Tara Merk

she/her
CNRS/ Panthéon-Assas University Paris II
A picture of Tara standing in front of a wall
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Lukas Z

Tara is a political science PhD interested in exploring strategies for collective internet ownership and governance. Her current work focuses on blockchain and open-source software governance, Exit to Community, DAOs and labor.

Sessions

Community data centers – Towards locally owned infrastructures for an equitable and sustainable digital future

Tara Merk, Rainer Rehak, Friederike von Franque, André Ullrich

What if we, as a local community, own and operate a data center? How would it work? Is it sustainable? Who profits? On this panel we discuss our utopia of citizen owned data centers, informed by historical learnings and future imaginaries with a focus on practical strategies to make them a reality.
Sustainability
Participation & Access
Civil Society
Future & Utopia
Politics & Society
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Panel
English
re:claim Digital Future
Conference