Turning Network Nations into a movement - Poli

Hello. Hi. Hi, everyone. I know we're tired and a few more talks to go and now the full screen stopped working. Yeah, so basically I want to talk about from concept to movement because I think it's all good that we discuss all these beautiful, amazing ideas.

But if we want this to have an impact in the real world, we probably want to somehow move from the concept to an actual movement. And for that, I will present some examples of things that moved from concepts to movements, and then we will discuss together how to apply that in the Network Nations context. So let's check some learning from other movements. So the open source software movement, and I have some mermaid diagrams for each. So basically there was a problem.

The printer was broken. So this problem exists since printers were invented and then Richard Stallman tried to fix his printer and he realized that the firmware was not open. So he got pissed off and wrote the GNU project in 1983, articulating the free software philosophy. So he was this visionary, he was creating the theory, I think it could be like the academic discussions on network nations that has been happening for a bit. Then, activists like early adopters and developers started forming loose networks, the Linux development started to happen.

And then more support started to happen. One interesting thing happened was a rebranding because before it was called free software. But then companies didn't want to adopt because they didn't want to give things for free because free is a bad word. Like who, apparently we need to create scarcity. So they rebranded to open source, because then it's like, it's still free, but if we don't use the word, I guess that's fine.

And then it got to the mainstream. And Red Hat demonstrated a viable business model for open source, which then allowed the business to adopt it. And we still had resistors. Of course, not everything is open source, but open source turned from idea to movement. Then the maker movement.

So let's go back to our beautiful mermaid diagrams. If you don't know them, they're amazing. I don't know how to make them, but Cloud does. So basically, there were high barriers of entry to hardware prototyping and overall to making things in the real world. And then 3D printers were invented.

And then some people were super enthusiastic about, oh, 3D printers are going to change the world. Everything is going to be amazing. Well, not necessarily. We have a 3D printer in every corner printing everything and no need to buy anything anymore, but the activists started talking about this. There was the Maker Magazine in 2005 and then the Maker Faire in 2006.

Makerspaces and Arduino and Raspberry Pi were released and this was when it started being supported and then as the mainstream like the STEM initiatives, there is corporate maker culture. There are maker spaces everywhere in the world. So I think the maker movement is a great example as well of a concept to movement. Then effective altruism is another concept that has become a movement. And I'm not giving my opinion on any of these movements.

So, yeah. So there was this problem that identified with inefficiency in traditional philanthropy. Then the visionaries in this context were Peter Singer and Toby Ord talking about giving better. Then the activists like the GiveWell Foundation and the 80,000 Hours Foundation were established. Then it started getting supported by EA global conferences and local conferences and open philanthropy projects launched and today it is mainstream with high profile endorsements, integration with tech philanthropy, cultural impact, and yeah, some critics of EA methodologies and traditional charities are still resistors.

And the digital nomad is also a concept that became a movement. So how did that come about in the digital nomad concept? So in digital nomad, basically, digital nomad concept. So in digital nomad, basically, it's very interesting, actually. There was this guy that used to go around with his computerized bicycle and amateur radio called Steven K.

Roberts. And he essentially was called the high tech nomad, was the first time some term like that was used. And then actually like in 1993, there was this Newton PDA, which was the pre-precoaster to the smartphone like before or to the iPad or whatever. And they wanted, they thought this would be the tool of the future. And they created like the digital nomads guide, because basically with one tool like that, you could live anywhere in the world with just that portable computer.

A bit too early, but they established the seed for that. And then activists, right? Like in this context, it would be the first co-working spaces, first digital nomad blogs and forums started to grow. The internet started to solidify. You could work wherever you were for more and more people.

And then it started getting supported with remote work tools proliferation, nomad-friendly accommodation, and it became mainstream, especially after the pandemic, with the companies adopting remote work policy, countries offering digital nomad visas. And there was a cultural impact of redefining work-life balance and global citizenship. And of course, there's still resistors like traditional office-based employers, governments with strict visa policies, people saying that if you don't work from an office, you're less productive, things like this. Cool, so how can this affect network nations? So I think that, of course, it is a path, but it started with the thought of limitations of network states.

And then the early pioneers are the people in this room and the people that have been thinking about this for a while, thinking and articulating the concept of network nations and thinking about the theoretical framework of these jurisdictions. And then the activists are maybe some other of us in this room, thinking about the development of decentralized government tools. And then I think, yeah, the aspiration is the forming of the first network nations and exploration of functional sovereignty models. And then in the future, hopefully the idea would be to grow the network nations across the digital and physical spaces, collaborations between network nations and nation states and other kinds of organizations. And when it's mainstream, it would be recognized as a legitimate political entity, widespread adoption for various communities' needs, integration with global systems while maintaining autonomy.

And the resistors could be like traditional institutions resistant to change, legal and regulatory challenges, and concerns about impact on existing power structures. So what is the call to action to each of these layers in Network Nations? Because I think it's important that we maybe, after these nice, exciting days, we leave here with some actions to perform after. And I think there are two. So in this framework of pioneers and activists, if we go back, this framework I basically adapted from the technological early adopter.

You have the early adopters all the way to the late adopters and all that. I adapted that to how a movement is created. So if you have early pioneers and activists, which are the active processes, the call to actions need a better marketing language. But basically, if you want to join us as a pioneer, help build the concept with us. if you want to join us as a pioneer help build the concept with us if you want to join us as an activist let's build the first network nation and let's think if your community is a candidate and let's make the network nations a movement pulverizing so one thing that i think i could be a thing to think about is on future conferences, together with a network nation module like this, also thinking about actually not participating in the network nation track and going back to if you are an AI person, a crypto person, an ecology person, and actually maybe would like to join your track and talk about network nations there so pulverization of the concept and still keeping an exclosure of network nations for developing of the the concept itself but I think we're at time to spread share and build