- Camille Acey Organizational closures
Brooklyn, NYC, USA
Organizations too often fail to prepare for their inevitable end; The Wind Down shares best practices for healthy closures.
- Alinagwe Mwaselela Saving circles
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
The practice of collective savings and lending takes many forms, from women-led community finance to mobile-money software.
- Asia Dorsey The gut
Denver CO
Drawing on many ancestral traditions and the experience of her own body, Asia Dorsey learns and teaches the pattern language of a healthy gut.
- Edson Osorio Ayurvedic medicine
São Paulo, Brazil
Educating thousands of Brazilians online on Ayurvedic teachings through social media, Edson Osorio has embraced the mission of emancipating people's healing journeys through accessible information.
- Bernard Mayer Mediation
Kingsville, Ontario, Canada
Mediation developed as a professional field through experimentation and practice.
- Richard Littauer Constructed languages
Wellington, NZ
Constructed languages, or conlangs, are the basis of a hobby, a science, and a community that now occupies a small corner of the entertainment industry.
- Mosud Mannan Diplomatic protocols
Dhaka, Bangladesh
A diplomat for Bangladesh describes the role of protocol in high-profile international visits and treaty negotiations.
- Evan Prodromou Distributed social networks
Montreal, Canada
A career-long journey to build online social networks that cannot be controlled by a single company, culminating with the ActivityPub standard.
- Michael Zargham Ultimate frisbee
East Greenbush, NY USA
As a sport often played with no referees, ultimate frisbee has developed a strong set of norms for addressing conflict and self-governing.
- Amanda Kiessel Community standards
Sri Lanka / United States
Good Market is a digital commons for enterprises that prioritize people and the planet over profit. It enables communities to set and enforce their own standards for doing business.
- Coraline Ada Ehmke Codes of conduct
Chicago, USA
After widespread resistance to codes of conduct in open-source software communities, Coraline Ada Ehmke's Contributor Covenant became the most popular code of conduct in the ecosystem.