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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Dear all, </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">I would like to inform this community about the recent launch of the</span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> 'Glossary
of Distributed Technologies',</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> an editorial project </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">hosted</span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> by </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">the <a href="https://policyreview.info/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_OWAAutoLink">Internet
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Why this glossary?</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">With
a highly ideological charge, discourses on decentralised technologies have generated a wide vocabulary of context-specific terms that associate political, societal and technological issues in rather original ways. Just as any other subject, however, these
technologies (as tools, as conceptual design, as symbols) are rooted in specific geographies, ideologies, gender relations, and reflect the biases encoded in these contexts. The related terminology is used and interpreted according to different purposes and
pre(mis)conceptions. This prevents fruitful confrontations on the topic and paves the way to uninformed hypes and prejudices among scholars and public institutions. </span><u><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">To
tackle the existing gap in shared semantics, this glossary converges the efforts of experts from various disciplines to build a foundational vocabulary for academic (and non-academic, policy oriented, or other normative) discourse on this third wave of distributed
technologies.</span></u></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Process</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">: The
glossary is a work in progress for two reasons. First, it is meant as a glossary that will grow over time: more and more entries will be drafted periodically. Secondly, each glossary term is published using the <b>open peer-review</b> functionality, enabling
all readers to post their reviews in the open. </span></span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Over the next weeks and months, the glossary terms will be reviewed by scholars, practitioners
and activists. Authors will then update their text as to integrate it (or not) the various entries. </span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><font color="#3c3c3d" style="font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"></font><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">The
glossary is an initiative of the </span><a href="https://blockchain-society.science/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:black; font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif; font-size:14px; margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; outline:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">Blockchain
and Society Policy Research Lab</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt"> at University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the </span><a href="https://p2pmodels.eu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:black; font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif; font-size:14px; margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; outline:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">P2P
Models</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt"> project at Complutense University, the </span><a href="https://weizenbaum-institut.de/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" style="color:black; font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif; font-size:14px; margin:0px; padding:0px; border:0px; vertical-align:baseline; outline:none"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">Weizenbaum
Institute</span></a><font color="#3c3c3d" style="font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-size:12pt; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> in Berlin, and the The Future of Distributed Governance
project at CNRS. Our goal is, however, to create a diverse network of contributors and decentralised as much as possible the governance of the editorial process. </span></font><br>
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<span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="font-family:"PT Sans",sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont"><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">The
following are the first glossary terms that are being </span><b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">openly reviewed</span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"> here
over the next weeks and months. </span></span></p>
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<li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">Blockchain-based Technology - Florian Tschorsch, Maria-Cruz Valiente</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt">Decentralised Technology - Balázs Bodó, Jaap-Henk Hoepman, Jaya Klara Brekke</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Cryptocurrency - Ingolf Pernice, Brett Scott</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Crypto-economics – Wassim Alsindi, Jaya Klara Brekke</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Decentralised Autonomous Organisation - Samer Hassan, Primavera De Filippi</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Governance - Aron Fischer, Maria-Cruz Valiente</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Reputation, - Antonio Tenorio, Ori Shimony, Primavera De Filippi</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Trust/trustless - Moritz Becker, Balázs Bodó</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Self-Sovereign Identity - Alexandra Giannopoulou, Fennie Wang</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Smart contract - Primavera De Filippi, Chris Wray, Giovanni Sileno</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Digital scarcity - Aron Fischer, Jaya Klara Brekke</span></li><li><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">Mining - Wassim Alsindi, Laura Lotti</span></li></ul>
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<b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)">We are encouraging a wide participation, so I invite all of you to spread the word about this initiative and to post your critical reviews on </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://policyreview.info/glossary#node-1529" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" class="x_OWAAutoLink" previewremoved="true">https://policyreview.info/glossary#node-1529</a></span></b><span style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont; font-size:12pt; color:rgb(0,0,0)"><b>.</b> Under
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<font style="font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif,serif,EmojiFont">I hope this project will interest many of you. Looking forward to your feedbacks! </font></p>
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