Presented in the European Research Council for the (successful) interview of the ERC Starting Grants 2017 in Computer Science, rewarded with 1.5M€. Today’s Collaborative Economy relies on centralized hubs for data collection, where communities are disempowered and economic profits are concentrated. I present P2P Models, a new €1.5 million, EU-funded research project to build blockchain-powered organizations which are decentralized, democratic and distribute their profits. http://p2pmodels.eu (This presentation is a composition of text and images; Text is released under open license CC BY 4.0 Int; Images are copyrighted and used under Fair Use).

1. Samer Hassan
P2P MODELS
Decentralized Blockchain-based Organizations
for Bootstrapping the Collaborative Economy

2. $15B (2015)
$335B (2025)
Collaborative
Economy

3. Challenges
A: Infrastructure.
Centralized Surveillance
B: Governance
Disempowered Communities
C: Economics
Concentration of Profits

4. P2P MODELS Research Question
Can we build online platforms that rely on...
● …Decentralized infrastructure?
● ...Democratic organization?
● ...Distribution of profits?

5. Blockchain
Centralized Distributed with
Blockchain
Smart Contract

6. Decentralized Autonomous
Organizations (DAOs)

7. Challenges
A: Infrastructure.
Centralized Surveillance
B: Governance
Disempowered Communities
C: Economics
Concentration of Profits

8. Goal A1:
Building DAOs

9. Goal A2:
DAOs for Collab. Economy (WP1)
Ojanguren, Tenorio & Hassan (2015)
Jacynycz, Hassan et al (2016)

10. Challenges
A: Infrastructure.
Centralized Surveillance
B: Governance
Disempowered Communities
C: Economics
Concentration of Profits

11. Goal B:
Encode Governance Models

12. Goal C:
Encode Economic Models

13. Outcome:
Models (WP2)
De Filippi & Hassan (2015)
Hassan & De Filippi (2015)
De Filippi & Hassan (2016)
COLLABORATIVE
MODULES
ECONOMIC
MODELS
GOVERNANCE
MODELS

14. Methods:
Simulation (WP2)
Hassan et al (2010)
Hassan et al (2011)
Hassan et al (2013)

15. Methods:
Social Research (WP3)
Hassan et al (2009)
Hassan et al (2008)
COLLABORATIVE MODULESECONOMIC MODELS GOVERNANCE MODELS

16. Outcome:
Pilots & Testbed (WP4-5)
3 Flagship Pilots
De la Cueva, Hassan et al (2012)
Tenorio & Hassan (2014)
Agile & Lean Development
Rapid Prototyping

17. Testbed for experimentation
● Which e-democracy models work on
the blockchain?
● How autonomous can these
agent-mediated organizations be?

18. ● Which forms of incentives increase
productivity?
● Which incentives disrupt
collaborative dynamics?
● How they affect the governance
and vice-versa?
Testbed for experimentation

19. Why Me?
2 years Fellow
Faculty Associate
Adopted by 100+ communities
Apache Foundation
500K€
Decentralized tools

20. New Generation Collaborative Economy
New field
● Interdisciplinary
● Agent-mediated orgs

21. Window of
Opportunity
EU-driven
Open Interoperable Ecosystem
US-based
Centralized Monopolies

22. Questions on P2P MODELS?
WP1: Framework
WP2: Models
WP3:
Social Research
WP4-5:
Pilots & Testbed