The Commons Engine: Collective intelligence, non-monetary currencies, and Holochain

For this interview I spoke to Ferananda Ibarra (@fer_ananda), the Director of the Commons Engine, a Holochain Ecosystem service agency aiming to create a community of Regenerative Economy practitioners capable of designing ethical tokens and currencies to enable healthy flow, incentives, and feedback loops in order to evolve the economy and culture of their own communities and organizations.

During the interview we spoke about what constitutes a commons both in the physical and digital worlds, her work with the Commons Engine, and the differences between monetary and non-monetary currencies (or current-sees). While this episode is not technically part of the OTNS series, we did also have a chance to talk about the commons as an alternative framework than what is used in The Network State.

(w)hologram of the Holochain Ecosystem

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