Hypothes.is: Coalition of 40+ Scholarly Publishers

On Tuesday, we announced a major new initiative to bring this vision to reality, supported by a coalition of over 40 of the world’s essential scholarly organizations, such as JSTOR, PLOS, arXiv, HathiTrust, Wiley and HighWire Press, who are linking arms to establish a new paradigm of open collaborative annotation across the world’s knowledge. Read full first …

Ty Simpson: Crypto Tokens for Distributed Governance

Swarm Targets Blockchain Governance in Platform Pivot Distributed collaborative organizations empowering everyone Swarm is pivoting toward decentralized governance, a decision that finds the project shifting away from its original focus on distributed crowdfunding. The move follows the release of a research paper commissioned jointly with DATA’s Constance Choi and Harvard Berkman Center research fellow Primavera de Fillippi that …

Robert Steele: Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0

Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 Can Open Source Evolutionary Cybernetics Leverage Distributed Human Intelligence While Advancing Artificial Intelligence? DOC (16 Pages): 20151018 Applied Collective Intelligence 2.0 DOC (3 Pages): D3 Innovation Memorandum 2.1 (to VP, SecState, SecDef, D/OMB, A/USAID delivered 14 October 2015) SHORT URL: http://tinyurl.com/Steele-ACI2 ABSTRACT The information and intelligence (decision-support) domains have lost their …

Jean Lievens: YouTube (1:10:08) Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup #1 in Palo Alto, 10 January 2014

Live video broadcast of the very first Decentralized Autonomous Society Meetup in Palo Alto, California. Presenting: “The Philosophy of Autonomy” by Joel Dietz, co-founder DAS, SWARM – Texture, co-founder DAS, Ethereum – Vitalik, founder Ethereum – Eric Smalls, founder MANNA – Paige Peterson, Maidsafe. In Palo Alto in the early 1990s were born the first …