Towards a Policy Position Kelsie Nabben 9 May, 2022 This piece presents the concept of “Metaverse Cities”, as an exploration of how “crypto cities” and “crypto states” are melding with the physical infrastructure of cities to offer new potentialities in how people organise, work, rest, and play. …

Kelsie Nabben & Michael Zargham April 19, 2022 Introduction This post highlights an excerpt from Zargham, M. & Nabben, K. (2022). “Aligning ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics”. Stafford Beer articulated the “Viable System Model” (VSM) in his 1972 book ‘Brain of the Firm’ as a management tool to…

A research paper… Kelsie Nabben, providing a brief introduction to: Zargham, Michael and Nabben, Kelsie, Aligning ‘Decentralized Autonomous Organization’ to Precedents in Cybernetics (April 4, 2022). Available at SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4077358 April, 2022. When I first came across the fact that the term “Decentralized Autonomous Organization” had existed at least since 1997 in my…

Problematizing and positioning the concept for decentralised infrastructure research Kelsie Nabben, March 2022 This piece explores the concept of resilience. Digital technologies are infrastructures that support human activity. The concept of resilience has applicability in the disciplines of software engineering, civil engineering, and community development. It has also garnered interest in relation to organisational resilience in “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations”…

Decentralised data storage as a resilience problem Kelsie Nabben 31 January, 2022 This piece explores the issue of persistent storage of content as part of resilience in distributed networks. I focus on Non-Fungible-Tokens (NFTs) as a general use case for content addressing and data storage. …

A focus for 2022. This post is about welcoming the New Year by sharing a topic that’s been on my mind and radar in both theory and practice: data governance. It seems obvious, right? But with all the criticism of Web2.0 platform exploitation in terms of how data is utilised and monetised, Web3.0 is…

Kelsie Nabben December 14, 2021 (as published in CoinDesk) Crypto communities are playing a big series of “live action role playing games,” and they’re changing how we organize and interact across digital and physical spaces. At the 2018 “Devcon” Ethereum Developers Conference in Prague, internet guru and self-proclaimed “culture hacker”…

a digest of thinking and works Kelsie Nabben 10 December, 2021 I’ve been thinking a lot about the concept of “autonomy”. This post is an effort to synthesize some of these thoughts and link curious minds to various resources to read more. When I first approached “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” (DAOs) as a research site, it struck…

It’s Facebook’s Meta versus open DAOs. And the battle will come down to hardware, specifically, microchips. Kelsie Nabben 24 November, 2021 [as published in CoinDesk]. What kind of metaverse would you like to live in? With the announcement of Facebook’s rebrand to “Meta” — where the social media giant designs and builds “the metaverse” and claims the next digital frontier — the battle for the future…