GitxChange Insights - Nestor Bonilla, Jonjon Clark, Leon Erichsen, Russell Hoy, Connor O'Day - 2020
Channel: RadicalxChange
Date: 09/07/2020

GitxChange is a RadicalxChange + Gitcoin hackathon designed to build the roots of cooperative plurality. It strives to accelerate bottom-up development, education, and research of RxC inspired ideas and institutions. The "hacking" took place from May 27th to June 10th on challenges from six different sponsoring organizations - including Democracy Earth, Idena, Ocean Protocol and Wildcards. Join this conference session and you will see what these challenges looked like and how hackers have addressed and experienced them. In particular we will meet the RadicalxChange track winners and their solutions.

SPEAKERS
Nestor Bonilla is a tech and social changemaker from Nicaragua, and Co-founder of Digital Bonds. His experience has been focused on social innovation, working mostly with local and international and non-profit organizations. He has extensive experience in the design, development, and implementation of web platforms, mobile apps, virtual reality, and data science projects for social good for the last six years. Now, since 2019, he’s focusing on Blockchain technology for social good. His background has let him understand social problems from a holistic perspective, narrowing its solutions with a scalable technology inclusion.

Jonjon Clark is co-founder of wildcards.world, a platform funding animal conservation through the radical markets idea of Harberger tax. He enjoys chess, yoga and designing blockchain based systems underpinned by interesting incentive mechanisms. He is also very passionate about education, having previously lectured computer science and economics at the University of Cape Town.

Leon Erichsen is Entrepreneurship and Technology Associate at RadicalxChange Foundation. His work focuses on design and implementation of institutions for decentralized human cooperation and coordination. He turned cryptopunk early on in his studies of Management, Philosophy & Economics (B.Sc.) at Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and that way discovered his fascination for radical political economic updates of society.

Russell is a product-minded software developer who has helped global brands build products in a more agile way. He’s an advocate for inclusive design, and recently spent 9 months helping the City of Toronto shift their approach to building homeless shelter software by starting with user needs. He has a background in political philosophy and is excited to use design to bring important ideas from academia into the real world.

Connor O'Day joined ConsenSys in 2015 while studying Economics and Computer Science. He's a long time cryptocurrency researcher, miner, and investor, who currently works at Gitcoin on Business Development and as a Senior Account Manager.