David Casey

About

AI is generating unprecedented economic surplus. The question of who benefits from that wealth is one of the defining challenges of the decade. As CEO of Funding the Commons, my work is designing credible answers: the coordination mechanisms, institutions, and incentive systems needed to sustain the things markets undervalue, from open-source software to scientific research to public data. I come at this from an unusual path. I started in international development and human rights research at UC Berkeley, spent seven years building organizations across Latin America, then went deep into blockchain starting in 2013 when I discovered its power for cross-border payments and B2B mutual credit clearing systems. Fun facts: Founded NuMundo, an experiential travel platform for personal transformation. Also founded Cosmic Convergence, a non-profit New Year’s festival on Lake Atitlan, Guatemala blending electronic and live music with Mayan culture, with proceeds funding indigenous community projects. Today I operate at the ecosystem level: connecting frontier technology companies, open-source communities, UN agencies, institutional philanthropists and foundations that rarely sit in the same

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