PARIS, FRANCE – Project Liberty is teaming up with La Plateforme for Innovation Lab’s second challenge, “Web3 & Social Networks of Tomorrow,” an ambitious effort to recruit talent and create several new prototypes that demonstrate the future of decentralized social networks made possible by the shared social graph and blockchain-enabled technologies developed under the banner of Project Liberty.
This challenge is part of a Marseille-based bootcamp, which runs from March 25 until June 10, 2022. Participants will conduct research on today’s social media landscape, imagine and explore new models and, ultimately, consolidate tangible ideas to build proof-of-concept prototypes. The prototypes will be developed by La Plateforme’s students during summer 2022 into functional, testable applications of decentralized social networks and presented at the Unfinished Live conference in September in New York City.
More information about the bootcamp, including how to enroll, can be found here.
In 2021, La Plateforme joined the Unfinished Network, a community of institutions working toward a more just future in technology, democracy, and the economy.
Cyril Zimmermann, founder of La Plateforme stated:
“We are glad to initiate this pioneering partnership together with Project Liberty, which is contributing more than code and frameworks — it’s about sharing the same values and empowering people through education in a fast-moving digital world.
We are excited to work with students, passionate creatives interested in digital culture and future design, researchers, engineers and developers, young entrepreneurs, and others who are concerned about digital, social, and economic justice.”
Frank McCourt, Founder of Project Liberty, and Chairman & CEO of McCourt Global, Inc., said:
“We are thrilled to deepen our partnership with La Plateforme to create opportunities for the Marseillais, develop future tech leaders, and advance a new architecture for the web that’s decentralized, open to all, and – by its very design – would shift the awesome power of the internet and the value it creates from major platforms to people, and help to address our most urgent societal challenges.
Decentralization and Web3 bring new opportunities to rethink social networks and explore new models that are less harmful and more inclusive. We look forward to the creative thinking and new use cases our partnership will help to unlock.”
To officially launch the partnership and the innovation lab, La Plateforme will host an inaugural event on March 25, 2022, at 09:00 PDT / 12:00 EDT / 17:00 CET, featuring artist and social media researcher Darius Kazemi, and president of Unfinished Labs Braxton Woodham. Follow live here.