A retrospective view on a decentralized movement for climate action The Climate Society is a social collaboration layer over the web for people concerned about climate change, mitigation and adaptation. This retrospective look examines their first several years. They launched in 2023. Several years ago, the Climate Society started as…

“The key thing about all the world’s big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively. If we don’t get collectively smarter, we’re doomed” — Douglas Engelbart. If humanity is an adolescent, the Web is a toddler. The existing iterations of the Web — including Web 3 —…

What the online video platform tells us about Web4 TL;DR: The attention-triggered controls of the YouTube video player that appear upon demand are centralized examples of the types of controls (i.e., smart tags) that are decentralized in Web4. Imagine you are watching a Youtube video and you realize that you want to interact with the video. Maybe you want…

En Inglés / In English Recientemente, un grupo internacional y local se ha unido en torno a un proyecto llamado Regen Tulum que busca catalizar el “Regenaissance” comenzando por Tulum, el impresionante paraíso ecológico en la Riviera Maya, a dos horas al sur de Cancún. Regenaissance es un acrónimo de…

In Spanish / En Español Recently, an international and local group has coalesced around a project called Regen Tulum that seeks to catalyze the “Regenaissance” starting in Tulum, the stunning ecological paradise on the Mayan Riviera, two hours south of Cancun. Regenaissance is a portmanteau of “regeneration” meaning the renewal…

One of the top VCs in the world is saying that the world would have turned out differently if users had been able to annotate everything — to layer knowledge on top of web pages. What in the world would change? This is the essence of what the Overweb Challenge is. Join us in changing the future of the web. The Internet is a digital Wild Wild West. Most places (other than social media) on the web are ghost towns. Other people are on the site but you can’t see them. And then there’s social media. You don’t know who or what is real, or who is being real.

This post is adapted from Bridgit.io founder Daveed Benjamin’s submission to the Grey Swan Guild’s Wave 2: Catching Our Collective Breath. The Grey Swan Guild is a global network of 300+ thought leaders and sensemakers with a common desire to “make sense of this new world.” In their parlance, this…

On May 24th, 2020, teams from across world came together for the virtual Infodemic Challenge: Spotlight ATL Demo Day. Enjoy the video. A two-weekend global hackathon, the challenge brought together misinformation specialists, hackers, and concerned citizens to respond to the COVID-19 Infodemic. The World Health Organization says: The 2019…