#  RCC Fellow Event: Brown Bag on 'Can Blockchain Facilitate the Governance of Commons-oriented Communities?' -- with Samer Hassan 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **September 12, 2018** 

 03:00PM - 04:30PM EDT 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **Harvard Kennedy School, 1 Brattle Street, 4th floor, suite 470**  



 

 



 

 Samer Hassan joins digital HKS for a brown bag entitled, [Can Blockchain Facilitate the Governance of Commons-oriented Communities?](https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/digitalhks/event/can-blockchain-facilitate-governance-commons-oriented-communities) In this talk, he will explore the potential of blockchain to facilitate governance and work of commons-oriented communities.

 ![blockchain](/sites/g/files/omnuum986/files/rcc/files/blockchain.png)

 

 Blockchain’s hype has brought up many narratives around its potentials — narratives which are typically techno-deterministic, market-driven and follow a Sillicon Valley perspective. However, what can blockchain bring to the commons-oriented communities, if anything? How the issues around algorithmic governance, infrastructure control, transparency, trust, or tokenization, may affect these communities? Can these blockchain features help — or hinder — the communities governance? In this talk, Samer Hassan will explore the potentials of blockchain to facilitate the work of these communities. He will explain Nobel Laureate [Elinor Ostrom’s 8 Principles for Managing A Commons](http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons#sthash.DCzy2jfk.dpbs), and analyze how blockchain can contribute to each of them.

 This is part of his team work in [P2P Models](https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__p2pmodels.eu&d=DwMFaQ&c=WO-RGvefibhHBZq3fL85hQ&r=waMMZ-Dhx20KIakOQjHwosIAVfwL56oswbVl3hi5xF4&m=YGY9urem4g8vpI1IWpyf1y8uvn9ySHFm_NTG63wnTJM&s=fhqQiO8WziMQ76wjokVDT_lmDJy2CSvxRRiIUgzD_9o&e=), a EU-funded large project to build decentralized, democratic and economically sustainable organizations for the collaborative economy.

 **Speaker:** Sammer Hassan, Faculty Associate at the [Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society (Harvard University)](http://cyber.harvard.edu/); RCC Fellow; Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).

 **Sponsors:** Harvard Kennedy School, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; RCC.



 

 



 

 

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