For this week's episode I spoke with Samer Hassan (@SamerP2P), activist, researcher, and Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense Madrid and Faculty Associate at Harvard's Berkman Klein Center. His current focus is his work on P2P Models (@P2PMod), a project to build collaborative economy organizations that are decentralized, democratic & distribute their profits through the use of decentralized technology like blockchain.

During the interview we talk about Samer's research and activist experience both in technical and social issues, how he sees decentralized technologies can assist the left for organizing and governance, and some of the insights P2P Models' research has found so far on how DAOs have evolved.

More from P2P Models

• Explanation of P2P Models from Samer Hassan
• Blockchain for Social Good: A field in expansion
• An overview of decentralized autonomous organizations on the blockchain
• When Ostrom Meets Blockchain: Exploring the Potentials of Blockchain for Commons Governance
• A Scalable Voting System: Validation of Holographic Consensus in DAOstack
• Effect of the Gas Price Surges on User Activity in the DAOs of the Ethereum Blockchain
• Towards a decentralized process for scientific publication and peer review using blockchain and IPFS

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