDash Chat works like a normal secure messenger when you're online and keeps carrying messages when you're not. It's transport-agnostic, built on p2panda and Iroh, and released under AGPL-3.0. We build it with partners on the ground and share what we're learning with and from them \u2014 and we're keen to connect with more partners here.\r\n\r\nEveryone installs it and connects with a QR code or contact link \u2014 no account, no phone number. We message across the room over the internet, then switch it off. We're running our own local WiFi network with a laptop acting as a Local Mailbox, so messages keep moving with no internet. From there: group chats, images and files.\r\n\r\nIt runs on our own network in the room, not across the camp. Today it works over the internet and over a local network; mesh over Bluetooth and LoRa is on the roadmap. Usability matters to us as much as security, which is why we test it with real people.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "TF8LMW", "name": "Guillem Cordoba", "avatar": null, "biography": "I\u2019m a software engineer, located near Barcelona, in Catalunya. 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This talk presents a general pattern that solves both, combining zkTLS-verified traits from authoritative real-world sources with on-chain enforcement that rejects ineligible transfers before they execute, opening up everything from compliant tokenized securities to privacy-preserving DAO membership.", "description": "## Abstract\r\n\r\nEligibility, meaning who can hold what and who can transfer to whom, is the part of any real-world economy that decentralized systems have not solved. Holding certain securities requires being a verified person of a particular jurisdiction. Joining a regulated pool may require accreditation. Participating in some communities requires being over a certain age. Almost every implementation today falls back on calling a centralized API or trusting a permissioned issuer to attest, which puts the gatekeeper right back in the middle of the system.\r\n\r\nThis talk presents a general pattern for on-chain eligibility that doesn't reintroduce a gatekeeper. Two ideas do the work together. First, **zkTLS** lets a user prove facts drawn directly from authoritative real-world sources like a bank, a tax authority, a passport service, or an exchange's KYC endpoint, without any intermediary trusted to relay them. The output is a small set of eligibility traits (*is a resident of jurisdiction X, has some status or accreditation, is over 18*), not the underlying data. Second, the chain enforces eligibility by **simulating the post-transaction state** of every party touched by a transfer and rejecting the transaction atomically if any global eligibility invariant would be violated. Ineligible transfers don't need to be detected and unwound. They never execute. This work is based on the pattern we've developed at Opacity.\r\n\r\nThe combination is powerful: real-world facts arrive on-chain in a privacy-preserving form, and the transfer function uses them to enforce invariants that hold across the whole system, not just at the edges. We'll walk through the mechanism in detail, including how eligibility traits get bound to addresses, what state the simulator inspects, what invariants are practical to express (per-asset, per-jurisdiction, per-holder caps and bans), and where the costs and limits live.\r\n\r\nWe'll then look at the design space this opens up: gating DAO membership on verified credentials without doxxing members, age-restricted communities that don't need to see anyone's ID, jurisdiction-aware protocols that respect local rules without a central enforcer, and worker co-ops verifying employment status against payroll data without exposing it. The same shape (verified inputs in, eligibility traits on-chain, atomic simulation at the transfer boundary) fits all of them.\r\n\r\n## Takeaways\r\n\r\n- Why the transfer function is the right place to enforce eligibility, and why post-hoc detection isn't good enough\r\n- How zkTLS turns authoritative real-world data into on-chain-checkable eligibility traits without exposing the underlying data\r\n- How simulating post-transaction state lets a protocol enforce global invariants atomically, rather than per-account heuristics\r\n- The design space this pattern opens: DAO membership, age-gating, jurisdiction-aware protocols, employment-verified co-ops, and beyond\r\n- Honest discussion of the limits: trust assumptions in zkTLS, simulation cost, and what kinds of invariants are and aren't practical to express", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "BLZHTL", "name": "Hudson Headley", "avatar": null, "biography": "Hudson Headley is a protocol engineer dedicated to decentralized governance, worker ownership, and developing post-capitalist economic structures. 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We're going to bring local-first to the part of the stack nobody talks about: legal infrastructure.\r\n\r\n**The legal stack is the last centralized stack**\r\nWhile the rest of the web decentralized \u2014 data, identity, money, communication \u2014 legal infrastructure has barely moved. It remains:\r\n\u2022       Paper-first in a digital world\r\n\u2022       Proprietary in its templates, tools, and intelligence\r\n\u2022       Lawyer-mediated at every step, often unnecessarily\r\n\u2022       Rent-seeking by design: the friction is the business model\r\n\u2022       Jurisdictionally siloed, with little reusable common infrastructure\r\nFor builders, collectives, mutual aid networks, DAOs, and small organizations everywhere, the legal wrapper around your work is often the most centralized, opaque, and expensive part of your stack. You pay for templates that should be public goods. You rent workflow software that locks in your governance data. You wait weeks for documents that could be generated in minutes.\r\n\r\n**What if legal infrastructure were software?**\r\nWe've been building open-source tooling that treats real legal entities like code:\r\n\u2022       Documents as code \u2014 statutes, registries, minutes, and agreements as structured, versioned, forkable artifacts\r\n\u2022       Workflows as automation \u2014 incorporation, governance, voting, and document execution as repeatable, auditable processes\r\n\u2022       Local-first by default \u2014 entity data lives on your machine, synced peer-to-peer\r\n\u2022       Privacy by design \u2014 confidential information never leave the local environment\r\n\u2022       AI agents on-device \u2014 drafting, reviewing, summarizing without sending anything to a third party\r\n\u2022       Multi-format export \u2014 the same source generates polished Word documents, HTML, PDF\r\n\u2022       Open source all the way down \u2014 every template, document model, and workflow is a public good others can fork and improve.\r\n\r\nThis is open-source infrastructure for legal sovereignty.\r\n\r\n**Public legal goods**\r\nEverything we build, fork, and improve becomes part of a growing commons: document models, templates, and workflows that any community, anywhere, can adapt to their jurisdiction and purpose. 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Stay in touch with your friends! No internet, no cloud, no accounts required.", "description": "Meshtastic and Meshcore are open firmware projects that turn cheap LoRa radios into self-organizing mesh networks. Devices route encrypted messages hop by hop across kilometers of terrain, without internet, SIM cards, or operators. The protocol is the infrastructure.\r\n\r\nThe session is hands-on. **Devices are available for purchase** (starting at EUR 20) during the session. Participants flash firmware, configure channels and keys, send messages across the room and across the camp, and observe how each stack routes traffic. We compare Meshtastic's flood routing with Meshcore's source-routed approach, work within the duty-cycle limits of the European 868 MHz band, and cover practical deployment (time permitting): antenna placement, solar nodes, and bridging mesh traffic to existing camp services.\r\n\r\nNo prior radio experience required. **Bring a tablet or smartphone** to connect to the mesh. Bring a laptop if you want to keep configuring after the session.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WRTG3M", "name": "Afri Blanck", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/7SV8PG_P0RNBll.webp", "biography": "Managing Director of the Department of Decentralization, host of the Berlin Chaos Mesh community, and co-organizer of the DWeb Camp Berlin 2026.", "public_name": "Afri Blanck", "guid": "09a7df08-eade-579d-a425-dba8382488f7", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/WRTG3M/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9WV3W/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9WV3W/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "cb616f8d-048d-511e-a9c1-28fa4a8358cb", "code": "XBZFVE", "id": 338, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T10:40:00+02:00", "start": "10:40", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-338-tinyssb-hands-on", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XBZFVE/", "title": "tinySSB hands-on", "subtitle": "", "track": "Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "tinySSB is a prototype for a peer-to-peer app platform that minimizes communication requirements. It works over Bluetooth LE as well as LoRa, potentially even over shortwaves and thousand of miles. Join this workshop for trying it out on your Android smartphone and a LoRa mesh using embedded devices.", "description": "This is a hands-on workshop where you can gather first-hand experience how the tinySSB apps behave: Try out chat (and its voice and sketch attachments), productivity apps like Kanban board, the games and many other student-made mini-apps. You can also participate in trying out the LoRa (long range radio) mesh network!", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "RFYQFH", "name": "Christian Tschudin (cft)", "avatar": null, "biography": "computer scientist (UofBasel) with a foot in Secure Scuttlebutt land, radio amateur", "public_name": "Christian Tschudin (cft)", "guid": "f7282588-f02d-530b-87b4-c81439f4b0b4", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/RFYQFH/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XBZFVE/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XBZFVE/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "c035f2eb-bb64-5446-832f-b9e2e538d595", "code": "8CGYZM", "id": 342, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T12:00:00+02:00", "start": "12:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-342-sharing-resources-with-your-community", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8CGYZM/", "title": "Sharing Resources with Your Community", "subtitle": "", "track": "Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "We will show how individuals can easily get involved in sharing their resources with their communities so that others can benefit. Young will speak to the technical aspects of setting up a storage server and an AI server, and Andi will speak to her collaboration with artists to preserve their work.", "description": "Andi and I have been sharing our servers with our artist community. They have access to storage, websites and our new AI server. We have found that the elderly and people outside of the tech community often do not or cannot have access to more computer storage or AI.\r\n\r\nIn response to the challenges experienced during the COVID pandemic, we began partnering with artists to archive their performances and work history through the creation of websites hosted on our server. We have preserved the work histories of trailblazing artists of color who were unable to navigate quickly changing technological advances on their own. We are also exploring how AI can assist us with language translation as we research our family genealogy and recover little known history of the Chinese and Chinese-Americans in the United States and beyond.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "H8H9JM", "name": "Young M Wong", "avatar": null, "biography": "I have been teaching Chi Gung for over 35 years. I have seen the benefits of balance, and strength through the years.", "public_name": "Young M Wong", "guid": "cdc8940a-952d-54c7-9cb7-72accc903789", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/H8H9JM/"}, {"code": "HFC9AA", "name": "\ud83c\udf31 Andi Wong \ud83d\udc99", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/LCFAYG_bOL9Xmg.webp", "biography": "Andi served as teaching artist and site arts coordinator in San Francisco public schools for over two decades. 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In this session, we present two prototypes co-created with farmers: JavAlerta, an electric fence monitoring system via LoRa for preventing wild boar invasions, and Shitakiometer, an autonomous environmental sensing station for mushroom greenhouses with solar power and real-time dashboards.", "description": "## Introduction\r\n\r\nSEMEA-TEC (Sowing Technological Solutions in Family Agriculture) is a university extension project at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (UNIFESP), S\u00e3o Jos\u00e9 dos Campos campus (ICT), approved by the Extension and Culture Board. The project operates at the intersection of computing, electronics, rural extension, and participatory methodologies, developing low-cost, low-energy-consumption social technologies for family agriculture, tackling the digital exclusion that deepens historical inequalities in rural areas.\r\n\r\nThe project is organically linked to an ongoing doctoral research at PPGIT/UNIFESP, entitled \u201cSociotechnical Co-creation with Family Farmers: Participatory Development of Technologies for Rural Areas,\u201d which investigates the influence of participatory methodologies on technological innovation processes aimed at building autonomous communication systems in rural contexts. While the extension operates as a living laboratory for listening and co-creation with communities, the doctoral research investigates the technical-scientific foundations for achieving maximum energy autonomy \u2014 with batteries that harvest energy from the environment based on non-toxic, low-environmental-impact materials \u2014 and economic viability for scaling.\r\n\r\n## Methodology\r\n\r\nWe adopt Action Design Research (ADR) as our central methodology: before any line of code or soldering, we go to the field with partner organizations for active listening and participatory diagnosis of real needs. Only then do we move on to co-creating prototypes, testing on properties, and iterative cycles of continuous improvement. Family farmers are at the center of the process \u2014 not as passive beneficiaries, but as co-producers of technological innovation.\r\n\r\nOur theoretical foundation is anchored in the Epistemologies of the South (Boaventura de Sousa Santos), Social Technology (Dagnino, Thomas), and the commitment to a just ecological transition, aligning our work with SDGs 1, 4, 7, 9, and 13.\r\n\r\n## Partnerships\r\n\r\nThe work is developed with undergraduate students from UNIFESP in collaboration with organizations working on the ground:\r\n\r\nAssocia\u00e7\u00e3o Portal Sem Porteiras (Monteiro Lobato - SP) \u2014 logistical support, mobilization of family farmers, and sharing of local knowledge.\r\nAkarui (S\u00e3o Luiz do Paraitinga - SP) \u2014 ecological and economic restoration integrating milk production with forest systems.\r\nAssocia\u00e7\u00e3o Apoena \u2014 agroecology in the territory.\r\n\r\n## Prototype 1: JavAlarm \u2014 Electric Fence Monitoring via LoRa\r\n\r\nThe first development cycle emerged from observing an established practice in the territory: farmers use electric fences to protect crops and livestock against invaders, especially wild boars (Sus scrofa), an invasive species that causes significant damage to family agriculture in the Para\u00edba Valley. When the fence fails, the farmer often only discovers it hours or days later, when the damage has already been done.\r\n\r\nJavAlarm is a low-cost, low-power system for detecting electric fence failures, combining simple hardware, optimized C/C++ firmware, and LoRa communication for operation in isolated rural areas. The architecture consists of two nodes:\r\n\r\nTransmitter (TX): Connected to the electric fence, detects sudden voltage drops via an analog circuit using a Hall effect sensor and a dedicated fence voltmeter to capture high-voltage pulses (kV range). The microcontroller is a Raspberry Pi Pico W (RP2040) with a LoRa SX1262 transceiver at 915 MHz.\r\nReceiver (RX): Receives the alert and notifies the user via LED, sound, or both.\r\nA key differentiator is the acknowledgment (ACK) communication protocol: the transmitter sends the alert and waits for confirmation. If the receiver is offline, the transmitter retransmits until it obtains acknowledgment, ensuring that no fence failure goes unnoticed. Power consumption was optimized to 114 mA during transmission and 32 mA in idle, enabling weeks of autonomy on standard batteries.\r\n\r\nNext steps: complete system integration, weatherproof case design, and bootloader optimization for remote firmware updates.\r\n\r\n## Prototype 2: Shitakiometer \u2014 Environmental Sensing for Mushroom Greenhouses\r\n\r\nThe second cycle addressed the needs of mushroom producers who must monitor temperature, relative humidity, and CO\u2082 concentration in production greenhouses. Shitakiometer is a high-energy-autonomy monitoring solution integrating sensors, LoRa communication, solar power, and a complete backend for real-time visualization.\r\n\r\nHardware: Heltec ESP32 with integrated LoRa radio (SX1262, 915 MHz), running custom firmware with deep sleep support. Sensors include DHT22 (temperature/humidity, \u00b10.5 \u00b0C accuracy) and MH-Z19B/SCD40 for CO\u2082 measurement via NDIR.\r\n\r\nPower: 5V / 1.25W solar panel with 18650 lithium-ion battery (~2500 mAh) and charge management circuit, targeting continuous operation with positive energy balance \u2014 converging with the doctoral research on harvest energy.\r\n\r\nBackend stack (fully containerized via Docker): Mosquitto (MQTT broker), Node-RED (automation bridge), InfluxDB (time-series database), and Grafana (real-time dashboards).\r\n\r\nOngoing work: deep sleep optimization for positive energy balance; farmer-friendly alerts via Telegram/WhatsApp; range and packet loss testing at the production site; weatherproofing evaluation.\r\n\r\n## Results and Expected Impact\r\n\r\nTo date, SEMEA-TEC has produced two functional prototypes with open documentation, manuals, and educational booklets. The expected impact includes training workshops for farmers and students, scientific articles, and a decentralized innovation ecosystem combining low-power radios, lightweight protocols, harvest energy, and participatory methodologies. Results will be shared on open-access platforms, at in-person meetings, extension fairs, and social technology forums.\r\n\r\n## Conclusion\r\n\r\nSEMEA-TEC demonstrates that relevant technological solutions for family agriculture emerge when innovation starts from active listening and co-creation with communities. JavAlarm and Shitakiometer illustrate how LoRa communication, distributed sensing, and autonomous power can be combined into low-cost systems adapted to rural realities, with farmers as central agents. The articulation between university extension, doctoral research, and local partnerships points to a replicable model of technological social innovation in rural Brazil.\r\n\r\nMore information: https://semea.tec.br", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "YUVETQ", "name": "Hiure", "avatar": null, "biography": "Hiure Queiroz is a PhD candidate in Innovation and Technology at the Federal University of S\u00e3o Paulo (Unifesp), where he conducts research focused on the development of social technologies for community well-being. He holds a degree in Physics and a master's degree in Materials Science.\r\n\r\nHe is a member of the Associa\u00e7\u00e3o Portal Sem Porteiras (redepsp.org) , where he has been actively involved in initiatives that combine participatory methodologies, territorial engagement, and the development of context-based technologies. He was part of the coordination team of LabLab (lablab.tec.br), a collaborative process that brings together farmers, technologists, and researchers to co-create technological solutions rooted in local realities. Rather than focusing on isolated products, LabLab emphasizes the construction of processes, local capacities, and shared governance models for technology development.\r\n\r\nHe is also involved in the SEMEA-TEC (semea.tec.br) extension group at Unifesp, which develops low-cost sensing and communication technologies for family farming through participatory approaches, bridging academic research and grassroots innovation.\r\n\r\nHiure works to promote the critical appropriation of science and technology through hacker culture and grassroots innovation. He is a founding partner of Transistir Social Tech, an initiative dedicated to the development of hardware and software focused on social and decentralized technologies.", "public_name": "Hiure", "guid": "6afdf28a-8694-5d8b-8f31-08b050f04925", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/YUVETQ/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SEWZKP/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SEWZKP/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "7587676e-803d-5813-8b81-4466f561550c", "code": "RXRVLL", "id": 368, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T15:30:00+02:00", "start": "15:30", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Decentralized Hardware @ Hackers Lab", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-368-what-ag-knowledge-federation-looks-like-run-on-solar-the-farm-hack-box-live", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/RXRVLL/", "title": "What Ag Knowledge Federation Looks Like Run on Solar \u2014 The Farm Hack Box, Live", "subtitle": "", "track": "Decentralized Hardware/Local Community Networks", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "This hands-on technical workshop walks through the architecture of the Farm Hack Box \u2014 a Raspberry Pi 5 with 1 TB of NVMe storage, drawing 27 watts on a 50-watt solar panel, hosting approximately thirty services and over a million records, federating with peer boxes through a Tailscale tailnet, a Forgejo git server, an experimental Holochain layer, and a content-addressed Concordance card registry \u2014 and shows in operation how each layer of the stack maps to a specific DWeb Principle: Human Agency, Distributed Benefits, Mutual Respect, Humanity, and Ecological Awareness. The workshop is the technical companion to the political and institutional framings of the same infrastructure, and is calibrated for DWeb participants who want to see the protocols compose in service of a real working community before the abstractions appear.", "description": "Agricultural knowledge systems face a structural crisis of governance at least as much as a technical one. The GIAA Infrastructure Working Group's April 2026 working paper Commons-Enabling Infrastructure for Agroecological Knowledge identifies four failure modes characterizing existing agricultural data infrastructure, each with both a technical and a governance dimension: vendor lock-in (proprietary schemas, closed APIs, no community recourse when terms change unilaterally); cloud dependency (all compute requires connectivity; control concentrated in distant data centers legally subject to CLOUD Act jurisdiction); centralization (single authoritative database; single point of governance failure; power concentration by corpus weight); and consent opacity (data use in fine print; community cannot enforce consent because it is not machine-readable). Each of these failure modes is also recognizable to DWeb developers working on every other domain of distributed infrastructure. The Farm Hack Box is one working answer to all four.\r\n\r\nThis session is a technical workshop, not a presentation. Two physical Boxes will be on the table \u2014 The projector shows whichever screen is being driven. Participants handle the running hardware, query the local database, watch a signed peer query commit across the tailnet, watch a Concordance card propagate with consent metadata intact, and leave with the configuration files and Git repositories needed to clone the setup onto their own Raspberry Pi 5.\r\n\r\nThe hardware specification, briefly. Raspberry Pi 5 with 8 to 16 GB of RAM. 1 TB NVMe SSD over PCIe. 27 watts nominal \u2014 solar-deployable on a single 50-watt panel. Ubuntu 24 LTS or Raspberry Pi OS 64-bit, hardened, with auto-update and systemd service management. Ethernet plus WiFi plus a Tailscale VPN mesh for federation. LAN-first; internet optional; sneaker-net USB sync as a fallback for places where bandwidth is unreliable. Total cost: USD $200\u2013450 fully assembled, all open hardware with no proprietary components. This is the physical substrate. Everything that follows runs on it.\r\n\r\nThe software stack, mapped to the failure modes it addresses. PostgreSQL with PostGIS for the relational store and spatial queries \u2014 under PostgreSQL's permissive license, with no vendor lock-in. farmOS for field-level provenance hub work (GPL v2). Forgejo for version control and federation (GPL v3, governed by Codeberg e.V. as a German nonprofit \u2014 explicitly named the workshop's ETA Top Pick for governance, not just for code). Holochain for peer-to-peer federation with chain-of-custody and no central broker (Apache 2 plus CAL). Ollama plus Llama 3 for on-device AI inference (MIT). Whisper for on-device speech-to-text (MIT). The Farm Hack POS for community-currency-aware commerce (AGPL v3). A Commons Lending Library for books, seeds, and tools with provenance chains (AGPL v3). Tailscale or WireGuard for the zero-config VPN with NAT traversal and sneaker-net fallback. Every layer of the stack is auditable, modifiable, and forkable. No proprietary dependency, anywhere.\r\n\r\nThe federation protocol, the part DWeb developers care most about. Four design constraints. Intermittent connectivity \u2014 nodes function fully offline and sync opportunistically. Asymmetric corpora \u2014 the Honey Bee Network's one-million-plus records must not dominate smaller networks by weight; the federation enforces proportional, thematic contribution rather than naive full-corpus merge. Consent enforcement at query time \u2014 the rules travel with the data, not only in paper agreements. No central broker \u2014 no single node is authoritative; the federation is Byzantine fault-tolerant. The catalog manifest is broadcast every six hours at approximately 50 KB per 500-item node, with full records fetched on-demand only, keeping bandwidth below 1 MB per day on a typical rural cellular link. For higher-stakes coordination \u2014 seed provenance chains, tool custody, community currency, multi-party signing \u2014 the federation uses Holochain's agent-centric DHT, with each node holding its own cryptographically signed source chain. The workshop demonstrates each of these mechanisms in operation, in front of the audience.\r\n\r\nThe Ethical Technology Assessment as the governance layer of the stack. The ETA is not an external audit. It is built into the infrastructure's own operating cadence. Every tool, dataset, software component, and seed lot in the federation carries an ETA record. Five assessment modes \u2014 Hardware, Software (each with four binary gates plus four scored categories), Dataset/DTAP (six trust dimensions: consent, provenance, access, machine-readability, longitudinal integrity, governance), Guardian Connector for Indigenous data sovereignty (four pillars aligned with the CARE Principles), and Seeds/Germplasm (four pillars derived from the Wheat Workers' Code of Ethics and CARE). Three confidence tiers (Provisional / Peer-reviewed / Audited) with structural decay over time. Claim-level annotation with structured dispute resolution. The workshop walks through the ETA in operation \u2014 a tool scored live, a dispute opened, a resolution committed to the Git repository.\r\n\r\n\r\nMapping the stack to the DWeb Principles, explicitly. Human Agency \u2014 self-hosting, data sovereignty, full-stack open source, multiple technical means rather than a single technical solution as the animating design rule. Distributed Benefits \u2014 the federation is designed structurally to prevent any single network from dominating by weight; ETA scoring surfaces where value flows. Mutual Respect \u2014 transparent governance through Git-native publishing, versioned decisions, visible source-organization attribution, claim-level evidence threading. Humanity \u2014 consent-first data flows, multilingual accessibility, centering marginalized knowledge holders in both the data corpus and the tool design. Ecological Awareness \u2014 the 27-watt operating envelope, solar-ready deployment, sneaker-net updates where bandwidth is scarce, the deliberate refusal to add cloud-mediated rounds-trips that the local hardware can handle directly.\r\n\r\nThis is what commons-enabling infrastructure looks like when it is actually built and actually running. The workshop is the chance to see it operate in front of you, to handle the hardware, to ask the architectural questions, and to leave with what you need to fork it for your own community.\r\nKEY SPEAKERS\r\nDorn Cox \u2014 OpenTEAM \u00b7 Farm Hack \u00b7 GIAA Infrastructure Working Group \u00b7 Tuckaway Farm. Convener of the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group; lead on the Farm Hack Box reference implementation; co-author of WP1. (Drives the projector; runs the live demonstration; technical narration.)\r\nSJ Klein \u2014 Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society \u00b7 Agricultural Knowledge Concordance \u00b7 Code for Science & Society (CS&S) \u00b7 Wikimedia \u00b7 Internet Archive \u00b7 AI Commons House. (Knowledge-commons and method layer; Internet-in-a-Box and open-knowledge lineage.)\r\nRichard Ng \u2014 Commons Governance and Ownership Working Group \u00b7 co-architect with IndigiDAO, New Mexico Community Capital, and the 11th Hour Foundation. 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David Otieno (Kenyan Peasant League) provides the ground-truth demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used at the mobile-phone ceiling of accessibility. \r\nSJ Klein leads the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance at Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and active in the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, with thought-partner networks across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and the AI Commons House. SJ's background in mass-scale community-edited knowledge infrastructure \u2014 Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the broader open-knowledge tradition \u2014 is the discipline the AKC adapts from millions-of-contributors editing patterns to deep-interview stewardship patterns. 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Power mapping is a tool from social sciences that can help in understanding how different actors have power over each other.\r\n\r\nWe will do the power mapping of a regular hosting scenario, understand the different power dynamics in place and the reason why they are like that. 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I spent the formative part of my career as an editor at WIRED, and the last decade across the industry \u2014 reporting, founding small publications, organizing journalist collectives, and most recently building an ownership protocol for the information economy. I've also spent a lot of time listening to what reporters, editors, and freelancers actually struggle with. What I've learned, and what I want to put in front of this room, is that the decentralized web community is in a near-perfect position to help \u2014 and that the bridge between \"decentralized infrastructure\" and \"what journalists need\" has barely been built.\r\n\r\nAfter Camp, I plan to publish the inventory of journalist needs as a working document \u2014 incorporating what came out of the Q&A and any related Unconference sessions \u2014 and to share it with the Internet Archive and the Department of Decentralization, and any DWeb Camp attendees who want to keep working on these problems. 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We do this with three pieces that fit together: data sovereignty so the communities collecting forest data own it, local AI so models that read that data can run on the steward's own device, and open nature finance so the money that depends on the data actually reaches the steward. This session shares three short stories from the field, then turns into a small-group conversation about where this kind of stack would matter in your own community.", "description": "## What this is\r\n\r\nA workshop about a problem GainForest spends most of its time on: the data, the analysis, and the money in forest stewardship usually flow through several middlemen before they reach the people doing the work. We want to walk through three concrete pieces of how we have been trying to remove some of those middlemen, then turn the room loose on whether this kind of stack would matter in your own community.\r\n\r\n## Who we are\r\n\r\nGainForest is a small non-profit working on direct payments to forest stewards. We work in a handful of sites in Latin America, Asia-Pacific and Africa, mostly with indigenous and local community partners. We have been at this for several years and recently won an XPRIZE Rainforest for our work.\r\n\r\n## What \"direct\" means here\r\n\r\nWhen someone in the global north pays for forest protection, the money usually moves through several hands before any of it reaches a person who lives in the forest. Each hop takes a cut, and decisions about whose work counts get made far from the people doing it. Forest data is the same shape: it gets collected by external researchers, analysed in foreign labs, and used to make claims about places where the researchers do not live.\r\n\r\nThree things have to be true at the same time to change this:\r\n\r\n1. The communities collecting the data own the data. They can share it, hold it back, or delete it.\r\n\r\n2. The models that read the data can run on their own devices. They do not need to upload anything to a cloud to be useful.\r\n\r\n3. The money that depends on the data reaches them. It does not get spent on the analysis chain.\r\n\r\nWe call this open nature finance. The \"open\" is about transparency in who gets paid for what.\r\n\r\n## What happens in the 60 minutes\r\n\r\n5 minutes. Intro and the question.\r\n\r\n20 minutes. Three field stories from GainForest, around six minutes each.\r\n\r\n20 minutes. Small-group discussion. Two prompts:\r\n\r\n- When does keeping data local matter more than sharing it?\r\n- What kind of verification do you actually need to send money to a stranger across an ocean?\r\n\r\n13 minutes. Report-backs and an open conversation about what came up.\r\n\r\n2 minutes. Close, with links to the relevant projects.\r\n\r\n## Why this fits Solidarity Tech\r\n\r\nThe three pieces above are all power transfers. Data sovereignty moves the right to speak about a place from outside experts to the people who live there. Local AI moves the inference loop from a cloud you do not control to a device you do. Direct finance moves money from intermediaries to the people doing the work. Solidarity tech is what you get when you wire these together and the wire holds.\r\n\r\n## What we need\r\n\r\nA room for around thirty people. Power for a couple of laptops and one small demo device. A screen for slides. 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We will explore the \"Digital Tarzan\" philosophy: the art of engineering survival communications when all modern silicon infrastructure has been denied.\r\n\r\nBecause we cannot safely replicate hostile conditions or deploy physical radio hardware at Camp, this workshop is a purely strategic, scenario-based architectural exercise. Participants will learn how to design secure, decentralized, and offline communication bridges that can evade military surveillance, survive rolling blackouts, and route around physical danger using tactical mesh networks, HF radio logic, and ancient pre-physics methods.\r\n\r\nHow Participants Will Engage (Shared Exploration)\r\nParticipants will be divided into \"Cells\" (small teams) and handed a paper map of a hypothetical mined, warring valley. 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Participants will work in small groups with real-world examples from public infrastructure, community projects to refine a shared set of conditions for decentralization that works as a value, not just as an architecture.", "description": "A small number of large technology companies control core parts of today\u2019s digital infrastructure. Public administrations and public service media depend on them for critical services, creating long term lock ins, security risks and vulnerabilities to capture. Decentralization is one of the DWeb\u2019s central promises: less dependency on dominant platforms, more agency for communities and individuals, and infrastructures that can be governed in the public interest. But decentralization does not automatically produce these outcomes. A system can be technically distributed while power remains concentrated in standards, hosting, app stores, moderation rules, funding structures, or maintenance capacity. \r\n\r\nThis session is a 60 minute participatory workshop that invites participants to explore decentralization explicitly as a value and governance choice. Therefore this workshop is built around shared inquiry in small groups. The facilitators bring a small set of working assumptions and hypotheses that have emerged from research and stakeholder workshops on decentralization in German public institutions. Examples include the idea that technical decentralization without explicit governance structures tends to create new central gatekeepers, or that decentralization only supports democratic control when openness, interoperability and reversibility are anchored in binding requirements rather than left to goodwill.\r\n\r\nAfter a short introduction to this tension and the assumptions on the table, participants work in mixed groups. Each group takes one assumption, tests it against its members\u2019 concrete experiences and asks where it fits, where it fails and what it overlooks in terms of power, labor and risk. On this basis participants can rewrite or qualify \u201ctheir\u201d assumption so that it better reflects practice and makes clearer under which conditions decentralization actually acts as a value. In a final round, the groups bring their revised assumptions back into the room. By comparing the changes and insights across groups, the workshop surfaces recurring conditions, divergent experiences and unresolved tensions. \r\n\r\nThe session is embedded in a project by D64 \u2013 Zentrum f\u00fcr Digitalen Fortschritt: Decentralization as Value and Practice funded by JUST Open Source. The project investigates how decentralized approaches can become practical alternatives in public administration and public service media, with clear preconditions such as open standards, open source, transparent governance and meaningful participation. It combines mapping, surveys and expert interviews with stakeholders in administrations, broadcasters and civil society, and will result in a white paper and an interactive decentralization tool for institutions. 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I'll discuss how and why it was made, its current status, and what we should do with it.", "description": "Hypercore was originally written in JavaScript, this talk is about rewriting it in Rust and how that allows us to use it in ways not possible before: as a\r\ncross-language, cross-platform library \u2014 as infrastructure. This is the story of how\r\nthat happened, what it took, and what we should build with it.\r\n\r\nHypercore is a peer-to-peer append-only log. Think of it like BitTorrent, but you can add\r\ndata to it. Like BitTorrent it enables censorship-resistant, decentralized data sharing.\r\n\r\nI started working with Hypercore in 2023 when I wanted to build a peer-to-peer RSS protocol.\r\nI built it in JavaScript using the existing Hypercore libraries. It\r\nworked: I had a standalone client / aggregator / podcast app, and tools for converting RSS feeds into Hypercore feeds. See my blog post [here](https://cowlicks.website/posts/hypercore-and-peer-to-peer-rss.html).\r\n\r\nIt worked but it hit a hard wall. I couldn't give existing RSS clients my code as a library (unless their app was also written in JavaScript). To have a healthy swarm of peers we want as many clients as possible, but JavaScript is a walled garden when it comes to native integration. So integration into existing tools/clients/apps is difficult or impossible.\r\n\r\nSo I found the Datrs project \u2014 a group working to rewrite Hypercore in Rust. It was mostly\r\ninactive, with most code half-finished implementations of now obsolete versions. But it had the potential to solve this problem of integration and portability so I dove into completing it.\r\n\r\nSince then I've built out the parts needed for core functionality. I\r\nimplemented from scratch: Hyperbee, Hyperblobs, Corestore. I updated and\r\ndramatically refactored every layer of peer-discovery, as well as replication\r\nlogic.\r\n\r\nThere are a lot of lessons to share: translating JavaScript's dynamic patterns into Rust's type system, reverse engineering undocumented wire protocols, converting existing Rust async code to use structured concurrency, and other fun things I found along the way.\r\n\r\nThen there are things beyond just reimplementing Hypercore. I'll discuss experimenting with using Mozilla's UniFFI to generate libraries for: Python, Swift, and Kotlin. I'll also talk about building tooling for running inline JavaScript code from within Rust for integration testing.\r\n\r\nAs of today Hypercore is usable for basic cases: A peer can create a Hypercore, other peers can discover it and replicate the data. There are still rough edges and many `TODO`'s in the code.\r\n\r\nToward the end I'd like to open discussion about what to build next \u2014 like peer-to-peer RSS or [peer-to-peer package managers](https://cowlicks.website/posts/sustainable-open-source-package-management-with-peer-to-peer.html) \u2014 and how Rust Hypercore fits with other P2P projects like p2panda, Holochain, IPFS, and iroh.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MXGCWG", "name": "blake", "avatar": null, "biography": "I'm a Open Source Software developer working on peer-to-peer, privacy, and cryptography.", "public_name": "blake", "guid": "09d216d7-e119-5ac2-9e50-7209faf13a93", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/MXGCWG/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A9LMSV/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/A9LMSV/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "9aed2d68-eb5d-50f0-a01e-6d885d282664", "code": "NNTVFV", "id": 487, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T17:00:00+02:00", "start": "17:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "P2P Portal", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-487-ai-psychosis-or-a-way-better-way-to-build-a-peer-to-peer-slack-you-decide", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NNTVFV/", "title": "AI Psychosis or a way better way to build a peer-to-peer Slack? 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This panel brings together civil society leaders, global network builders, and researchers to critically assess the upstream and downstream risks of AgTech - from agricultural machinery and biotechnology to corporate digital enclosures. Moving beyond abstract critique, each speaker will share concrete frameworks and field methodologies illustrating how communities can evaluate, resist, or actively co-design tools that champion true food sovereignty and regional technical autonomy.", "description": "Peasant Agriculture & Resisting Digital Enclosure (Veronica Villa): Grounded in Latin American struggles, this presentation details how indigenous communities use community-led technology assessment guidelines to defend traditional crops like maize and resist the corporate financialization of global food systems.\r\n\r\nGrassroots Energy Transitions & Local Land Use (Wedja Clementino): Mapping the intersections of technology, energy, and localized agriculture. 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I wrote my thesis using a mechanical  typewriter, and now I try to critically understand the digital era. At times I feel very lucky that I have lived both worlds, but many other times I'm worried about the young ones that have only knew computer and internet to solve their needs.", "public_name": "Veronica Villa", "guid": "de679474-2b46-53dc-b982-f9c3e5c81b3b", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/7STNSQ/"}, {"code": "H9AR9Y", "name": "Wedja", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/HCQXRF_BTrQ01y.webp", "biography": "My family has been settled through MST (Landless Workers' Movement) land reform for 20 years. I grew up in that context, as part of an agroecological farming community. I am a social communication student and a trained social educator through the Paulo Freire Itinerant School. 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Networks like Prolinnova, the Kenyan Peasant League, and the wider Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) have spent decades sharing this knowledge through farmer innovation fairs, printed materials, person-to-person exchange, and small circles where attribution and trust are kept intact. As distributed-web tools mature, there is real risk of repeating old patterns \u2014 extraction, scale, communication breakdown \u2014 with new vocabulary. This session is a grounded conversation from networks rooted in Agroecology (Ny\u00e9l\u00e9ni 2015): what currently works, what farmers fear, and what genuine alliance with the DWeb community would actually look like.", "description": "Most of the innovation that keeps small-scale food production going never appears in a database. It happens on the headland of a field, in a fishing-boat workshop, at a community plot where someone has solved a problem with what was at hand, and the solution moves outward through neighbors, fairs, printed flyers, oral exchange, and the slow patient social architecture that keeps a farmer's contribution attributable and intact. The networks represented in this session \u2014 Prolinnova, the Kenyan Peasant League, Tzoumakers, L'Atelier Paysan, Schola Campesina, and the wider Grassroots Innovations Assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) \u2014 have spent decades doing this work. They preceded the vocabulary of federation, polycentric governance, content addressing, and decentralization that the DWeb community uses today. They are the ground truth any genuinely useful distributed-web tool will have to interoperate with.\r\n\r\nThis session opens DWeb Camp with a deliberate inversion. Instead of asking grassroots networks to adapt to the DWeb developer community, we are asking the DWeb developer community to spend ninety minutes in the world the farmers and fishers actually inhabit. \"Basically, it's a reality check we can give to the web developers\" is how the working group framed the intent. The session is service from GIAA to DWeb, not request from DWeb to GIAA. Both sides benefit. The farmer networks find genuine allies in the technical community. The technical community gains a clearer picture of what its tools are for, who they serve, and which patterns from previous tech cycles must not be repeated.\r\n\r\nWhat participants will hear. The session is structured as a series of grounded testimonies, not slides. Andrea Ferrante (Schola Campesina) opens with welcome and orientation \u2014 who is in the room, why this session is the opening of the camp, what to expect across the rest of the week. Chesha (Prolinnova) then introduces Prolinnova: what the network is, how it has worked across Africa, Asia, and Latin America for decades, what it has produced. David Otieno speaks to the Kenyan Peasant League perspective \u2014 small-scale farmer realities, how innovations move farmer-to-farmer, what \"digital\" actually means in a context where the mobile phone is the ceiling of accessibility and electricity is intermittent. Chesha and David together walk through the concrete social architecture of knowledge movement: International Farm Innovation Fairs, attribution practices, printed and oral exchange, the slow trust that keeps contributions visible to those who made them. Caroline (Schola Campesina) then names \u2014 with Chesha and David \u2014 what the networks are afraid of: extraction by agritech, intellectual-property loss, scale without context, well-intentioned tools that did not fit, patterns from previous technology cycles that landed on smallholders without consent and without benefit.\r\n\r\nWhat participants will do. The final third of the session is open dialogue with the room. Not a requirements document from grassroots networks to DWeb builders. A set of principles for alliance \u2014 situated, agroecology-grounded, rooted in the Ny\u00e9l\u00e9ni 2015 declaration and the GIAA framework \u2014 that emerge through the conversation. The room is invited to test the principles, push on them, find the places where DWeb vocabulary and GIAA vocabulary point at different things even when they sound the same. Sovereignty is one of those words; in the food-sovereignty tradition it is political control of the means of food production by the people who produce the food, and in the DWeb tradition it is a deeply technical claim about cryptographic control and content addressing. There is alignment in spirit; the words point at different things. The session is the place to surface the differences honestly, in the same room, so the rest of the week proceeds from a shared understanding rather than a hidden mismatch.\r\n\r\nWhy early in the week. This session is requested for Day 1 of the camp. The reason is structural: the multi-day GIAA presence at DWeb Camp 2026 depends on this framing being established before the technical proposals are debated. GIAA's second session \u2014 a hands-on workshop on the federated tool registry and the Farm Hack Box, scheduled later in the week \u2014 sits inside the principles this session generates.  If we can propose this early in the agenda, we have a chance to follow up throughout the remaining days, and reflect in the final days \u2014 was this effective, what do we do next. \r\n\r\nWhat the session will produce. Three things: a set of principles for alliance that GIAA can carry back to Schola Campesina, Prolinnova, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, and the broader assembly as evidence of the engagement and as a basis for ongoing collaboration; a printed zine and handout circulated during the session and across the rest of the week, with the networks named and a one-paragraph \"what is GIAA\" grounded in Ny\u00e9l\u00e9ni 2015; named follow-up commitments for the Tool Registry + Farm Hack Box session later in the week.\r\n\r\nFormat. Workshop and facilitated dialogue, 90 minutes, with a horseshoe or circle seating arrangement preferred rather than classroom rows. Microphones for accessibility (important for English variants across the speaker group). A modest projector for two or three slides only \u2014 this is a spoken session. Printed handouts on the tables. Coffee and water for a 90-minute conversation. Translation in printed form for the zine where possible \r\n\r\nWhat GIAA brings that no other DWeb participant brings. Decades of practice in farmer-to-farmer knowledge sharing with intact attribution \u2014 before anyone called it federation, decentralization, or polycentric governance. Direct contact with the Global South majority of small-scale food producers, not as a constituency to design for but as the actual movement. A working language for technology assessment that includes ecological, social, and political criteria, not only technical ones. Living examples \u2014 Prolinnova, L'Atelier Paysan, Tzoumakers, Honey Bee Network, the Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa, the Kenyan Peasant League \u2014 of what knowledge commons look like when they have already been functioning for decades without distributed-web technology. That is the ground truth any DWeb tool will need to interoperate with.\r\n\r\nThe deliberate inversion. \"How can technologists be of mutual service of farmers' movements?\" is the question this session asks of DWeb. The ask is not for endorsement, funding, or new tools. It is for the DWeb community to use this conversation as requirements development and dialog. The session is mutual \u2014 and not extractive.  \r\n\r\nParticipants we most hope to see in the room: DWeb developers, protocol designers, and project leads working on federation, content addressing, identity, knowledge graphs, or AI infrastructure who want to ground their work in actual grassroots realities before the technical proposals are debated; food-systems researchers and policy people interested in the civil-society and grassroots side of digital agriculture; funders curious about what service to movements looks like in practice; people from adjacent commons traditions (free software, open hardware, open science, indigenous data sovereignty) who can recognize patterns across traditions; participants from other grassroots and Indigenous networks present at the camp who want to compare notes. The session is approachable for non-technical participants and for participants new to the DWeb community. 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Her curiosity for art and culture, along with her passion for storytelling, led her to explore dance, choreography, and experimental documentary filmmaking.\r\nHimerria began her career as a professional commercial dancer, performing nationally and internationally with artists such as Aretha Franklin and Carly Rae Jepsen, and appearing in TV shows like HBO\u2019s Euphoria, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and the Academy Awards. She has appeared in music videos and live TV performances with legendary artists including Beyonc\u00e9, Toni Braxton, and Shakira, to name a few. As a choreographer, Himerria has most recently worked as the department head of choreography on the hit Disney Channel TV show \"Saturdays\".\r\nHer 20-year career as a teaching artist, both locally in LA and internationally, has offered her the unique opportunity to connect with people from all walks of life, across various dance experiences and age groups. Her foundational influences include hip-hop, jazz, ballet, West African dance, and street styles such as waacking and house dance, as well as contemporary improv and site-specific dance theater.\r\nPreviously serving as the Associate Artistic Director of the site-specific dance company Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD), she engaged with diverse communities native to Los Angeles through place-based performances, filmmaking, and teaching experiences with the HDD company.\r\nToday, Himerria is completing her Master\u2019s Degree in Visual Anthropology, Media and Documentary Practices, focusing her thesis on improv dance as a knowledge producing method in ethnographic research and experimental filmmaking.\r\nAs the co-founder of  the Cantilever Collective, a Los Angeles-based performing arts group, Himerria partners with intergenerational groups to co-create movement for sensory exploration, knowledge production and community building.", "public_name": "Himerria Wortham", "guid": "e8e7b670-cbc8-5219-b05d-a3d126d467a0", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/S79SJL/"}, {"code": "VE3HLA", "name": "Jenni Ottilie Keppler", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/MNMWKH_9d12Nd2.webp", "biography": "Jenni [Yenni] is a **Visual Scribe,** Systems Thinker, and designer of the **D:FOOD/WEB Track's ongoing Creative Sensemaking Space**. 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Join Open Food Network, LiteFarm, Our Sci, and C-Group Cooperative for a progress report, a frank airing of unresolved strategic and technical questions, and an open invitation to help shape what comes next.", "description": "**The Community of Organizations**\r\nThis session is brought by the Community of Organizations (CoO): a voluntary coalition of values-aligned agricultural technology providers united by a shared mission to build technology that enables food and data sovereignty in ways that are open, collaborative, and rooted in the interests of the communities we serve.\r\n\r\nOur four founding member organizations each bring a distinct vantage point to the coalition. Open Food Network is a globally distributed nonprofit and open source software provider powering food hubs, cooperatives, and direct-market farmers in more than eleven countries. LiteFarm, a free and open source farm management application developed at the University of British Columbia, provides over 10,000 agroecological producers and diversified growers with tooling scoped around their needs. C-Group Cooperative is scaling its federation of food and producer cooperatives, facilitating coop-to-coop exchange from coast to coast across the United States. OurSci is a social enterprise building open source solutions rooted in the needs of producer communities and the collaborative epistemology of distributed citizen science.\r\n\r\nThe CoO began as a vision sketched with markers and post-it notes under canopies at DWeb Camp 2024. In the two years since, it has become something more concrete. We have designed a simple, bottom-up governance framework that enables inter-organizational collaboration without creating bureaucratic bottlenecks or centralizing control. We have aligned on decentralized standards and protocols, connecting farm management software with ecommerce platforms and bricks-and-mortar cooperative wholesale stores. Significant food cooperative revenue is now being transitioned onto open source, cooperatively owned infrastructure, and the rudiments of a decentralized seed-to-sale ecosystem are beginning to take shape.\r\n\r\nProgress aside, we remain keenly aware that our accomplishments to date fall well short of the scale of our ambition. We return to DWeb with real momentum and unresolved strategic questions in equal measure. What are we, exactly? A cooperative? A consultancy? A public-interest R&D lab? A venture studio? 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Smallholder and agroecological producers - the farmers doing the most consequential work for food sovereignty, soil health, and community resilience - have been consistent losers in this dynamic. Not for lack of available technology, but for lack of technology designed to work for them. As digital infrastructure becomes as critical as physical infrastructure for agricultural success and market access, producers find themselves increasingly dependent on closed platforms that extract their data and siphon off revenue without returning proportional value.\r\n\r\nMeanwhile, AI is refiguring the rules of software development in real time. For incumbents, this new suite of development tools promises to accelerate the consolidation playbook: faster expansion, deeper entrenchment, all built on proprietary data streams no challenger can easily replicate. The deepening alignment between AI firms and national governments (exemplified by Palantir's new $300M USDA contract) opens new fronts of enclosure over food systems and farmer data.\r\n\r\nBut can this new generation of AI dev tools be turned to other ends? We sense that open source agricultural technologies, long a curiosity in a sector dominated by proprietary solutions, have at least one structural advantage that proprietary systems cannot easily replicate. While proprietary corporate incumbents like John Deere must carefully govern what code they expose, transparent open codebases automatically give AI coding agents the context to build interoperability and cross-platform functionality quickly. We think this asymmetry can create genuine opportunities for a decentralized open ag-tech ecosystem committed to scaling by confederation rather than conglomeration. Provided, that is, that it can learn to move at pace.\r\n\r\nOur hypothesis rests on one central insight: What corporate incumbents like John Deere ultimately own isn't features or even data. It's access to networks: the web of preestablished connections between farm management software, input suppliers, grain buyers, lenders, and logistics providers that can make switching platforms tantamount to rebuilding an entire ecosystem from scratch. A federated development strategy grounded in open source, open standards, and AI tooling has the potential to undercut this system of enclosure directly. If independent platforms share common data standards and open APIs, a farmer's data becomes portable and their connections reproducible on any compliant platform. The incumbent no longer controls the network. The network belongs to whoever implements the standard.\r\n\r\nThis is precisely the logic the decentralized web movement has brought to bear on data ownership, identity, and economic coordination; and it is the same logic that could make open agricultural technology a genuine contender rather than a principled also-ran. Seen in this light, interoperability and performant cross-platform workflows are not technical niceties. They are the mechanisms by which federation achieves scale without centralization, and by which the value of network effects flows to the network rather than to whoever happens to control the bottleneck.\r\n\r\nCooperative movements have seized comparable openings before. In the early twentieth century, Canadian prairie wheat pools broke grain elevator oligopolies by building federated infrastructure that neutralized incumbent chokepoints. In the New Deal era, rural electric co-ops across the United States achieved continental scale through shared generation and transmission networks, not consolidation. In the postwar Basque country, Mondragon defeated vertically integrated industrial capital by building a parallel financial system. The decisive move, in each case, was the same: don't compete on the incumbent's terms. Build the shared infrastructure that makes their chokepoints irrelevant.\r\n\r\n**What this session will offer**\r\nFour organizations - a non-profit (Open Food Network), a university lab project (LiteFarm at UBC), a social enterprise (Our Sci), and a cooperative (C-Group Cooperative) - walk into a bar. They don't agree on everything. A university project with a public-goods mandate and a cooperative have genuinely different relationships to questions like: Who owns the infrastructure long-term? What does it mean to achieve impact at scale? How do you price shared services without extracting from the communities you exist to serve? The tension between our operating models is real. We make every effort to navigate with care, and the diversity of perspectives and operating conditions is at least part of what makes this coalition interesting.\r\n\r\nThis is a panel discussion and moderated dialogue: part progress report, part open strategic conversation, part coalition-building session. A ten-minute framing from David Thomas (Open Food Network) will lay out the big picture: what federated food systems technology is, why it matters, and why (seen through a glass darkly) the conditions for building it at scale may be more favorable now than they have ever been. Each founding CoO partner will then take five minutes to speak to their own experience, goals, and hard-won lessons: what it has meant in practice to build toward federation across organizational difference, across sectors, and across continents. Speakers include Colin Stewart (C-Group Cooperative), Kevin Cussen (Our Sci), and Hannah Wittman and Divya Chayanam (LiteFarm, University of British Columbia).\r\n\r\nThe majority of the session - thirty minutes - is reserved for moderated dialogue with participants. We arrive with genuine open questions, not scripted answers. We want to think in public with the people in the room.\r\n\r\n**Why DWeb Camp, why Berlin, why now**\r\nDWeb Camp is one of the only gatherings in the world where commitments to open and decentralized technologies, cooperative governance, and food sovereignty land in the same room. The CoO has been building quietly for two years. DWeb Berlin is the moment we stop building quietly and start testing our vision against the scrutiny and contribution of our peers: sharpening our message, broadening our coalition, and co-designing a five-year strategic framework ambitious enough to match the scale of the problem and grounded enough in what we have already built to be credible.\r\n\r\nWe also hope to use the gathering to deepen relationships with organizations that share our values but are not yet CoO members - including the DECENT Alliance, GrownBy, the Food Data Collaboration, farmOS, and Origins Co-op - toward substantive strategic alignment and movement expansion.\r\nThe farmers, food hubs, and agroecological communities that depend on this infrastructure deserve tools built by people who are as serious about the long game as they are. Federation in the digital age does not entail centralization. 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He is a member of the OECD AI Expert Group, and a Full Member of the global think tank, the Club of Rome. \r\n\r\nFor 25 years, Erasmus worked with governments and Fortune 50 companies by leading global foresight research as co-founder of The Digital Thinking Network.  The DTN led scenario and innovation breakthrough processes anticipating the 2008 Global Financial Crisis, Oil Price Collapse, and it created the first Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs).  \r\n\r\nAdditionally as a response to Covid, Daniel was instrumental in creating an initiative that has sponsored 100 million meals in Southern Africa.\r\n\r\nBorn in South Africa, Daniel lives in Amsterdam with his wife Elisabeth, three daughters and a son. 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This talk argues that the same inversion is now underway in the economy, and that the DWeb ecosystem is constructing the infrastructure through which we can reward meaningful work and prevent model collapse at civilizational scale.", "description": "Most people working at the frontier of anything genuinely important right now share a specific, uncomfortable experience: the sense that the work that matters most \u2014 the work that is irreducibly contextual, relational, and hard to explain \u2014 is invisible to institutional incentive structures. Researchers who follow genuinely novel threads get penalized by metrics optimized for legible consensus. Builders who prioritize trust and care over throughput lose funding rounds to faster-moving competitors. Artists, educators, and community organizers watch their contributions get classified as \"externalities\" by the very systems their work keeps alive. Meanwhile, the recommendation algorithms that were supposed to connect us to what we need have collapsed the information landscape into a low-dimensional tube that preferentially surfaces outrage and anxiety, gradually narrowing the adjacent possible available to each of us and eroding the cognitive diversity that any healthy collective intelligence depends on. \r\n\r\nThe frame this talk offers is a structural account of why these experiences are happening simultaneously, why they are symptoms of the same underlying dynamic, and how to see the very existence of the DWeb ecosystem as evidence that we are on track for a total inversion of economic value.\r\n\r\nDrawing on twenty years of research into complex adaptive systems and major evolutionary transitions, Michael Garfield (formerly Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla) will recast our current economic, ecological, and epistemic crises as a transitional moment in the emergence of The Living Web: a future of thriving collective intelligence enabled by decentralized sensemaking infrastructure.\r\n\r\nThe key is a fact worth sitting with: only 1% of animal DNA codes proteins. The other 99%, dismissed for most of the 20th century as \"junk\", handles epigenetic regulation and serves as a standing reserve of adaptive potential that makes complex life possible. Research on the transition between bacterial and nucleated cells locates this as a discontinuous jump at which noncoding sequences suddenly appear and the trajectory of life on Earth changes permanently. And the metabolic data tells the same story: as bacteria grow larger, an increasing fraction of their energy goes to growth and production. At the transition to complex cellular life, that relationship inverts. Larger organisms devote more of their metabolism to maintenance, regulation, and the sensemaking layer. This inversion is physics, a necessary consequence of the information processing demands of a more complex system.\r\n\r\nThe industrial economy has been a prokaryotic economy \u2014 nearly all coding sequences, optimized for throughput, treating the work that resists quantification as overhead. The norm of \"product-market fit\" says: your value must be legible to the market's existing vocabulary, or it doesn't count. This is a coherent strategy for a simple organism. It is an unstable one for a system whose information processing demands have outrun what a purely production-maximizing logic can handle. What we experience as the \"metacrisis\" \u2014 the strange convergence of civilizational risks into a single knot \u2014 is what model collapse looks like at the scale of an entire economy: a loss of variance so severe that the system can no longer adapt to the novelty it generates. But as near-zero marginal cost automation handles an increasing share of legible, replicable cognitive work, the greatest economic reward begins moving toward whatever cannot be replicated: context-specific insight, divergent exploration, and the maintenance of cognitive diversity in systems that would otherwise converge toward brittleness. \r\n\r\nWe evolved for richly structured environments that reward open-ended, high-dimensional search \u2014 information ecologies in which genuine exploration reliably yields both nourishment and unexpected discovery. The recommendation algorithm is the opposite: a low-dimensional tube that feeds us what the system predicts we already want, gradually narrowing the adjacent possible and eroding, in aggregate, the variance the collective needs to stay alive. But this is a transitional state, creating new selection pressures for the infrastructure we need to operate at the actual scale of 21st century complexity. And under these pressures, we are building toward a future of high-dimensional collective foraging \u2014 where sovereign knowledge infrastructure, personal context engines, local-first federated architecture, consent-based selective legibility create the conditions under which \u201cscenius at scale\u201d becomes achievable.\r\n\r\nTheoretical work on the evolution of syntactic language gives us the same argument from a different angle. The sentence emerged from a scaling-induced crisis in the internal coordination of prehistoric human societies, one that resulted in an explosion of available vocabulary. Most words only matter in very specific contexts; the sentence is what makes context-specificity meaningful rather than merely idiosyncratic. The industrial economy has been communicating in words: legible units of value designed to mean the same thing regardless of who is reading them. The emerging economy communicates in sentences: value constituted by its context, meaningful inside a specific epistemic community, a specific position in an evolving information ecology. The measure of contribution shifts from \"how many people can use this?\" to \"how specifically does this serve the collective intelligence of the systems I'm embedded in?\"\r\n\r\nThis reframes what the individual is for. The ideal of self-actualization \u2014 finding and optimizing a fixed essential self, stable expertise, and legible brand \u2014 made structural sense when legibility to a generic market was the measure of value. What the emerging economy selects for not fixed specialists but context-specific explorers, organisms that maintain their adaptive capacity because they haven't fully offloaded it onto the supply chain. And the most valuable thing in this new economy will be divergence into \u201cthe adjacent possible\u201d \u2014 providing unique signals to collective wayfinding systems that need exactly the variance you embody, given where you are and what you have seen. This is the shift from self-actualization to self-transformation, from mastering a fixed identity to a continuous process of becoming something the system hasn't encountered before. It\u2019s a future where \u201ccentering diverse perspectives\" is not a value to honor but a functional requirement. The DWeb Principles, read in this light, are not a normative vision of what the Web should be\u2026they are a description of what any sufficiently complex system must eventually become to survive its own scale.\r\n\r\nIt\u2019ll be the end of \u201cbullshit jobs\u201d and marginalized creative labor\u2026and the beginning of a tech-enabled flock of human and ecological intelligences exploring new horizons for meaningful work.\r\nIntended as a provocation for a week\u2019s worth of discussion, this talk will build the argument from biological first principles to its practical implications, ending in genuine open questions: \r\n\u2022\u00a0Where are we in this transition? \r\n\u2022\u00a0What does the current landscape of affordances make possible that wasn't possible three years ago? \r\n\u2022\u00a0What information architectures and user interfaces will allow people to chart their divergence from low-value legible paths through possibility-space and identify the most salient open questions?\r\n\r\nFormat: No special equipment needed. Circle seating welcome; outdoors fine.\r\n\r\nSpeaker: Michael Garfield is a writer and artist focused on transdisciplinary research into the evolutionary history and future of intelligence. He is a co-founder at Atlas Research Group \u2014 which builds high-dimensional sensemaking tools on sovereign, commons-oriented infrastructure \u2014 and the award-winning host of Humans on the Loop. He has worked with the Santa Fe Institute, Long Now Foundation, Mozilla, and ASU\u2019s Center for Science and the Imagination. He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "7PGRKM", "name": "Michael Garfield", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/Q8EXJY_6RBdjLV.webp", "biography": "Michael Garfield is a writer and artist focused on transdisciplinary research into the evolutionary history and future of intelligence. 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In this workshop, we will take a Martian anthropologist view of the function of money and money-like things in human society, consider the advantages of coordination in small high-trust groups and contrast this \u201cforager mode\u201d that dominated human prehistory with the more recent \u201cfarmer mode\u201d which money was developed to support and scale. We will open up the design space for coordination of capital and labor from first principles, using newly available technology such as AI and programmable cryptography to shift the Pareto frontier of trade-offs. We will, together, come up with speculative thought experiments about how whatever comes after money could work, with human dignity brought to the forefront in the objective function.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "LHEKCE", "name": "Jason Morton", "avatar": null, "biography": "Jason Morton is founder and CEO of EZKL, a company that makes verifiable AI systems. 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Their work spans several fronts, and they committed to different fights over time.\r\n\r\nThey are part of the DWeb Core Team as the Community Engagement Lead, and they are currently pursuing a master degree at [XPUB](https://xpub.nl) in Rotterdam.\r\n\r\nAs a teenager, they were a speaker and chief editor at [*Radioimmaginaria*](https://radioimmaginaria.it/en). In 2019, they co-founded a local chapter of [LIBERA](https://www.libera.it/it-schede-1326-libera_inglese), an Italian network of organizations fighting mafia through cultural and educational endeavours. In 2020, they invented and co-founded [*Scambi*](https://scambi.org/en/), the Festival of Paneurethic workshops, of which they are now the president. In 2023 they graduated *summa cum laude* in [Philosophy, International Studies, and Economics](https://unive.it/pise/) with a thesis titled *[Computer Sciences Are Social Sciences](https://tommi.space/csss/)*. The workshop series *[Knitting Our Internet](https://ournet.rocks/)* was born out of the research for their thesis.\r\n\r\nBeing a relentless enthusiastic and curious person, Tommi also worked with many and various organizations, including the [DWeb Community](https://getdweb.org), the [Free Software Foundation Europe](https://fsfe.org), [Village One](https://village.one) and [Giffoni Film Festival](https://giffonifilmfestival.it). They were a scout chief, and they were a member of the [Association of Internet Researchers](https://aoir.org), the [Coalition for Independent Technology Research](https://independenttechresearch.org), [Banca Etica](https://bancaetica.it), and [Club Tenco](https://clubtenco.it). They are the administrator of [***Pan***](https://pan.rent/about), a [Fediverse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fediverse) instance.\r\n\r\nIf there is any time left, or in case they can find some, Tommi contributes to Free Software projects, they play table-top role-playing games (TTRPGs), they cycle and they couchsurf around the planet.", "public_name": "Tommi", "guid": "823dfe99-28a7-5edb-b47a-e938668740e8", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/H9YAUC/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VJYUYZ/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VJYUYZ/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "51d6d2ac-a43e-52e2-aada-0ceeffaed2fe", "code": "3BP8KU", "id": 483, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T10:00:00+02:00", "start": "10:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-483-malleable-social-software", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3BP8KU/", "title": "Malleable Social Software", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "How can we make it possible for _anyone_ to build or remix their online social spaces? Learn about and play with the prototypes [Graffiti](https://graffiti.garden/) and [Social.Wiki](https://social.wiki) and discuss how we can decentralize not just data, but also design.", "description": "The open social web demonstrates that we can decentralize social _infrastructure_, but the process of designing apps on top of that infrastructure is still largely centralized among expert developers. How can we empower _anyone_ to build on the open social web, regardless of their technical experience?\r\n\r\nThis workshop will overview the new research area of \"malleable social software,\" provide space for people to play with and hack on some prototypes, and facilitate discussion on how malleability can be brought into projects across the open social web. The overview will start by covering the broader field of [malleable software](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/) which has so far largely been focused on tools for personal use or among small trusted groups. I will then discuss how we might draw insights from malleable software, like the \"tailorability slope,\" to the design of larger open social web systems. As concrete examples, I will overview two systems I developed as part of my PhD at MIT: [Graffiti](https://graffiti.garden/) and [Social.Wiki](https://social.wiki).\r\n\r\nGiven that the systems were designed to be malleable, Graffiti and Social.Wiki both have a very low barrier to entry. Therefore, based on experience I have running two hackathons involving these systems, I will similarly dedicate a large part of the workshop to hacking. Despite the short time, participants should be able to build working decentralized social software to meet their own needs, such as app for people to connect during or after DWeb. In tandem with the hacking, there will be ample space for discussion among participants. We might discuss:\r\n- What are the barriers to bringing malleability into other open social web systems? How might we overcome those barriers?\r\n- How might we mitigate risks associated with opening up the ecosystem, such as reduced quality and [cultural changes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September)?\r\n- How can we balance malleability with performance and security?\r\n- What are the risks of using AI in malleable systems and can they be overcome?\r\n\r\n[Graffiti](https://graffiti.garden/) is a client library for building social software that runs atop a decentralized protocol. [Our paper describing Graffiti](https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3746059.3747627) was published last fall at the premier user interface conference, UIST, where it was awarded \"Best Paper\". The Graffiti protocol was developed in parallel to AT Protocol, with some overlap and some divergence (always an interesting discussion to be had). One major difference is that the Graffiti applications are intended to be developed \"serverlessly\"---other than the generic Graffiti servers, there is no need to build and deploy app-specific \"App View\" servers, avoiding a large \"malleability cliff\". Additionally, Graffiti provides a client-side API that abstracts all of the protocol details and instead asks three simple questions: What data is being stored? \"Where\" (in a contextual, not physical sense) should that data be found? And who should have access to the data?\r\n\r\n[Social.Wiki](https://social.wiki) is a meta application built on Graffiti for collaboratively building and distributing Graffiti applications. The Social.Wiki interface acts much like a web browser: one can click between various web apps including ones for [messaging](https://social.wiki/#/v?/Social.Wiki/coop-display?/f2-living), [microblogging](https://social.wiki/#/v?/social-garden), [collaborative editing](https://social.wiki/#/v?/colab), [gaming](https://social.wiki/#/v?/Social.Wiki/Othello), and even [ride sharing](https://social.wiki/#/v?/rideshare). Unlike a web browser, all of the Social.Wiki apps can be directly edited, just like Wikipedia pages. Social.Wiki therefore further expands the scope of who can participate in app design, and introduces a gentle \"tailorability slope\" that smoothly transitions from MySpace-style copy-paste programming to writing complete complex apps. Social.Wiki also explores how security might be considered in malleable social software and the open social web in general by providing granular \"capability-based\" access to social data. This makes it possible to securely browse and interact with apps build on Social.Wiki regardless of whether they are created by someone malicious or more innocently by a novice programmer or by vibe coding.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "KT9K73", "name": "Carmel Schare", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/XWZG9T_lqjr3iX.webp", "biography": "Carmel Schare is a first-year PhD student in CSAIL at MIT researching malleable software design.", "public_name": "Carmel Schare", "guid": "2993f0a3-9a19-553f-9b81-ef6d3e3daf67", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/KT9K73/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3BP8KU/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3BP8KU/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "14c492c4-d3b7-581f-b443-328bcbb0ba24", "code": "7CNXZG", "id": 318, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T11:00:00+02:00", "start": "11:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-318-sustainable-art-communities-brainstorming-ideas-and-strategies-for-the-decentralized-web", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7CNXZG/", "title": "Sustainable art communities: brainstorming ideas and strategies for the decentralized web", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "Building artist community and audience reach in the realm of music, art and other cultural topics has been held hostage by monopolistic platforms like Instagram and Tiktok. How can we rethink the online tools that artist communities need and build something new in technical ecosystems like atproto, Fediverse and beyond.", "description": "During the web 2.0 stage of the internet, the rise of new social media apps made us believe in a more democratic and accessible era for artists and creatives. The early days of MySpace, Soundcloud, YouTube, Bandcamp, Instagram, etc. felt empowering. New possibilities arose to talk directly to an audience, bypassing the traditional gatekeepers. About twenty years later, we seem to live in a new gatekeeping dystopia, where the algorithms of Instagram, Tiktok, and Spotify determine which artistic expressions reach an audience and which don't. As if that was not already bad enough, we know since 2025 that those big tech monopolies don't see a problem in aligning themselves with authoritarian and fascist politics.\r\n\r\nThere is an increased interest in alternatives for social interaction on the internet. However, decentralized technology like Mastodon or Bluesky doesn't seem to be the perfect fit for a large scale migration of artists off of Instagram, Tiktok and the like. On the other hand, internet protocols like atproto give us the tools to quite quickly build something new that fits our needs much more.\r\n\r\nDuring this workshop, we want to brainstorm about a new artistic interpretation of social media, where power balances are kept in check and creativity can thrive. What is missing for artists in the current interpretations by Bluesky, Flashes, Mastodon, Instagram, Tiktok, etc.? Can we get much more creative with the formats, while at the same time keep it accessible for a broad audience? How can we organize internationally to build a new app experience that amazes people and convinces them to leave the centralized platforms?\r\n\r\nThe workshop facilitator, Hilke, is both a musician and a software developer, and emerged herself deeply into decentralized systems, mainly atproto. She is currently doing an artistic research on the crossroads between music and technology, and has a vision to build a new app for the community of musicians in particular, and artists in general. Inspired by community projects like Blacksky, she doesn't want to build only for herself, but in community with other artists. She wants to test some ideas of her own with the workshop participants and gather new ones. One of the floating ideas is to combine a more traditional social media feed with an 'artist in in-app residence' program, where there is much more room for creativity and deep dives into the universe of a particular artist. One of the outcomes of the workshop could be to gather a first batch of artist in residence candidates, which would become the seed of an ever-growing community outreach.\r\n\r\nA technical background is not needed for the workshop. We are mainly looking for creative input from artists and willingness to start a new, creative movement.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "DQLA7V", "name": "Hilke Ros", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/MBERJV_SbuAJvx.webp", "biography": "The Belgian musician landed a radio hit with her dream pop band Amatorski in 2010 and toured with the band as their manager throughout Europe until becoming involved in the Swiss indie scene in 2013. For her solo album under the name \"Hilke\", she found a home at Red Brick Records in 2021, where she now also coordinates releases for the musicians' collective. In 2025 she also became a board member of Indiesuisse, the association of Swiss indie labels.\r\n\r\nBesides her musical activities, Hilke has always had a passion for digital technology and social media. She has been working for 10 years as a software developer and, in the past year, geopolitics and rising fascism reignited her interest in open social media. She has been studying alternatives to Instagram, TikTok and others, not only from a technical perspective, but also from a queer, feminist, and artist perspective. Her main focus is on the developer and activist community around Bluesky and the AT Protocol.", "public_name": "Hilke Ros", "guid": "8b676b5a-790e-5fac-8517-6b782c9c030c", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/DQLA7V/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7CNXZG/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7CNXZG/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "5c18441c-fd05-5e33-af1a-de6540b08eeb", "code": "8BRAPC", "id": 545, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T12:00:00+02:00", "start": "12:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-545-black-holes-day-glo-symphonies-onboarding-communities-to-the-social-web", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8BRAPC/", "title": "Black Holes & Day-Glo Symphonies: Onboarding Communities to the Social Web", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "Diverse communities deserve better than Big Tech and they know it. So, why is it so hard for them to join the Social Web, and what is the Newsmast Foundation doing to reduce the friction? Join an interactive session on how we can turn black holes into Day-Glo symphonies - with a free Fedi t-shirt for anyone who takes part! Content warning: strong language and dark matter.", "description": "The Newsmast Foundation is onboarding new communities to the Social Web through their Apps for Change programme, helping charities, non-profits, news publishers, and campaign groups reconnect on their own social apps. Based on this work, the Foundation was Grand Prize winner at the inaugural Open Social Awards in Amsterdam.\r\n\r\nTaking real-world learning, this session will explore the barriers to the Social Web flagged by so many of these communities and explain how the Newsmast Foundation\u2019s approach reduces friction and packages the Social Web as a desirable location. It will draw on real examples from the Newsmast Foundation partners, including UK news publishers, Brazilian memory institutions, multi-national African education and scientific charities, and more.\r\n\r\nThe Newsmast Foundation joined the Social Web in 2023 with a mission to encourage knowledge sharing and community building on social media. Their young, diverse, and non-techie team brought new perspectives to the many issues still faced by the Social Web. Join Michael Foster, Director, to learn how that different perspective allowed the Newsmast Foundation the opportunity to avoid common pitfalls, make connections and start conversations with organisations all over the world.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "N3VZUH", "name": "Michael Foster", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/KSSCNG_VtjNFaT.webp", "biography": "A pioneer of early stage digital media and interactive SMS, Michael is co-founder of the [Newsmast Foundation](https://newsmastfoundation.org/), working to strengthen and grow communities in digital spaces built around their needs, connected across the open social web. Drawing on experience in Brazil, Columbia, Africa, Europe and North America, the Newsmast team are challenging the norms of onboarding organisations to the open social web. Michael is also one of the co-founders of [European Social](https://european.social/), bringing together Matrix, the Fediverse, the Atmosphere and European digital commons advocates, within the European Social Stack.", "public_name": "Michael Foster", "guid": "d69bfd0e-8f01-5f74-8682-220e73deed52", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/N3VZUH/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8BRAPC/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8BRAPC/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "cdc4d227-ced9-590e-af10-856b929099b2", "code": "U8BGWF", "id": 476, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-476-dyad-building-a-social-platform-as-civic-infrastructure", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/U8BGWF/", "title": "Dyad: building a social platform as civic infrastructure", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "Dyad is a social technology company in service to collective sensemaking, with a product members use to start and find face-to-face conversations in their cities. It started as a curated-conversation project called Dare in 2024, grew into a social platform entering private beta this spring, and is on its way to steward ownership. The talk walks through the journey: what started it, where we are, where we are going, and the tension of becoming self-sufficient social technology company without becoming part of the problem were are trying to solve.", "description": "Dyad is built by a two-person team in Berlin. It\u2019s been in private beta since spring 2026. The cycle: a member writes a conversation prompt (a poem, a question, an essay) and proposes one to three times and places in the coming week when they would be open to meet. Another member writes a single response. After responding, they can invite the author to one of the times. If the author accepts, the exact location is shared and they meet. After the meeting (or not) both members leave feedback before either can use the platform again.\r\n\r\nThe platform doesn\u2019t have messaging, recommenders, a follower graph, engagement metrics, or profile bios. Most of those absences are enforced at the database layer; the rest live in DESIGN.md and team discipline. The app is the coordination layer that gets two people to the same place at the same time. The conversation happens in person.\r\n\r\nInvitations and waitlists\r\nPrivate beta means specific people get invited specifically. Off-the-shelf waitlist tools collect email, name, source, and a behavioural profile by default. \r\n\r\nWe\u2019re working toward steward ownership. That doesn\u2019t preclude charging members, but it shapes how. Stripe Elements embeds deeply enough to require a consent banner; Stripe Checkout doesn\u2019t but moves the user off-site. Each option ships with a conversion-tracking default that has to be actively turned off.\r\n\r\nCommunity safeguarding\r\nStranger-meeting carries real safety considerations. No-shows. Reports of feeling unsafe. Harassment. What counts as the platform\u2019s responsibility after the meeting ends. Most moderation tooling assumes content moderation, and we have almost no content. What we have instead is a post-meeting feedback gate and a small operations team reading every report. The design problem is making that scale without becoming surveillance, and negotiating the tension of commons built on trust against our real responsibilities as platform providers \r\n\r\nThe talk walks the tensions and out journey, warts and all, with the concrete decision, the cost we\u2019re paying for it and the parts where we\u2019re still working it out. The pattern across them is what I most want to surface for the room: building a values-aligned product on retention-shaped substrate is daily friction, every release, and most of that work is invisible from outside, including, often, to funders and to other builders working on adjacent problems. And, hardest of all.. to one another as founders, which is a tension we'd also love to talk about.\r\n\r\nI\u2019ll close with what\u2019s next. The path toward steward ownership. 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Holochain, ActivityPub, Matrix, Solid \u2014 each powerful alone, but siloed. You can't query across them. Users can't traverse between them. Communities are isolated.\r\n\r\nAD4M is the spanning layer that weaves them together.\r\n\r\nThink of it like TCP/IP for the dWeb \u2014 not replacing any protocol, but providing the common abstraction that lets them interoperate. Every protocol becomes a \"language\" that AD4M nodes can learn to speak. Anyone can build a language adapter for their protocol. Local experiments are free \u2014 but they can synergize when needed.\r\n\r\nThe agent-centric model means: you and your social spaces are the backbone that connects apps to networks. Your data stays yours. Your community governs itself. Holons stack up and build a Holarchy.\r\n\r\nIn this talk, you'll understand the concepts and architecture of AD4M, how to build adapters and apps to it, and what it enables.\r\n\r\nhttps://coasys.org | https://github.com/coasys/ad4m\r\n\r\n**Facilitators:**\r\n- nicolas.luck@coasys.org\r\n- joshfield999@gmail.com\r\n- james.weir@coasys.org", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "HG7ZXY", "name": "Nicolas Luck", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/KZXXMJ_AnT2NOh.webp", "biography": "Founder and director of Coasys. Inventor of ADAM. Former lead developer of Holochain core team. Senior developer with 20+ years of experience. 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We\u2019d like to explain why by comparing protocols. What do they make easy and what do they make hard? What are their social implications? Eventually we will show how we integrate diverse modes of communications in a single interface in our Matrix client, [Posca](https://technostructures.org/en/projects/posca/).", "description": "While building kazarma, a bridge between Matrix and ActivityPub, we saw how hard it was for communities to organise privately using ActivityPub apps. Privacy is, however, a real and growing need; either to prevent harassment, to opt out of the \"narcissistic arena\" or the \"attention economy\" which can be cultivated in public online spaces, or for other organisational needs.\r\n\r\nThis private space mechanism is at the core of Matrix, since it was made for group messaging. Differences in the design of protocols like this one affect how easy or hard it is to implement certain functionalities, but they also have indirect social implications on the power distribution among the network.\r\n\r\nFollowing a comparison of ActivityPub and Matrix for use in private social spaces, we will showcase the user interface of Posca, for bringing together multiple social tools (chat, forums, microblogging and media sharing) in a single Matrix client.\r\n\r\nThe protocol comparison will primarily consider Matrix and ActivityPub, due to our familiarity and experience with these protocols, but it may consider other protocols. The goal is not to fuel pointless protocol wars, but to provoke fruitful discussion and reflect on important questions.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "CYRDDE", "name": "Pierre de Lacroix", "avatar": null, "biography": "I'm a software developer and co-founder of Technostructures, a non-profit that builds digital infrastructure designed to support collective organisation and democratic participation.\r\nI have interests in decentralized social networks, science and technology studies, political philosophy, democracy stuff and economic planning, underground cultures and hacking communities.", "public_name": "Pierre de Lacroix", "guid": "bf3c507b-d5fb-5757-9545-f0e6e9834f3b", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/CYRDDE/"}], "links": [{"title": "Posca intro", "url": "https://technostructures.org/en/projects/posca/", "type": "related"}], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FLS3DK/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FLS3DK/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "9f69442a-f34f-5d00-beed-640770a1642b", "code": "GFYX77", "id": 729, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T17:00:00+02:00", "start": "17:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-729-intro-to-activitypub", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/GFYX77/", "title": "Intro to ActivityPub", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "ActivityPub is the open W3C standard for social network interoperation. 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He will also address the upcoming revisions to ActivityPub, which promise easier implementation and clearer interoperability.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NC77X7", "name": "Evan Prodromou", "avatar": null, "biography": "Evan is the Research Director at SWF. He is the co-author of the ActivityPub protocol and the Activity Streams 2.0 data format. Sometimes called \u201cThe Father of the Fediverse,\u201d Evan made the first-ever post on the social web in May 2008. He founded the identi.ca website and GNU Social software, as well as coauthoring the OStatus specification. As chair of the W3C\u2019s Social Web Working Group, he led the development of ActivityPub and AS2 into official standards. 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What the open social web is for is a collective understanding, something the whole community works out together, and over the past decade it has changed multiple times. For a long time that understanding was set by whatever the dominant product happened to be. Mastodon was so dominant that \"the fediverse\" simply meant microblogging, even as Lemmy and others were already doing something else. Atproto reframed the whole thing around composability and credible exit. The past year added a layer of European digital sovereignty on top. And the shift I have been writing about most recently is the move towards private, bounded spaces, which is where the title comes from.\r\n\r\nThe easy way to read that convergence is as natural evolution, with separate teams arriving at the same shape because it is simply the right one, the protocol world growing its own crab. I want to question that reading. These teams are not independent the way crab lineages are. They go to the same conferences, follow each other on the social networks, and rely on the same (limited set of) funders, which makes me suspect the convergence is at least partly a story the community is telling. This means that the shape of what the open social web becomes is (at least partially) determined  which version of the answer funders are interested in. I want to use the talk to look at how these collective understanding have shifted over time, and where it seems to be heading next, and to make the forces shaping it more visible.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "ATPYXV", "name": "Laurens Hof", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/CQSR3H_66meWaZ.webp", "biography": "Laurens Hof is one of the leading analysts for the open social web. 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This talk and discusison what it takes to build solidarity-based digital infrastructure, and how generative tools can bring communities into the design process from day one.", "description": "Nearly every major digital space where queer people meet is now owned by companies whose primary obligation is to their shareholders. Match Group took a $100 million stake in Sniffies with an option to acquire it outright. Grindr, majority-owned by two billionaire investors, reported $440 million in revenue in 2025, driven by degrading the free experience to squeeze users toward paid tiers. The pattern repeats: invest/acquire, monetize, extract.\r\n\r\nI'm Calum Bowden, based in Berlin. I am a PhD candidate in the sociology of technology and organisation, and for close to a decade I have co-run Trust, a nonprofit network of over 1,000 \"utopian conspirators\" researching and prototyping community-centred alternatives to mainstream tech.\r\n\r\nIn April 2025 I posted a tweet dreaming of a decentralized gay sex app that redistributes value back to its users. It went viral. I am not a software engineer, but almost a year later, friends in the decentralized tech space, DWeb's own Arkadiy and Sarah, encouraged me to try vibe-coding a prototype. Three weeks of iterative building later, I posted a video expecting 300 people to test it. Within 24 hours, 15,000 had logged on. Over 60,000 followed in seven weeks. The response made clear there was real, urgent demand. I decided to try to crowdfund a full app. So far, over 600 founding members have contributed more than \u20ac80,000, with 19 days still to go.\r\n\r\nThe Meetmarket prototype uses end-to-end encryption, decentralized identity where users hold their own keys, and k-anonymity for location. The company is establishing steward ownership with a golden share held by a nonprofit, making it legally impossible to sell, go public, or betray its founding principles. There will never be advertising. Surplus revenue flows into a community fund reinvesting in queer IRL spaces.\r\n\r\nThis talk & discussion is about:\r\n\r\nBuilding solidarity-based digital infrastructure. What does it actually take, legally, technically, and financially, to create a platform that cannot be captured? Steward ownership, the golden share, crowdfunding over VC, transparent accounting, community governance. How these mechanisms work in practice.\r\n\r\nUsing generative tools to work more closely with communities on digital platforms and economic models. Vibe-coding a prototype changed the relationship between design and community. Building fast enough to put working software in front of people within weeks meant the community could shape the platform from its earliest moments, before the architecture was locked in. This session explores what that opens up: how generative tools can compress the distance between an idea and something people can actually use, test, and push back on, and what that means for participatory design, for prototyping alternative economic models, and for building technology that answers to the people it serves.\r\n\r\nWe are now transitioning from prototype to a full app, and will use part of this session to hear from the DWeb community. The questions we are working through are exactly the questions this room has been thinking about for years: threat models for vulnerable populations, decentralized identity systems, how to combine privacy with public discovery, how to design grassroots moderation, I want to bring what we have learned so far and leave with perspectives that shape what we build next.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JX93Y7", "name": "Calum Bowden", "avatar": null, "biography": "Calum Bowden is an artist, designer, and researcher at the intersection of technology and organization. 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You'll work in small groups, helping each other identify the assumptions you're already making about your communities. By the end, you'll have a written charter and map for your community and we'll harvest patterns from the group and compile a collective e-zine.", "description": "This is a workshop where each participant, working in groups of 2-3, designs a community using a 5 part framework to help identify the gaps in their understanding of the community's structure. \r\n\r\nIt is primarily participant driven, with the facilitator providing the framework and occasional guidance for the process. No high tech is required, because this is about the missing human piece of the equation. All they will need is a pen, some paper, and a 5-step creation ritual:\r\n    1. Intention. Why does this community exist? What is it protecting? \r\n    2. Naming. What do you call this place, and what does that name signal to strangers? \r\n    3. Architecture. How is the space structured? 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The goal is to build the kind of clarity that makes adopting decentralized infrastructure feel achievable rather than overwhelming.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "GKCMF7", "name": "Brad Hutcheson", "avatar": null, "biography": "Brad Hutcheson has spent 25 years developing distributed systems and trying to understand their implications. He's the founder of Kunuleco, an open-source protocol that lets any group build a space that belongs to them. It enables community that is not on a central platform and not determined by an algorithm. Your identity is portable and trust works like it does in real life: people vouch for people. 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How can infrastructure be co-designed by and with communities to be equitable, accessible, and effective? \r\n\r\nPublic infrastructure can refer to infrastructure that benefits the public that is funded and governed by the state, e.g. public goods; physical infrastructure (libraries, parks, roads, schools, transit); and digital infrastructure (civic tech, public datasets, digital ID systems - for better or worse). Public infrastructure, by design, relies on the state. When trust in the state exists: legibility to the state benefits common people, citizens expect their interests to be represented and addressed, and public infrastructure benefits citizen needs and wants. For example, Taiwan developed policies directly from community input and citizen dialogue for regulating Uber as well as non-consensual deepfakes via participatory, deliberative processes. \r\n\r\nHowever, when trust is lacking between the state and its constituents, there exists risks of surveillance, policing, displacement, and other forms of disenfranchisement. Illegibility from the state can even serve as protection, such as for sex workers, immigrants, abortion seekers, transgender people, the unhoused, and more. Thus, many communities rely on creating and maintaining their own community infrastructure. Examples include mutual aid networks, community care, coops, community land trusts, and groups such as the Black Panther Party or the Young Lords who created their own programs for free childcare, free lunch programs, and free community health clinics. Digital community infrastructure may encompass local or self-hosting, federated or decentralized tech, and community-governed data collectives. \r\n\r\nIn addition to existing examples, we'll explore a few ideas for what _could_ exist -- such as privacy infrastructure for vulnerable communities, consent-based data collectives, and collective data action frameworks, such as data strikes, data labor unions, and coordinated platform migrations -- to set us up to brainstorm and co-design our own community infrastructures.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MWH8HT", "name": "Riley Wong", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/9EXWTB_KiX1pva.webp", "biography": "Riley Wong is the Principal of Emergent Research, a research lab and consultancy investigating digital infrastructure for community privacy, agency, and consent. Their work explores the intersections of cryptographic tooling, cooperative governance, and community-led design, with a particular focus on how communities facing surveillance and repression can build and govern their own community infrastructure. \r\n\r\nRiley co-founded the Community Privacy Residency in Taipei and Berlin, convening an international network of experts to co-create privacy infrastructure by and with vulnerable communities. Their background spans privacy-preserving data governance, consent infrastructure, and decentralized collective governance at Metagov, 0xPARC, and DWeb; machine learning engineering and AI ethics at Google; and award-winning investigative data journalism at ProPublica. Their work has been published or presented at MIT, Harvard Kennedy School, Yale, and Penn.", "public_name": "Riley Wong", "guid": "87b9f332-0115-5c6c-8b9f-deed78b2af93", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/MWH8HT/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JYYCHC/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JYYCHC/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "c2ea1ee5-f38e-5827-ae66-5cbca48c6cbd", "code": "7HM8TX", "id": 441, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-09T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Solidarity Station", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-441-building-folk-tech", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7HM8TX/", "title": "Building Folk Tech", "subtitle": "", "track": "Solidarity Tech", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "Folk Tech is a solidarity-based movement among designers, developers, and people in communities who want digital technology that fits their daily life and supports interdependence without the extraction, exploitation, or surveillance found in most proprietary technology today. In this session we'll talk about the principles of Folk Tech and how they apply when actually building software, and do some creative imagining together in a workshop format. I'll share the example of Spacious, a p2p audio messaging app that I (and Michael Dougherty) are building and hope to hear from you about how these principles may apply to your work.", "description": "[Folk Tech](https://folktechnology.org) is a solidarity-based movement among designers, developers, and people in communities who want digital technology that fits their daily life and supports interdependence without the extraction, exploitation, or surveillance found in most proprietary technology today.\r\n\r\n\u200b\u200bIn Silicon Valley, people are \u201c**consumers**\u201d and \u201c**users**.\u201d We resist a narrative that turns people into subjects of a technocracy. **With Folk Tech, we\u2019re all just folks.** \r\n\r\nWe want tech that is delightful and friendly that supports us to be artisans, not turns us into a labour force or a sphere of influence.\r\n\r\n**How do you build using the Folk Tech Principles?** In this workshop, we'll go over the principles, do some creative thinking together about how to incorporate them, and talk how they fit in to the way we're building, in my case with [Spacious](https://spacious.audio), a p2p audio messaging app. \r\n\r\nThis will be a **lively, creative, connecting workshop** and **participants will get a limited edition Folk Tech Principles zine!**\r\n\r\n**The Folk Tech Principles** \r\n\r\n1. We make tech for regular folks, for the activities and practices of life beyond work.\r\n2. We use collaborative, participatory design to stay attuned to real needs and motives (e.g. interviews, advisory groups, play sessions, and usability testing).\r\n3. We consider accessibility and include people who have been marginalized or historically deprioritized by technology builders.\r\n4. We make simple, elegant, intuitive interfaces for real people. We don\u2019t just copy the patterns established by extractive tech.\r\n5. We build peer-to-peer, decentralized, open-source technology where people and their data and behaviour aren\u2019t monitored or monetized.\r\n6. We use business models that are aligned with people who use our technology, our developers, and our communities.\r\n7. We embrace interoperability, standards and protocols of collaboration, and a DIY ethos.\r\n8. We believe in proliferation, not scale. 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The provocative talks. The deep technical problems.  What questions and conversations have risen up for you?\r\n\r\nBring them to the Linden Theater for two afternoons of Unconference!", "description": "What has emerged for you in the scheduled sessions and time at camp so far? What have you placed on the Parking Lot? What's in your notebook that you want to share with others?\r\n\r\nPropose a session for the unconference here in TL;Draw: https://is.gd/J68igW\r\n\r\nUnconference will run from 3-6pm on Friday and Saturday. If you are proposing a session here, come to Linden Stage at 3pm sharp to confirm the schedule for the day and pitch your session. 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The community that actually builds and maintains the infrastructure, as well as the communities that depend on it, never hold the purse. They receive from it, on terms set elsewhere.\r\n\r\nThis is the reason open infrastructure has no seat at any table. When industry sets the terms of the ecosystems it extracts from, when regulators write the rules for digital infrastructure, when funders decide what counts as critical, open source is in the room as a supplicant, or not in the room at all. Unfortunately, money is what converts a dependency into a peer. A community that owns no money of its own has no standing, no leverage, and no durable voice in decisions about its own future. This is as true of the dweb's own stack as it is of the rest of open source.\r\n\r\nThis is a governance problem, and it is the question the dweb already works on everywhere else: how does a community own and steer shared infrastructure without a central owner? 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The fund compounds instead of draining and can't be defunded by a single party losing interest. Governance records and the distribution models live in public repositories anyone can read, fork, and contribute to.\r\n\r\nOSE launched with $750K+ committed from 60+ founding donors and is now running its first distribution cycles. That makes it old enough to have results, and young enough that the honest answer to most design questions is still \"we don't know yet.\" This talk is built around that honesty: it is as much about what is unresolved as what works.\r\n\r\n### What I'll cover\r\n\r\nA 15-minute talk with a built-in discussion period.\r\n\r\n**The talk (\u224815 min)**\r\n\r\n- **The problem (\u22483 min).** Open infrastructure owns none of its money. 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He is a co-founder of Bread Cooperative, where he builds crypto applications from a post-capitalist point of view.", "public_name": "Joshua Davila", "guid": "12864f8f-b456-552c-9a61-bc42019869b4", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/QBXSKV/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MD3TBU/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MD3TBU/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "f50cfcd1-8208-5957-872b-a3a197af55ee", "code": "L9YZPA", "id": 323, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T10:30:00+02:00", "start": "10:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-323-funding-infrastructure-on-the-open-web-hypercerts-on-at-protocol", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9YZPA/", "title": "Funding Infrastructure on the Open Web: Hypercerts on AT Protocol", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "AT Protocol is more than the protocol behind Bluesky \u2013 it's general-purpose open infrastructure, and resource allocation may be one of its most important use cases. This talk shows how hypercerts turn AT Protocol into a shared, AI-native data layer for funding mechanisms that anybody can build on.", "description": "AT Protocol is usually introduced as \"the protocol behind Bluesky\", an open alternative to centralized social media. That framing undersells it. AT Protocol is general-purpose open infrastructure for portable identity, federated data, and verifiable records. And the use case where openness matters most isn't social posting, it's how we coordinate and allocate resources.\r\n\r\nThis talk introduces hypercerts: a living digital record of impact work \u2013 who did what, when, and where \u2013 built as a portable claim layer on top of AT Protocol. When funders, recipients, and beneficiaries share an open data layer instead of each grant program running on its own silo, coordination compounds across the ecosystem.\r\n\r\nOn top of that shared layer, you can build many different funding and decision-making processes \u2013 quadratic funding, outcome-based funding, expert juries, AI-assisted deliberation, governance simulations \u2013 each reading from and writing to the same open records. Furthermore, this makes hypercerts an AI-native data layer for funding \u2013 agents are first-class participants alongside humans, querying and writing to the same open records.\r\n\r\nI'll walk through working examples, such as:\r\n- Ma Earth: a crowdfunding platform for regenerative land projects (reforestation, soil restoration, indigenous stewardship, community-led conservation), using hypercerts as the shared record across projects, evaluators, and funders.\r\n- Simocracy: a governance simulation where people build AI digital twins of themselves and send those twins into deliberation and funding decisions on their behalf, with ATProto as the data layer and hypercerts as one of the available evaluation and allocation primitives.\r\n\r\nIf we believe distributed networks beat centralized ones because they're resilient, then resource allocation is exactly where that argument needs to win. Today impact funding, and funding for collective work more broadly, runs on closed dashboards, proprietary data formats, and grantmaker-specific reporting templates. None of it travels. Build it on AT Protocol instead and the same record can be read by every funder, every recipient, every researcher, and, eventually, every AI agent helping reason about where to allocate next.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NEMP9K", "name": "Holke", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/9LHGU7_fMkAzbj.webp", "biography": "Holke Brammer is a political economist working to strengthen collective action through open technology. As founder and director of Hypercerts Foundation, he leads the development of open infrastructure for impact funding and public goods resource allocation. He was previously a research scientist for public goods funding at Protocol Labs, worked at Yunus Social Business and Boston Consulting Group, and led Open Social Innovation efforts in Germany with ProjectTogether. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economics from Stanford Graduate School of Business.", "public_name": "Holke", "guid": "e6bfe7ae-9278-5d18-abc6-f0fb33314a5e", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/NEMP9K/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9YZPA/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/L9YZPA/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "807359e0-320d-523a-ae81-fa72d830da1b", "code": "NYKLQH", "id": 631, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T11:00:00+02:00", "start": "11:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-631-artizen-a-funding-engine-for-creative-public-goods", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYKLQH/", "title": "Artizen: A Funding Engine for Creative Public Goods", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "Artizen is a funding platform for creative public goods: projects that make culture, community, and imagination more accessible to everyone. In this talk, founder Ren\u00e9 Pinnell will introduce what Artizen is, how it supports creators through community-driven funding, and how the Artizen Village at DWeb Camp brings this model into physical space.", "description": "Artizen is an experiment in funding creative public goods: art, culture, tools, gatherings, spaces, and community projects that create value beyond traditional markets.\r\n\r\nIn this introductory talk, Artizen founder Ren\u00e9 Pinnell will share the story behind Artizen, what problem it is trying to solve, and how it helps creators receive support from communities, funds, and sponsors. The session will explain Artizen\u2019s approach to funding creativity, including how projects participate, how communities help surface and support meaningful work, and why creative production matters as part of the broader decentralized web ecosystem.\r\n\r\nThe talk will also connect directly to DWeb Camp through the Artizen Village: a shared space created by 20 Artizen creators for the use of DWeb campers. The Village is a living example of Artizen\u2019s philosophy \u2014 not just funding individual creators, but helping them collaborate, build shared infrastructure, and create spaces where others can gather, rest, connect, and imagine together.\r\n\r\nThis session is intended for people who are new to Artizen, as well as creators, funders, organizers, technologists, and community builders interested in new models for supporting public goods. Rather than focusing only on grants or platforms, the talk will explore Artizen as a cultural funding engine: a way to coordinate resources around projects that strengthen the commons.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MBHFMM", "name": "Ren\u00e9 Pinnell", "avatar": null, "biography": "Ren\u00e9 Pinnell is the founder of Artizen, a funding platform for creative public goods across art, science, technology, and culture. Coming from a line of struggling artists, Ren\u00e9 has long been interested in how creators can receive the support they need to make ambitious work. Before Artizen, he founded Kaleidoscope, where he helped support and fund pioneering VR and immersive media projects, including projects screened at major festivals. His work focuses on building new funding models for creators and expanding the role of creativity in the commons.", "public_name": "Ren\u00e9 Pinnell", "guid": "8420eec9-4327-5979-b8f0-edaccd7206de", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/MBHFMM/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYKLQH/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/NYKLQH/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "beea07d2-67c9-5c27-9512-d9dd6e5aac1e", "code": "MTEXYN", "id": 324, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T11:30:00+02:00", "start": "11:30", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-324-designing-funding-mechanisms-on-at-protocol-with-hypercerts", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MTEXYN/", "title": "Designing Funding Mechanisms on AT Protocol with Hypercerts", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "A hands-on follow-up to the Hypercerts on AT Protocol talk. We'll design funding, decision-making, or evaluation mechanisms together \u2014 adapted to the room, ranging from conceptual sketches to technical deep dives.", "description": "This workshop turns the ideas from the Hypercerts on AT Protocol talk into something participants can shape and build. It's deliberately adaptable: the agenda will flex based on who shows up.\r\n\r\nDepending on the room, we'll spend time on one or more of the following:\r\n- Conceptual mechanism design: Working in small groups, participants sketch a funding or decision-making mechanism for a real situation they care about. What gets recorded? Who issues claims, who evaluates them, who allocates? Where does an open, shared data layer help, and where doesn't it?\r\n- Technical building: For participants already building, we go into the protocol layer: hypercerts lexicons on AT Protocol, how to issue and read records, how to integrate with existing apps in the ecosystem, and what's missing in the current stack that needs to be built.\r\n- Evaluation tools: For participants focused on impact assessment, we work on evaluator workflows: how evaluations are structured as records, how they accumulate over time, and how to design tools that help domain experts and communities surface meaningful signal.\r\n\r\nWe'll start with a short check-in to map who's in the room (builders, funders, evaluators, researchers, curious newcomers) and use that to set the agenda for the rest of the session. Most workshops will end up doing two of the three threads in parallel.\r\n\r\n**What participants leave with:** a concrete sketch, technical starting point, or evaluation design for their own work; a working vocabulary for hypercerts and ATProto-based coordination; and direct contact with others working on adjacent problems.\r\n\r\n**Scheduling note:** This workshop pairs with the 30-min talk Funding on the Open Social Web: Hypercerts on AT Protocol and is best scheduled after it. Attending the talk is helpful but not required \u2014 we'll do a fast recap at the start.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "NEMP9K", "name": "Holke", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/9LHGU7_fMkAzbj.webp", "biography": "Holke Brammer is a political economist working to strengthen collective action through open technology. 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His work, which sits at the frontier of AI and decentralized systems, has been globally recognized by the World Economic Forum, XPRIZE, and Ethereum.", "public_name": "David Dao", "guid": "78e157d2-9c29-51f7-9c8b-a25df4e7b857", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/7L7GFK/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MTEXYN/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MTEXYN/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "a8ba580c-008d-5b7c-a416-a748103c25a8", "code": "Z8FRLZ", "id": 421, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "00:10", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-421-five-minutes-on-the-ethical-technology-assessment-eta-a-community-owned-living-scoring-assessment-for-tools-datasets-seeds-and-software", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/Z8FRLZ/", "title": "Five Minutes on the Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) \u2014 A Community-Owned Living  Scoring Assessment for Tools, Datasets, seeds and software", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Lightning Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "The Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) framework, Inspired by the Grassroots innovation assembly for Agroecology (GIAA) and developed through OpenTEAM and the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance, is a community-owned scoring practice for technology that works more like Consumer Reports or Human Rights Watch field documentation than a compliance badge \u2014 with three confidence tiers, claim-level evidence threading, structured dispute resolution, and automatic confidence decay that forces re-review. This five-minute lightning talk introduces the framework, demonstrates the live single-page assessment tool covering Hardware, Software, Datasets, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and Seeds & Germplasm, and leaves the audience with one clear next action: score a tool and contribute to a score in their own community before the camp ends.", "description": "The framing: most technology-ethics frameworks deployed at scale produce badges, not accountability. A vendor pays a certifier; the certifier issues a passed-or-failed mark; the mark is valid for a fixed period regardless of how the tool changes; disputes go back to the certifier who has a financial relationship with the assessed tool. The resulting framework is legible in the sense that procurement officers can check a box, but it is not trustworthy in any meaningful sense. The DWeb community knows this pattern from the supply-chain audit industry, from the carbon-credit industry, from the privacy-policy industry. Each of these produces compliance theater \u2014 the appearance of governance without the substance.\r\n\r\nThe Ethical Technology Assessment (ETA) framework was built to displace this pattern in the agricultural-knowledge commons specifically, and the architecture transfers cleanly to any commons that needs an honest-and-durable way to ask should we use this tool? The framework is documented as ETA Framework v1.0 (February 2026, OpenTEAM / Ag Knowledge Concordance, CC BY 4.0) and runs on a single-page assessment tool that opens in any browser, with no install, no account, and no cloud dependency. The lightning talk introduces the framework's three sharp design choices, shows the tool running live for approximately ninety seconds on a real tool the audience names from the floor, and closes with three concrete next actions.\r\n\r\nDesign choice one \u2014 three confidence tiers with structural decay. Tier 1 (Provisional / steward self-assessment) has its score penalized by a 0.92 confidence modifier. Tier 2 (Peer-reviewed / at least one certified peer reviewer has verified or challenged claims) is at face value. Tier 3 (Audited / a designated ecosystem steward \u2014 OpenTEAM, AKC, or Farm Hack \u2014 has completed a structured audit) gets a 1.04 boost capped at 100. A self-assessed score of 88 displays as 81. After peer review, it shows as 88. After full audit, it shows as 92. The confidence tier is as important as the score \u2014 a Tier 3 score of 78 is more trustworthy than a Tier 1 score of 90. Confidence decays: any card not re-reviewed within 18 months (12 for datasets) automatically drops one tier and receives a Needs review public flag. The framework creates its own renewal cycle, without manual administration.\r\n\r\nDesign choice two \u2014 claim-level evidence threading and structured dispute resolution. Rather than treating the assessment as a single monolithic score, each individual claim is separately reviewable and attributable. Every gate result, score bar, and flag has an attached evidence thread: who claimed it, when, on what evidence, and what its current status is (Confirmed / Contested / Under review / Superseded). When a reviewer disagrees with a claim, they open a dispute on the specific claim. The steward has 30 days to respond. If unresolved, an ecosystem steward arbitrates. The card is publicly flagged Contested claim throughout. Contested claims are not hidden \u2014 a card with two open disputes and Confidence 2/3 is more trustworthy than an unchallenged Confidence 1/3 card, because it demonstrates the community is actively engaging with the evidence.\r\n\r\nDesign choice three \u2014 one framework, five card types. The same four-gate entry structure (G1 Transparency, G2 Rights & Control, G3 No Abuse, G4 Safety & Stewardship) anchors Hardware ETA, Software ETA, DTAP \u2014 Data Trust Assessment Protocol (six trust dimensions: Consent rigour, Scientific validity, Interoperability, Discoverability, Longitudinal integrity, Governance), Guardian Connector (Indigenous data sovereignty, four pillars aligned with CARE Principles), and Seeds & Germplasm (four pillars derived from the Wheat Workers' Code of Ethics). The cards differ in the specific questions asked within each category, but the architecture is shared, the scoring is unified on a 0\u2013100 scale, and the assessment lives on the same Pi 5-hostable infrastructure.\r\n\r\n\r\nThe live tool demo. Approximately 90 seconds in the middle of the talk. The unified ETA assessment tool \u2014 Hardware / Software / DTAP / Guardian Connector / Seeds \u2014 opens in any browser. The speaker asks the audience to name a tool. The speaker scores it on the four binary gates in real time, then walks two category scores, then commits the result with a confidence-tier badge to a shared Git repository on the projector. The audience sees the framework run in operation in under two minutes.\r\n\r\nThe three next actions, at the close.\r\n\r\nScore a tool you actually use. The unified ETA tool URL is in the printed handout and on the QR code in the lower-right of the final slide. Take three minutes, score one tool, commit it to your community's Git repository or to the OpenTEAM / AKC public ETA registry.\r\nBecome a certified peer reviewer. The one-hour async orientation is on the OpenTEAM and AKC platforms. The certification requires familiarity with the card type, vouching by an existing reviewer, and agreement to the 30-day dispute-response standard.\r\nFork the framework for your domain. The framework is CC BY 4.0 and the question sets are open. Communities outside agriculture have already begun forking the structure for open-source software more broadly, for citizen-science datasets, and for community-owned hardware lending libraries. The structure works.\r\n\r\nThe deeper sessions for participants who want more. GIAA Sessions (the full 60-minute workshop), the Farm Hack Box Technical Workshop (Submission in the longer GIAA submission set), and the GIAA / Farm Hack Box Federated Tool Library session (Submission). The lightning talk is the on-ramp; the workshops are the working sessions.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "7A7WGT", "name": "Dorn Cox", "avatar": null, "biography": "This is a Joint proposal - but happy to provide my Bio in addition to those of the other participants. - Dorn Cox is a Farmer, Author and Researcher and the editor of the Talk to the... Handbook and has been a steward of Farm Hack and the OpenTEAM federated infrastructure for nearly a decade. He convenes the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group and is the primary practitioner refining the question-design discipline that the tool implements.\r\nAnamika Dey (Honey Bee Network / SRISTI / GIAN) has spent more than a decade documenting and stewarding the Indian grassroots innovation archive \u2014 over a million records across three federated databases, with a working multilingual AI agent in production. Caroline (Schola Campesina) carries the European agroecology and CSIPM coordination thread. David Otieno (Kenyan Peasant League) provides the ground-truth demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used at the mobile-phone ceiling of accessibility. \r\nSJ Klein leads the Agricultural Knowledge Concordance at Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and active in the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, with thought-partner networks across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society (CS&S), and the AI Commons House. SJ's background in mass-scale community-edited knowledge infrastructure \u2014 Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the broader open-knowledge tradition \u2014 is the discipline the AKC adapts from millions-of-contributors editing patterns to deep-interview stewardship patterns. 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Entrepreneurs inspired by and running this playbook understand that decentralizing code production commoditizes IP, and so the value and profit will move to what's scarce (eg. the ability to run and deploy that code). In this model, if society was to successfully commoditize the platform model, profits would again shift elsewhere. We should ask ourselves if this is really true or not and test these questions through play.\r\n\r\nGames allow us to explore different situations rapidly and under concrete rules; to enable us to test if such structures will effectively coordinate positive outcomes. The table of elements for our world includes bylaws, voting rights, legal agreements, capital flows, incentives and so on. We will rapidly assemble and dissemble collective structures and wonder together how they would navigate the messy, noisy world.\r\n\r\nWhere does centralization happen? How do you fund infrastructure growth without enshittification? What governance mechanisms actually prevent forced sales or investor capture? And how could we balance the competing interests in a deeply connected ecosystem of regulators, technologists, funds, entrepreneurs and so on?\r\n\r\nBy the end of the workshop, we will gain new language to describe the shape of any collective enterprise and all come away with a more concrete understanding of the available viable paths ahead for stewarding our collective digital infrastructure.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "3RUPSL", "name": "Gavin Owens", "avatar": null, "biography": "Gavin Owens builds technologies for human agency; imbued with values of free association, mutual aid, self-determination and egalitarianism. After starting his early career as a scalable ML engineer in San Francisco, he went on to create a company in the digital tooling space which was acquired by Airbnb. There he worked on intelligent design systems tooling. 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Now lives in London and is founder of Tonk, a knowledge layer for collective intelligence.", "public_name": "Gavin Owens", "guid": "d1e7611b-b97a-564e-846a-075ff40dfe5c", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/3RUPSL/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FYZ9NG/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FYZ9NG/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "a6cb7893-69e7-5663-8f7b-98cd599338de", "code": "8R9EZV", "id": 333, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T16:30:00+02:00", "start": "16:30", "duration": "01:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-333-governing-sustaining-democratic-tech-from-autonomy-to-collective-design", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8R9EZV/", "title": "Governing & Sustaining Democratic Tech: From Autonomy to Collective Design", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Workshop - longer", "language": "en", "abstract": "Public-interest technology does not survive through code alone. Digital commons require continuous coordination between communities, institutions, maintainers, contributors, and funders \u2014 structures capable not only of building tools, but of caring for them over time: setting priorities, distributing responsibilities, managing conflicts, and protecting the values embedded within the infrastructure itself. This session moves from strategic principles to institutional architecture, using role play and co-design to collectively work out what governance for democratic technology actually looks like in practice \u2014 and what it means for the Democratic Tech Fund right now.", "description": "Part 1: Immersive Role Play: Who decides? Who owns? How is value redistributed? (45 min, Olivier Schulbaum)\r\nEvery organisation already plays a game. The question is: who wrote the rules, and who benefits from them?\r\nOlivier Schulbaum will lead an immersive role play session inspired by Platoniq's Think Like a Platform methodology. This approach treats organisations not as fixed structures but as platforms of relationships \u2014 systems in which decisions, resources, and value either circulate or fail to circulate. What organisational charts usually hide becomes visible here: flows of power, forms of participation, and the often invisible rules that shape who benefits and who sustains the system.\r\nThe role play unfolds through a deliberately provocative metaphor: a game of baseball. Four bases structure the field, each representing a different stakeholder position \u2014 communities, funders, builders and maintainers, and the core coordinating team. Each position embodies a different relationship to value and a different capacity to influence the game. Participants step into these roles and, from within them, begin to see what governance actually does \u2014 as opposed to what it claims to do.\r\nThe exercise surfaces questions that are often implicit but rarely addressed directly: where authority is located versus where it is merely performed; who carries the system when funding disappears; who absorbs uncertainty and maintenance; and what funding quietly reshapes in return.\r\nFrom there, the role play takes a turn. The metaphor of baseball is brought in not as a neutral game, but as a form of capitalist entertainment built on fixed positions, clear winners, and value measured through accumulation. Participants are invited to unsettle it \u2014 to flip the inherited model, disrupt the default logic, and reimagine the field itself. Roles shift, value begins to circulate differently, and cooperation starts to replace competition. The question that closes this part is simple and generative: if the DTF is already a platform, who has the power to rewrite its code?\r\nPart 2: Co-design: translating insights into governance models and next steps (35 min, Wouter Tebbens, Sophie Bloemen and Martijn de Waal)\r\nBuilding on what the role play makes visible, this co-design session moves from reflection to construction. Public software requires the collaboration of multiple stakeholders \u2014 not only in the initial development of a product, but in an ongoing process of making, implementing, and evaluating. That requires an institutional form capable of governing both the software itself and the values that underpin it.\r\nRather than aiming for a single solution, the goal is to map a space of possibilities. Drawing directly on the insights and tensions surfaced in the role play, participants work in small groups to sketch different ways of organising responsibility, distributing power, and ensuring long-term sustainability for democratic tech initiatives. Who should be part of such an institution? What safeguards must protect its public and commons-oriented mission? What can we learn, visually and structurally, from what the role play revealed?\r\nThe session closes with a grounded, practical question: what does this mean for the DTF's next three months?\r\nTimeline: Role play (45') \u2192 Co-design (35') \u2192 Closing synthesis (10')", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "CCN7PM", "name": "Wouter Tebbens", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/DFTKYL_RSpmA8F.webp", "biography": "Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and collectives. 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The same actor verifies you, ranks you, and runs the model that talks to you. That is not a stable arrangement, and it is not one we should want to stabilize.\r\n\r\nThe alternative isn't another platform, and it isn't anonymity. It's a decentralized trust network \u2014 a base layer where humanity can be proven, identity is held locally, and trust propagates through a graph that humans themselves shape.\r\n\r\nConcretely: Alice gets a humanity attestation from her local trust circle \u2014 people who know her, vouch for her, whose own attestations form a web she carries into the network. With it, she delegates a personal AI agent that carries her identity outward. It's her agent. It's bound to a human. And when it speaks to yours, both sides can verify there's a person on the other end of the chain.\r\n\r\nThis is where topology becomes the design surface. A trust network is a graph, and the shape of that graph determines what the system can do \u2014 how attestations compose, how sybil resistance emerges from social structure rather than central authority, how locality and delegation work. Letting topology emerge by accident gives you the social graphs we already have, optimized for capture. Designing it intentionally gives you a substrate other networks can safely build on.\r\n\r\nA mesh of AI agents anchored to people becomes a real counterweight to centralized model providers. Funding networks can route capital through human-attested graphs instead of platform algorithms. Reputation, coordination, governance \u2014 all of it can sit on a base layer that wasn't designed to extract from its users.\r\n\r\nWe're here because the people in this room are the ones who can build this substrate \u2014 or watch something worse get built by default.\r\n\r\nTrust is infrastructure now. Decide what shape you want it to have, before someone else decides for you.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "7DB8XL", "name": "Artem Brazhnikov", "avatar": null, "biography": "I am a technolgist and a builder with 15+ years of experience setting strategic direction and building high-performing teams.\r\n\r\nSince 2017, I have been focused on shipping blockchain systems, smart contract protocols, decentralized applications, and developer tooling. For the last three years I have been designing and operating novel funding mechanisms for public goods.\r\n\r\nBefore Web3, I built forensics software, security systems, cryptography-related products, robotics, AI and VR. 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In 2024, he obtained a PhD in Fine Arts from the University of the Arts in Helsinki, Finland, investigating visual arts and artificial intelligence. Bruno is a professor at the Centre for Image and Multimedia Technology, Polytechnic University of Catalonia (CITM-UPC) and also teaches at Elisava University in Barcelona. \r\n\r\nThis panel will be moderated by **B Cavello**, Director of Emerging Technologies at the Aspen Institute and leader in the movement for public AI.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "VXG7CU", "name": "B Cavello", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/G8YJBS_Sq7dwdp.webp", "biography": "B Cavello is a technology and facilitation expert passionate about creating social change by empowering everyone to participate in technological and social governance. They serve as director of emerging technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. 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He is a founder of the autonomous technology collective Coolab, which was awarded a Mozilla grant in 2017, with a project to finance community networks.", "public_name": "bruno", "guid": "462364b8-edbb-54a7-ba3b-237a76fdd617", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/XWDCEL/"}, {"code": "FHYX3H", "name": "V\u00e1clav Pavl\u00edn", "avatar": null, "biography": "I am just a chaos agent - anything I touch usually breaks, but I often help to fix it:) Logos contributor, spent 10 years at Red Hat building Open Source.", "public_name": "V\u00e1clav Pavl\u00edn", "guid": "62428837-7943-5083-b81f-4dee9b8d1e57", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/FHYX3H/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FDVJJR/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FDVJJR/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "ee7c8050-1104-5a43-aaf4-b68a605a1fbb", "code": "8NAPNG", "id": 416, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "00:10", "room": "AI Barn", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-416-what-ai-submissions-taught-us-about-funding-open-infrastructure-lessons-from-lambda-prize", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/8NAPNG/", "title": "What AI Submissions Taught Us About Funding Open Infrastructure: Lessons from Lambda Prize", "subtitle": "", "track": "Public AI", "type": "Lightning Talk", "language": "en", "abstract": "A short talk on what we've learned from vibecoders participating in our Lambda Prize program, a developer incentive program for Logos. And why human builders still matter even when AI can write the code.", "description": "Recently, we launched Lambda Prize, a developer incentive program for the Logos ecosystem where we offer competitive prizes for building privacy-preserving infrastructure. Modeled after the XPRIZE, it is first-come-first-served: submit working code that meets criteria, get paid.\r\n\r\nWe thought that's straightforward and a pretty solid incentive. To our surprise, many vibecoders thought the same as we started to receive AI-generated submissions. It was complete but sloppy code that did pass the stated criteria but didn't integrate properly or had consequential unstated assumptions.\r\n\r\nWe'll share our experience and how we are trying to filter for and promote high quality contributions with reasonable AI usage. 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This session will create space to explore and get feedback on the operational model and governing principles that can allow and encourage widespread participation of OER libraries and resource platforms in the OME.", "description": "This session introduces the **Open Metadata Exchange (OME)**, a decentralized network of open libraries that serves as a force multiplier in the search, discovery, and sustainability of open educational resources. It achieves this by activating the curatorial experience and expertise of librarians across the world, supercharging the exchange of each other\u2019s open educational resource metadata. The OME provides the infrastructure  for libraries and end users to discover, publish, and share resources across libraries.\r\n\r\nOpen Educational Resources (OER), as defined by UNESCO, are teaching, learning, and research materials that are freely accessible and openly licensed for reuse, adaptation, and redistribution. 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Yet, search and discovery of OER is fragmented, and these open library platforms operate in silos, which results in:\r\n\r\n- Duplicated efforts to discover, tag, and curate similar materials across platforms\r\n- Limited visibility into relevant resources held by other libraries\r\n- Metadata inconsistencies that make cross-platform cataloging cumbersome\r\n\r\nThe OME addresses these challenges by making it easier for libraries to share, discover, and reuse metadata while maintaining local standards and control. The infrastructure of the OME harnesses and makes use of the curatorial expertise of librarians who have invested significant time and effort in cataloging and evaluating resources within individual libraries. Some salient features of the OME include:\r\n\r\n- **Voluntary Participation**: Libraries and repositories can choose to join the OME network and become a participating \u201cnode\u201d in the network. 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So, may I invite you to a short tour around this part of reality we often don\u2019t look at with too much attention.\r\n\r\nI am in the category \u201cold growth\u201d and looking for the few that have the knowledge and experience, and resources, to carefully plan for an implement what we need. Welcome.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "STRRXC", "name": "ajuvo Stephan", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/39DEVF_k9SNFFC.webp", "biography": "my bio\r\n\r\nI am an old (60+) hacker, having begun with taming mainframes for fun and money, working my way through the advent of the internet. I helped resistance in communist Poland, navigated the uncertain financial waters of German reunification and its fallout, helped address the Y2K-bug, seen the New Economy bubble burst, and so on. 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I am member of c-base and have long been active in the CCC, and I\u2019m a member of the German Gesellschaft f\u00fcr Freiheitsrechte GFF, doing things that are partially similar to what for example the EFF is doing in the US.\r\nMy nom de guerre ajuvo is easy to retrieve in hacker-related communications channels.", "public_name": "ajuvo Stephan", "guid": "9d765d8e-bb69-5fc5-8a26-129c5b510e83", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/STRRXC/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7EXQTA/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/7EXQTA/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "947f7769-bcff-5da8-b8d7-1be65875b8c6", "code": "3KGBEF", "id": 289, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T11:00:00+02:00", "start": "11:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Idea Stage", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-289-from-solo-bug-to-collective-evidence-fighting-for-interoperability-under-the-dma", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3KGBEF/", "title": "From solo bug to collective evidence: fighting for Interoperability under the DMA", "subtitle": "", "track": "Protocols and Platforms", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "The Digital Markets Act (DMA) gives developers a legal right to request interoperability with dominant mobile platforms, but knowing how to use it is another matter. This talk walks Free Software developers through what Article 6(7) means in practice for iOS and Android, introduces the FSFE's DMA Interoperability Survey as a community tool for documenting shared experiences, and invites technically minded contributors to help build the evidence base needed to counter gatekeeper narratives and push for real enforcement.", "description": "Free Software communities need interoperability to build meaningful alternatives to dominant mobile platforms, but the gap between a legal right and a usable one is vast. This talk focuses on what Article 6(7) of the Digital Markets Act means concretely for developers targeting iOS and Android: how to initiate an interoperability request, what obstacles to expect, and how to navigate a process that is often opaque, resource-intensive, and designed to discourage smaller or volunteer-driven projects.\r\n\r\nBeyond explaining the mechanics, this session introduces the FSFE's DMA Interoperability Survey as a community-driven instrument for collective action. By documenting individual experiences with gatekeepers, developers contribute to a shared body of evidence that no single project could build alone, evidence that can directly counter the technical and legal narratives gatekeepers use to justify non-compliance or minimal implementation.\r\n\r\nThe talk is also an open call: to developers who have already tried to access platform APIs or request interoperability, and to those with the technical depth to scrutinize gatekeeper claims and help regulators understand what genuine interoperability would look like. Enforcement of the DMA will not happen through regulation alone, it depends on sustained, technically informed community participation. This session is a starting point for building that participation together.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JYWSJY", "name": "Dario Presutti", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/SVTCUY_JqwYqFR.webp", "biography": "Dario Presutti is a Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe. His work focuses on fostering the use of Free Software in public administration and promoting transparent, accountable digital infrastructures in Europe. With a background in Political Science and a Master\u2019s degree in International Cooperation, Dario has experience engaging with policymakers, monitoring legislative processes, and contributing to initiatives such as Public Money? 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What does the Ethereum protocol do today and what is being built next? It's an invitation to the room to discuss where it fits in the decentralized web.", "description": "Ethereum is decentralized, credibly-neutral infrastructure that maintains global verifiable state. This talk covers what it takes to design and build a protocol at this scale, how the protocol functions today and the work shaping its near future. Topics include censorship resistance, pushing performance without sacrificing the protocol's values, post-quantum cryptography and more. From there, the conversation opens up to the room: where does Ethereum fit in the decentralized web?", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "HPTZBL", "name": "Jihoon Song", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/B3B7SK_5I8XZXQ.webp", "biography": "Jihoon Song works on the Ethereum protocol at the Ethereum Foundation. His work centers on the consensus layer, including censorship resistance.", "public_name": "Jihoon Song", "guid": "97f4acab-1a90-5819-9986-6abfdc5cb405", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/HPTZBL/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FMKD8P/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/FMKD8P/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "a671c6d1-d9ae-518b-9693-74b856f307bd", "code": "PHHFNF", "id": 332, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T15:00:00+02:00", "start": "15:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Idea Stage", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-332-p2p-financing-models-in-cooperative-ecosystems", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PHHFNF/", "title": "P2P financing models in cooperative ecosystems", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "Grounded practices, real cases, and alternative financing tools. The question is no longer whether the current model is broken; most people in the room already know it is. The real question is more demanding: what approaches already exist that allows us to fund democratic digital infrastructure differently, and what still needs to be invented? This session focuses on concrete practices from the Social and Solidarity Economy: cooperative financing, civic crowdfunding, peer-to-peer finance, and public-commons partnerships capable of sustaining technologies that serve collective needs rather than extractive growth.", "description": "P2P financing models in cooperative ecosystems (Ela Kagel & Andreas Arnold, Platform Coops eG)\r\nDigital communities increasingly depend on infrastructure they do not own. Platforms extract value, financial systems centralise decision-making, and communities often struggle to sustain the technologies they collectively build. Ela Kagel and Andreas Arnold, co-founders of Platform Coops eG in Berlin, will explore three interconnected layers of cooperative economy-building.\r\n\r\nThe first is pooling resources collectively \u2014 organising shared demand, shared ownership, and cooperative governance to keep value circulating within communities rather than flowing outward. \r\n\r\nThe second is peer-to-peer finance and community capital \u2014 reclaiming tools such as lending, crowdfunding, solidarity funds, and cooperative banking as instruments governed directly by communities. \r\n\r\nThe third is creating our own means of exchange \u2014 exploring digital currencies, community-based monetary systems, and cooperative stablecoin experiments as emerging infrastructure for democratic coordination.\r\n\r\nDrawing on experiences from cooperative movements and Web3 experimentation, the workshop connects historical cooperative practices with contemporary decentralised technologies \u2014 from cooperative marketplaces and community banks to Circles UBI, Breadchain, and quadratic funding. Through guided discussion and collaborative exercises, participants will examine how these mechanisms already emerge within their own communities, and how they might be redesigned to better support solidarity, sustainability, and collective autonomy.\r\n\r\nNo prior knowledge of finance, cooperatives, or Web3 is required \u2014 only curiosity about how communities can build and sustain their own economic systems together.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "CCN7PM", "name": "Wouter Tebbens", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/DFTKYL_RSpmA8F.webp", "biography": "Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and collectives. Co-founder of the Democratic Tech Fund and director at the Free Knowledge Institute.\r\n\r\nIn the 2000s he set up the Free/Libre and Open Source working group of the Internet Society Netherlands, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute and coordinated two European Commission funded projects: the SELF project and the Free Technology Academy and participated in various others.\r\n\r\nIn the last decade he participated in Som Energia, the Spanish renewable energy cooperative; the School of the Commons Barcelona; was part of the p2p value research team studying >300 cases of commons-based p2p internet platforms; participated in the Digital DIY project on legal, ethical and economic aspects related to digital fabrication and DIY; co-founded The Things Network Catalonia and ran various pilots and projects with various municipalities around sensor data through the community network.\r\n\r\nIn order to seek sustainability for commons-oriented initiatives he conceived the Five Pillar model. 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Trained as an Industrial Engineer and Management expert, he has spent the past 15 years exploring the transition from the sharing economy toward platform cooperatives and decentralized economic systems.\r\n\r\nAs co-founder and board member of Platform Coops eG, Andreas supports founders and organizations in building cooperative digital business models, governance structures, and alternative financing approaches. His work spans blockchain ecosystems, DAOs, DGOV, marketplaces, and cooperative finance \u2014 with a current focus on cooperative stablecoins and community-owned financial infrastructures.\r\n\r\nPreviously, Andreas led the digitalization and marketplace development for the freelancer cooperative SMartDe eG, coordinated marketplace strategy for the blockchain-based UBI project Circles, and advised Circles Coop eG on cooperative and ecosystem development.", "public_name": "Andreas Arnold", "guid": "659af900-9439-5196-bd7b-7f429c3dbac1", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/SUDL9Q/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PHHFNF/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/PHHFNF/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "f44fc8e7-8105-59dd-8021-d21254f29d32", "code": "E7SGBP", "id": 288, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Idea Stage", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-288-our-fight-for-device-neutrality-in-europe", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/E7SGBP/", "title": "Our fight for Device Neutrality in Europe", "subtitle": "", "track": "Emergent Ideas", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) advocates for a society where users are empowered to control technology and have full control over their devices through Free Software. This talk outlines three key FSFE initiatives, Device Neutrality, Router Freedom, and the Next Generation Internet project, aimed at countering the growing dominance of big tech and empowering users and policymakers alike.", "description": "What will the Internet of the future look like? Will we have full control over our devices? The Free Software Foundation Europe envisions an Internet that is accessible and diverse, and respects fundamental rights. We envision a society where everyone has full control over their devices. We believe that Free Software is key to accomplishing this vision, so that all people, regardless of their background, are able to use the Internet as an effective tool to achieve their full potential.\r\nHowever, there are several hurdles in the way of achieving that. Big tech and market concentration are two of the most serious threats to a decentralised Internet and free devices. This talk will guide you through several initiatives the FSFE has been conducting in the last years to overcome these challenges, such as:\r\n\r\nDevice Neutrality: Our digital devices should be neutral concerning the software we run on them. Device manufacturers and vendors should not dictate which software we should run. Instead, we should be empowered to enjoy software freedom in our devices. This talk will focus on how interoperability can be a tool to break tech monopolies and how the Digital Markets Act (DMA), a recent law aimed at levelling the playing field between big tech and small tech, plays a role in that. The FSFE has been working with policymakers to enforce this law in a Free Software-friendly way, empowering them with different tools which the presentation will introduce.\r\n\r\nRouter Freedom: People should have the same freedom to choose their home networking devices as they do when buying a mobile phone, yet some European Internet providers force customers to use specific hardware or penalise those with alternative routers. We will delve into the latest developments of Router Freedom in Europe and will highlight the work the FSFE has been doing to protect European users.\r\n\r\nThe Next Generation Internet: Finally, we will dive into the project funded by the EU that aims to change the landscape of the Internet with Free Software. With more than 400 software projects working in several key areas of the Internet, the NGI is a bold initiative to develop alternatives that are not dependent on the monopolistic control of big tech.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JYWSJY", "name": "Dario Presutti", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/SVTCUY_JqwYqFR.webp", "biography": "Dario Presutti is a Project Manager at the Free Software Foundation Europe. His work focuses on fostering the use of Free Software in public administration and promoting transparent, accountable digital infrastructures in Europe. With a background in Political Science and a Master\u2019s degree in International Cooperation, Dario has experience engaging with policymakers, monitoring legislative processes, and contributing to initiatives such as Public Money? 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After participating in the camp planning session in Berlin, several members of our collective volunteered to support BitChat as an offline, BLE mesh-based texting app for DWeb Camp, and we would also be glad to host an AOS village or tent where campers can learn about our work, experiment with Nostr, and potentially use a camp-local relay.\r\n\r\nLiz Sweigart and Rabble, AOS co-founding members will introduce who they are, how they work, and what they are building, followed by informal opportunities for campers to connect with attending AOS team members.", "description": "And Other Stuff (AOS; https://andotherstuff.org/) is a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect liberty, expand human agency, and help people connect, organize, and create without dependence on centralized platforms. Our work sits at the intersection of Nostr, Bitcoin, Cashu, decentralized infrastructure, human-centered design, AI-supported development, and community tools.\r\n\r\nAt the Berlin gathering, a few members of our collective had the chance to participate and learn. Out of those conversations, we began discussing ways AOS could support DWeb Camp more directly. One possible contribution is helping BitChat serve as an offline, BLE mesh-based texting app for campers, offering a practical communication layer that works even when conventional connectivity is limited. We would also be interested in hosting an AOS \u201cvillage\u201d or tent where campers could drop by, meet members of the collective, explore our projects, and experiment with Nostr-based tools. As part of that, we could potentially run a Nostr relay just for campers, creating a local, hands-on demonstration of decentralized communication in action.\r\n\r\nWe are still learning how best to offer what we have in a way that fits DWeb Camp\u2019s needs and culture. Rather than arriving with a fixed program, we would love direction from the organizers about where our contributions would be most useful. We can support technical experimentation, informal demos, conversation spaces, and lightweight onboarding for people who are curious about Nostr, Bitcoin, Cashu, decentralized communities, and open-source product development.\r\n\r\nLiz Sweigart and Rabble, co-founding members of AOS, would be happy to offer a short lightning talk introducing the collective: who we are, what we do, how we work, what we have built so far, and why we believe open, permissionless systems are essential for human freedom and flourishing. The talk could then invite campers to connect with AOS core team members who are attending, explore specific projects, and identify opportunities for collaboration during and after camp.\r\n\r\nOur goal is to participate in a way that is useful, generous, and aligned with the DWeb Camp spirit: sharing what we know, learning from others, and helping people experience decentralized technology as something practical, creative, and community-centered.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MTTKYA", "name": "Liz Sweigart", "avatar": null, "biography": "Liz Sweigart is a co-founding member of And Other Stuff, a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, connection, and creativity. She brings a background in consulting psychology, organizational transformation, human-centered design, and online safety, with prior work spanning corporate leadership, participatory design, and human-computer interaction. As a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt\u2019s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab, Liz is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can be designed with and for the people who need them most, including activists, organizers, and communities with limited technical backgrounds. 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We\u2019ll question common assumptions about what apps need to remember, and work through the real tensions that appear when we remove permanent profiles, especially around trust, safety, and belonging.\r\n\r\nWe\u2019ll also look at Dyad, an app we are building in Berlin for meeting strangers in person, as a case study in designing social technology without bios, follower counts, or permanent identities.\r\n\r\nThe workshop is structured in three parts over ~90 minutes:\r\n\r\n* First, we\u2019ll take apart what existing community tools ask people to hand over, and why.\r\n* Then, we\u2019ll design alternatives together in small groups: new tools from the ground up, or existing platforms reimagined without permanent identity.\r\n* We\u2019ll finish by sharing what we found: what can we build today, and what new infrastructure would make more possible?\r\n\r\nFor organisers, artists, people who run spaces, designers, and builders. 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Bringing that root local is a massive personal and community health unlock.  \r\n\r\nThis effort is underserved, high leverage, and just the beginning of what is only recently possible to explore and implement.  \r\n\r\nI am engaged in ongoing context development around community health for my communities.  To make that useful, I built a toolkit.  We'll run it against a popular open source application that handles contact data - to evaluate it's safety and efficacy as an application that deals with our personal contact and relationship data.\r\n\r\nThen we will discuss plan to help our communities take control of their contact and relationship data, and gain meaningful insights from that data to improve community health.\r\n\r\nThen we will workshop our own applications - or any application that handles personal relationship data that we would like to cover - evaluating them for safety and efficacy in supporting personal network health.  If we have time or the group wants more discussion - we can discuss future directions  for this type of validation methodology to any depth - even if it is preferred to workshopping our own tools.", "description": "Here\u2019s the plan - At a high level - I will present a proposed architecture for each of these steps, and show my progress to date for each of the three steps in the plan, demo the tools, and we will then workshop against our own applications, or our favorite ones:\r\n\r\nThis is the long-term plan I will present: \r\n\r\nFirst, Take back the Root:\r\n\r\nI built an agent-ready Toolkit for credible interop between local-first and SaaS systems that can move someone's personal network root local, away from SaaS.  I have built reference designs that are in use by my communities, and they are regularly validated against an architectural spec that I will briefly describe.\r\n\r\nThe Toolkit has four goals:  1) Take ownership of the Root of our personal networks - 2) Protect the Root\u2019s integrity by software validation - 3) Protect the Root from unwanted egress - and 4) Protect the Root from entropy and accidents.  From those goals, architectural commitments fall out into the spec.\r\n\r\nThe premise is that by validating the safety of the software and data we use to contact others, we can increase confidence in doing so, and protect our data from the whims of ever-changing centralized organizations.  This is a method for ongoing context development around our digital infrastructure and community health.\r\n\r\nBuilding a safe local environment for the Root also makes private relationship data (i.e. who do I call for help with sensitive health issues) first class, where entering that data into SaaS was never even a consideration.  Private relationship data becomes the more important layer on top of contact data - a layer which must never egress.  \r\n\r\nReady use of a well organized personal network root also ensures that we can help-seek and provide help without being drowned in SaaS noise first.  These are huge wins.\r\n\r\nOnce we have our contact and relationship data local, we can gain insights from our egocentric social graphs (the sociogram with us at the center) right away, categorizing our personal relationships by function (what group do I talk to about x?).  \r\n\r\nAs grounded members of our personal networks, we can encourage others to Free the Root better than anyone outside our networks - giving our communities a strong sense of safety and utility with that data.  We can deliver home-cooked software meals that serve our communities' needs exactly, where centralized systems cannot.\r\n\r\nSecond, Add communications analysis to our private relationship data:\r\n\r\nAdding communications data can supercharge our local-first apps, but it requires a safe environment for enhancing our Private Relationship Layer on top of our contact data, pulling communications data out of SaaS (Gmail, Whatsapp, etc.).  \r\n\r\nExamples of insights we can gain by adding personal communications to the private relationship layer on top of the Root are things like: Support Coverage: Do I have people for the kinds of help I need?  Resilience: If one person becomes unavailable, what breaks?\r\n\r\nThis step is mechanically similar to the Taking Back the Root, and it will be well served by the same architectural commitments.  No egress is required, and yet more data is taken back from SaaS systems to become canonical in the local environment, and more value is achieved by adding personal relationship data that has no business every egressing our local systems to SaaS.\r\n\r\nThird, design interventions from egocentric data sets:\r\n\r\nThis is where we threat model,  develop and exhaustively test, and engage researchers prior to deployment.  Threat modelling is an ongoing process that this project pays attention to.\r\n\r\nI will identify several opportunities to make a real impact - based on productive research that has never been implemented for remote digital-first communities.  These all exist at the same level of sensitivity and can be implemented in parallel, but should not pass through the distribution gate without qualified research input.\r\n\r\nOpportunity 0: Education around help-seeking and community health\r\n\r\nWe can learn a lot from Social Network Health research in other contexts.  Our digital infrastructure can be instrumented to supply us with best practices when we need them the most.\r\n\r\nOpportunity 1: Macrostructure from Microstructure - community analytics:\r\n\r\nResearch in social network health has proposed methods of generating sociocentric data by combining data from egocentric graphs.  We know we can share our personal network information with each other to achieve insights into our community - but if we want to protect the data that is shared, we have to do a little math.\r\n\r\nModern cryptographic systems give us a way to test methods from social network health research in ways that have not been possible before.   We can develop actionable insights by combining data from our own egocentric networks, if we\u2019re smart, without aggregating any identifying information until necessary - remotely!\r\n\r\nThis end-runs the typical intervention methods that aggregate re-identified data sets - gathering sensitive data from an entire community into one place - making this far less difficult and dangerous, at the up-front cost of building complex software systems.\r\n\r\nThe types of things we can identify from social network analysis of this kind:  Binned degree distribution - are many people isolated or overloaded?  Support/advice concentration - is too much support load falling on a few people?, and much more.\r\n\r\nThis requires implementing papers that have never been implemented with brand new tech, threat modeling and exhaustive testing.  It\u2019s a big, longer-term project, but I believe it\u2019s possible to pull it off.\r\n\r\nOpportunity 2: Connection Requests with Staged Disclosure - Engaging broader communities \r\n\r\nA protocol for reaching beyond a users egocentric network into communities that opt-in provides access to members of larger communities (i.e. a signal group) for members of that group that opt-in.  Fallbacks are pre-generated to handle failure of this larger outreach.\r\n\r\nUltimately, this protocol (for now the SNH Notification Protocol) could be combined with analysis triggers to automate outreach in some situations.\r\n\r\nAs soon as I present the architecture and progress for each step, we will break out into groups and red/blue team the architecture and ideas, synthesizing our finding at the end of the session.\r\n\r\nHistory\r\n\r\nAfter my last talk at DWebCamp, I was approached by someone who suggested I should build an app to improve mental health in the developer community. Having followed probably the best social network health trainer alive for about five years, I did not think that would work at all. Later I had my own mental health challenge and tried to use SaaS systems to find people to talk to urgently. I was met with noise, distraction, and a long traversal through people I did not really know, until I ran out of energy. Right then I realized I had to get control of my contact data - I could not survive that kind of thing - I need to know who is important and who I can talk to when I have no energy at all and need a friendly human.\r\n\r\nAfter implementing a paper solution, then building a couple command line contact managers and a directory archive for myself, and after studying social network health specifically for remote workers, I started to see the local-first light. I was using my own apps more than SaaS apps to discover and reach out to friends - only my phone competed with them. I cannot realistically exit SaaS, but I can interoperate with it now, without distraction, and I control all of my private relationship data.\r\nThen after reading Smith (Macrostructure from Microstructure: Generating Whole Systems from Ego Networks.) I realized that there is far more to this effort, and that the possibility exists for remote workers to combine forces to help their own communities.\r\n\r\nWho this workshop is for:\r\n\r\nSpec-curious builders, local-first folks, anyone who's tried and failed to exit their contacts from SaaS, ATProto people thinking about the private-data gap. Anyone in a bigger project that is wondering what projects that are mostly constrained to one person's bandwidth, building home-cooked software meals, are coming up with in this space. People who want to know what is possible when attempting to improve the social network health of their communities, using modern tech, and what is on the horizon.\r\n\r\nAgenda:\r\n\r\nBackground + SNH framing + Prior Art (5 minutes):\r\nDemo (5 minutes):\r\nThree part plan - Architecture Walk-Through (15 minutes of highlights):\r\nValidate apps, critique plan, and rework in small groups (25 minutes):\r\nWrap - what survived (10 minutes):", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "TJLYJS", "name": "Rich Bodo", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/BLUG3Y_ruaBDaT.webp", "biography": "Rich has been working since 2021 to make Social Network Health approaches to preventative mental health care easier to understand and implement.  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This session shows how newsroom cells, raspi operators, mesh enablers, and ordinary users can each play a role in keeping local information flowing when mainstream web infrastructure breaks or is blocked.", "description": "Mesh News Network is a prototype for a different kind of news infrastructure: instead of loading heavy websites or platform feeds, people ask questions and receive concise answers generated from locally cached, signed bulletins. In this session, we\u2019ll explore how a stack of \"news cells\", Raspberry Pi gateways, Meshtastic radios, and small language models (SLMs) can keep trusted information flowing when the usual web stack is slow, blocked, or broken.\r\n\r\nModern news consumption leans on massive, responsive sites and apps: interoperable apps, health monitoring, and platform\u2011specific clients. Every layer is a potential point of failure or censorship\u2014domains can be blocked, app updates can be withheld, and large media payloads become unusable on congested, metered, or disaster\u2011strained networks. Yet most people don\u2019t actually need that much surface area to stay informed. In practice, many just want the top handful of stories that affect them, or answers to very specific questions about safety, access, and current events. Mesh News Network starts from that reality and asks: what if the default unit of news was not a website, but a small, signed text object that can be moved cheaply, cached locally, and queried with a tiny model, i.e. verified RSS?\r\n\r\nThe conceptual core of the session is \u201cbulletins, not websites.\u201d We imagine newsrooms (or community media cells, \"news cells\") producing compact bulletin objects instead of designing a complete web experience around each story. A bulletin is a structured text envelope: an ID, publisher key, timestamp, region and topic tags, urgency, a short summary, an optional longer body, references, and a signature. These bulletins are published into a distributed transport layer, Nostr relays, RSS endpoints, or other decentralized feeds, and ingested by local hubs: Raspberry Pis that live in communities, camps, newsrooms, or mutual aid spaces. The Pi verifies signatures, stores bulletins in a small database, and indexes them by region, topic, and urgency.\r\n\r\nFrom there, two different network paths emerge. When \u201creal internet\u201d is available, the Pi syncs with upstream relays and fills its local cache. When connectivity degrades and only a low\u2011bandwidth mesh like Meshtastic remains, the system stops trying to be \u201cthe web\u201d and instead uses LoRa for what it\u2019s good at: propagating state, alerts, and small deltas. Over the mesh, nodes can trade compact announcement packets: which bulletins exist, their hashes, topics, priorities, and how fresh they are. Full bulletin bodies don\u2019t need to cross the mesh continuously; they can be pre\u2011seeded via sneakernet or periodic higher\u2011bandwidth syncs. The mesh layer effectively behaves as a low\u2011bandwidth metadata and alert channel layered under the heavier protocols.\r\n\r\nAt the edge of this system sits the user, who never has to think about any of that. They don\u2019t open a news site; they open a simple chat\u2011like interface on their phone. That interface might be BitChat, a minimal browser UI over local Wi\u2011Fi, or a native shell, but the pattern is the same: a single text box and a few big buttons. The user can ask free\u2011form questions, \"Anything new about road closures?\u201d, \u201cIs there a fire risk near here?\u201d, \u201cWhat changed since yesterday?\u201d, or tap preset prompts like Latest, Safety, Transport, Shelter, and Local. Their query is handled locally by a small language model that lives on the Pi (or on\u2011device), which doesn\u2019t go out to the cloud. Instead, it pulls from the cached bulletins, filters them according to topic, region, time, and urgency, and synthesizes a concise response with citations or references. The user receives an answer and, if they want, can drill down to see the raw bulletins that answer was built from.\r\n\r\nThis architecture aims at three things at once: bandwidth efficiency, censorship resistance, and cognitive ergonomics. Bandwidth efficiency comes from the fact that the \u201cheavy lifting\u201d (publishing, syncing) is done in text, and user interactions are always just small queries plus short answers. Censorship resistance comes from not depending on any single domain, app store, or platform skin: the crucial units, the bulletins and signatures, can move over many transports and be stored by anyone. Cognitive ergonomics comes from aligning the interface with what people usually want: answers and briefings, not an infinity scroll of under\u2011prioritized content while you're on the toilet.\r\n\r\nThe session itself will be structured in three main parts.\r\n\r\nFirst, we\u2019ll map the current \u201cnormie path\u201d for consuming news: open browser or app, resolve domain, hit a complex CDN, negotiate JS, ads, trackers, fonts, and layouts, then finally read a few top stories. We\u2019ll identify all the failure and control points along that path, from DNS to TLS termination to third\u2011party CDNs and platform moderation, and relate them to real\u2011world scenarios where this path fails: network shutdowns, bandwidth throttling, disaster zones, and targeted blocking. This sets the problem: news as we know it assumes abundance of bandwidth and political goodwill, neither of which can be taken for granted.\r\n\r\nSecond, we\u2019ll walk through the Mesh News Network architecture from the perspective of each actor involved:\r\n\r\nNewsroom cells (or community media groups) that author bulletins, sign them, and publish them into decentralized feeds instead of relying solely on web CMSs.\r\n\r\nPi operators who run local hubs, handle initial configuration, choose upstream relays or feeds, and physically locate devices in community spaces.\r\n\r\nMesh enablers who maintain Meshtastic or other low\u2011bandwidth meshes, ensuring that at least small bulletin announcements and alerts can hop across a neighborhood, forest, camp, or city.\r\n\r\nOrdinary phone users who just open a chat, ask for what they need, and receive a readable answer.\r\n\r\nWe will diagram how bulletins move from a publishing laptop in a newsroom to a Pi under a desk in a neighborhood center, how they are summarized or curated, how priority alerts propagate over mesh, and how queries find the right pieces of text. I'll talk about pivoting news media tech vs local bulletins, about the constraints of LoRa vs. Wi\u2011Fi and occasional broadband, and how different grades of connectivity change the system\u2019s behavior without breaking it.\r\n\r\nThird, we\u2019ll dive into the role of small language models as local \u201cnews clerks.\u201d Instead of framing the model as a general\u2011purpose AI assistant, we treat it as a specialized retrieval and compression agent with four core jobs: daily briefing, \u201cwhat changed\u201d since X, topic\u2011specific digests, and rumor checks. We\u2019ll explore how to constrain the model\u2019s behavior so that it mostly stitches together and compresses known bulletins instead of hallucinating, how to expose provenance in the UI (e.g., \u201cthis answer is based on 3 bulletins from sources A, B, and C, last updated N hours ago\u201d), and how to maintain trust boundaries when some bulletins are official and others are community\u2011generated. This section opens up questions of epistemology and power: who gets to publish, which keys are trusted by default, and how do we avoid accidentally re\u2011centralizing editorial control in the model?\r\n\r\nThroughout the session, we will be explicit about trade\u2011offs and open problems rather than pretending the model is solved. For example: how do you design a bulletin schema that is expressive enough for many news types but compact enough to move over constrained links? How do you handle multilingual communities? How do you do personalization without building a surveillance profile, keeping preferences and filters local, while still giving people the sense that \u201cthis feed is for me\u201d? What happens when two PIs disagree about trust or filtering policy? How do you design UX for people under stress (evacuations, outages) who may have one or two minutes of battery left?\r\n\r\nIn terms of format, the session is planned as a short presentation with an interactive edge. I\u2019ll present the conceptual model and a reference architecture using diagrams rather than code, to keep it accessible to both technical and non\u2011technical participants. I\u2019ll invite a brief discussion focused on use cases participants care about, independent media, disaster response, protest communication, rural connectivity, or cultural preservation. If connectivity and logistics allow, I\u2019ll also show a basic prototype flow: a mock bulletin store, a simple query, and the kind of answer a local SLM could generate. The emphasis, though, is not on one specific implementation, but on the design pattern: local, query\u2011driven news stack over small text objects and cheap radios.\r\n\r\nBy the end of the session, participants should come away with a mental model of an alternative news pipeline that does not depend on big web stacks or centralized platforms: they will understand the roles required (publisher, hub operator, mesh maintainer, end user), the technical primitives (signed bulletins, local caches, low\u2011bandwidth relays, SLM\u2011based summarization), and the social questions that still need collective answers. Ideally, this becomes a seed for further collaboration at DWeb Camp: people who run meshes, who work in independent media, who build local AI systems, and who care about network sovereignty can find each other and iterate on the idea, adapting Mesh News Network to their own contexts and communities.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "LSNP3K", "name": "Casey Carr", "avatar": null, "biography": "Casey Carr is a security engineer and researcher based in Prague, working at the intersection of decentralized infrastructure, censorship resistance, and network sovereignty. Their recent talks explore how location-proofs and protocol-based messaging can support independent media and resilient communications in degraded or hostile network conditions. They are currently developing open\u2011source prototypes that connect Meshtastic meshes, Raspberry Pis, and local AI agents to enable community\u2011run information systems.", "public_name": "Casey Carr", "guid": "1cc6e96e-36bc-5cbe-9b05-a4df1ac7578a", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/LSNP3K/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JFNK39/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/JFNK39/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "61cb8e35-c718-5a16-aed0-7abc3cc2eee1", "code": "UZAK7M", "id": 799, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T10:30:00+02:00", "start": "10:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Resilience Base", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-799-dcomms-deploying-resilient-communications-in-the-context-of-precarious-connectivity", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZAK7M/", "title": "dComms: deploying resilient communications in the context of precarious connectivity", "subtitle": "", "track": "Anti-Authoritarian Stack", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "How to connect communities who live and work in at-risk areas: war-torn countries, authoritarian regimes or remote rural areas? By guiding these communities to set up their own federated ecosystems, which they can adapt, manage and use in accordance with their own values, local culture, language and politics. dComms is a project run by eQualitie since the full scale invasion of Ukraine, where we set up first Matrix, Mastodon, Delta Chat, Peertube servers in 6 Ukrainian cities. The project expanded to include Mexico, Colombia, Nigeria, Russia, Lebanon. Come to this presentation to hear about the local adoption stories, failures and successes and discuss the future of resilient federated tech.", "description": "dComms is a decentralized-communications project developed by eQualitie, the Canadian free-software organization behind Deflect and the Ceno browser. It was initiated in February 2022 in direct response to Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, originally to give Ukrainian users a fallback communication platform in the event of shutdowns, blocking, or censorship, and it has since broadened into a wider program of research, development, and test deployment of decentralized communications infrastructure across five countries facing repressive online censorship and surveillance. \r\n\r\nRather than a single app, dComms is an orchestration and deployment platform that helps communities stand up their own communication networks, bundling fediverse services such as Matrix/Element, Mastodon, and PeerTube alongside offline-first tools like the Delta Chat messenger and the Ceno browser. The design premise is that self-hosted, federated services offer a shutdown-resistant alternative capable of operating independently of global internet connectivity, creating small-world networks that keep communication reliable in low-bandwidth environments and resistant to censorship. Crucially, deployments are built on partnerships with local organizations to ensure project ownership and long-term sustainability, with tools tailored to the specific threat models and needs of journalists, activists, and marginalized communities in each context", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JWMTCX", "name": "Ksenia", "avatar": null, "biography": "TBD", "public_name": "Ksenia", "guid": "9495c05c-76c9-51e9-b0d1-781500011f47", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/JWMTCX/"}, {"code": "CJVCFY", "name": "Alex Dalessio", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/TDEYQD_lGkNPRS.webp", "biography": "Alex is a multidisciplinary professional with 20 years of experience working on six continents. Prior to eQualitie, Alex was an executive focused on developing and launching emerging technology programs in large organizations. As part of this work, he launched and led Amazon\u2019s Worldwide Public Sector Innovation Studio and was a senior advisor in the White House, where he led national initiatives in sustainability, technology modernization and identity management. He is also a co-founder of multiple award-winning sustainable agriculture companies supporting global food security. His passion is using technology to help make the world more equitable and sustainable for all living things. Alex holds a JD from UC Berkeley, an MBA from Oxford University and a Masters in Environmental Management from Yale University.", "public_name": "Alex Dalessio", "guid": "dad83cff-10ee-5229-88b7-053489cb60b4", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/CJVCFY/"}], "links": [{"title": "dComms website", "url": "https://dcomms.org", "type": "related"}], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZAK7M/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/UZAK7M/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "7358314b-f600-5ad5-a525-aa57ad8a0a77", "code": "3XYQD3", "id": 397, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T11:00:00+02:00", "start": "11:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Resilience Base", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-397-walkaway-stack-radical-infrastructure-independent-peer-to-peer-systems", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3XYQD3/", "title": "Walkaway Stack: Radical, infrastructure-independent peer-to-peer systems", "subtitle": "", "track": "Anti-Authoritarian Stack", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "A short and easy introduction into the \"Walkway Stack\" for everyone who wants to learn about radical  peer-to-peer systems", "description": "The Walkaway-Stack describes a peer-to-peer system where applications remain functional even if the underlying \"event delivery\" infrastructure changes. This enables seamless transitions between different network types\u2014whether moving from a \"connected\" Internet stack to a \"connectionless\" mesh network, or from radio protocols to sneakernets, and vice versa. In this way, applications are decoupled from the underlying network, giving users the autonomy to choose their preferred infrastructure.\r\n\r\nIn this presentation, I'll explore the space more broadly\u2014examining why it's so exciting, why it's not fully solved yet, and where things currently stand. Hopefully, this will also reveal a theoretical overlap between \"mesh protocols\" and \"overlay networks,\" which may actually be more closely related than we realize.\r\n\r\n**Background**\r\n\r\nThis lecture will be a compressed version of the \"p2p lecture series\" I've been then running bi-weekly in our community space \"offline\" in Berlin.\r\n\r\nhttps://pads.offline.place/p/r.06dda241c03ad92f2a55c47f4bbdd419", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "RR8YCW", "name": "adz", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/XNM8EV_H3YusRu.webp", "biography": "Core-maintainer of p2panda\r\n\r\n\u2756 Fediverse: https://post.lurk.org/@adz\r\n\u2756 Website: https://adz.garden\r\n\u2756 GitHub: https://github.com/adzialocha\r\n\u2756 Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/adz", "public_name": "adz", "guid": "d164fc42-5d55-585c-9dd3-f6baf9fd5984", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/RR8YCW/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3XYQD3/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/3XYQD3/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "ba591533-0f02-5def-8f72-4e5fd68c4116", "code": "WYSEDK", "id": 567, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T11:30:00+02:00", "start": "11:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Resilience Base", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-567-aos-building-an-anti-authoritarian-innovation-collective", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/WYSEDK/", "title": "AOS: Building an Anti-Authoritarian Innovation Collective", "subtitle": "", "track": "Anti-Authoritarian Stack", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "And Other Stuff (AOS) is building a freedom tech collective outside the usual startup and nonprofit models: no VC, no equity, no fees, and fully open-sourced operations. This session shares how we built that model across very different ecosystems, and what it takes to create infrastructure that helps activists, journalists, and organizers build for themselves.", "description": "[And Other Stuff](https://andotherstuff.org) (AOS) is an experiment in building freedom tech differently.\r\n\r\nMost technology incubators, accelerators, and innovation labs are built around venture capital, extractive incentives, or institutional gatekeeping. AOS took a different path. We have built a non-VC, non-charity innovation center for freedom tech: a hub for ideation, professional services matchmaking, project development, and hands-on support that does not take equity, does not charge fees, and is designed to help people build in the open across very different ecosystems.\r\n\r\nThis session will share how that model works in practice. We will walk through how AOS was structured, why we chose to open source our operating model, and what it means to create governance, process, and collaboration infrastructure that others can fork and adapt. We will also talk about the real challenge of building across communities that may share a vision of decentralization and freedom, but often differ sharply in culture, values, priorities, and technical assumptions. What does it take to work in public with people you may not fully agree with, while still building toward a common outcome?\r\n\r\nThe session will also explore the principles behind our work. At AOS, we describe our mission as technology for human thriving. That means recognizing that people cannot thrive without freedom, and that freedom tech has to be more than a set of tools. It also requires the social, organizational, and governance conditions that allow communities to imagine, build, use, and maintain those tools themselves.\r\n\r\nA core part of this approach is anti-colonial development. Too often, Western technologists approach communities with the mindset that they will \u201cbuild the solution\u201d on others\u2019 behalf. We are interested in a different model: helping activists, journalists, organizers, and other frontline communities develop the capacity to shape and finish the tools they need themselves. In practice, that means building the harness for participation, lowering technical and organizational barriers, and creating fertile ground for innovation that is responsive to real-world needs rather than imposed from the outside.\r\n\r\nWe will ground this conversation in concrete examples of what has emerged from the AOS model, including projects like BitChat, Divine, Numo, and Agora. These examples help illustrate the relationship between organizational design and technical outcomes: the kinds of infrastructure you build, the kinds of collaboration you enable, and the kinds of tools that become possible when people are empowered to work across layers of the stack.\r\n\r\nThis session is for people thinking about the long-term health of decentralized ecosystems: organizers, technologists, funders, governance designers, and anyone asking not just how to build alternative technologies, but how to build alternative institutions for creating them. It will offer an honest look at what we have learned about openness, coordination, ownership, interoperability, and support structures for freedom tech.\r\n\r\nRather than presenting a single template, this session offers a practical case study in how a collective can create the conditions for resilient, values-aligned innovation. Participants will leave with a clearer understanding of how to design collaboration infrastructure, how to support builders without reproducing extractive models, and how organizational choices shape the future of the technologies we hope to see in the world.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MTTKYA", "name": "Liz Sweigart", "avatar": null, "biography": "Liz Sweigart is a co-founding member of And Other Stuff, a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, connection, and creativity. She brings a background in consulting psychology, organizational transformation, human-centered design, and online safety, with prior work spanning corporate leadership, participatory design, and human-computer interaction. As a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt\u2019s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab, Liz is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can be designed with and for the people who need them most, including activists, organizers, and communities with limited technical backgrounds. 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This talk focuses on how many of our challenges are borne out of the forces that exist to make user interfaces as magical and frictionless as possible and the supporting infrastructures as invisible as possible.", "description": "Many non-profit, community, and activist organizations I speak to have one question for me: How do we get off of Google? Can we own our own data? \r\n\r\nAt Habitat, we are trying to make this an attainable reality for them, through a platform that provides primitives to manage an organization, build bespoke software, and host your data in a way that interoperates with many applications. While this unlocks many possibilities, it also introduces friction: while hardware is expensive to maintain; cloud compute is cheap and we're not used to thinking about our software's infrastructure. However, this friction can be reframed as a feature. By raising awareness of what resources it actually takes to support our seamless workflows, we can build new infrastructural networks to support ourselves and each other in the goal of building a more distributed and resilient internet. \r\n\r\nThis talk will cover my experiences as CEO and co-founder of Habitat navigating this friction, and focus on one feature I'm particularly excited about: co-hosting. If one group is running Habitat on servers they own, they can allow and invite other groups to run on the same infrastructure, rather than only having the choice between Habitat's cloud managed hosting or self-hosting it themselves. This approach scales at the speed of trust between organizations, and is a simple way to strike a balance between the ease in which we expect to setup software today and the friction required to actually take back the web and neutralize the dominating players.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WSJ3GY", "name": "Arushi", "avatar": null, "biography": "Arushi Bandi is a technologist living and working out of San Francisco. She is the CEO and Co-founder of Habitat, https://habitat.network, building a platform to help organizations and communities own their data and build software for their unique needs. 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We invite developers, activists, and thinkers to brainstorm architectures for the \"Digital Commons.\" We will discuss the realities and challenges of running small-parameter models (3B to 7B parameters) using Llama.cpp on accessible edge hardware, like a Raspberry Pi. How do we best utilize quantization to fit these tools into 8GB of RAM? How can we power these systems entirely by 12V DC solar setups in the jungle? We want your insights.\r\n\r\nRetrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) as a Survival Tool\r\nFinally, we will workshop ways to prevent AI \"hallucinations\" in critical survival scenarios. We will collectively brainstorm how to connect a local LLM to offline vector databases of agricultural PDFs and medical manuals. By designing pipelines that synthesize answers strictly from locally curated texts, we aim to map out a future where a farmer can safely diagnose crop diseases locally\u2014without a single packet of data ever leaving the village. 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His field deployments combine 12V DC-native solar power, tactical LoRa mesh networks, HF radio, and localized edge AI to ensure marginalized communities retain cognitive and digital sovereignty when the centralized grid fails.\r\n\r\nMichael believes that true autonomy is not given\u2014it is engineered. 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How far do these thoughts apply to decentralized network technologies in general?", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "ULYDSZ", "name": "Christine Lemmer-Webber", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/9QGDPG_e0vSfxl.webp", "biography": "Christine has devoted her life to advancing user freedom. Realizing that the federated social web was fractured by a variety of incompatible protocols, she co-authored and shepherded ActivityPub's standardization. She has also contributed to many other free and open source projects, including co-founding MediaGoblin. 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We introduce a design that uses trusted hardware for the local-first mode, and falls back to global consensus for defense-in-depth against hardware failures.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "L8YSL7", "name": "Ying Tong", "avatar": null, "biography": "Ying Tong is an applied cryptographer working on private payments.", "public_name": "Ying Tong", "guid": "c159b677-4e99-5f10-866a-1859b36ba494", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/L8YSL7/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AEWNJA/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/AEWNJA/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "90920b4b-2247-5ea0-8501-3f44d3b162ff", "code": "P88DXE", "id": 280, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-10T13:30:00+02:00", "start": "13:30", "duration": "01:30", "room": "P2P Portal", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-280-a-delicious-presentation-of-ada-zangemann-a-tale-of-software-skateboards-and-raspberry-ice-cream", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/P88DXE/", "title": "A Delicious Presentation of \"Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream\"", "subtitle": "", "track": "Intergenerational Growth: Seedlings, Saplings, and Old Growth", "type": "Workshop - longer", "language": "en", "abstract": "Matthias Kirschner author of the book, will present the video version in English of \"Ada & Zangemann - A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream\" and together with his children who participated in the creation of the story, discuss the topic with people young and old.  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Ada begins to experiment with hardware and software, and in the process realises how crucial it is for her and others to control technology.\r\n\r\nA story available as Open Educational Resource under Creative Commons BY-SA that arouses children's interest in tinkering and encourages shaping technology. From age 6 to 106.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "UV3LY7", "name": "Matthias Kirschner", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/UC8HHG_rqUuI3K.webp", "biography": "Matthias Kirschner is President of FSFE. In 1999 he started using GNU/Linux and realised that software is deeply involved in all aspects of our lives. Matthias is convinced that this technology has to empower society not restrict it. 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The ecosystem of apps built with NextGraph is growing, and it is getting easier to use the SDK specially with the ORM. Let's explore what can be done today with NextGraph, including the new [ELFA project](https://elfaconsortium.eu) that has just started, and that aims at delivering a full suite of apps for productivity tools and social network.", "description": "This talk will be composed of two parts. We will first introduce the general architecture of our platform, engine, protocol and SDK, giving an overview of its components. 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Universities have long been engines of public-goods innovation: the Internet, processing chips, and CRISPR are all examples of widely-used innovations that first emerged from university research labs. Yet whether those breakthroughs diffuse into society or stall in a tech-transfer office depends on the intellectual property rules the institution sets. Four decades of experience show that permissive, open-source\u2013friendly policies catalyze entrepreneurship and knowledge spill-over, while restrictive, university-owned regimes can slow both.\r\n\r\nThe LiteFarm Community has an opportunity to co-create a novel governance model as part of a university exit built around the concepts of distributed governance, community and network collaboration, shared futures, and shared goals and values for food sovereignty. This governance structure must respect the multi-faceted stakeholders present in an open source research project while enabling a mission to meet farmers where they are and equip them with the tools they need to make informed and responsible decisions about the health of their farm, their livelihood, their community, and the planet. \r\n\r\nThese stakeholders include but are not limited to: \r\n\u2022\tUsers: find utility in the product, and thus have a vested interest in supporting the evolution and flourishing of the community and ecosystem. This in turn benefits the broader agricultural and research communities in building the evidence base for agroecological transitions. \r\n\u2022\tContributors: who build the product - becoming part-owners of the codebase - and have a stake in the success of the product and the health of the community as an accommodating, fun, and welcoming place to volunteer their time and skills. \r\n\u2022\tFarmers groups: who want to better support their membership and need tools such as LiteFarm to be successful in this. \r\n\u2022\tResearchers: who need access to datasets created in LiteFarm to support research into agroecology and have an interest in guiding the roadmap of LiteFarm to better support their future research questions. \r\n\u2022\tOpen source partners: who integrate with and support the LiteFarm ecosystem in various ways based on shared mission alignment and desire for shared impact. . \r\n\u2022\tFunders: Groups looking to transform capital into social or scientific impact. \r\n\u2022\tMission aligned service providers (e.g. non-profits, governments, and others) who see LiteFarm as a valuable channel for providing a service that community members would benefit from. \r\n\r\nGiven the diversity within this community, this workshop aims to explore a set of future governance pathways for an open-source exit to Community, using the LiteFarm experience as a case study and \u2018test\u2019 case to identify challenges and opportunities for governance and operational models as open-source projects seek to exit from an initial start-up incubator phase and/or institutional home. These pathways explore what a dedicated governance wrapper might look like for safeguarding the technology\u2019s open-source mandate, ensuring financial sustainability, and demonstrating to farmers, external contributors, and institutional adopters that LiteFarm will remain transparent and community-led into the future.  \r\n\r\nGovernance Archetypes \r\nThe Harvard Cyberlaw Clinic, in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center, identified five common governance archetypes found in open-source software projects. These archetypes describe different ways decision-making power, accountability, and community participation evolve and are structured as projects mature. We will discuss these as reference models for understanding LiteFarm\u2019s current governance and possible future trajectories and steps towards becoming a sustainable organization while maintaining its core mission as a digital public good. \r\n\r\nExit Pathways & Implementation Scenarios \r\nWe then discuss potential exit pathways and their potential alignment a mission oriented to food and data sovereignty, socio-ecological justice, and long-term operational sustainability. Each pathway includes precedents, trade-offs, and concrete implementation considerations to guide decision-making. These options can be combined or sequenced over time (e.g. retaining university anchoring while transferring IP to a neutral foundation, or layering a mission-aligned enterprise within a nonprofit structure). We will propose a checklist and welcome feedback on this to check goal alignment and guide understanding of trade-offs. 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Who gets to decide what should exist in the first place?\r\n\r\nPeer-to-peer technology becomes interesting there not because it is elegant architecture, although it can be. It matters because sovereignty is real. Communities already understand sovereignty through land, language, governance, kinship, and struggle. The question is whether our digital tools respect that, or whether they quietly pull people back into clouds, platforms, and systems they cannot control.\r\n\r\nFrom there, I want to talk about AI.\r\n\r\nAI is usually presented as the future: bigger models, larger data centers, more data, more magic. But AI is also a new extraction machine. It extracts minerals, energy, labor, attention, language, and culture. For Indigenous languages, this is especially dangerous. We may soon see a world where a company\u2019s model can speak a language that living communities have been violently pressured out of speaking themselves.\r\n\r\nThat is not a future I want to help build.\r\n\r\nSo what would another path look like?\r\n\r\nThe idea I want to share is simple: something like CoMapeo, but for language data. Peer-to-peer, offline-first, community-governed language data collection. People could record stories, conversations, songs, place names, teachings, or everyday speech. They could transcribe, translate, review quality, and decide together what can happen with that data. Maybe it trains a model. Maybe it stays only in the community. Maybe some things should never enter a machine at all.\r\n\r\nFrom there we can imagine smaller, stranger, more useful AI systems. Local machines. Solar-powered infrastructure. Voice-first tools for oral cultures. 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They're not waiting for the conditions to be right. They're building it now, in the middle of the collapses \u2014 climate, economic, and social \u2014 that make it necessary.\r\n\r\nWhat connects them is a shared evolution: away from reactive response and toward infrastructure that makes communities harder to destabilize in the first place. There is a difference between infrastructure that helps communities survive a crisis and infrastructure that prevents the crisis from taking hold. The most durable community infrastructure doesn't just hold in emergencies, it accumulates capacity with use. Relationships deepen. Skills are distributed. Governance gets tested and refined. The community becomes more capable, not more dependent, over time.\r\n\r\nThat arc is the intended through-line of this panel. 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We just finished the second Escuela that happened in Haedo, Argentina, hosted in Antena Negra, a grassroots TV station, within a space reclaimed by the train workers. We finished with an open event at IMPA, one of the first factories reclaimed by its workers in Buenos Aires. It was even streamed with the infrastructure we built during the event, and [you can watch the recordings here](https://stream.antv.abyaya.la/videos/browse).\r\n\r\nDuring this time, we collectivelly agree on mutual care and aid practices, we form bonds and alliances, while we learn how to gather better information through grassroots media, work on our own narratives, at the same time that we share digital safety practices that can later be practiced within each participant organization.\r\n\r\nDuring the digital gardens track, where I'm one of the facilitators in, we talk and envision how the sysadmin work can be socialized, how it can be embedded within the organization as a shared responsibility towards our infrastructure and data, and that's how the analogy to tending a community garden came to be, as resistance to Big Tech's monoculture. 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The Red Abya Yala project is getting a life of its own, and we're working on common agreements and commitments to be able to bring into more community servers, even ones not built within or with the Escuela Com\u00fan framework.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "L8BPY9", "name": "fauno", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/8UY3SD_Vh6pJLu.webp", "biography": "My work and activism is focused on investigating, adapting and implementing ecological and resilient technologies, specially autonomous, collectivelly managed infrastructure.\r\n\r\nIn the last seven years I've been working almost exclusively on resilient web sites using Jekyll and developing a platform for updating and hosting them called [Sutty](https://sutty.coop.ar). 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The outputs feed directly into the CGO Toolkit being developed by the CGO working group \u2014 a practitioner-facing resource designed to help communities navigate governance transitions without having to start from zero, and a growing community of practice to learn, build, and adapt new frameworks that continue to support community governance of the new tools and technologies that are being built every day.\r\n\r\nMadelynn Martiniere\r\n\r\nRichard Ng\r\n\r\n====\r\n\r\n#Entanglement by Design\r\n\r\nMost distributed communities fail not because their technology breaks, but because nothing holds them together. This Network Nations workshop introduces entanglement \u2014 the purposeful weaving of interdependencies across cultural, economic, legal, and structural layers \u2014 as a design practice, and gives participants tools to map and strengthen the resilience of their own projects.\r\n\r\nEntanglement is what transforms a loose federation into something that can sustain obligations, weather shocks, and govern itself across distance.\r\n\r\nDrawing on cooperative traditions, mutual aid networks, indigenous commons governance, and diasporic community structures \u2014 we work through the four layers of interdependence that produce durable political community, and apply them directly to participants' own projects.\r\n\r\n\r\nLovisa Bj\u00f6rna\r\n\r\nFelix Beer\r\n\r\n====\r\n\r\n#Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3\r\n\r\nA few years ago, Exit to Community (E2C) in Web3, i.e. transitioning ownership and governance rights to user communities via DAOs, was all the hype. The goal has always been to decentralize the governance of technologies. Today, we know that in some cases the transitions resulted in relatively stable and successful community organizations, whereas in other cases, small stakeholder groups and founders have resurfaced as holding outsized power. In this workshop we examine the anti-patterns of E2C in Web3. Specifically, we ask: what steps that Web3 organizations took during their Exit to Communities, seemed like a good idea at the time, but ultimately have led to counterproductive or even harmful outcomes?\r\n\r\nA few years ago, Exit to Community (or Progressive Decentralization) became a key ambition of Web3: the idea that ownership and governance rights could be transferred from founders and investors to user communities through Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs). At its core, the movement promised a more democratic and decentralized future for technology governance. Since then, however, the outcomes have been mixed. Some transitions produced resilient and effective community-led organizations (especially in DeFi). Others gradually reproduced familiar concentrations of power, with founders, core contributors, or small stakeholder groups regaining outsized influence over decision-making processes. Yet others failed to ever complete their transitions beyond distributing tokens, or failed due to a lack of structure supporting community governance.\r\n\r\nThis workshop examines the anti-patterns of decentralization in Web3 by looking critically at the governance choices made during these \u201cExit to Community\u201d transitions. For this, we present 5 recipes of E2C, i.e. typical E2C strategies identified across the blockchain ecosystem. In groups, organized around these different recipes, we discuss the anti-pattern or \u2018fake flavours\u2019 that may emerge from each recipe.\r\n\r\nTara Merk\r\n\r\nPrimavera De Filippi\r\n\r\n====\r\n\r\n#Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don\u2019t)\r\n\r\nThe DWeb community has no shortage of ambition, and plenty of hard earned wisdom around a variety of strategies for bringing decent infrastructure into the world. This participatory workshop is focused on surfacing the wins as well as the hard won lessons from our collective experiences, particularly regarding how projects and movements sustain ongoing efforts at helping create a more decent web and world.\r\n\r\nMany of us have tried to build systems that support a more decent world. Some have had success. Fewer have managed to sustain those efforts. Others have experienced burn out or a dissipation of coherence and vitality over time. Come share your experiences and hear from others about what worked and what didn\u2019t at various phases in our efforts to build a more decent web and world.\r\n\r\nMatthew Schutte\r\n\r\n====", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WZGRFX", "name": "Liz Barry", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/ZSQFBX_c7dWWSI.webp", "biography": "Elizabeth \"Liz\" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. By providing the scaffolding (tools, protocols, semantics, norms) necessary for emergent institutional design, Metagov aims to reduce the friction of upgrading or creating new organizations that are \u201calive\u201d \u2014 i.e. that can adapt, incorporate feedback, and manage power. She co-founded the Computational Democracy Project with the creators of Polis. 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He is focused on bringing Indigenous and value systems as a core element is designing systems of governance for all of humanity.", "public_name": "Richard Ng", "guid": "583e4d48-1cd9-5d3e-810c-9e1fcef9aa3c", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/QZ8VTK/"}, {"code": "GNHPWH", "name": "Matthew Schutte", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/KPUMGL_jBhzQ43.webp", "biography": "This year at DWeb I'm helping lead the Demo Night Market. If you are thinking about showing something off, please submit an application (the demo question is late on page 2 of the proposals page) or simply connect with me and we can discuss: \r\n\r\nhttps://linkedin.com/in/matthewschutte\r\nmatthew.schutte@holo.host\r\n\r\nIn past years I've helped steward the lightning talks, and bear at least partial responsibility for a nearly disastrous first unconference style day a few years ago.\r\n\r\nI'm a former big wave surfer, a current hack musician, and an experienced entrepreneur with strengths in high level architecture, strategy, communications and partnership / business development. \r\n\r\nMore recently, I've been deepening my tech skills by building software myself now that getting unstuck has gotten a little easier thanks to some of the new AI tools.\r\n\r\nI have lived and traveled all over the world both for work and for surf, but now call Puerto Rico home where I live in a small condo in a small town with my wife Tatiana and our two cats, Tiger and Shy.\r\n\r\nOn the professional front: I'm a co-founder of Holochain, a peer-to-peer application framework that has taken far longer to get to production ready than any of us anticipated, as well as Unyt accounting, a peer-to-peer payments and accounting system built on top of holochain. In addition, I'm an advisor to a couple of foundational AI lab startups and have volunteered and served on the board of directors of Toward Warm Data with Nora Bateson. I am open to aligned board or advisory roles and would love to hear what you are currently feeling most excited about. Let's jam!", "public_name": "Matthew Schutte", "guid": "823c691c-2a64-5f8a-b76a-090d70227012", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/GNHPWH/"}, {"code": "RWPSBA", "name": "Madelynn Martiniere", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/JAWJC8_MA3tRUL.webp", "biography": "Madelynn Martiniere is a facilitator, designer, and strategist specializing in collective innovation\u2014the conditions and infrastructure that enable ecosystems to cultivate community resilience and tackle wicked problems together.\r\n\r\nFor almost two decades, she has worked across sectors and scales to build innovation ecosystems that center open access, community ownership, and collective power. Her portfolio spans the globe: co-designing an entrepreneurship hub for refugees in Uganda, leading development for a digital platform for sustainable fisheries in Latin America, facilitating data sovereignty initiatives toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and stewarding a global movement of founders and funders building businesses that balance profit and purpose.\r\n\r\nA co-founder of [Armillaria](armillaria.io) and former Executive Director of [Zebras Unite](https://zebrasunite.com), she has spent over 15 years bridging local practice with systems-level change\u2014developing the social, organizational, financial, and technical infrastructure that enables communities to produce, govern, and share the technologies shaping our future.\r\n\r\nShe currently serves on the boards of [Communitere International](https://www.communitere.org), which builds community resilience infrastructure in crisis and post-crisis contexts, and the [Holochain Foundation](https://www.holochain.org), advancing peer-to-peer technology for community-owned digital infrastructure.", "public_name": "Madelynn Martiniere", "guid": "981ad989-51d5-5c7d-b124-9df26c6f7bc3", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/RWPSBA/"}, {"code": "7FK7FA", "name": "Guil Maueler", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/HFVMAK_f4Iqr8d.webp", "biography": "Guilherme Maueler co-founded Regens Unite and has spent 14+ years working at the intersection of brand, product, and community in Web3, fintech, and impact organisations.", "public_name": "Guil Maueler", "guid": "4bcdf08a-aee5-5979-b1b4-6180033263cf", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/7FK7FA/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZQ7A3T/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/ZQ7A3T/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "0c0ac6af-02e0-5fa3-88d3-70cdca648b92", "code": "VC9LBJ", "id": 425, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-11T15:30:00+02:00", "start": "15:30", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-425-beyond-the-network-state-building-governance-infrastructure-for-networked-sovereignties", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VC9LBJ/", "title": "Beyond the Network State: Building Governance Infrastructure for Networked Sovereignties", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "In this talk we explore why the dominant \u201cNetwork State\u201d model is narrowing the design space for networked sovereignty \u2014 and introduce Network Nations as a democratic, commons-grounded alternative built on three practical mechanisms: functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement \u2014 so distributed communities can actually sustain themselves, steward shared resources, and govern across distance.", "description": "Core argument\r\nThe decentralized web has built extraordinary infrastructure for distributed coordination. But coordination is not governance \u2014 and the question of how networked communities actually govern themselves is both urgent and unresolved. What holds a distributed community together over time? How are shared resources stewarded, disputes resolved, participants kept accountable? \r\nNetworked sovereignty is emerging as a genuine new layer of political organization, and the governance patterns we normalize now will shape what kinds of polities become possible for decades. The Network State is currently the dominant blueprint, but it is only one answer. The design space is wider than any single model, and if it closes prematurely, we risk locking in a narrow version of what networked sovereignty can become.\r\nThis talk introduces Network Nations as a framework for democratic, commons-grounded governance among translocal communities. It presents three core mechanisms \u2014 functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement \u2014 as institutional scaffolding for communities to self-govern across distance. The DWeb community has essential design knowledge to contribute: decentralization, peer-to-peer infrastructure, ecological responsibility, open protocols, and public goods stewardship.  As a session, it is well placed to engage the broader design space and develop concrete alternatives to startup-led models of networked sovereignty.\r\n\r\n\r\nDetailed Breakdown \r\n1. The mismatch \r\nPolitical authority is still largely imagined through the territorial state: borders, national institutions, legal jurisdiction, and citizenship.\r\nBut the forces shaping our world (climate, digital infrastructure, capital, migration) operate at planetary scale\r\nResult: growing mismatch between global, interconnected problems and territorially bounded institutions (felt in many different ways\u2026polycrisis, institutional decay, lack of civic agency etc) \r\n2. The opening \u2014 networks make new forms possible\r\nNetwork technologies both intensify this mismatch and create new political possibilities.\r\nCommunities can now coordinate, build shared institutions, and govern themselves across distance at scale. \r\nA diverse set of initiatives are already experimenting with this: open-source communities, diasporic networks, regenerative movements, Web3 communities, network states, charter cities, popup cities.  \r\nUmbrella term: new networked sovereignties \u2014 self-sovereign networked political communities transcending traditional definitions of sovereignty (De Filippi et al. 2023)\r\n\r\n\r\n3. The risk \u2014 the design space is narrowing\r\nThe dominant framing \u2014 the Network State \u2014 borrows the logic of the startup: founder-led, capital-funded, sovereignty pursued through territorial acquisition and diplomatic recognition\r\nOne answer, but not the only one\r\nIts assumptions narrow the design space at precisely the moment we need it to be broad\r\nNetworked sovereignty is genuinely emerging as a new political layer and we need to seriously explore what other kinds of polities are useful \u2014 before the field converges prematurely around a single model. Stakes are high as we\u2019re risking path dependency for the sovereignty stack of the future. \r\n4. Network Nations \u2014 a different starting point\r\nNetwork Nations offer a different model. They start from the same diagnosis and use the same Web3 tools, but propose a more resilient political form. \r\nThey are translocal communities that build shared identity, govern shared resources, and coordinate collective action across borders.\r\nThey do not require territorial consolidation or diplomatic recognition in order to exercise meaningful governance capacity.\r\nTheir normative centre is democratic self-governance, commoning, mutual responsibility, and civic empowerment \u2014 not exit, competitive jurisdiction, or territorial capture.\r\nThey draw on longer traditions of commons governance, cooperative institutions, diasporic self-organization, indigenous land stewardship, mutual aid, and peer-to-peer coordination.\r\n5. How do they work?\r\nWhat makes Network Nations politically significant is not that they connect people -  many networks do that. They develop the capacity for self-governance through 3 core mechanisms:\r\nFunctional sovereignty - domain-specific governance capacity exercised where competence resides, without territorial claims\r\nCommons governance -  shared resources, rules, and stewardship maintained collectively\r\nEntanglement - purposeful interdependencies that make the success of each part inseparable from the whole\r\nTogether, these address the DWeb sustainability gap: not how to build distributed systems, but how to keep them governed, funded, and accountable over time\r\n6. Examples\r\nRegen Network: ecological accounting and environmental standards coordinated across bioregions.\r\nSeeDAO: diasporic Chinese cultural governance and community infrastructure beyond a single territorial state.\r\nCommunity land trusts: housing stewardship as a commons, outside speculative market logic.\r\nBurning Man regional networks: portable culture, shared principles, and decentralized event governance across local nodes.\r\nMeta-jurisdictions: legal structures composed from multiple existing systems, giving non-territorial communities institutional coherence without requiring statehood.\r\n7. Closing \r\nThe talk closes with an invitation: the realm of networked sovereignty is wide open, and this Dweb community - with its deep commitment to decentralisation, peer-to-peer principles, and ecological responsibility - has essential design knowledge to contribute. The governance infrastructure we build now will shape what kinds of political communities are possible for decades. We should make sure the design space includes more than one blueprint.\r\nWhat participants will take away:\r\nA practical framework for networked self-governance, grounded in functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement.\r\nConcrete examples of these mechanisms already in practice\r\nA clear articulation of what distinguishes Network Nations from Network States \u2014 and why it matters for the future of the DWeb\r\nAn orientation to the emerging field of networked sovereignties and an invitation to participate in shaping it\r\nHow this extends beyond camp: Network Nations is an active research programme at BlockchainGov (EUI) with a growing public body of work: the Network Nations Substack (Theory Briefs + Field Notes), and two podcast series hosted by The Blockchain Socialist and Greenpill respectively. After camp, participants can contribute cases from their own projects, access shared frameworks, and join the Network Nations Alliance as members.\r\nTrack fit (Sustaining Infrastructure): Network Nations address the sustainability layer beneath DWeb's technical infrastructure: how distributed communities govern shared resources, maintain accountability, fund public goods, and hold together over time. Functional sovereignty, commons governance, and entanglement are governance infrastructure for communities that want to sustain themselves beyond initial enthusiasm. If distributed systems have political ambitions, this framework offers a way to build them.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "XKNHWE", "name": "Primavera", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/8PG8H3_sYzeiTm.webp", "biography": "Primavera De Filippi is a Research Director at CNRS (France) and Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center, working at the intersection of law, technology, and governance. She is the author of Blockchain and the Law (Harvard, 2018) and Blockchain Governance (MIT, 2024).", "public_name": "Primavera", "guid": "0a00dc6c-3fb5-5482-b586-7457845b881c", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/XKNHWE/"}, {"code": "89CQXL", "name": "Felix Beer", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/3UTJUJ_4oFOKZ5.webp", "biography": "Felix Beer is a researcher and strategist reimagining democracy for the age of advanced AI. His work advances institutional R&D as a field to address a core gap: while AI capabilities scale rapidly, there is no systematic infrastructure for designing and testing the institutions that govern them. He builds the ecosystem scaffolding needed to develop, prototype, and scale governance systems capable of aligning and steering increasingly agentic systems. Felix's research focuses on how digital protocols expand the institutional design space, enabling democratic principles to be encoded in the coordination substrate of agentic networks. Felix is a Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Studies and an Associate at the TUM Think Tank, NYU Protopolis Lab, and BlockchainGov. He is currently an MPA candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School and a PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich.", "public_name": "Felix Beer", "guid": "f7718725-903f-5d72-b7e8-8ff19dc90d6c", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/89CQXL/"}, {"code": "DYUF3S", "name": "L0visa", "avatar": null, "biography": "Primavera is a Legal Scholar @ Harvard and CNRS\r\n\r\nFelix Beer\r\nStrategist and researcher working on governance innovation at the intersection of technology and democracy. Focused on building new R&D ecosystems that can pilot, test, and scale next-gen institutions for a networked age.\r\n\r\nLovisa Bj\u00f6rna\r\nResearcher-practitioner focused on governance in networked systems. Head of Platform at BlockchainGov and initiator of the Governance Module at the Polkadot Blockchain Academy.", "public_name": "L0visa", "guid": "6c582c81-d2e5-5fae-9f2d-3cdd5675ab70", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/DYUF3S/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VC9LBJ/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VC9LBJ/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "ddec7aa2-9a18-52ae-b1ab-d2a2190c8c5f", "code": "XQKYSW", "id": 740, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-11T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-740-can-we-catalyze-a-decent-movement", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XQKYSW/", "title": "Can we Catalyze a Decent Movement?", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Workshop - medium", "language": "en", "abstract": "Help architect the seed of a vibrant general social movement to co-create a decent world.", "description": "In this collaborative sensemaking, strategy and design session, we will jam on the initial elements that might catalyze a coherent -- but not centrally controlled -- vibrant general social movement anchored around a core concept of co-creating a decent world. \r\n\r\nWhy \"decent\"?\r\n\r\nWe're playing on at least three meanings at once:\r\n\r\n- Decency \u2014 the basic moral fabric (fairness, dignity, care) that feels under threat across so many parts of life right now, and that we want to actively cultivate rather than just defend.\r\n\r\n- Decentralisation \u2014 the technical and organisational shift away from monopolised, extractive infrastructure towards mutual sovereignty -- supporting both individual agency in tension/interaction with the evolving integrity of communities rather that a dominance of one frame (individual/collective/meta-collective) over the other.\r\n\r\n- Good enough \u2014 Let's not let perfection be the enemy of the good. Decent includes permission to act imperfectly: you don't need a fully decentralised life or a finished movement to start.  \"Good enough to try\" unblocks action; perfectionism can yield paralysis. Good enough includes grace for others and for ourselves even though we may not currently meet some ideal standard.\r\n\r\nA joyous and generative decent\r\nWe believe that decent infrastructure is a core part of this movement, but that it is not the whole. Decent tools, processes, and practices have a part to play; but so do decent food, music, art, policy, parties, and more.\r\n\r\nCreating, not responding\r\nCan we cultivate a decent movement filled with movement? Rather than orchestrating activity anchored in opposition to (and thus definition by) the current destructive patterns and practices of our politics and economy, can we inspire a participatory and active creation of a more richly relational, vibrant, and decent world? \r\n\r\nCo-creation AND Coherence\r\nCan we emphasize generation and creativity, while integrating elements that weave coherence from disparate perspectives? \r\n\r\nBroad Roots of Inspiration\r\nCan we share lessons from festival culture as much as from cooperatives and grassroots organizing efforts, as well as corporate and governmental experiences? Can these be decent jams or decent parties?\r\n\r\nCreation > Consumption\r\nCan we design experiences (including our own strategy sessions) in ways that support a weaving of relationship (where a \"you\" and a \"me\" might shift to include at least an element of \"we\" in the mix.) \r\n\r\nWeaving of relationship\r\nCan we create clear pathways for new people to participate, including clarity on how to start their own independent (or interdependent) jams/parties? \r\n\r\nCan we support the internal variety required to meet the challenges we face, while simultaneously providing the rest of the world with easy ways to interact with us? How might decent documentation play a role? How about decent finance?\r\n\r\nDecentralized affiliation architecture\r\nCan we find ways of enabling affiliation or even elements of authority without pulling in all of the centralized baggage that accompanies traditional membership or role structures?\r\n\r\nWe want your creativity and perspective to inform this movement from the start. Please join us for this closing session of the Sustaining Infrastructure track to help design a decent movement.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "WZGRFX", "name": "Liz Barry", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/ZSQFBX_c7dWWSI.webp", "biography": "Elizabeth \"Liz\" Barry is the Executive Director of Metagov, a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory advancing collective self-governance in a digital age. By providing the scaffolding (tools, protocols, semantics, norms) necessary for emergent institutional design, Metagov aims to reduce the friction of upgrading or creating new organizations that are \u201calive\u201d \u2014 i.e. that can adapt, incorporate feedback, and manage power. She co-founded the Computational Democracy Project with the creators of Polis. She witnessed Taiwan\u2019s Sunflower Revolution in person, then introduced Audrey Tang to the international community in the 2016 piece \"vTaiwan: Public Participation Methods on the Cyberpunk Frontier of Democracy.\" Her many initiatives have tuned human-environment-technology relationships by applying design to community organizing, science to environmental justice, and math to democracy. More at lizbarry.net.", "public_name": "Liz Barry", "guid": "b711a42f-5bd5-52dd-8bf4-d4d8a13a57f1", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/WZGRFX/"}, {"code": "GNHPWH", "name": "Matthew Schutte", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/KPUMGL_jBhzQ43.webp", "biography": "This year at DWeb I'm helping lead the Demo Night Market. If you are thinking about showing something off, please submit an application (the demo question is late on page 2 of the proposals page) or simply connect with me and we can discuss: \r\n\r\nhttps://linkedin.com/in/matthewschutte\r\nmatthew.schutte@holo.host\r\n\r\nIn past years I've helped steward the lightning talks, and bear at least partial responsibility for a nearly disastrous first unconference style day a few years ago.\r\n\r\nI'm a former big wave surfer, a current hack musician, and an experienced entrepreneur with strengths in high level architecture, strategy, communications and partnership / business development. \r\n\r\nMore recently, I've been deepening my tech skills by building software myself now that getting unstuck has gotten a little easier thanks to some of the new AI tools.\r\n\r\nI have lived and traveled all over the world both for work and for surf, but now call Puerto Rico home where I live in a small condo in a small town with my wife Tatiana and our two cats, Tiger and Shy.\r\n\r\nOn the professional front: I'm a co-founder of Holochain, a peer-to-peer application framework that has taken far longer to get to production ready than any of us anticipated, as well as Unyt accounting, a peer-to-peer payments and accounting system built on top of holochain. In addition, I'm an advisor to a couple of foundational AI lab startups and have volunteered and served on the board of directors of Toward Warm Data with Nora Bateson. I am open to aligned board or advisory roles and would love to hear what you are currently feeling most excited about. Let's jam!", "public_name": "Matthew Schutte", "guid": "823c691c-2a64-5f8a-b76a-090d70227012", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/GNHPWH/"}, {"code": "CCN7PM", "name": "Wouter Tebbens", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/DFTKYL_RSpmA8F.webp", "biography": "Wouter Tebbens is an industrial engineer born and raised in The Netherlands working from Barcelona. He works for a knowledge society based in human freedom, solidarity, care and regeneration through commons-cooperative networks. He has co-founded and participates in various cooperatives and collectives. Co-founder of the Democratic Tech Fund and director at the Free Knowledge Institute.\r\n\r\nIn the 2000s he set up the Free/Libre and Open Source working group of the Internet Society Netherlands, co-founded the Free Knowledge Institute and coordinated two European Commission funded projects: the SELF project and the Free Technology Academy and participated in various others.\r\n\r\nIn the last decade he participated in Som Energia, the Spanish renewable energy cooperative; the School of the Commons Barcelona; was part of the p2p value research team studying >300 cases of commons-based p2p internet platforms; participated in the Digital DIY project on legal, ethical and economic aspects related to digital fabrication and DIY; co-founded The Things Network Catalonia and ran various pilots and projects with various municipalities around sensor data through the community network.\r\n\r\nIn order to seek sustainability for commons-oriented initiatives he conceived the Five Pillar model. In the context especially of la Comunificadora, a programme from Barcelona City to help teams create their commons-collaborative economy project, this model was developed further as the core organising model with specific canvases and workshop methodologies.\r\n\r\nWouter was one of the artifices behind the creation of the cooperative femProcomuns and helped create the initial projects and move them from under the wings of the FKI to the cooperative, including CommonsCloud, the open community network for the Internet of Things and the commons transition group.\r\n\r\nSince the pandemic he has been an operational member of The Online Meeting Cooperative (meet.coop), he has worked as the first director of the PublicSpaces Foundation in The Netherlands, is a collaborator at Commons Network and works in various projects to advance a commons-cooperative-regenerative vision.", "public_name": "Wouter Tebbens", "guid": "60d5227f-504b-59f1-96b1-7dae51cc0c5d", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/CCN7PM/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XQKYSW/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/XQKYSW/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "f738a214-ca2c-5011-8a34-4476298727fd", "code": "VZNHHN", "id": 430, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-11T17:00:00+02:00", "start": "17:00", "duration": "01:00", "room": "Birch Salon", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-430-decentralization-is-not-a-type-of-structure-it-s-a-type-of-person", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/VZNHHN/", "title": "Decentralization is not a type of structure. It's a type of person.", "subtitle": "", "track": "Sustaining Infrastructure", "type": "Workshop - longer", "language": "en", "abstract": "What if we've been building the wrong thing?  What if the decentralization project is not a project of technological development but one of human development. I will show just how much of successful decentralization depends on people with tremendous training in collaborative and autonomous work.", "description": "Decentralization has an easy part\u2014the structures\u2014and a hard part\u2014people who have internalized those structures.  All applications of new technology go towards making the easy part easier. In this talk I will take the perspective of behavioral science to argue that we've been building the wrong thing: that the critical lack in a polycentric, free future is not a type of structure, but a type of person. Integrating psychology, sociology, and political science I will show what I mean, and what role it suggests for future effort toward a decentralized future.\r\n\r\nWe will conclude with a discussion where everyone shares their own experiences of failure and success stepping into decentralized systems with the right preparation.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "XSRGAR", "name": "Seth Frey", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/VKZDYF_lbrEAGU.webp", "biography": "Dr. Seth Frey is a computational social scientist and cognitive scientist who studies commons governance, collective action, and other complex social phenomena. He specializes in using online communities as model systems for emergent institutional and organizational phenomena. His expertise is in computational approaches to self-governance and the cognitive science of collective behavior.\r\n\r\nHe is an associate professor in Communication at the University of California Davis, an affiliate of the Ostrom Workshop at Indiana University, and a Research Director at Metagov. He was a behavioral economist at Disney Research in Walt Disney Imagineering, and a complex systems scholar at NECSI. Seth holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science and Informatics (complex systems) from Indiana University and a B.A. in Cognitive Science from UC Berkeley.\r\n\r\nSeth\u2019s research has appeared in PNAS, Nature Scientific Reports, and Proceedings of the Royal Society. It has been covered in The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, and TEDx. 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And it opens the door to a fundamentally different relationship between content creators and AI systems \u2014 one based on consent, compensation, and sovereignty rather than extraction.\r\n\r\n**What data streaming looks like in practice**\r\nAt its simplest, data streaming means deploying a secure connector on the content owner's infrastructure that makes their content accessible to AI platforms in real time. The content is used for inference only \u2014 never stored, never copied, never used for training. Every query is metered and traced. The content owner sets the price, the conditions, and who gets access.\r\nThis model is already in production. France's national library (BnF) has a live data streaming connector serving 40 million documents to AI agents. OpenAIRE, the European open science infrastructure, streams 600 million research papers through 28 MCP tools. 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Can data streaming infrastructure be decentralized?**\r\nToday, most data streaming deployments use Kubernetes clusters connected via mTLS tunnels. This works well for institutional publishers, but it requires significant technical infrastructure. Could this be done with peer-to-peer protocols instead? Could a small publisher or an independent journalist run a data streaming node from their laptop? What would a lightweight, decentralized version of this infrastructure look like?\r\nThe technical building blocks may already exist in the DWeb ecosystem: content-addressed storage, decentralized identity, peer-to-peer networking, cryptographic attestation. The question is how to compose them into something that serves the specific needs of AI-era content distribution.\r\n\r\n**2. What does \"Copyfair\" look like in practice?**\r\nI have been developing a licensing model called Copyfair \u2014 a new paradigm for content licensing in the age of AI. Copyfair is to AI what Copyleft was to software: a way to ensure that content can flow freely while protecting the rights and revenues of its creators.\r\nThe core principle: content should be accessible to AI systems for inference, but every use should be traced, attributed, and compensated. Unlike traditional copyright (which restricts access) or Creative Commons (which gives blanket permissions), Copyfair creates a dynamic, usage-based framework where the terms of access are embedded in the infrastructure itself.\r\nThe DWeb community has deep experience with machine-readable licenses (Creative Commons), programmable rights (Story Protocol's PIL), and decentralized governance. I would love to explore how these traditions can inform the design of Copyfair \u2014 and whether a community-governed license framework could become a public good that serves all content creators, not just those who can afford to negotiate with OpenAI.\r\n\r\n**3. Who governs the data economy?**\r\nThe most important question is not technical \u2014 it is political. If data streaming becomes the standard way that AI accesses content, who decides the rules? Who sets the default terms? Who resolves disputes?\r\nToday, this is decided by bilateral contracts between publishers and AI companies. But there are alternatives. In Denmark, a single collective licensing organization (DPCMO) represents 99% of national news publishers and negotiates on their behalf. In France, organizations like the CFC (Centre Fran\u00e7ais d'exploitation du droit de Copie) and the SNE (Syndicat National de l'\u00c9dition) could play a similar role.\r\nCould the DWeb community help design governance structures for the AI data economy that are more democratic, more transparent, and more inclusive than the current system? Could DAOs, cooperatives, or other decentralized governance models be applied to collective content licensing?\r\n\r\n**What I hope to explore together**\r\nThis session is an invitation to think together about what the infrastructure for a fair AI data economy should look like \u2014 and to consider whether the principles and technologies of the decentralized web can play a foundational role in building it.\r\nI will share what I have learned from building and deploying data streaming infrastructure with national libraries, scientific publishers, and legal institutions across Europe. But more importantly, I want to hear from this community: what would you build differently? What are we missing? What exists in the DWeb ecosystem that we should be building on?\r\nThe window is narrow. The standards are being set now. The protocols are being chosen now. 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We came to DWeb Camp because the people here ask better questions about this stuff than anyone else, and the questions we have are not technical ones.\r\n\r\n## What a sim is, in one paragraph\r\n\r\nA sim is a short written document that says who an AI agent is: what it cares about, how it talks, what it knows. The same way you might brief a person before a meeting. Anyone can write one in about ten minutes. The agent then sits in a chat and responds in character. Two or three sims with different briefs end up disagreeing, the same way two or three people with different briefs would.\r\n\r\n## Why we think this is worth a session\r\n\r\nAI agents are starting to show up in conversations where decisions get made: project meetings, funding committees, neighbourhood forums. Most of the time they are introduced from outside, by a vendor, and the people in the room do not get a say in how the agent behaves or what it cares about.\r\n\r\nWhat we find interesting is when the room writes its own AI agents instead. The room decides which perspectives are missing and writes them in. The agents become more like puppets the room is honest about than like authorities pretending to be neutral. That changes who the AI in the room is for.\r\n\r\nWe do not know how this lands in practice. That is the part we want to discuss with you.\r\n\r\n## What happens in the 90 minutes\r\n\r\nA short intro to what a sim is and how we got here, with no slides. Around ten minutes.\r\n\r\nA live demo. We pick a low-stakes topic together, something like \"should the camp have quiet hours after midnight\" or whatever the room wants. The room helps write two or three sims to argue different sides. We run a short deliberation on the projector. 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This workshop starts with a short presentation & demo of the architecture and tooling built into Moss & Holochain that could begin to addresses this question. The workshop continues with participatory exploration and sharing, of how folks hold this key question, and ends with collective crafting of a frame to hold us as tool builders accountable.", "description": "Key topics: Accountability; KYC (Know-your-peer); LLM as affordance or agent; Sharing; Dignity\r\n\r\nDecentralized infrastructure offers the possibility of creating membraned spaces where groups have a measure of sovereignty over the information they collectively create.  But this sovereignty becomes limited by the desired LLM inference resources available inside the membrane.  How can In such spaces create shared access to those resources what are the dynamics of such sharing?  For example, if every node during a video call transcribes only their own audio, and the resulting transcript is stitched together, the whole can become greater than the sum of the parts.\r\n\r\nExactly how LLM capacities can be offered and shared in such spaces matters.   They can appear as  affordances to the tools that use them.   Or they be offered as \"agents\" that appear as people.  Is one way of doing this better than another?  What are the social consequences of doing so?\r\n\r\nIn this workshop we will show some of the ways we are delivering on these questions in the world of Holochain and Moss.  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We discuss how to think about and mitigate implicit authority assumptions in networked/distributed protocols, and then talk about naming & identity, and how user-owned cryptographic keys can upend the perverse power dynamics of centralized authority, creating the conditions for data ownership and digital sovereignty. \r\n\r\nWe then take our treatment of authority-based vs p2p/symmetric systems, and apply it to several real-life engineering use cases: DHCP, service mesh, and identity.\r\n\r\n### DHCP\r\nWe go into the design of one such protocol, DHCP, look at the centralizing factors & implicit authority in its design, and then present a novel peer-to-peer **DHCP gossip protocol for ad hoc mesh** using CRDT's.  \r\n\r\n### Distributed Service Mesh\r\nHere we get into the design of the Mjolnir Service Mesh. Service namespacing and user identity are actually aspects of the same problem. 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Compliance regimes are hardening from self-attestation to verifiable proof: NIST SP 800-171 and CMMC are landing on DoD-grant institutions; the Gates Foundation built VeriXiv to check whether grantee data is actually deposited, not just stated; and the EU Data Act forces research data to stay in-jurisdiction with auditable controls. The federal mandate regime is moving from *\"did you write a data management plan?\"* to *\"did you do it, and can you prove it?\"* On the economic side, that 73\u201393% of irretrievable data means a representative R1 institution carries roughly $1.1 billion per year in unverifiable research output \u2014 a latent liability the False Claims Act's implied-certification doctrine is available to surface as funder verification goes programmatic \u2014 while the grant lines funding today's hosted repositories are themselves being cut, taking the infrastructure down with them. The status quo is getting more expensive to keep, and more expensive to lose.\r\n\r\nThe only durable answer is content-addressed payloads, distributed mirroring, append-only provenance, and resolvers that cannot 404. Sovereign infrastructure adds the question of control: who decides whether a service stays up, and what happens to the data when they decide otherwise? Local-first systems, self-hosted nodes, and decentralized preservation networks turn \"someone else's server\" into infrastructure the people who depend on it actually own, and the economics hold up: networks of institutions pooling their own hardware are a real counterweight to privatized data centers and offer unique business and sustainability opportunities.\r\n\r\nEvery layer of the architectural substrate necessary for sovereign, resilient data infrastructure \u2014 the kind that enables persistent, atomic, and compositional science \u2014 is being built at DWeb Camp. Self-sovereign identity. Append-only signed records. Content-addressed storage. Federated transport. The pieces of the next substrate for the scientific record already exist. The work ahead is to assemble them into a substrate scientific institutions can actually adopt.\r\n\r\n### What we'll do together\r\n\r\nThis is a working session. Participation starts immediately and runs all the way through. Three pathways are open during the hands-on segment so no one is gated out by background \u2014 architects, builders, and anyone curious about what this means for their own work or community all have a clear role.\r\n\r\n**90 minutes, structured for participation:**\r\n\r\n- **0:00\u20130:03 \u2014 Welcome + room setup.** Quick read of who's in the room \u2014 researchers, builders, organizers, artists, librarians, students.\r\n- **0:03\u20130:13 \u2014 Opening jam: what's broken?** In pairs, each person shares one moment of trying to find a dataset that vanished, replicate a result that turned out to depend on unrecoverable code or data, follow a citation into a repository that's been shut down, or trust an audit trail that turned out to have gaps. We surface the patterns on a shared pad. The room's collective diagnosis becomes the working brief for the rest of the session.\r\n- **0:13\u20130:21 \u2014 What's already pushing this forward.** Eight minutes on the forcing functions that have made this architectural shift no longer optional:\r\n  - **NIST SP 800-171 and the CMMC enforcement regime** landing on DoD-grant institutions this year, with NASA and NIH extending similar cybersecurity requirements into their own grants \u2014 research data infrastructure has to satisfy mechanically verifiable compliance, third-party assessed rather than self-attested from November 2026.\r\n  - **The 2025 NIH and NSF grant terminations** \u2014 over 4,000 grants cut \u2014 taking their hosted data infrastructure down with them as the funding lines that kept them up disappear.\r\n  - **The Gates Foundation's January 2025 open-access policy shift** \u2014 ending its article-processing-charge program, requiring grantees to post preprints, and building VeriXiv to *check* whether the underlying data is actually deposited in an approved repository rather than trust a self-reported statement \u2014 pulling the philanthropic side of the funding ecosystem onto the same verify-don't-attest trajectory.\r\n  - **Parallel sovereignty mandates** in the EU and the US sovereign-cloud push, forcing institutions to keep research data in-jurisdiction with verifiable controls.\r\n  - **The Dana-Farber December 2025 settlement** \u2014 $15M under the False Claims Act for misrepresented data in NIH-funded publications \u2014 a signal that federal enforcement of research integrity is sharpening.\r\n\r\n  None of this is hypothetical anymore. The architecture this room builds primitives for is the architecture that satisfies what's already coming due.\r\n- **0:21\u20130:33 \u2014 The proposal, shown not told.** Live walkthrough of a real artifact: **rdf.scios.tech**, a recent paper of mine decomposed into a discourse graph where every claim, every piece of evidence, every method is independently addressable. I'll use its **Generate a Narrative** feature to compose, live, a fresh reading path through the graph and a dated view that regenerates as evidence accumulates. That's the experience layer: compositional science happening in real time. Then the proposed substrate underneath, a four-layer stack: Decentralized Identifiers for sovereign identity, Discourse Graphs for the semantic grammar of scientific claims, ATProto Lexicons (carried by Personal Data Servers and AT-URIs) for federated transport, and IPFS for content-addressed permanent archival. We take one atom from that graph, a specific claim, and trace it through the proposed substrate on the diagram: signed under a DID, minted with an AT-URI and CID in a PDS, broadcast over a research-scoped relay, unpacked block-level onto IPFS. That's the proposal on the table. The rest of the session is the room deciding whether it holds.\r\n- **0:33\u20130:48 \u2014 Five failure points, room-driven.** A stack like this introduces real engineering risk. I name five primary failure points \u2014 relay centralization, lexicon isolation, edge rot, opaque archives, and retractions/audit-trails. The room votes on which two are most worth digging into, and we spend the rest of this block stress-testing those two with proposed mitigations.\r\n- **0:48\u20131:18 \u2014 Hands-on jam, three pathways.** Pick whichever fits your work and curiosity:\r\n  - **Architects** \u2014 small groups attack and extend a proposed mitigation. Outputs go to the shared pad as a meta-graph of the substrate's architecture, critique included.\r\n  - **Builders** \u2014 for people who actually run ATProto, IPFS, DIDs, or IPLD. Tear down the proposed stack: does it compose, where does it break, what's missing. Output is a ranked gap list.\r\n  - **Use-cases & questions** \u2014 for everyone whose curiosity is \"what would this mean for my work / my community / my organization / the systems I live with.\" Map use cases, surface unanswered questions, and contribute them back to the meta-graph. Artists, organizers, librarians, scientists, students, and citizen-science communities all have a clear role here \u2014 and so, explicitly, do the researchers the current scientific record locks out first: those at under-resourced institutions, independent researchers with no institutional backing, and scientists in the Global South priced out by article-processing charges and stranded when a single host goes down.\r\n- **1:18\u20131:26 \u2014 Synthesis.** Each pathway reports out in 90 seconds. The room reads the graph the session itself just produced.\r\n- **1:26\u20131:30 \u2014 Open invitation.** The future scientific record is antifragile or it isn't durable. The work continues at the Institute of Open Science Practices in Leiden this October, with the ATProto, IPFS, Akave, and DeSci folks already RSVP'd to keep building this stack. DWeb Camp attendees who want to continue have a direct on-ramp.\r\n\r\nThe session is designed to adapt to room size: works as well with 15 people (one group per pathway) as with 45 (multiple groups per pathway). No prerequisites. Strong familiarity with any of (DIDs, ATProto, IPFS, IPLD) deepens the architects and builders pathways but is explicitly not required to participate. The use-cases pathway is the entry point for anyone who wants to be in the conversation without needing to know the primitives.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "JTDRXC", "name": "Jonathan Starr", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/MWDRPZ_uw8Lrlr.webp", "biography": "Jonathan Starr is the Executive Director of the Open Source Endowment, a 501(c)(3) building a community-managed permanent endowment for critical open source infrastructure. 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This workshop maps our own cognitive root systems and asks what local-first, open-source architectures make possible when sovereignty, not just privacy, is the design goal.", "description": "In 1998, philosophers Andy Clark and David Chalmers proposed the extended mind thesis: that tools meeting certain criteria (reliable availability, consistent accessibility, automatic endorsement) are not merely instruments of the self. \r\n\r\nThey are constituents of it. \r\nNot metaphorically. Part of the self, by extension.\r\nMost tools that meet those criteria today are rented.\r\n\r\nMy doctoral research on trust in the age of AI argues that trust is not primarily an attitude toward persons. It is a protocol: a structured mechanism through which cognitive operations extend across boundaries between person and tool, person and network, person and AI agent. When we delegate memory, reasoning, or context to a system, we are enacting trust as infrastructure. \r\n\r\nThe question is whether that infrastructure is answerable to us, or to the platform hosting it. This reframes privacy. Privacy asks who can see. Sovereignty asks who controls. You can have private data in a locked system you cannot migrate, inspect, or rely on surviving a terms-of-service change. That is not sovereignty. That is a more private cage.\r\n\r\nIn the age of AI agents, this becomes urgent in a new way. An assistant that knows your projects, your relationships, your epistemic history, but resets on logout, logs to a cloud, and can be discontinued without notice, is not extending your mind. It is substituting for it. The root system is not yours.\r\n\r\n**What happens in the room**\r\n\r\n_Opening (10 min):_ Framing the extended mind thesis and trust-as-protocol in plain language. No slides, just a short spoken provocation. Accessible from the first sentence to participants without a technical background.\r\n\r\n_Mapping exercise (25 min):_ Each participant maps their own cognitive infrastructure: the tools, people, and networks that genuinely carry their thinking. Then: which of these do they actually control? Which would disappear if a company pivoted, got acquired, or changed its terms? The maps surface the stakes faster and more personally than any argument can. We are not talking about users in the abstract. We are talking about the people in the room.\r\n\r\n_Working alternatives (20 min):_ What does the architecture look like when you build for sovereignty? Local-first knowledge systems. Memory that persists without a cloud. Trust relationships that don't require a platform mediator.\r\n\r\nI'll briefly show a working open-source and lightweight prototype: a knowledge garden that runs on one machine, generates no telemetry, persists context across AI conversations, and whose code is fully inspectable. Not a product demonstration, but a specimen. This is what the philosophy looks like when implemented. Then open discussion on what this requires technically, politically, and socially.\r\n\r\n_Closing (5 min):_ Synthesis and what comes next.\r\n\r\n**Who belongs here**\r\nEveryone who has felt the cognitive whiplash of losing a tool they depended on. Developers who want to build for real sovereignty, not privacy theatre. Researchers in cognition, information science, and philosophy of mind. Artists and writers whose creative memory lives in platforms they did not build. People designing the decentralized web who want to understand the human case, not just the protocol case.\r\n\r\nNo technical background required. The mapping exercise is analog and works for anyone.\r\n\r\n**What participants leave with**\r\n- A vocabulary for distinguishing privacy from cognitive sovereignty and why the gap matters for everything they build or use\r\n- A personal cognitive infrastructure map: which tools genuinely carry their thinking, which are rented, which are at risk\r\n- A framework for evaluating any tool, protocol, or system against sovereignty criteria drawn from the extended mind thesis\r\n- Exposure to what local-first, open-source architecture looks like in practice: a working specimen* they can inspect, fork, and question (*ultra lightweight!)\r\n- Connection to others in the room approaching these questions from different angles: technical, artistic, political, philosophical\r\n\r\n\r\n**After camp**\r\nThe cognitive infrastructure maps generated during the workshop become a shared artifact, patterns we can collectively analyze and build toward. The open-source prototype is forkable. 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Our working assumption is that handlers will emerge from within the communities being served \u2014 but \"community\" means different things in different contexts, and we want you to push on this assumption. Should we be thinking about a future of mercenary agents fixing bugs far afield?\r\n\r\nShould agents be able to recoup their token costs or even costs plus a bounty? This normalizes a category of economic actor that has no precedent in FLOSS. Is that a door we want to open?\r\n\r\nWhose values? Many tools in our community arose as alternatives and in opposition to the business models of Silicon Valley. How do we ensure agents adopt the values of the communities they serve rather than overwriting them? \r\n\r\nEcological cost. AI inference has real energy costs. Does insisting on local models go far enough? What does honest accounting look like?\r\n\r\nSupply-chain risk. Agents writing code at scale across a federation is a juicy attack surface. 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This panel showcases practical infrastructure co-designed directly alongside land stewards across three distinct global contexts. Featuring field insights from rural India, the open grain fields of the upper Midwest, and Indigenous-led labs in Hawai\u02bbi, the speakers will demonstrate how decentralized systems can amplify localized innovation and support data sovereignty.", "description": "The presentations cover three distinct initiatives:\r\n\r\nThe GIAN Curiosity Engine (Dr. Anamika Dey): A look at GIAN\u2019s database system consolidating over 200,000 documented grassroots innovations. Driven by a Small Language Model (SLM), the platform intentionally avoids providing flat, centralized answers. Instead, it filters queries to generate contextual, heuristic questions that prompt localized field experimentation while maintaining strict, non-anonymized source attribution to original community inventors.\r\n\r\nBuilding with farmers (Kirstin Auker): A look into FarmFlow, an open-source operations platform built from the field by farmers. This segment details how the platform actively counters extractive agricultural tech paradigms by embedding data sovereignty directly into its technical architecture. FarmFlow utilizes a hands-free, field-ready voice-to-text capture mechanism that processes daily operational logs seamlessly from the tractor cab. Rather than replacing human judgment with top-down algorithmic standardization, its multimedia SOP tool preserves a farmer's intuitive, embodied knowledge through voice and video. \r\n\r\nIndigenous Data Infrastructures & Local Compute (Keoni DeFranco): Presenting place-based engineering models developed through Hawai\u02bbi\u2019s Purple Mai\u02bba Foundation. This segment details how KILO combines qualitative narrative observations with quantitative field-sensor streams. 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This hands-on workshop demonstrates the working prototypes of both hardware and software infrastructure in production and surfaces the live governance tensions \u2014 federation without flattening, Prior Informed Consent and conditional-use licensing, membership criteria, and federation failure modes", "description": "How do multiple agricultural communities steward a shared commons of tools, data, and knowledge \u2014 without centralization, without capture, and without losing the specificity of place?\r\n\r\nThe GIAA April 2026 working paper Whose Knowledge, Whose Infrastructure? documents the extraction pattern this federation is built to displace. When a farmer in Andhra Pradesh documents her traditional rice variety, the songs her grandmother sang at planting, the harvest calendar refined across generations \u2014 that knowledge does not belong in a corporate database, a university repository, or an AI training set. Yet that is precisely where agricultural knowledge has been going for the past decade. Agrible acquired by Nutrien (2018). Granular split and sold (2022). ApRecs sunset (2025). Farmhand ceased operations (2025). Microsoft's 2026 confirmation before the French Senate that it cannot guarantee data sovereignty from US CLOUD Act requests, regardless of where data is physically stored. 95 percent of Indian traditional agricultural knowledge is held by elders who are absent from every current AI training dataset (Prof. Anil Gupta, Honey Bee Network). The pattern is not theoretical. It is the ordinary operation of the platform economy.\r\n\r\nThe institutional working paper Commons-Enabling Infrastructure for Agricultural Knowledge Systems (WP3) frames the institutional response: Commons-Enabling Infrastructure built on four pillars \u2014 technical (self-hostable hardware and software, federated and offline-first); social (Agricultural Knowledge Concordance methodology, stewardship councils, Commons Governance Organizations); legal (Ag Data Use Agreements, an Agriculturalists' Bill of Data Rights, Prior Informed Consent enforced at query time, CopyFair licensing); and financial (CGOs as fiscal sponsors, embedded commerce through the Farm Hack POS, public-civic bridges, development-bank project components). All four pillars are operationally visible in this workshop.\r\n\r\nThe GIAA Infrastructure Working Group has spent the past year building toward a shared infrastructure across member networks. Each network has its own databases, its own tools, its own governance. Each is being asked, increasingly, to open into a common pool without losing what makes it itself. This workshop shows the working prototype \u2014 a meta-registry hosted on the GIAA website and mirrored on member sites, a local-first sovereign database that fits on a single Raspberry Pi 5 with 1 TB of NVMe storage, a federated JSON-LD tool registry with Ethical Technology Assessment scoring embedded, and a Prior Informed Consent layer designed so that open does not have to mean exposed. The session is hands-on; participants will see the federated instances, propose tool cards, score them on the ETA dimensions, work through real governance tensions in small groups, and commit their outputs to a shared Git repository in the session.\r\n\r\nThe networks federating their knowledge in this work.\r\n\r\nHoney Bee Network and GIAN (India) hold over one million abandoned-patent records, 131,000 open-source practices from the National Innovation Foundation, and the published Honey Bee archive, with a working multilingual AI agent operating in Hindi, Bangla, Manipuri, and Nagamis among other Indian languages \u2014 currently migrating from cloud credits toward in-house hosting on hardware identical to the Farm Hack Box.\r\nProlinnova has documented decades of community-partner innovation in ecologically-oriented agriculture and natural-resource management across Africa, Asia, and Latin America.\r\nSchola Campesina convenes European agroecology praxis curriculum, CSIPM coordination, and the working-paper pipeline that feeds the CFS High-Level Forum on AI on 30 July 2026.\r\nL'Atelier Paysan maintains the French open-source tool registry for peasant farming and runs participatory design workshops on farms.\r\nFarm Hack and OpenTEAM hold the North American open-hardware tool registries, farmOS, LiteFarm, the ETA framework, and the Farm Hack Box reference implementation.\r\nKenyan Peasant League brings the East African smallholder perspective and the demonstration of how a sovereign database is actually used in a context where the mobile phone is the technology ceiling.\r\nTzoumakers (Greece) brings the Mediterranean open-hardware cooperative practice.\r\n\r\nEach of these networks carries knowledge the others do not. None should be flattened into a single corpus. The federation under development is designed structurally to prevent that flattening \u2014 the Honey Bee Network's million records, if pooled naively, would dominate the federation by weight, and the design explicitly addresses this through thematic, proportional contribution rather than full-corpus merge.\r\n\r\nTechnical support draws on three lineages. The Agricultural Knowledge Concordance project, led by SJ Klein at the Harvard Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society with collaborations across Wikimedia, Internet Archive, Code for Science & Society, and the AI Commons House, provides the epistemic layer \u2014 structured interviews, Concordance cards, AGROVOC alignment, a way of making knowledge travel with attribution intact. The Open Science Hardware Foundation and its Internet-in-a-Box lineage provide the hardware tradition \u2014 physically distributing content-addressed archives on hardware that communities own. The Farm Hack Box is the direct descendant of that tradition. The Internet Archive provides the preservation tradition \u2014 content at risk of loss in institutional custody is replicated into community custody.\r\n\r\nThe Ethical Technology Assessment as the federation's accountability architecture. Adopted explicitly from the WP3 framing for institutional audiences: the ETA is not a badge. It is a living assessment protocol with three confidence tiers (Provisional / Peer-reviewed / Audited), claim-level evidence threading, structured dispute resolution, and automatic confidence decay over time \u2014 more analogous to a Consumer Reports independent test methodology or a Human Rights Watch field documentation process than to a compliance certification. This architecture makes ETA assessments contestable, improvable, and durable in ways that badge-based certifications are not. The workshop participants will use the ETA framework directly to score a tool card live and watch it commit to the shared Git repository under the three-tier confidence model.\r\n\r\nWhat participants will do in the session. First, a ten-minute tour of federated instances, live: the Farm Hack registry, a Honey Bee subset, a Schola Campesina index, a Prolinnova sample. Same schema, different curation, different governance \u2014 each looks like itself; together they are a federation. Second, a fifteen-minute small-group exercise where each group proposes a tool or practice card for the federation, assigns ETA scores on five dimensions (Data Sovereignty, Accessibility, Ecological Impact, Community Benefit, Transparency) and assigns permissions (public, consented-sharing, held-back), then compares how good looks different across contexts. Third, a fifteen-minute hardware walkthrough of the 1 TB sovereign database prototype, with attention to what is on it and how nodes find each other. Fourth, a fifteen-minute facilitated discussion on four live governance tensions:\r\n\r\nFederation without flattening \u2014 how do communities contribute proportionally and thematically when one network's corpus is a thousand times another's?\r\nLicensing and intellectual property \u2014 Prior Informed Consent, polycentric licensing, source-organization defaults with override; how do we make an open federation where open does not mean exposed?\r\nMembership criteria \u2014 not resolved here, surfaced and committed to drafting at the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group meeting in Berlin on 13 July.\r\nFederation failure modes \u2014 when does it scale, when does it break?\r\n\r\nFifth, a five-minute close with commitments that feed directly into the Berlin meeting and into the joint GIAA / CGO / AKC ratification sequence running August through October.\r\n\r\nWhere this session sits in the GIAA arc. Upstream from this workshop: the political-frame opener (Grounding the Web: A Reality Check from the Farms and Fields) and the methodology session (Talk to the Stewards). Downstream: the GIAA Infrastructure Working Group meeting in Berlin on 13 July ratifies the schema, the reference dataset manifest, the ethical frame, and the membership criteria draft this workshop seeds. The CFS High-Level Forum on AI on 30 July in Rome is where the policy framing carries forward into FAO and the multilateral conversation. The joint GIAA / CGO / AKC session in September, the CGO Charter ratification through October, and the People's Festival of Innovation in Delhi in November 2026 are the subsequent points at which the federation is pressure-tested and ratified.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "7A7WGT", "name": "Dorn Cox", "avatar": null, "biography": "This is a Joint proposal - but happy to provide my Bio in addition to those of the other participants. - Dorn Cox is a Farmer, Author and Researcher and the editor of the Talk to the... Handbook and has been a steward of Farm Hack and the OpenTEAM federated infrastructure for nearly a decade. 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Closing out the D:Food/Web track, this 60-minute session steps away from structured presentations to harvest the collective wisdom generated over the last four days. Grounded in a live, community-drawn canvas co-created by participants throughout the week, this closing circle blends intuitive art with structured dialogue. Led by Jenni Ottilie Keppler alongside the track co-organizers, we will look back at our shared journey\u2014from ethical tech frameworks and data sovereignty to somatic intelligence and AI curiosity engines\u2014to map out our collective horizons, solidify cross-border partnerships, and anchor our work in a spirit of shared joy and resilience.", "description": "Session Overview:\r\n\r\n- Gathering Around the Canvas (15 minutes): We will open the circle by anchoring the room around the ongoing, large-scale collective art piece co-created on the tables throughout the camp. 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Along the way we've had to keep questioning our assumptions about what \"decentralization\" means, avoid prescriptive framings, and search for the properties that actually matter for the systems we're building.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "8MKBSC", "name": "Daniel Holmgren", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/ZQ9ZMK_efEh0v9.webp", "biography": "Daniel Holmgren is Head of Protocol at Bluesky, where he leads the design and development of the AT Protocol. He's worked in the DWeb space for eight years, previously founding a startup for p2p collaboration on scientific data, then serving as the founding engineer at Fission, where he built an in-browser framework for user-controlled data.", "public_name": "Daniel Holmgren", "guid": "9fbe5db9-e592-5f21-bea9-ba5b32c7e6e2", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/8MKBSC/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SUWJJN/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/SUWJJN/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "9c4bf21c-1dc9-504e-83cd-2e19f7ecb354", "code": "C9YZLT", "id": 568, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-11T10:45:00+02:00", "start": "10:45", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-568-reimagining-the-open-social-web-from-the-edge-freedom-tech-across-mesh-mobile-and-peer-to-peer-infrastructure", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/C9YZLT/", "title": "Reimagining the Open Social Web from the Edge: Freedom Tech Across Mesh, Mobile, and Peer-to-Peer Infrastructure", "subtitle": "", "track": "Open Social Web", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "This session explores what it looks like to build the open social web for real-world resilience across mesh, mobile, and peer-to-peer infrastructure. Through examples including BitChat, Agora, White Noise, and Divine, it looks at how freedom tech can connect social, network, and device layers to support communication and coordination in low-resource and anti-authoritarian environments.", "description": "This session explores what it means to build the open social web from the edge: across mesh networks, mobile devices, peer-to-peer systems, and the social protocols that allow people to communicate, coordinate, and organize outside centralized control.\r\n\r\nToo often, conversations about the open social web stay at the level of applications, protocols, or abstract ideals of interoperability. But if we are serious about resilience, freedom, and real-world usability, we have to think across the full stack. It is not enough to have an open or decentralized social application if the infrastructure underneath it still depends on centralized hosting, fragile connectivity, or assumptions that break down in low-resource or high-risk environments. At the same time, it is not enough to build network infrastructure without tools that people can actually use to communicate, organize, and act together.\r\n\r\nThis session is about bringing those layers together.\r\n\r\nUsing examples including BitChat, Agora, White Noise, and Divine, we will explore how different projects can connect Bluetooth mesh, peer-to-peer communication, open social protocols, and alternative coordination models into a more resilient social and communications stack. These projects work across multiple protocols and technical layers, including Bluetooth, Nostr, Bitcoin, and other open systems, in order to support communication and coordination where traditional infrastructure may be unavailable, unreliable, or unsafe.\r\n\r\nOne core example is BitChat, which uses Bluetooth low energy mesh to turn phones themselves into nodes. Instead of requiring specialized hardware, the crowd becomes the cloud: people\u2019s existing devices create the network. This helps bridge what are often treated as separate domains: decentralized hardware and the open social web. It shows how communication systems can be designed around the tools people already have in their pockets, rather than assuming access to specialized equipment or stable internet connectivity.\r\n\r\nAnother example is Agora, a project developed in response to needs from pro-democracy activists and designed around peer-to-peer fundraising and coordination in constrained environments. Its story raises broader questions about what freedom tech looks like in practice: how technical architecture, political context, and community need shape one another, and how systems can be designed to be harder to capture, censor, or disable.\r\n\r\nTogether, these examples offer a way to think about the open social web not just as an interoperability problem, but as an infrastructure problem, a usability problem, and a political problem. What does it take to build systems that work across multiple layers of the stack? How do we design communications infrastructure that remains useful when connectivity is limited, centralized services fail, or state and platform power become points of control? What does it mean to build social technologies that are genuinely resilient, rather than merely decentralized in theory?\r\n\r\nThis session will examine those questions through a practical, project-based lens. We will look at how different technical components fit together, how design choices affect accessibility and adoption, and what tradeoffs emerge when building for low-resource, adversarial, or fast-changing conditions. We will also talk about the broader implications for freedom tech: how open social systems can support activists, journalists, organizers, and communities that need tools for communication and coordination without relying on institutions that may not serve their interests.\r\n\r\nThe session is intended for technologists, organizers, designers, protocol builders, and anyone interested in the future of decentralized communications. It will be accessible to people who are not deeply technical, while still offering substance for participants working directly on networked systems and open protocols. Rather than focusing on one protocol or one layer of the stack in isolation, the session offers a cross-layer view of what resilient, peer-driven social infrastructure can look like in practice.\r\n\r\nParticipants will leave with a stronger understanding of how mesh, mobile, peer-to-peer, and open social technologies can reinforce one another; why low-resource and anti-authoritarian contexts expose weaknesses in conventional technical assumptions; and how freedom tech can move from abstract principle to operational reality. Ultimately, the session invites participants to rethink the open social web not as a single application layer, but as a living ecosystem of devices, protocols, communities, and practices built from the edge outward.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "MTTKYA", "name": "Liz Sweigart", "avatar": null, "biography": "Liz Sweigart is a co-founding member of And Other Stuff, a freedom-tech collective building open systems that protect human agency, connection, and creativity. She brings a background in consulting psychology, organizational transformation, human-centered design, and online safety, with prior work spanning corporate leadership, participatory design, and human-computer interaction. As a postdoctoral alum of Vanderbilt\u2019s Socio-Technical Interaction Research Lab, Liz is especially interested in how decentralized technologies can be designed with and for the people who need them most, including activists, organizers, and communities with limited technical backgrounds. 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We will review the state of the art of distributed interactive media protocols, including Secure Scuttlebutt, Nostr, ATP, decentralized revisions to ActivityPub (FEPs), and Decentralized Trust Graphs, and its relationship to local-first software.", "description": "The dominant protocols for \"decentralized\" interactive media \u2013 ActivityPub and Bluesky \u2013 are heavily dependent on federated or centralized servers in practice. But distributed social networks like Secure Scuttlebutt and Nostr have their own problems, like key management, recovery, and multi-device support. Meanwhile, some Fediverse Enhacement Proposals (FEPs) aim to make social media more distributed, bridging these two worlds. We will survey this landscape and review current projects. Topics will include: \r\n\r\n- Why key management is essential for security, but problematic in Nostr and Secure Scuttlebutt\r\n\r\n- How verifiable key histories like did:plc (Bluesky) and KERI make key management easier\r\n\r\n- Why multi-device support is difficult for decentralized social media and messaging\r\n\r\n- How ActivityPub actors can declare identity keys, independent of any server (FEP-521a)\r\n\r\n- How ActivityPub actors can sign activities (FEP-8b32), making them portable and tamper-proof\r\n\r\n- Current projects implementing some or all of these FEP proposals\r\n\r\n- How these FEPs and similar cryptographic techniques support \"local first\" software\r\n\r\n- How content moderation works (or could work) in distributed media platforms\r\n\r\n- The interactions between distributed/permissionless identity and server-owned identity\r\n\r\n- How decentralized trust graphs (DTG) enable privacy-first social graphs", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "ATYTCP", "name": "Zach Alexander", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/BDXXRE_a06RQ8h.webp", "biography": "Zach is a designer and technologist based in Oakland, California. He was previously the designer of Meedan's Check, and a founding engineer at Ethos Life.\r\n\r\nzionillinois@mastodon.social / zionillinois@bluesky", "public_name": "Zach Alexander", "guid": "1c9f9cb3-36a1-5c00-a7b6-e33dd5bbb469", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/ATYTCP/"}, {"code": "DXWNXL", "name": "Stefano De Vuono", "avatar": null, "biography": "Hi. My name is Stefano De Vuono (he/him). I'm sometimes a San Francisco-based and sometimes Earth-based software engineer. I've often straddled the line between art and technology, design and code. I wrote my first university essay on emacs on my new Linux install. I've worked as a web (and sometimes embedded hardware) developer a digital art startup, where I designed and patented a digital image security system.\r\n\r\nWhether helping a client revamp their developer tooling, shortening onboarding from two weeks to less than a day, collaborating with artists to develop interactive installations, or mentoring junior engineers, I have a passion for making things better Currently, I'm open to senior or staff-level engineering roles, ideally with a focus on backend or infrastructure work.\r\n\r\nI'm also open to collaborating on interesting projects or chatting about math! Please don't hesitate to reach out! You can find me. 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You will choose items from the pre-curated collection to store on your device, and communities can add more materials and resources over time to build their own communal archives.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "GEPNNB", "name": "Alisher", "avatar": null, "biography": "tbd", "public_name": "Alisher", "guid": "a93d37d0-b9fe-5f16-a3c8-d1c45f7cceb2", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/GEPNNB/"}], "links": [], "feedback_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MRYKHP/feedback/", "origin_url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/MRYKHP/", "attachments": []}, {"guid": "703199fb-dd6d-57d9-b553-e031e52b0686", "code": "HLDWRU", "id": 325, "logo": null, "date": "2026-07-11T16:00:00+02:00", "start": "16:00", "duration": "00:30", "room": "Open Social Space", "slug": "dwebcamp-2026-325-lisa-s-ark-the-digital-public-goods-library", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/talk/HLDWRU/", "title": "Lisa's Ark: The Digital Public Goods Library", "subtitle": "", "track": "Protocols and Platforms", "type": "Talk / Presentation - shorter", "language": "en", "abstract": "This session will introduce the **Digital Public Goods Library**. This library of digital public goods contains public domain and openly licensed educational materials that have either lost their digital home, or are at risk of disappearing. 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Educators, learners, librarians and researchers have long relied on these materials to help make education more accessible, affordable, and personalized to their students\u2019 contexts. Unfortunately, many of these collections are now at risk due to shifting institutional priorities, funding constraints and policy changes. We are witnessing entire repositories taken offline or at imminent risk of removal from circulation. The result is the loss of valuable publicly funded knowledge, impeding access to education.\r\n\r\nThe Digital Public Goods Library is a proactive response to this pattern emerging in many parts of the world and reflects a commitment to serve as stewards of public domain and openly licensed educational content to ensure that resource collections are preserved, regenerated, and available to all educators who wish to adopt and adapt them. 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The focus is on meeting the moment and enabling education stakeholders to continue leveraging high-quality, openly licensed content in their work, which is an ongoing effort that we at ISKME are committed to continuing and strengthening.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "ZU9BJW", "name": "Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education(ISKME)", "avatar": null, "biography": "ISKME is a global nonprofit that inspires and convenes educators to embrace the practice of Open Education", "public_name": "Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education(ISKME)", "guid": "5584786b-d85e-58f2-b376-c8fab4e44c7a", "url": "https://talx.dod.ngo/dwebcamp-2026/speaker/ZU9BJW/"}, {"code": "XFJ3TW", "name": "Lisa Petrides", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/QLXLEL_zkY51TU.webp", "biography": "Lisa Petrides is CEO and founder of the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education (ISKME), a nonprofit dedicated to make learning and knowledge-sharing participatory and open for all. 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The anthropologist Anna Tsing followed them, and called what she saw collaborative survival: in ruined ground, nothing lasts by itself. You get through by working across difference, with people unlike you. There is no clean elsewhere to escape to, no pure past to return to, and no surviving alone. Purity is the lie half the world is reaching for right now. What survives ruin is the opposite: mixed, spread out, growing into each other, with no center anyone can cut.\r\n\r\nSo this is a conversation about collaborative survival in practice: how people in very different situations get through the ruins together, yours included. It looks plainly at the tools that ask no one's permission: encryption, decentralization, crypto, AI you can run yourself instead of renting from a company. What can they really do for a regular person, your parents or your neighbors? Where do they fall short? It won't pretend the tools are magic, or that everyone selling \"privacy\" and \"freedom\" means it. 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It is a living assemblage: a tapestry you can embed anywhere on the web, that readers can explore, comment on, fork, and remake as their own.\r\n\r\nThis session runs as a genuine garden club, or weaving circle: a space where people come together around a shared practice, contribute according to their capacity, and leave with something made collectively that none of them could have made alone. There are three ways in:\r\n\r\nPlant \u2014 Participants new to Tapestries are guided through making their first one. The prompt is rooted in the web we want: the knowledge we want to tend, the connections we want to make visible. Individual Tapestries made in parallel become a distributed garden \u2014 different plots, same soil, open to all.\r\n\r\nTend \u2014 A collective Tapestry stays live and projected throughout the session, an open canvas anyone can contribute to: a quote, an image, a web page, a piece of audio, a link to their own digital garden. 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The garden doesn't close when the session does \u2014 it's the first meeting of an ongoing community of practice, with an open, community-shaped roadmap and a fork-and-remake culture built into the tool itself.\r\n\r\nAt its root this is a session about the kind of web we want to live in. Not the web of engagement metrics and extractive platforms, or the web flooded with AI slop and crawling with automated agents, but the web of the digital garden: personal, porous, human, tended with care, and open to whoever wants to come and explore it for a while. Gloves optional. Weeds welcome.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "CEM3GG", "name": "Dan Visel", "avatar": "https://talx.dod.ngo/media/avatars/7UGZJD_ltmO7dZ.webp", "biography": "Dan Visel is building Tapestries and works on the Wayback Machine for the Internet Archive. He's previously worked at the Institute for the Future of the Book, among other places. 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In the second half of this workshop we gather in smaller groups to map the community data centers that exist within the dWeb ecosystem and share knowledge about their needs. \r\n\r\nThe outcomes of this workshop will be a mapping of existing community data centers, a better understanding of their recurring needs and hopefully some actionable ideas on how we can collectively address them.", "recording_license": "", "do_not_record": false, "persons": [{"code": "DJGDJS", "name": "Tara Merk", "avatar": null, "biography": "Tara is a postdoc at CERSA/CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. 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And the workflow has to be honest in a particular way: simple enough to start in a single afternoon, but built so the user can see how it works and grow into it. Low floor, high ceiling, no walls. She would start simply by writing, yet the entire power of browsers and internet protocols is not hidden magic, but a reward for digging deeper and hacking more. This workflow is the right shape, but no tools enable both the simple start and the creative growth.\r\n\r\n36 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee made the website a publication medium anyone could use, in principle. 24 years ago, Aaron Swartz and John Gruber refused to bring writing \"down to the level of the computer,\" and Markdown made the notation humane. 18 years ago, Tom Preston-Werner created Jekyll and let people \"blog like a hacker.\" Files became a website, for those who could run a build. 3 years ago, Steph Ango wrote \"file over app\" and gave the principle its name: *the app is ephemeral, but your files have a chance to last.* Obsidian made that principle ordinary for non-developers writing notes.\r\n\r\nThe publishing half of \"file over app\" is the landmark still missing. The Cambrian explosion of editors, generators, and hosts has not closed the gap. If anything, the path for a non-technical writer is more winding now than when there were only three options. 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