DWeb Meetup Bay Area— How Do We Build the Digital Commons of Tomorrow?

As governments around the world erase history from the Web, we need to build an information commons that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of any one corporation or government. At the next DWeb Bay Area Meetup, we welcome leading thinkers who are building the digital commons of tomorrow.
Join us Tuesday April 15, 6:00 PM-9 PM at the awesome headquarters of the Internet Archive in SF, to explore how we can decentralize information systems, from hardware to community networks. We have invited founders working to reunite refugees separated from family members, innovators in platforms to fund this work, and cutting-edge technologists building some of the infrastructure that can help them.

We're excited to welcome Al Morris, co-founder of KOII for a deep dive into the future of decentralized coordination and peer-to-peer computing.
Morris will explore the core motivations for decentralization, diving into how cryptography and coordination systems form the foundation of truly open digital ecosystems. He’ll discuss emerging paradigms like liquid democracy, mesh Wi-Fi, peer vs. edge computing, and verifiable compute tasks. The talk will also touch on crowdsourced archiving, open-source development, and how we can collectively build resilient infrastructure for the decentralized web.

We're honored to welcome to DWeb Chris and David Mikkelsen, founders of REFUNITE, a nonprofit that supports a network of more than 1.1 million people in Sub-Sahran Africa, helping refugees reconnect with their missing family members. Working with 20+ mobile operators and tech companies, REFUNITE is operational in 22 countries and functions as a hybrid between the world of technology, business and non-profit. They need a new set of technological solutions that address privacy, networking, and banking in a population in which 65%+ are illiterate and off the grid.

Also joining us is David Casey, CEO of FUNDING THE COMMONS, who will give us a sneak peek of the new "Kickstarter"-style platform and digital archive he is incubating for refugee creators. David is working with AKASHIC to create a decentralized fundraising and storytelling tool and immutable archive for displaced populations

📍 Location: Internet Archive, 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco
📅 Date & Time: Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 6-9 PM

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