In the pursuit of wonder I am looking for connection and expression in many dimensions of life.

e.g. we could connect through musical instruments, computer code, mathematical/scientific perspectives, etc.

I believe in powers of listening, curiosity, music and heart. Let's get together to play and make spaces for culture and collective wellbeing to grow where they're planted.

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.

Riley 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.

Camille Nibungco is a UX designer and civic technologist based in Los Angeles. They work across healthcare AI systems and community-centered civic tech, and they build at the intersection of complex systems and the people those systems routinely fail.

I'm an IT Specialist and the Founder of the Africa Rural Internet and STEM Initiative (AFRISTEMI), a Ghanaian startup nonprofit organization working to connect rural communities to the internet and providing STEM education these marginalized communities.

My interests include digital inclusion, digital education, community networks and tech policy. Current DWeb Camp Pollinator and 2024 DWeb fellow.

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