Join us at our next virtual meetup and hear our speakers share updates on some latest DWeb releases and community organizing efforts.

Technologists and designers can be at the forefront of building cutting edge tools that enable individual autonomy and community sovereignty. But organizers also play a crucial role. Through movement building, they can connect the technologies, approaches, and policies to shift energy and resources towards viable efforts to decentralize power over network infrastructure.

We’re now weeks away from DWeb Camp taking place this July near Berlin. We’re going to highlight a few of the projects that are going to Germany this summer to help forge new ties and deepen connections across the DWeb network. We will highlight three programmatic tracks of the nine that will be held at Camp this year:

Public AI: Strategies for building publicly accessible, accountable, and trustworthy large language models (LLMs) and machine learning systems—AI tools that are collectively governed and work for the common good.

Solidarity Tech: Scale moves in two directions. Exploring network infrastructures built and maintained by/for small trusted communities, designed for intimacy, trust, and safety at a human scale.

Sustaining Infrastructure: Exploring approaches to sustain free/libre/open source decentralized technologies through social solidarity economy practices and other community governance and funding models.

At this month’s virtual meetup, we’re going to highlight a few of the projects and content tracks you’ll see at Camp this summer. Here are this month’s speakers:

• Liz Barry, Metagov: Liz is Metagov’s Executive Director. She will share their latest efforts towards building a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. They bring together researchers and practitioners to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Liz will also share her thoughts and reflections on the Sustaining Infrastructure track at DWeb Camp.

• LX Cast, Folk Tech/DWeb YVR: LX will share their project Folk Tech, a movement of people who want digital technology for their communities without the extraction, exploitation, or surveillance found in most proprietary technology. They will describe what it looks like when ordinary folks make tech that is local first, peer-to-peer, decentralized, open-source. LX is the curator of the Solidarity Tech track at Camp this year, and is also a co-lead of the DWeb YVR Node.

• b cavello, Aspen Institute: B is the Director of Emerging Technologies for Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute. They lead Responsible Innovation initiatives, empowering people with understanding about the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with technologies like artificial intelligence. B is a contributor of the Public AI Network and will be co-curator of the Public AI track at Camp. They will share their reflections on how AI could function more like public infrastructure and be publicly accessible and accountable.

Please join us on Thursday May 28 at 18 CET / 12pm ET / 9am PT for this virtual meetup and hear about some of the latest organizing efforts across the DWeb ecosystem.

The presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A with the speakers.

The topics covered in this meetup embodies the DWeb Principles on Humanity:

1. The objective of building a decentralized web is to protect human rights and empower people, especially those who experience systemic inequity and prejudice.

2. We stand for people having agency over their own data and relationships, rights to free expression, privacy, and knowledge, as these are essential to human empowerment and dignity.

AGENDA

00:00 - 00:06 = Welcome & announcements
00:06 - 00:18 = Liz Barry
00:18 - 00:30 = LX Cast
00:30 - 00:42 = b cavello
00:42 - 00:57 = Speaker discussion + Q&A
00:57 - 01:00 = Concluding remarks

WHEN: Thursday May 28 (local times below)
SF/Seattle/Vancouver/Phoenix: 9:00 AM
New York/DC/Boston: 12:00 PM
Buenos Aires/Sao Paulo: 1:00 PM
Berlin/Amsterdam: 6:00 PM
Bangalore: 9:30 PM

NOTE: This is an hour earlier than we typically hold our virtual meetups.

LOCATION: Online
Once you have registered we will send you a confirmation email with a link to join the meeting.

About DWeb Camp

DWeb Camp 2026: Root Systems is a five-day gathering in nature for builders and dreamers dedicated to building a decentralized web (DWeb). A web that is private, resilient, and beyond the control of a few central powers. Like forests, decentralized systems derive strength from what lies beneath the surface: dense networks of roots, sharing resources without hierarchy, and coordination that persists even when individual nodes disappear.

DWeb Camp: Root Systems invites participants to build technologies that–like living ecosystems–adapt, regenerate, and endure.

The event will be held at Alte Hölle, just one hour southwest of Berlin. The venue sits on the grounds of a forest hotel dating back to the 1800s. Once a Stasi recreation site, Alte Hölle is now owned and inhabited by a collectivist community of friends who are turning this space into a sustainable venue for group events of technologists, hackers, artists, and activists. Set on 100,000 square meters of lush meadows and ancient forests, Alte Hölle is both a community and location with values that resonate deeply with DWeb, a place we are excited to nourish and leave richer than when we arrive.

Want to learn more about DWeb Camp? Visit dwebcamp.org.