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 “alive” — 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’s 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.

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.

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.
Anamika Dey (Honey Bee Network / SRISTI / GIAN) has spent more than a decade documenting and stewarding the Indian grassroots innovation archive — 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.
SJ 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 — Wikipedia, Wikidata, and the broader open-knowledge tradition — 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.