Tara Merk
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. Her research focuses on exit to community, decentralized governance, and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centers.
Sessions
The DWeb community has been out in the world, trying things. Some are working. Others… not so much.
This choose-your-own-adventure session will start with brief intros to two workshops focused on patterns that work:
- 4 Key Elements for Effective Community Governance Organizations
- Entanglement by Design
Followed by intros to two workshops focused on how things go wrong:
- Anti-patterns of Exit to Community in Web3
- Wins, Wreckage, and Wisdom: How Projects Survive (and Why They Don’t)
We will then all gather back together for a FishBowl session (a lively and participatory rotating panel discussion) to share noticings, ahas and inspirations.
What are community data centers? And are you already in one? In this session we learn about four archetypes of community data centers: (1) civic public infrastructure, (2) community commons, (3) distributed networks, and (4) symbiotic infrastructure. We then collect examples of existing community data centers in the dWeb ecosystem with a focus on understanding their needs and how to collectively address them.