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By creating an economic incentive — the cryptocurrency or token — to create a shared open data asset, we now have powerful driver for open data, interoperable through open standards. Read more

To better support small businesses operating in regulated sectors, we should develop “alternative compliance” mechanisms — parallel regulatory regimes that achieve the goals of existing regulations but take an alternative, data-oriented approach to achieving them. Such an approach would be [...]  Read more

We are entering the information age, and as such our fundamental models for accomplishing our goals are changing. In the case of regulation, that means a shift from the industrial, permission-based model to the internet-native, accountability based model Read more

Nick's O'Reilly eBook on emerging services for gig workers Read more

"Now, the question is: how can we transform our public regulations to adopt this kind of model? Here’s the part that no one will like: "1) Regulators need to accept a new model where they focus less on making it [...]  Read more

I’ve spent the better part of the last six years thinking about where web standards come from. Before joining USV, I was at the (now retired) urban tech incubator OpenPlans, where, among other things, we worked to further “open” technology [...]  Read more