Samer Hassan
Institution
Harvard University
Department
Berkman Center for Internet & Society
Position
Faculty Associate
Country
United States of America
Homepage
shassan@cyber.harvard.edu
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Samer Hassan is an activist and researcher, currently Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center, and Associate Professor at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain). Focused on decentralized collaboration, he was awarded EU’s largest individual research grant, a 1.5M€ ERC grant for the interdisciplinary project P2P Models, to build blockchain-based, democratic and economically sustainable organizations for a new type of Collaborative Economy. His work aims to build free/open source privacy-aware decentralized systems (e.g. blockchain) that may facilitate the sustainability of collaborative communities and social movements - and overall, the Commons paradigm. His interdisciplinary approach combines social research studying such communities, and the construction of software tools aimed to facilitate their work