There's definitely a common perception that privacy is for criminals, but I don't really think that's [music] the case. It's really more about power and power imbalances in our society. In the western countries, we believe in like civil liberties. If you're someone who cares about like a free, open, and prosperous society, you fundamentally care about privacy whether you know it or not. And those who are in power, they don't really need privacy in the same way because they are the rule makers, right?
[music] they can do anything because they have so much power. So privacy is really about protecting individual citizens, marginalized [music] groups, these kinds of people who are actually needing it. There's a sort of cipher punk mantra which is privacy for the weak and transparency [music] for the powerful. [music] There's a risk that huge companies will show up and co-opt the term just like they did with transparency 10 years ago. It is a an ongoing challenge for [music] advocacy and finding the right narrative.
At the same time as all of this, we have Hollywood making another movie with hackers wearing hoodies. And it turns out that the hackers wearing hoodies only use security software to do bad [music] things because that makes a better movie, I guess. But they're the ones that we're [music] competing against in terms of ideology where we say, "Let me tell you about the blogger in Egypt." And they say, "Let me tell you about the cool hacker." And these are two different worlds [music] and I live in the one with the actual users.
We're focusing [music] now fully on the blockchain ecosystems because we see that they can bring huge value to the UN ecosystem [music] in terms of the efficiency and transparency of the work etc. So I'm here in Benar is basically to discover new partnerships [music] and to see how we can collaborate on multiple development initiatives that we have in the program.
I love funding [music] comments. I mean, I've been there many different times, right? Like, I've been in Taipei, I've been in Berlin, and I really love the community and the vibe here. [music]
I had heard of Funding the Commons, but I never did the full research into what they're doing. [music] And through the United Nations, I got connected. One of the challenges we've [music] been talking to and when we're in designing our program is how do we educate [music] and build something but also leave an ecosystem that is supportive so that when this education program is over that there's a community [music] there and there's a strategy there to how they can build their blockchain capacity um their human capital involved [music] in it.
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