Hassan Masum
"I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man."
-Thomas Jefferson

Ideas

Worldchanging: A Users Guide for the 21st Century: Innovative solutions for building a sustainable, livable, prosperous future.

Given Enough Minds...: Bridging the Ingenuity Gap: What would a sustainable open infrastructure dedicated to finding solutions to tough problems look like?

Manifesto for the Reputation Society: The potential utility of reputation services has barely been tapped.  An effective reputation ecology will promote accountability, quality, and the fulfilment of our nobler aspirations.

Projects

  • Problem-solver with several other organizations. My value added combines research acumen, technical skills, systems understanding, empathy, and creativity.

  • Co-editing a book on reputation systems and their impact on society.

  • Researching innovative solutions to the planet’s problems with Worldchanging and Worldchanging Canada.
Past: Foresight work with the Government of Canada, National Research Council, Industry Canada, and others. Collaborative technologies implementation with the Communications Research Center and National Research Council. PhD Carleton University,  postdoctoral work at NRC and the University of Fribourg. Other: network engineering, R&D policy, reverse engineering, genetic algorithm design, teaching...

Interests: algorithmic money, Canada, Collaboration Cookbook, collective intelligence, complex adaptive systems, constructive news, ecological economics, ethical finance, foresight, global health, great books, high performance teams, peer production, social innovation, sustainable scale, transhumanism, visions of a better tomorrow...