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Samer Hassan joins digital HKS for a brown bag entitled, Can Blockchain Facilitate the Governance of Commons-oriented Communities? In this talk, he will explore the potential of blockchain to facilitate governance and work of commons-oriented communities.
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, and analyze how blockchain can contribute to each of them.
This is part of his team work in P2P Models, 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); RCC Fellow; Associate Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain).
Sponsors: Harvard Kennedy School, Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society; RCC.