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Bio

Samer Hassan (PhD) is an activist and researcher, Fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University) and Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). He has carried out research in distributed systems, social simulation and artificial intelligence from positions in the University of Surrey (UK) and the American University of Science & Technology (Lebanon). Coming from a multidisciplinary background in Computer Science and Social Sciences, he has more than 45 publications in those fields. Engaged in free/open source projects, he co-founded the Comunes Nonprofit and the Move Commons webtool project, and has experience in multiple communities and grassroots initiatives. He's involved as UCM Principal Investigator in the FP7 P2Pvalue project on the development of webtools for Commons-based peer production. His research interests include Commons-based peer production, online communities, distributed architectures, social movements & cyberethics. More in http://samer.hassan.name. Follow Samer on Twitter: @sh3v3k