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sovereignty + stewardship @openwebculture / decentralized and frontier tech / 📍NYC

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feven @feven.bsky.social · Jul 31

UN Open Source Conference 2025 Insights

 I wrote a report reflecting on how open source shapes digital sovereignty, public infrastructure, and global equity. Here’s a quick preview ↴

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

Grateful to the MGCY and the Third Committee Secretariat for this opportunity to learn, contribute, and represent a generation building toward systems that serve everyone better.

Looking forward to Friday and the conversations ahead! 🇺🇳🌐

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

The questions are similar across all contexts: Who gets a voice? Who controls resources? How do we coordinate at scale? How do we build systems that serve people, not just institutions?

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

My goal: contribute insights from decentralized tech and bring back perspectives from this convening into our industry. How can we build technologies that actually future-proof young people's lives - especially those in LDCs and SIDS who are most affected by governance failures?

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

I'm coming to this conversation from the emerging tech space, where we're building systems focused on financial sovereignty and individual empowerment. But I'm also coming to listen and learn from youth advocates working on the front lines of social development globally.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

The theme: "Building Solutions Together for an Inclusive Future" - focusing on governance, social development, and youth participation in multilateral decision making.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 6d

Honored to share that I've been selected as a delegate to the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee Youth Event at UN Headquarters this Friday.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

Grateful to reconnect with old friends & meet new ones. Special thanks to organizers & hosts!

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

→ When new issues collide with old infrastructure, we need innovative financial rails that don’t just fund capacity, but reimagine how it’s resourced.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

→ Multilateral leadership is increasingly tested - in the absence of strong institutions, it’s politics + people that move tech forward.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

→ UN reforms show the challenge of budget cuts + AI integration. What can ecosystems like Ethereum/crypto learn from inefficiency at global scale?

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

→ There is a clear divide in how the Global South vs Global North frame AI acceleration, digital policy, & emerging tech. Narratives matter.

feven @feven.bsky.social · 11d

Had a great time at #UNGA80 attending Digital@UNGA + side events on emerging tech, digital infra & global development.

Some reflections 👇

feven @feven.bsky.social · 13d

When I think about the outcome of my life and the way I want to pursue my goals, i go back to this quote that anchors me

and i have to remind myself to not let fear, desperation, ego, or my pride control my next steps

feven @feven.bsky.social · 13d

“Prodigy is, at its essence, adaptable persistent positive obsession. Without persistence, what remains is an enthusiasm of the moment. Without adaptability, what remains may be channeled into destructive fanaticism. Without positive obsession, there is nothing at all.”

feven @feven.bsky.social · 13d

i will now be rebranding every single hustle quote ever

Let’s make this bread -> lets move this bread

Lets stack this cheese -> lets reallocate this cheese

Getting to the bag -> convincing someone to give me the bag

feven @feven.bsky.social · 19d

If you read my UN OSS report you know that the EU’s Next Generation Internet, who primarily funded open source development, had funding cut

DWeb is hosting a vital conversation on funding & sustaining open source. Highly recommend tuning in 👇

DWeb @getdweb.net · 20d

Our next DWeb Virtual Meetup is in one week:
Tues Sep 30 10am PT / 2pm ET / 19 CET

"The Present and Future of Funding Open Source" — featuring Brian Behlendorf, Zenna Fiscella, & Alexander Sander

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/dweb-meetu...

feven @feven.bsky.social · 20d

Internet resilience is sovereignty.

Happy to share my op-ed based on the UN Open Source Conference 2025.

Why OSS funding, digital identity, and infrastructure equity are key to global futures:

Internet Society Pulse @isoc-pulse.bsky.social · 21d

The solution requires reframing how we think about #opensource infrastructure. Rather than treating it as a technical curiosity, policymakers must recognize it as foundational to economic resilience, GDP growth, & democratic governance, writes Feven Mekonenn pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/insight...

Insights From the UN Open Source Conference: Reclaiming the Foundations of the Internet

pulse.internetsociety.org

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Internet Society Pulse @isoc-pulse.bsky.social · 21d

The solution requires reframing how we think about #opensource infrastructure. Rather than treating it as a technical curiosity, policymakers must recognize it as foundational to economic resilience, GDP growth, & democratic governance, writes Feven Mekonenn pulse.internetsociety.org/blog/insight...

Insights From the UN Open Source Conference: Reclaiming the Foundations of the Internet

pulse.internetsociety.org

feven @feven.bsky.social · Sep 6

you can dream and build something fundamentally different

something that is not weighed down by the baggage of politics, or partisan struggle

you can believe in collective ownership for humans and you can believe in collective ownership for non humans

feven @feven.bsky.social · Sep 6

there is something very powerful in an entity or object that has no embedded politics or human configuration because then you’re forced to look beyond yourself

you have the opportunity to see beyond human greed, human optimism, human consumption

feven @feven.bsky.social · Aug 20

haha that was my goal for this year and even made my first github contribution 🥲

feven @feven.bsky.social · Aug 15

great thread thank you! was looking for more substack newsletters to follow :)

feven @feven.bsky.social · Aug 14

Come Black Friday this year we will see how product prices will unfold, the quality for goods (are you paying more for inferior goods), and business closure rates, especially if consumers have less to spend!

feven @feven.bsky.social · Aug 14

→ Increased health and environmental risks: We will have more exposure to microplastics, toxic dyes, and harmful synthetic fabrics, which will lead to polluting our waterways, harming wildlife, and damaging ecosystems.

feven @feven.bsky.social · Aug 14

→ Higher retail prices: Consumers will end up paying the full tariff cost.
→ Cheaper manufacturing inputs: Expect a shift from cotton to synthetic materials like polyester or other cheap synthetics.