Commons Watch/Bios
People that have joined the process after the meeting Commons Watch
Stacco handles general coordination and strategy at the P2P Foundation.
I discovered the dynamism of commons movement via a walk around urban commons http://wiki.remixthecommons.org/index.php/Balade_urbaines_sur_les_communs. I have been a contributor to several local commons on my territory and to the Lille Commons Assembly : http://assemblee.encommuns.org/index.php?title=Lille. Being an elected official , I am particularly interested in the question of public policies design, especially regarding mobility and accessibility. The issue of representation of public and exchanges of experience among the various governance bodies emerging common interests me first.
After training in biology, anthropology, psychology, and communication, and after several jobs as a community manager, web project manager, and in fair trade, Maïa Dereva suffered a severe burn-out at the end of which she said: “Now I want to work exclusively for the common good”. She then created the website semeoz.info which is an observatory of collaborative and constructive practices, and devotes time to many commons projects such as the P2P Foundation or the Assembly of the Commons of Lille (France). I'm interested in the process of development of institutions concerning commons, like Assemblies of the Commons.
I am part of Commons Josapaht (cityzen and associative initiative to create a neighborhood as a commons). In an other hand, I have coordinated with others the "Temps des Communs" in Belgium and Brussels last year.
I am one of the co-organiser of the two years process that led to the creation of the Interg-group at the European Parliament on the commons. Of course I am in touch with many of them. I am part of the group facilitating the Commons Space at the WSF (next August in Montreal) I am a Brussels-based social and political activist, searcher and campaigner. The Commons are both part of my activism and my research. Together with other topic such as: right to water, right to land, women's right, migration. I have been part of the" mouvement altermondialiste" since 2001 and participated in the Occupy movement in US. I am part of several networks such as EWM, Transform!, STOP-TTIP, as an activist, and of the IASC (as a researcher). And I collaborate with many others. By education I am social scientist (PhD) and currently studying Human Rights Law.
I am both a community-based researcher, and a consultant, based in France Brittany. I am also an Administrator of the SCIENCES CITOYENNES NGO, based in Paris. Citizen Science, Social Innovation and the Commons are the three key words to describe my field of interest
Nicolas Krausz is programme officer with the Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation (a grant-making organisation) in Lausanne (Switzerland) since 2011. He is in charge of a set of programmes focusing on the "ecological and socially just Transition towards the next economy", the Commons as paradigm shift, the China-Europa Forum, and the global governance. After having studied philosophy in Paris-Sorbonne, he worked in publishing, in particular on books dealing with inter-religious dialogue. He then worked for 5 years in the French political sphere, mainly at the National Assembly (Congress) in Paris. Then he has been for 3 years director of an international NGO, the World Mountain People Association (WMPA). Between 2007 and 2011, he worked as a parliamentary advisor for a MP based in south-western France. He is also co-author of La Ville qui mange (Eating City) (http://www.eclm.fr/ouvrage-361.html), an essay on the urban food supply chain governance published in 2013 by the Charles Leopold Mayer Publishing House. He is the current co-chair of the EDGE Funders Alliance (http://www.eclm.fr/ouvrage-361.html) and member of the European Steering Group of EDGE Europe.
Renata Avila is a human rights lawyer specialised in Intellectual Property and Technology. She worked as one of the lawyers representing the Guatemalan Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum (http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1992/) and more recently, Julian Assange and Wikileaks. Involved in Internet and Human Rights research since 2006, she works with the Web Inventor Sir Tim Berners - Lee (http://internethalloffame.org/official-biography-tim-berners-lee?gclid=CMeXtqyz7cwCFawy0wodMtwF8w) in an effort to uphold human rights in the digital age. She serves as a Board Member of Creative Commons (http://creativecommons.org/). She is also a member of Courage Foundation (https://couragefound.org/) advisory board, assisting whistleblowers at risk and in the D-Cent (http://dcentproject.eu/) board, exploring the potential of decentralised technologies. She is currently an Advisor of the BITS initiative by the Municipality of Barcelona
