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Simon Hildebrandt Wed 16 Nov 2016 12:36AM

I'm Simon, an Australian web developer with a passion for making the web better. I think accountability is the essence of fixing most of the problems we current see on the web (and elsewhere) and that reputation systems are probably critical to that.

JA

Jade Ambrose Wed 16 Nov 2016 2:15AM

Hi everyone. I'm a software developer from Enspiral, with an interest in social enterprise & platform co-operatives. I currently do client consulting with Enspiral, and work for the Embassy Network, a global network of intentional cohousing communities.

NL

Nick Laurence Wed 16 Nov 2016 7:16AM

Kia ora koutou, I'm a doctoral clinical psychology student and founder of Mindfulness for Change, which is an Enspiral-inspired network centred around systemic change through mindfulness, compassion, and empathy. I'm based in Wellington. Keen to contribute whatever I can to this conversation, see social media is a huge leverage point that offers a great opportunity to nudge people in the right direction in our everyday interactions.

RH

Ronen Hirsch Wed 16 Nov 2016 8:38AM

I am a Yoga practitioner who lives in retreat in a village in Romania. In my past is an IT career which began with systems analysis and ended on a more hollistic note with user experience design. Currently I live in peace and run a CSA (community supported agriculture) project that helps peasants sell their produce directly to people in cities.

Living in Romania has grounded me and widened my perspective on life and values. Living in Romania sometimes feels like I've gone back in time 60 or so years and I can see a default movement towards a failing future I have already witnessed and escaped from. I wonder if it possible to create a better trajectory forward.

This wondering has led to me discover diverse alternative social domains. I am searching (and have not yet found) a meaningful way to engage with others on these subjects.

OS

Olga Savinc Wed 16 Nov 2016 10:41AM

Hi everyone.
I am copywriter/event creative from Poland, currently living on a tiny, weird Shetland islands in Scotland. I have lived abroad for more than a year and during this time kept working in Poland remotely as a copywriter. But living in a such a remote place and working from home made me miss people around me so I made a hard decision and quit my beloved job for a less exciting admin job in public institution. but thanks to this decision I feel happier and also have more time/brain for engaging in other creative projects. Actually I miss it so much that I feel like a drug addict missing his doze.
So - please, feel free to feed me ; ))

JG

john gieryn Wed 16 Nov 2016 4:59PM

I'm a community organizer and action researcher; I facilitate a LOT (logistics, outreach, and tech- especially comms & A/V). I contribute at Enspiral amd openmoney, and work with local community projects in Midwest USA.

Im keen on community controlled media infrastructure and communication as a human right, as Ive chosen comms as my mission within the vision of creating sustainability, equity & social justice through building strong networks of p2p relationships.

Allied Media Projects' framework of Media-Based Organizing speaks to some primary rational behind my approach to social change work.

JKS

Jessy Kate Schingler Thu 17 Nov 2016 9:26AM

Greeting all. I'm Jessy Kate, co-founder of the Embassy Network and Enspiral member. I'm interested in decentralized and autonomous systems design, a programmer by trade and communities person through blind intuition.

I've always been really interested in the question of what IS "news"? Who's authority tells us what is news? Is there a well defined way to create "objective" news?

An idea I've always wanted to play around with is publishing a newspaper called Today in Numbers. It would only publish data (ie, graphs, tables, metrics), and no prose. It's "articles" would be automated by change thresholds set either by the consumer or some open council. This way you get humans out of the loop BOTH when deciding what and when to publish, and out of the commentary.

Part of the point of this is that it's clearly still NOT objective! But rather, data tells stories too, and I think it could help us understand that better, and increase our collective comfort and literacy engaging with numbers, and help uncover new ways of defining the news.

:). Thanks for starting this @craigambrose!

OS

Olga Savinc Thu 17 Nov 2016 12:22PM

Hi! Nice to meet you.As a student I completed a several months long internship in the Polish Press Agency. Back then I viewed the world of information in a really simple way. In spite of all the political influence mechanisms (because it is a public institution, hence political pressure) the mission of this agency was to deliver as objective and plain news content as possible. What happened to this content after it was purchased by the private media was non of our concern. We were feeding them with raw material and I remember spending hours on creating a media communicates just few sentences long to make sure they were devoid of any trace of opinion. My boss would never let it through the newsroom.(It was an amazing experience and back then I thought I will be a politician or a journalist.: D I ended up as a copywriter and I still sometimes find this experience useful.) So I used to think "the news" was what public news agency produce, but it's objectivity rely on the level of authoritarianism and corruption of the state. It is hard for me to say what happens now and if news agencies have any power any more and how does it look in countries other than the one I come from-Poland. I hope it was helpful.
ps. I also love raw data. Makes me brain feel safer ; ) And I struggle sometimes where to find one. Again, in Poland this would be a public institution called Central Statistical Office of Poland, but I think that they produce huge reports and it is not very up to date, but more range wide statistics regarding particular issues. Plain data without a comment can be confusing though and lead to wrong conclusions I am afraid, so it would need some simple explanations? But then, we would lose objectivity by doing this..damm ; PPP

JG

john gieryn Fri 18 Nov 2016 2:45PM

@craigambrose I'm not 100% sure how open invite you wanted to make this space; I saw a decent article on social media bubbles from a gent on Medium who Sandra Chemin from Enspiral also follows (maybe I got the link to him in here?); Timothy High has been writing about similar things.

JA

Jade Ambrose Fri 18 Nov 2016 8:48PM

It's totally open at the moment, add anyone you like.

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