Neocypherpunk Summit

Tara Merk is a postdoc researcher at the CNRS, Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School in New York and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on alternative ownership models in the digital economy, participatory (digital) governance design, open-source communities, and blockchain technology.

In her PhD thesis she explored the process of Exit to Community, i.e. transitioning organizations and technologies in the digital platform economy into community ownership and governance.

Tara has previously worked with Other Internet, Metagov, the GIZ, and as a consultant, educator and strategy analyst across the blockchain ecosystem.