# Funding the Commons

> A global network accelerating innovation to fund and govern shared digital infrastructure: advisory for institutions, gatherings on four continents, participatory funding campaigns, and Commons Lab.

## Past conferences, full agendas (plain text)

- [Funding the Commons SF 2026: Intelligence at the Frontier](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-2026-intelligence-at-the-frontier/agenda.md): A 36-hour festival, conference, and hackathon across 16 floors of Frontier Tower, co-designing the coordination infrastructure for human flourishing.
- [Funding the Commons Buenos Aires 2025](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/buenos-aires-2025/agenda.md): One-day summit during Devconnect on financial access, coordination, and crypto systems that actually work, with demos from the residency and RealFi Hack.
- [Funding the Commons Forum: Berlin 2025](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/berlin-forum-2025/agenda.md): Two-day forum with Web3Privacy Now on worldbuilding, systems design, adaptive tools, and open governance: Infrastructures of Resilience.
- [Funding the Commons San Francisco 2025](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/san-francisco-2025/agenda.md): Two days at the Internet Archive on Infrastructures of Resilience: stewarding open technologies and public goods.
- [Funding the Commons & Earth Commons Bangkok 2024](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/bangkok-2024/agenda.md): Devcon-week conference on public goods funding, digital innovation, and environmental stewardship, closing with the hackathon Demo Day.
- [Funding the Commons Tokyo 2024](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/tokyo-2024/agenda.md): Two days at UN University exploring organisations and research projects revitalising communities by defining new forms of support for public goods.
- [Funding the Commons SF Bay Area 2024](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/sf-bay-area-2024/agenda.md): Two-day conference on AI and the Open Web: funding mechanisms for public goods and open-source technologies.
- [Funding the Commons Taipei 2023](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/taipei-2023/agenda.md): Public goods meets digital democracy during Taipei Blockchain Week, with Taiwan's civic-tech community.

## Pages

- [Home](https://fundingthecommons.io/)
- [About: premise, origins, team, how we work](https://fundingthecommons.io/about/)
- [Event pages](https://fundingthecommons.io/events/)
- [Speakers directory: who has spoken at FtC and what they work on](https://fundingthecommons.io/speakers/), plain text at https://fundingthecommons.io/speakers/speakers.md
- [Library: talks, people, and gatherings since 2021](https://fundingthecommons.io/library/)
- [Talks: every recorded talk, Open Conversation and recap film, with speakers](https://fundingthecommons.io/library/talks/), plain text at https://fundingthecommons.io/library/talks/talks.md
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