Conversation 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
Research We need to talk about the social graph Who doesn’t love a good concept?! Concepts are the fundamental building blocks of thinking, of designing. While there are plenty of things in the mix when it comes to contemplating system design, if the primary concepts remain unchallenged and unchanged from what came before, then the outcome will likely
Community Project Profiles: A Whole New World of Community Interactions Hopefully you are here because you've looked at a world full of problems which have been caused (at least in part) by centralization, and (correctly) decided that the solution is decentralization.
Ethereum Open Source Research: April to June 2020 Since the publication of our first Open Source Research article in March, we have continued to put out polls (almost) weekly via the Ethereum World Twitter account and the Ethereum World Telegram group about Ethereum and crypto topics.
Community Voices from the Community - Designing a New World: The Call for Interdisciplinary Collaboration Throughout the course of history, there have been single events that have altered the world so radically that life before and after that moment in time and space became incomprehensible to the generations of people who lived before the event took place and those that followed.
Ethereum Open Source Research: November 2019 to March 2020 Since the launch of the Ethereum World landing page in October 2019, there have been a whole host of useful and interesting ideas proposed for how this new tool can be built to ensure that it solves real problems for real Ethereans.
Community Crypto Resolutions for a 10/10 2020 People have engaged in the act of creating annual life-improvement plans since the time of the Babylonians, who made promises to their gods at the start of each year to return borrowed property and repay debts. It sometimes seems like a degree of undue importance is put, at least in
Research 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
Community All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace: Surveillance in 2019 Today, August 16th, is #SurveillanceDay, formerly called Wave at Surveillance Cameras Day. This seemingly-quite-jokey annual occurrence, once branded by Motherboard as the Laziest Protest Ever, was possibly started by pseudonymous privacy activist, Zorbitor, who we expect will, once again, release a video on their YouTube Channel, in spite of their
Community A Quick Peek Inside How We Work: The Back End of the Revolution The main thing which we have talked about extensively on our blog is how our outlook on the world intersects with the problems that we see with the current technologies and structures that people interact with on a daily basis. These articles serve an important purpose; they serve as a
News AKASHA Reloaded: Three Spins Around The Sun Later On May 3rd 2016, 279 days A.E. (After Ethereum), we unveiled the AKASHA dapp and opened the signups for the alpha version to celebrate World Press Freedom Day. We called for brave people to help us test the idea of a decentralized social network, built with Ethereum and IPFS,
