Internet of People DiEM Agenda

Discussion

Aral Balkan:

"The goal of the 7th pillar is to draft policies encouraging decentralised technology funded from the commons. I use the term ‘decentralised technology’ here in its broadest sense. That is, to mean technology that’s topologically decentralised, free and open, and interoperable. Technology that empowers individuals over centralised power structures like governments and corporations. Technology that enables people to communicate directly with each other. Technology that empowers individuals to spontaneously organise and express their political will. Technology that safeguards the integrity of personhood and thereby forms the minimum prerequisite for any sort of meaningful social contract and democracy in the digital age. These are technologies that we, ourselves, need to realise and amplify our efforts to create a decentralised, democratic Europe. A Europe – and a world – based on individual sovereignty and a healthy commons.

The proposal and the policy ideas for the Internet of People pillar were enthusiastically welcomed. Unfortunately, implementing them internally at DiEM wasn't." (https://ar.al/notes/farewell-not-goodbye/)