Grounded: How Networks that support Grassroots Innovation Share Knowledge ~ A Reality Check
Dorn Cox, Anamika Dey, Caroline Ledant, David Calleb Otieno
Innovation is happening every day on farms, fishing boats, and community plots — most of it never digital. 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 — extraction, scale, communication breakdown — with new vocabulary. This session is a grounded conversation from networks rooted in Agroecology (Nyéléni 2015): what currently works, what farmers fear, and what genuine alliance with the DWeb community would actually look like.