Concepts
A shared understanding of key concepts is essential for working together, for doing the right things the right way for the right reasons. Wisdom begins with the definition of terms.
These concepts are the fundamental building blocks of our thinking and our doing. Each concept is explained in just a few paragraphs, with links to additional resources.
- Agency
- Autonomy
- Biomimetics
- Blockchain
- Common goods
- Community
- Complexity
- Conversation
- Cryptocurrency
- Cybernetics
- DAO
- Decentralized
- Distributed
- Distributed computing
- Distributed ledger
- Dweb
- Ecology
- Ethics of technology
- Fediverse
- Feedback
- Freedom
- Governance
- Holon
- Identity
- Info-centric networking
- (Inter)personal data
- Justice
- Legitimacy
- Metadesign
- Mind
- Moderating
- Networks
- Open design
- Open source software
- Platform
- Pluralism
- Privacy
- Protocol
- Public goods
- Relationships
- Rivalry
- Smart contract
- Social
- Social graph
- Social networking
- Sociology
- Sociotechnology
- Software framework
- Sovereignty
- Structuration theory
- Structure
- Systems thinking
- Token
- Trust
- Variety
- Viability
- Web3
We started this work under the auspices of the AKASHA Foundation.