Sarah Manski

<img src="https://giveth.mypinata.cloud/ipfs/QmZXTdAHk7SBy3EjMMFbiWKnhiN5R1Bhaq7g9PkpDxN6zW" width="94" style="cursor: nwse-resize;"> Sarah Grace ManskiProfessor, George Mason University(<a href="http://www.sarahmanski.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">www.SarahManski.com</a>)(<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sarah-grace-manski/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sarah-grace-manski/</a>)Article: <a href="https://www.shareable.net/crypto-commons-gathering-2021" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.shareable.net/crypto-commons-gathering-2021/</a> Dr. Sarah Grace Manski wrote her PhD dissertation on blockchain technology and is a founding member of the CryptoCommons movement. Dr. Manski is a scholar of technology, political economy, commons economics and globalization at George Mason University. She studies uses of technology for democratization as well as technology as a site of social struggle. In 2017, Dr. Manski founded the International Society of Blockchain Scholars. For the past 25 years she has been involved with projects empowering workers as an activist, labor organizer, journalist, researcher and Business/Global Affairs professor. Her research is situated at the intersection of global business, new technologies, and social enterprise concerning commons-based peer production, self-sovereign identity, generative value accounting, supply chain transparency, and strategic approaches for a 21st century technological commonwealth. Dr. Manski is a widely cited academic author, speaker at technology conferences globally, ethical advisor to VERSES.io and the Civana Foundation, affiliate researcher with the P2P Foundation and the George Mason University Center for Social Science Research (CSSR), and Expert Reviewer for the National Science Foundation’s SBIR program. Shel IsraelProfessor Writer(<a href="https://shelisrael.com/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://shelisrael.com/</a>)(<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelisrael/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/shelisrael/</a>) Shel Israel is an expert in simplifying complexity without dumbing it down. He’s the author of seven critically-praised business books on disruptive technologies and has contributed to Forbes, FastCompany, and BusinessInsider. He’s written hundreds of keynote speeches, pitch decks, websites, white papers, and thought leadership pieces. Vision:We will write a 60,000 word book that makes emergent technologies like blockchain, Web 3, cryptocurrency, augmented reality, distributed governance, etc. accessible to everyone so that we broaden the public’s participation in building the future of the Open Web. We are living through a period of serious systemic problems that are incredibly demanding and complex. For many who look at emerging technologies like crypto, it may be difficult to see light at the end of the tunnel, even for the most avid admirers of humanity's beauty and organization. We introduce the CryptoCommons Movement for the first time to the public as both a visual representation and a practical strategy for constructing the techno-economic commonwealth we need to bridge towards a positive regenerative future for all life. We focus on technologists alone, not to discount the amazing work done by other activists globally, but rather to bring technologists into the community working towards positive change. Our argument is that technologists coding the future are a class of activists, impacting emancipatory futures and the potential for social justice in the process. Technologists and the systems they code are constituting future worlds inhabited by citizens of the mid-21st century. Technologists’ aesthetics, politics, social and economic inclinations are determinative of key social choices. Technologies are constituted of technologists’ values. The convergence of distributed ledger, spatial web, and AI technologies is producing new domains and new sovereigns. In a political context where surveillance capitalism, platform monopolies, data-driven surveillance and authoritarianization are shaping future possibilities, the CryptoCommons Movement. The commons are all those things that capitalism has privatized: land; natural resources; water; knowledge; digital resources; cultural expressions; genes and seeds; artworks. All these resources belong in principle to everyone but they have been enclosed by private companies who have put them up for rent or sale instead through intellectual property rights or copyright laws, or they have been given away as gifts by governments under conditions set by corporations in trade deals like NAFTA. The commons as a resource is not limited to the material world. It also includes the immaterial world of culture; languages, stories and history; collective knowledge, science, philosophy, art, that are all essential for the survival of humanity. The commons includes social relationships like those between friends or family or within communities that capitalism has broken up through its marketization of everything. The CryptoCommon movement is building open, distributed, democratic, generative cyber-physical infrastructures that empower Commoners and expand the Commons of the world. They are also seeking to replace and in some cases delete infrastructures including the Big State (surveillance-powered dictatorships), Big Money (billionaires, huge banks, and extractive corporations), and Big Tech (eastern and western centralized digital infrastructure monopolies). They believe these entities will invest considerable energies in destroying what is built by the CryptoCommons movement; institutions that are decentralized and jointly-owned by the people. Their goals are to assist the many people already working on the development of the Commons, to identify what is valuable and useful in the blockchain industry from a commonist perspective, to contribute and interact with the leading new infrastructures, to avoid wasting energy in producing something that already exists, and to fill the void in regards of what is lacking. The CryptoCommons movement starts with a radical notion of democracy: direct democracy at the grassroots level, without representation, in which people take collective decisions about their common needs directly with one another. It builds on the experience of thousands of communities who have successfully managed common resources such as land, water and forests over hundreds or even thousands of years. It draws inspiration from new digital commons initiatives such as Wikipedia, free software projects like Linux. Milestones:Month 1 - finalize the Table of Contents and the book’s promise to the readerMonth 2 - write out the seven part outline for each chapter&nbsp;Month 3 - rewrite and finalize chapters one through four (a draft of these chapters has already been written)Month 4 - write and finalize chapters five and sixMonth 5 - write the conclusion and finalize the entire bookMonth 6 - finalize the cover design, and e-book formatting&nbsp;Month 7 - send the book out to reviewers, and voice the book’s text for the audio versionMonth 8 - sales of the book are open to the public on Amazon Budget:$10,000 per month for writing / editing expenses for 7 months$1,500 for cover design and layout$1,500 for e-book preparation and formatting$3,000 for a voice actor to record the audio book

Sarah Grace Manski
Professor, George Mason University
(www.SarahManski.com)
(https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-sarah-grace-manski/)
Article: https://www.shareable.net/crypto-commons-gathering-2021/
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