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Episode 9 brings us a conversation with Helene Landemore, political theorist and Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Among authoring several books, she acted as an advisor to the Parliaments of Finland and France on inclusive decision-making and is currently serving as expert consultant for the French government at the Convention Citoyenne, a policy making experimentation with randomly selected citizens.
We discuss deliberative democracy, collective intelligence, open democracy and the vision of democratic societies of the future.
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We speak with Salim Ismail, former Head of Innovation at Yahoo, Founding Executive Director of Singularity University, and board member of the XPRIZE Organization. He is the author of the best-selling book “Exponential Organizations”, one of the most influential reads on the global transformation of business.
In the episode, we discuss his early career choices, the Silicon Valley experience, as well as exponential organizations, their impact on global governance and what technological innovation can do to recreate a world of abundance.
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In our seventh iteration of the Decentralized Justice Broadcast we spoke with Mariano Conti, former Head of Oracles at MakerDAO. We discussed his origin story, the future of oracles, yield farming and what's next for the world of decentralized finance.
Mariano Conti was born in Argentina, but moved to Mexico City when he was 6. He studied computer science at the Tec of Monterrey from 1999 to 2006, and computer graphics in Thailand.
Starting as a systems administrator in the telecommunications industry, he joined the MakerDAO in 2016 as a developer and until recently held the position of Head of Oracles and Smart Contracts. According to himself, his personal experience with the instability of currencies in the places he has lived, in particular Argentina, drove him to discover Bitcoin, later Ether and the crypto ecosystem in general.
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Our sixth episode features Santiago Siri, founder of Democracy Earth who spoke with us about his first experiences with computers, his political career with the Net Party in Argentina, what drove him to experimental technologies and how we can shape digital identities to create democracies online.
Santiago Siri was born in Buenos Aires. He started his career in the Argentinian gaming industry. He created a game called Football Deluxe. He claims was his experience ‘taught him everything there is about business’.
Then he went on to create Popego Inc., a firm doing big data based on social media. In 2012 Santi became the founder of Partido de la Red (The Net Party) in Argentina, a political movement to promote citizen engagement through the use of open source software.
Two years later, Santi founded the Democracy Earth Foundation, a non-profit which develops governance infrastructures for crypto networks. He is author of the book Hacktivism.
Because of his involvement with innovation and high tech, some have dubbed him “the Steve Jobs of the Pampas”.
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In our fifth episode, we speak with Kate Sills from the Agoric team on computer science, libertarianism, building novel institutions and tiny houses.
Kate Sills earned her degree in computer science from UC Berkeley. She has researched and written on the potential uses of smart contracts to enforce agreements and create institutions orthogonal to legal jurisdictions. Kate is a software engineer at Agoric, building composable smart contract components in a secure subset of JavaScript. In her own words, she is "a bizarre mish-mash of hippie anarchism and economic liberalism beefed up with lots of technological determinism".
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In this week's episode we interview Eyal Winter, Professor of Economics and former Director of the Center for the Study of Rationality at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
He has lectured at over 130 universities in 26 countries around the world, including Harvard University, Stanford University, Princeton University, the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Cambridge.
We discuss game theory in the context of human emotions and rationality, technological advances and novel implementations of this concept, as well as how we can use game theory to make better decisions.
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The third episode of the Decentralized Justice Broadcast features Joseph Raczynski, Thomson Legal's futurist, who focuses on technology and the implications of innovation on the future of law and the legal business.
We discuss futurism, blockchain and AI in the context of traditional governments, how the legal space can adapt to the new conditions of the post-COVID world, as well as why it's important for children to break toys as a paradigm of human discovery.
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In the second episode of The Decentralized Justice Broadcast, we talk with Sophie Nappert, international arbitrator with an independent practice with a base in London. Recently chosen as one of the best regarded arbitrators in the UK, she is also a guest lecturer at Columbia Law School, Harvard Law School and McGill University Faculty of Law.
In the episode, we discuss the life of an international arbitrator, the effects and implications of new technologies on the profession, as well as how arbitration will adapt to the challenges of the new age and what young legal professionals can do to find their way in this ever more complex world.
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Our first episode features Colin Rule, the Godfather of Dispute Resolution and the man behind the dispute resolution system of eBay and PayPal. In our first episode Colin takes us on a journey through the technological breakthroughs of his lifetime. Intertwined with his personal experience is a picture of online dispute resolution from its' roots in the late 1990s, his experiments with community courts in eBay and PayPal to his views of Kleros as a decentralized crowdsourcing dispute resolution mechanism.
