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Highlights from the AKASHA & UrbeTalk Meetup 🐺

Highlights from the AKASHA & UrbeTalk Meetup 🐺

AKASHA Hub Barcelona welcomed the 10th UrbeTalk.

Mihai Alisie & Urbe Unplugged: Breaking the Chains of Centralization

Mihai Alisie & Urbe Unplugged: Breaking the Chains of Centralization

Mihai Alisie bridges the gap between local activism and the creation of the AKASHA Foundation, championing decentralized platforms.

Zuzalu & AKASHA: Learning from a Digital Nomad Pop-Up Community in Montenegro

Zuzalu & AKASHA: Learning from a Digital Nomad Pop-Up Community in Montenegro

The AKASHA Team was stoked to receive an invitation to become Zuzalu's inaugural inhabitants or "Zuzalians.” Zuzalu, a unique pop-up city community in Montenegro, operated from March 25 to May 25, 2023. Conceived by Vitalik Buterin with an amazing team of local and international supporters, this vibrant

Reimagining Social Networks: Thinking Beyond The ‘Twitter Box’ (Zuzalu 2023)

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Reimagining Social Networks: Thinking Beyond The ‘Twitter Box’ (Zuzalu 2023)

At Zuzalu 2023, the panel titled "Reimagining Social Networks" explored innovative ideas and fresh perspectives on social networking, pushing beyond the conventional boundaries set by platforms like Twitter.

Who will fix the Internet?

Who will fix the Internet?

On October 27th, Elon Musk closed the deal with Twitter and took the company private. On the next day, October 28th, Twitter stock was delisted from the NYSE, and all trading of the stock was frozen. Since that day, the world of social media startups has been holding its breath

AKASHA Conversations #8 - Communities of Care-full Learning with Andy Tudhope

AKASHA Conversations #8 - Communities of Care-full Learning with Andy Tudhope

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. While we have focused on moderation in the first six conversations, we are now transitioning to highlight dsocial networks and emergent Web3 communities and the way they shape and utilize Web3 tools. For the

AKASHA Conversations #7 — Regenerating The Social Fabric Through Play

AKASHA Conversations #7 — Regenerating The Social Fabric Through Play

We were pleased to be joined by James Weir and LCC from we{collective} (WeCo) for this month’s AKASHA Conversation. WeCo is building a platform that creates public places in holonic structures. WeCo defines itself as “a collective intelligence experiment working to manifest the world brain by 2030.” 🌍 The

The AKASHA Foundation team at OFFSCRIPT 2022

The AKASHA Foundation team at OFFSCRIPT 2022

María Sanmartín and Martin Etzrodt gathered for Offscript - a conference focused on Web 3 UX and Product Design. The conference took place on the Comporta peninsula, two hours south of Lisbon Portugal. The conference occurred at an intimate venue that encouraged personal connection and discussion. Many new and lasting

AKASHA Conversations #4 — Designing legitimate moderation in decentralized social networking

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AKASHA Conversations #4 — Designing legitimate moderation in decentralized social networking

AKASHA Conversations is a monthly event where we explore the critical aspects of decentralized social networking. We are focusing on all things moderating at least for Q1 2022. The AKASHA Foundation intends to help co-create moderating systems for decentralized social networks, and we were delighted that Prof. Amy X. Zhang

Web3 Social Networks: The Interweave of Humans and Technology

Web3 Social Networks: The Interweave of Humans and Technology

“Web3” can be defined as an information network emerging from and made possible by new cryptographic techniques. Web 3 promises to enhance our individual agency by removing concentrations of power, but also demands more responsibility from the individual. By definition, if the management of the social network is not centralized,

How Do You Define the Word "Community?" A Deep Dive Into the World of Ethereum

How Do You Define the Word "Community?" A Deep Dive Into the World of Ethereum

Proving an Idea 💭 You can build in your mind the greatest, most revolutionary piece of technology ever, something which would change the world, improve lives, potentiate other amazing technologies, and recalibrate the course of history. Ideas created in a vacuum are isolated sparks of creativity; if you are only discussing

Team AKASHA: Martin Etzrodt

Team AKASHA: Martin Etzrodt

The Department for Biosystems Engineering of the ETH Zurich is an unlikely place to expect blockchain startups to emerge. Yet in 2016 two former colleagues of mine, a neuroscientist and a biophysicist, did exactly this. It took about six months until I myself also fell into that rabbit hole. It

New deals for science!

New deals for science!

On May 10-11th, the AKASHA Hub Barcelona hosted a “STEPS” workshop. “STEPS is a grassroots, non-profit series of events focusing on the exploration of blockchain-backed applications for science, technology, education, publishing, and society” co-organized by “Blockchain for Science” a think tank founded by Sönke Bartling. It is not the first

Where the Web was born — AKASHA team visit at CERN

Where the Web was born — AKASHA team visit at CERN

A delegation of the AKASHA team gathered in Geneva mid-February to meet with the group from CERN's Idea Square. Approaching CERN Idea Square. CERN is the European Organization for Nuclear Research that operates the world's largest particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. The mission of Idea

Distributed Organisations for Collaborative Research

Distributed Organisations for Collaborative Research

The Web was created as a coordination and cooperation tool for scientists. Subsequently, it had a revolutionary impact on almost all aspects of our life today. Surprisingly, the rise of a “network society" did in the end have little effects on the forms of organizing among the scientific community.

A deep dive into the world of Distributed Governance

A deep dive into the world of Distributed Governance

We celebrated the new year by revealing the new AKASHA Foundation website alongside the first metamorphosis post outlining how the AKASHA project will evolve from its early experiments to a non-profit foundation exploring the intersection of blockchain and collective intelligence. 🙌 2019 here we come! 🙌 We then followed through with a