- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.