Visionary Projects for Building a Prosperous Future
I call it my Maslow’s Pyramid of Life Goals.
favorites I’ve been following on the side since 2017
want to contribute in more capacity in the future
Climate Crisis: Avoiding the Worst Case Scenarios
Exciting Developments
CFS
Quaise
ITER
Earthships
Contributions
Education System Design: Unschooling
Exciting Developments
Agile Learning Centers
Contributions
Rollercoaster inside International School of Beijing
Moonshot Academy
Starting a High School in China: Reflection Essays
StarDAS
MATRIX of Certifications to Teach
SparkDAS
Explorer’s Toolkit
Project OK
Personal Data: Your Data for You
education and collection/visualization of personal data in control by the person to whom it belongs for the benefit of furthering their own self-awareness:
Exciting Developments
GDPR
Giovanni’s Manifesto
CXI: Joi Ito, Ben
Holochain: is a framework for building fully distributed peer-2-peer applications, like a decentralized Ruby on Rails (a mere stepping stone piece of the Ceptr puzzle.
Arthur Brock
HOPE: Hackers On Planet Earth, a great conference of like-minded hackers as yourself
Mitch Altman, co-founder and core organizer, grandfather of hackerspace movement around the world, and a dear friend.
Cory Doctorow, with EFF is a keynote speaker each year and he wrote this persuasive essay for interoperability between software applications to increase privacy without monopoly.
Deep Democracy: Rethinking Governance in the Digital Age
Exciting Developments
CEPTR: a massive undertaking to base our governance systems on digital infrastructure (checkout their white papers and blog articles)
Pol.is, a FOSS tool optimizing for political consensus rather than polarization for profit.
Singapore coding law tools
Taiwan
some really interesting things going on in Taiwan with respect to digital democracy since the Sunflower Student Movement in 2014
Audrey Tang, one of the driving forces behind these projects, she’s an incredible inspiring figure who supported IT for the Sunflower Movement and then became Taiwan’s Digital Minister.