Primavera De Filippi
Primavera De Filippi is an internationally recognized authority on the legal challenges and opportunities of decentralized online technologies, including peer-to-peer networks like the now-defunct Napster, mesh networking technologies, and especially, on blockchains like Bitcoin. She specializes in:
- the legal frameworks in which these platforms operate,
- how they can be used to support large-scale decentralized collaboration and participatory decision-making,
- how to regulate decentralized autonomous organizations that blockchains make through "governance-by-design", and
- how commons-based peer-production communities can create value.
Blockchains. Blockchains enable completely different organizational structures than we know today. Just as Bitcoin eliminates the banks who act as intermediaries for financial transactions, so blockchains can eliminate intermediaries in a wide range of other human relationships and activities. Primavera De Filippi is a genius on explaining this important and exciting new technology. But blockchains require trust — trust is what the intermediaries (used to) provide.
"Backfeed" — a way to provide trust. Primavera's mission is to create distributed governance systems that can be deployed as a kind of "operating system" that runs on the blockchain conceived as a kind of distributed computer. She calls the system Backfeed.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. These are the future that blockchains will create, organizations that will become independent of their creators. And she's created one as a demonstration — the Plantoid, which is to a plant what an android is to a human. It's reproductive process is an astounding new business model that is completely independent of copyright and illustrates the mostly unexplored business potential of these technologies.
Credentials
- Permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris
- Faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she studies the legal aspects of these technologies
- Researcher commons-based peer-production for the European Commission (P2Pvalue.eu)
- Co-founder of the International Communia Association for the promotion and preservation of the digital public domain
- Legal expert for the Creative Commons France affiliate group
- Member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & IT Services at the World Economic Forum
- Associate Editor of the Digital Finance Journal, Springer
She is fluent in Italian, French and English
Primavera De Filippi is an internationally recognized authority on the legal challenges and opportunities of decentralized online technologies, including peer-to-peer networks like the now-defunct Napster, mesh networking technologies, and especially, on blockchains like Bitcoin. She specializes in:
- the legal frameworks in which these platforms operate,
- how they can be used to support large-scale decentralized collaboration and participatory decision-making,
- how to regulate decentralized autonomous organizations that blockchains make through "governance-by-design", and
- how commons-based peer-production communities can create value.
Blockchains. Blockchains enable completely different organizational structures than we know today. Just as Bitcoin eliminates the banks who act as intermediaries for financial transactions, so blockchains can eliminate intermediaries in a wide range of other human relationships and activities. Primavera De Filippi is a genius on explaining this important and exciting new technology. But blockchains require trust — trust is what the intermediaries (used to) provide.
"Backfeed" — a way to provide trust. Primavera's mission is to create distributed governance systems that can be deployed as a kind of "operating system" that runs on the blockchain conceived as a kind of distributed computer. She calls the system Backfeed.
Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. These are the future that blockchains will create, organizations that will become independent of their creators. And she's created one as a demonstration — the Plantoid, which is to a plant what an android is to a human. It's reproductive process is an astounding new business model that is completely independent of copyright and illustrates the mostly unexplored business potential of these technologies.
Credentials
- Permanent researcher at the National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) in Paris
- Faculty associate at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School, where she studies the legal aspects of these technologies
- Researcher commons-based peer-production for the European Commission (P2Pvalue.eu)
- Co-founder of the International Communia Association for the promotion and preservation of the digital public domain
- Legal expert for the Creative Commons France affiliate group
- Member of the Global Agenda Council on the Future of Software & IT Services at the World Economic Forum
- Associate Editor of the Digital Finance Journal, Springer
She is fluent in Italian, French and English
