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The digital realm today concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the few, excluding most of humanity from equal participation.
The Grassroots architecture provides conceptual, mathematical, and technological foundations to rectify this, offering a realistic path towards an equitable digital society. In doing so it addresses challenges presented by the LSE President in his inauguration speech and later incorporated in the LSE Shaping the World campaign. The talk will review the state of the digital realm and the digital society vis-à-vis the LSE Shaping the World goals, identify the culprit as the domination of global platforms, and offer grassroots platforms for the same applications as a repair. Grassroots platforms exclude third-party control, manipulation, or rent extraction, honouring individual dignity and autonomy by design. The successful deployment of grassroots social networks, grassroots cryptocurrencies, grassroots sharing-economy cooperatives, and grassroots democratic governance could transform the digital realm and through it—society, economy, and politics.
Speaker:
Professor Ehud Shapiro
Chair:
Professor Andrew Lewis-Pye
#Digital #Events #London
Full details/attend: lse.ac.uk/events/digital-realm
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The digital realm today concentrates power and wealth in the hands of the few, excluding most of humanity from equal participation.
The Grassroots architecture provides conceptual, mathematical, and technological foundations to rectify this, offering a realistic path towards an equitable digital society. In doing so it addresses challenges presented by the LSE President in his inauguration speech and later incorporated in the LSE Shaping the World campaign. The talk will review the state of the digital realm and the digital society vis-à-vis the LSE Shaping the World goals, identify the culprit as the domination of global platforms, and offer grassroots platforms for the same applications as a repair. Grassroots platforms exclude third-party control, manipulation, or rent extraction, honouring individual dignity and autonomy by design. The successful deployment of grassroots social networks, grassroots cryptocurrencies, grassroots sharing-economy cooperatives, and grassroots democratic governance could transform the digital realm and through it—society, economy, and politics.
Speaker:
Professor Ehud Shapiro
Chair:
Professor Andrew Lewis-Pye
#Digital #Events #London
Full details/attend: lse.ac.uk/events/digital-realm
Featured image (used in thumbnail with watermark added): Photopexels.com/photo/hands-and-abstract-shapes-around-25626447 byGoogle DeepMind pexels.com/@googledeepmind on Pexelspexels.com/license
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