the digital commons with local manufacturing technologies. Along with an interdisciplinary team of scholars, activists, and social entrepreneurs, Vasilis focuses on how to create an economy based on locally sustainable communities that are digitally interconnected. His work has appeared in 15 languages.
Mariam Mecky is an Egyptian feminist researcher. She received an MA in Gender Studies and Law at SOAS, University of London in 2018 as a Chevening Scholar and a BA in Political Science from the British University in Egypt in 2013. Mecky has worked as a researcher, journalist, and NGO worker focusing broadly on gender issues and politics in Egypt and the MENA region at large. Alongside her current research work, she is the Communication Unit head at HarassMap, an anti‐sexual harassment NGO in Egypt. Her interests include but are not limited to: feminist mobilization and activism, gender‐based violence, body politics, resistance, and legal reform.
Morgan Meyer is a research director at the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS). He holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Sheffield) and has been a visiting professor at the University of Vienna (Department of Science and Technology Studies) and a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh (Genomics Forum). His research concentrates on three main topics: (1) participation and co‐production of knowledge (natural history, do‐it‐yourself biology, open source agriculture), (2) new configurations and communities in biology (synthetic biology, gene editing), (3) intermediation, translation, and representation of knowledge.
Stefania Milan is a digital sociologist interested in new forms of political participation facilitated by technological innovation. Stefania is Associate Professor in New Media and Digital Culture at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where she leads a research project exploring the design and governance of technology standards from a human rights perspective, funded by the Dutch Research Council. Previously she worked at the European University Institute, Central European University, Tilburg University, the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto, and the University of Oslo. In 2015–2021 she was the principal investigator of two projects financed by the European Research Council exploring data‐ and algorithmic‐mediated forms of civic engagement (data‐activism.net and algorithms.exposed). She is the author of, among others, Social Movements and their Technologies: Wiring Social Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013/2016), and co‐author of Media/Society (Sage, 2011). Stefania enjoys creating bridges between research, activism, and policymaking, and experimenting with methodological innovation. Website: stefaniamilan.net
Amisha Miller is a PhD candidate at Boston University Questrom School of Business, Boston, USA. She studies how entrepreneurs and their early‐stage firms interact with actors from outside the firm to create value. More specifically, her field research explores how diverse entrepreneurs and early‐stage firms can interact with institutions, collectives, and communities that support entrepreneurs, to create valuable firms and products, and more inclusive institutions.
Francesca Musiani (PhD, socio‐economics of innovation, MINES ParisTech, 2012), has been an associate research professor at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) since 2014. She is Deputy Director of the Center for Internet and Society at CNRS, which she co‐founded with Mélanie Dulong de Rosnay in 2019. She is also an associate researcher at the Center for the sociology of innovation (i3/MINES ParisTech) and a Global Fellow at the Internet Governance Lab, American University in Washington, DC. She is the author and editor of several books including Nains sans géants. Architecture décentralisée et services Internet (Dwarfs Without Giants: Decentralized Architecture and Internet Services, Presses des Mines, 2013 [2nd ed. 2015], recipient of the French Privacy and Data Protection Commission’s Prix Informatique et Libertés 2013).
Sven Niederhöfer is a research assistant at the Chair of Management and Digital Markets at the University of Hamburg, Germany. He studied Information Systems at Technische Universität Darmstadt and Tampere University of Technology in Finland. His research interests cover innovation management, digital platforms, and business ecosystems. Specifically, he is researching aspects related to orchestrating digital platform ecosystems.
Helen Nissenbaum is a professor at Cornell Tech and in the Information Science Department at Cornell University, USA. Her research takes an ethical perspectives on policy, law, science, and engineering relating to information technology, computing, digital media, and data science. Topics have included privacy, trust, accountability, security, and values in technology design. Her books include Obfuscation: A User’s Guide for Privacy and Protest, with Finn Brunton (MIT Press, 2015) and Privacy in Context: Technology, Policy, and the Integrity of Social Life (Stanford, 2010).
Ory Okolloh currently serves as Managing Director, Luminate Group. Luminate is a global philanthropic organization that funds non‐profit and for‐profit organizations that help people participate in and shape the issues affecting their lives, and make those in power more transparent, responsive, and accountable. Based in Nairobi Ory is also tasked helping the drive the growth of Omidyar Network’s overall investment portfolio in Africa. Prior to this, Ory was Google’s policy manager for Africa. Previously, Ory was at the forefront of developing technology innovation as a founding member of Ushahidi. She served as the organization’s executive director from inception until December 2010. Ory is also the co‐founder of Mzalendo, a web site that tracks the performance of Kenyan MPs. In 2011 she was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, and one of Africa's most Powerful Women by Forbes Magazine. In 2014 she was named Time 100's most influential people in the world. She serves on the Board of Directors of the Thomson Reuters Founders Share Company, is an Aspen Global Leadership Network (AGLN) Fellow, and an advisory board member to Twiga Foods and Endeavor Kenya. Ory earned a JD from Harvard Law School and a BA in political science from the University of Pittsburgh.
Siobhán O’Mahony is the Feld Family Professor, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Strategy and Innovation at the Boston University Questrom School of Business and the Academic Director of Innovate@BU, Boston, USA. She received her PhD in Management Science and Engineering from Stanford University. Professor O’Mahony’s research examines organizing processes in community and project forms and how creative and technical collectives organize for innovation, creativity, and growth. Her work has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Organization Science, Academy of Management Journal, Research Policy, Research in Organizational Behavior, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Industry and Innovation, the Journal of Management and Governance among other edited volumes. [email protected]
Mathieu O’Neil is Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Canberra’s News & Media Research Centre, where he leads the Critical Conversations Lab, and Honorary Associate Professor of Sociology at the Australian National University, where he co‐founded the Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks. Mathieu’s research examines the policy and organizational aspects of commons‐based peer production, as well as risk issue diffusion and the adoption of causes and innovations in the online environment. His book Cyberchiefs (2009) was the first systematic examination of governance in peer production projects. He is the founder and maintainer of the Journal of Peer Production. His work has been published in Social Networks, the Journal of Peer Production, Réseaux, Information, Communication & Society, Organization Studies, and New Media and Society, amongst others. [email protected]
Alekos (Alexandros) Pantazis is a core member of the P2P Lab, an interdisciplinary research collective focused on the commons, and a junior research fellow at the Ragnar Nurkse Department of Innovation and Governance, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia. Moreover, Alekos has 20 years of involvement in international civil movements, focusing on agrarian indigenous populations and the commons. He is pursuing a PhD on the convergence of convivial technologies,
