Alain Ambrosi (Canada) is a designer and producer of intercultural projects, inde­pendent researcher, author, videographer and producer of the Remix The Commons Project.
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Richa Audichya (India) is director of Jan Chetna Sansthan, an NGO that works with a women-centered approach to adivasi people’s rights and leadership develop­ment – the focus of her work...
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Maria Bareli-Gaglia (Greece) is an economist, currently pursuing her PhD in Sociology/Social Anthropology (University of Crete). Her thesis involves the study of the annual festivals (paniyiries) at Ikaria.
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David Bollier is an American author, activist and independent scholar who has studied the commons for nearly twenty years. He is cofounder of Commons Strategies Group.
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Muriel Borgeat (Switzerland) is an historian and project director at the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions.
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Kate Chapman (USA), a geographer by training, worked extensively in Indonesia to build an OpenStreetMap community and was Executive Director of the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team from its inception in 2010...
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Tristan Copley-Smith (US) is a documentary filmmaker and communications expert aiming to empower positive disruptions in technology and society. He is cofounder of the Open Source Beehives citizen science project.
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Dorn Cox is a founding member of Farm Hack and a farmer in Lee, New Hampshire (US), where he continues to develop and refine open source agricultural research and development...
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Michael Peter Edson (USA) is a strategist and thought leader at the forefront of digital transformation in the cultural sector. He works at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.
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Arturo Escobar (Colombia/USA) is Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and Research Associate, Grupo Nación/Cultura/ Memoria, Universidad del Valle, Cali.
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Ale Fernandez (Spain) works in the CIC’s housing commission and with Guerrilla Translation. He helped with the English language translation of this essay and with various edits and corrections.
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Mary Lou Forward (USA) is Executive Director of the Open Education Consortium, a worldwide community of hundreds of higher education institutions and associated organizations that supports the development of open,...
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Ellen Friedman (USA) is a commons activist and behavioral sleep medicine practitioner. She is a founding member of CommonSpark.
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Dario Gentili (Italy), a philosopher, carries out his research at Italian and European universities and institutions.
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Nigel C. Gibson (USA) is Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Emerson College and the author of Fanonian Practices, among other books.
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Claudia Gómez-Portugal M. is a Mexican activist promoter of the transi­tion agenda and founder of the organization SAKBE Commons for Change and the Free Learning Communities for Life initiative.
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Silke Helfrich is a German author and independent activist of the commons who blogs, and is co-founder of the Commons-Institut in Germany.
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San Hoerth is a developer and hacktivist in free culture, free software and commons, and founder and coordinator of the Latin American collective Código Sur. He is also cofounder and...
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Hannelore Hollinetz (Germany) is a musician and educator. She works as an actress, project developer and facilitator for projects for children and youths, and is a cofounder, with Martin Hollinetz,...
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Martin Hollinetz (Germany) is a social pedagogue, vocational educator and regional developer. An Ashoka Fellow since 2013, he is a lecturer at the University of Art and Design Linz and...
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Salvatore Iaconesi (Italy) is a robotic engineer, philosopher, artist and hacker who teaches Digital Design and Near Future Design at La Sapienza University in Rome and at ISIA School of...
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Soma KP (India) is a researcher, policy analyst and support person to community based institution-building initiatives, with a focus on gender, development and natural resource based livelihoods.
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Jannis Kühne (Germany) studies urbanism at Bauhaus University in Weimar where he does research on urban commons.
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Étienne Le Roy (France) is emeritus Professor of Legal Anthropology at the University Panthéon-Sorbonne, Paris 1 where he has directed the research Laboratory for Legal Anthropology of Paris from 1988...
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Van Bo Le-Mentzel (Germany) has invented all kinds of useful things, among others, do-it-yourself blueprints for furniture and tiny houses. He has become known for social DIY projects such as...
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Helmut Leitner (Austria) is a natural scientist and graduate in chemistry from the Technical University in Graz, Austria. He works as an independent software developer, systems analyst and consultant.
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Bernard Lietaer (Belgium) is the author of The Future of Money and an expert in the design and implementation of cur­rency systems
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Mike Linksvayer (USA) serves on the boards of Software Freedom Conservancy, OpenHatch, and AcaWiki. From 2003 to 2012 he served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Creative Commons.
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Astrid Lorenzen (Germany) has been an independent industrial designer for sustain­able product design since graduating from the Muthesius University in Kiel.
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Lara Mallien is editor-in-chief of Oya magazine, a German publication that focuses on alternatives to Western-style consumer culture.
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Andrea Mura (Italy) is a Lecturer in Middle East Politics and Political Thought at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He has published widely...
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Eric Nanchen (Switzerland) is a geographer and director of the Foundation for the Sustainable Development of Mountain Regions.
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Cameron Neylon (USA) is former Advocacy Director at PLOS, a role he moved to from a career as a researcher. He has an interest in how to make the Internet...
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Andrea J. Nightingale (Sweden) is a Geographer by training and presently Chair of Rural Development in the Global South at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) in Uppsala, Sweden.
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Marcela Olivera (Bolivia) is a water commons organizer in Bolivia and Latin America. Since 2004 she has been developing an inter-American citizens’ network on water justice named Red VIDA.
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Jacques Paysan (Germany) holds a PhD in Neurobiology, and is a commons fan and SPIM Expert. He lives in the Jagst-Valley in Baden-Württemberg.
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Jukka Peltokoski (Finland) is a political researcher and pedagogue, an activist in the precarity movement, a commoner in Commons.
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Véronique Rioufol (France) is Terre de Liens’ European Relations Coordinator. She has a background in international relations and political studies and has worked in human rights organizations.
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Will Ruddick has been a community development specialist in Kenya since 2009 where he facilitated the development of the commons-based currency Bangla-Pesa.
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Anne Salmond (New Zealand) is a Distinguished Professor of Maori Studies and Anthropology at the University of Auckland. For many years she has worked with indigenous leaders and groups in...
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Julio Sanchez Onofre (Mexico) is a tech journalist for the newspaper El Economista in Mexico City.
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Enric Senabre Hidalgo (Spain) is a member of the Platoniq collective and cofounder and content coordinator at Goteo.org. He is also vice president of the Observatory for CyberSociety and teaches...
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Ariadna Serra (Spain) works at l’art du soleil, a travel­ling eco-show in a converted truck, which proposes itself as an alternative approach to the current socioeconomic situation.
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James Stodder (USA) teaches economics and econometrics in the School of Management at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and the Management Department at the US Coast Guard Academy.
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Erika Styger, PhD (United States), is Director of Programs, SRI-Rice, Cornell University, Ithaca New York (eds8@cornell.edu), which she set up and has headed since 2010.
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Frédéric Sultan (France) co-facilitates the Francophone Network for the Commons, and helps people create or claim commons in their communities.
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Zelealem Tefera Ashenafi (Ethiopia) works as country representative of the Frankfurt Zoological Society in Ethiopia overseeing ecological monitoring, com­munity-based conservation, community-based tourism and rural development activi­ties.
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Niklas Toivakainen (Finland) is an active member of Helsinki Timebank, and a member of Commons.fi and the Finnish Solidarity economy collective.
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Tero Toivanen (Finland) is a doctoral student in World Politics at the University of Helsinki.
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Ruby van der Wekken (Finland) is an active member of Helsinki Timebank, and a member of Commons.fi and the Finnish Solidarity Economy collective.
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Monica Vasile (Romania) is a visiting fellow at the Integrative Research Institute on Transformations of Human-Environment Systems (IRI THESys) at Humboldt University in Berlin, where she researches issues of environmental...
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Sjoerd Wartena (France) has been active in the organic agriculture movement for decades. In 2003 he cofounded the Terre de Liens association and was president for its first ten years.
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Andreas Weber (Germany) is a biologist, philosopher and book and magazine writer based in Berlin. His longstanding interest is how human feeling, subjectivity and social identity are related to biological...
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David Sloan Wilson (USA) is SUNY Distinguished Professor of Biology and Anthropology at Binghamton University in Binghamton New York, President of the Evolution Institute, and Editor in Chief of the...
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