Welcome! Please introduce yourself

My first Loomio group! Looking forward to helping progress the Collective.

Whoot! Been looking forward to trying this out for a while.

Policy wonk and devil's advocate. Founder of the Association of Internet Users (AIU). Came here via hi project. Former professor, consultant at large, and intrepid non-profit founder.

Mark Ricketts, developer of the 'pure play' distributed intelligence system called QIARK. My interests are in collaborative behaviours, governance, and emergent democracy.

Self taught data scientist, podcasting data critic, consultant.
Invariably on the right side of history and the wrong side of economics.
Interests in data governance, AI, botification and us.

Hello :)

Hi, I am a retired group systems researcher and IT professional currently serving as a decentralizer in DivvyDAO.org, RChain.coop, CoCloud.coop and related communities. My focus is on interoperable communities in the decentralized world. I have been excited by the hi-project and am happy to see it being reborn here.

Hi I'm Seth. I'm from Philly in the States. I look forward to helping out where I can.

Hullo,

My name's john—I've been doing community work for social change for 7+ yrs in the midwest,
US—first in Wisconsin then in Indianapolis—from labor, to food sovereignty, to co-housing, to (most recently) communications as a human right and asset sharing/ asset-based community development. I see my role as cultivating spaces for relationship-building within networks and between networks, especially across socio-economic, -racial, and other barriers. My contribution to that work is often through facilitation, logistics (engineering degree + visual-spatial learner = systems thinker), outreach, and through explaining tech for non-tech. One hat of note is my work with Enspiral as part of their Ambassadoring and Wellbeing working groups.

I love exploring, be it ideas, places, the web, potential collaborations, music (I listen, dance, and play), art... the list goes on. Feel free to chat me up via @coopchange on twtr or slack.

I'm here to listen, participate, and grow. Look forward to connecting.

Hi This is my first Loomio as well....so I'm learning!

I am Samantha Schartman-Cycyk. I am the Research Director and Board Member for the Connect Your Community Institute a 501c3 with a mission to advocate for Digital Inclusion for all. I have managed large-scale inclusion efforts (serving over 50,000 people) across 5 state regions and managed budgets of over 20 mil. I am part of the NTIA research working group, a founding member of NDIA (National Digital Inclusion Alliance) and also a contractor serving state and federal governments, nonprofit broadband service providers (EBSPs) and advocacy groups. I am extremely pragmatic and excel at creating structure around highly distributed networks of activity as well as crafting accountability structures and evaluation strategies.

I might not be the most adept at providing input on tech, but when it comes to organizing people, projects, and data and integrating with policy, I am a good resource.

I have been shallowly following the group due to being overburdened with several projects at the moment, but hope be more available beginning in June.