2024/04/20 by Ehud Shapiro, Shapiro, Ehud · 1 citation
Engineering · Business, Management and Accounting · #ICT Impact and Policies #Digital Platforms and Economics
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2404.13468
We present an architectural alternative to global digital platforms termed grassroots, designed to serve the social, economic, civic, and political needs of local digital communities, as well as their federation. Grassroots platforms may offer local communities an alternative to global digital platforms while operating solely on the smartphones of their members, forsaking any global resources other than the network itself. Such communities may form digital economies without initial capital or external credit, exercise sovereign democratic governance, and federate, ultimately resulting in the grassroots formation of a global digital democracy.