Key thinkers, builders, researchers, and practitioners referenced across the Network Nations knowledge garden.
Stewards
- Primavera De Filippi — Co-host, researcher at Harvard & CNRS, co-author of the essay
- Felix Beer — Co-host, researcher at Harvard & Blockchain.gov
- Patricia Parkinson — Co-founder of OpenCivics; Network Nations Alliance organizer
- Stefan Morales — Founder of Working Together Consulting; OpenCivics delegate
- Lovisa Björna — Head of Platform at Blockchain.gov; researcher-practitioner in networked governance
- Benjamin Life — Movement builder; Ep 15 guest
Podcast Guests
Deep Dive Guests
- Douglas Rushkoff — Media theorist, author of Media Virus (Ep 2)
- Jordan Hall — Philosopher, coordination systems designer (Ep 2)
- Sara Horowitz — Founder, Mutualist Society & Freelancers Union (Ep 3)
- Michel Bauwens — Founder, P2P Foundation (Ep 3)
- Jon Hillis — Co-founder, Cabin; author on functional local sovereignty (Ep 4)
- Timour Kosters — Practitioner, entanglement design (Ep 4)
- Liav Orgad — Legal scholar, cybernetic citizenship (Ep 5)
- Rainer Bauböck — Political theorist, citizenship studies (Ep 5)
- Yancey Strickler — Co-founder, Kickstarter; creator of Bentoism (Ep 5)
- Kevin Owocki — Founder, Gitcoin (Ep 6)
- Austin Wade Smith — Builder, identity & culture (Ep 6)
- Monty Merlin — Practitioner, network nation identity (Ep 6)
- Audrey Tang — Taiwan’s former Digital Minister (Ep 7)
- Nathan Schneider — Professor, cooperative governance (Ep 7)
- Morshed Mannan — Legal researcher, blockchain governance (Ep 8)
- Neil Walker — Constitutional law, sovereignty pluralism (Ep 8)
- Nick Srnicek — Political economist, Platform Capitalism (Ep 9)
- Sofia Cossar — Researcher, digital governance (Ep 9)
- Erika Blair — Burning Man practitioner (Ep 10)
- Vitalik Buterin — Co-founder, Ethereum (Ep 11)
- Santiago Siri — Co-founder, Democracy Earth (Ep 12)
- Jessy Kate Schingler — Author, Coordi-nations (Ep 13)
- Helena Rong — SeeDAO (Ep 14)
- Benjamin Life — Movement builder (Ep 15)
- Patricia Parkinson — Network Nations Alliance organizer; co-founder of OpenCivics (Ep 15)
Thinkers Referenced in the Essay & Episodes
- Balaji Srinivasan — Author, The Network State (critical reference)
- David Bollier — Commons scholar, Commons Strategies Group
- Silke Helfrich — Commons scholar, Commons Strategies Group
- Will Ruddick — Founder, Sarafu Network
- Venkatesh Rao — Writer; introduced “Cosmopolis” concept
Resource Library Contributors
- Paul Romer — Nobel laureate economist; charter cities, urbanization, growth theory
- Frank Pasquale — Legal scholar; functional sovereignty and platform ethics
- Maggie Appleton — Designer; local-first software and barefoot programming
- Kalypso Nicolaïdis — Political scientist; European governance, deliberative democracy
- Cadell Last — Philosopher; Philosophy Portal, NN Residency participant