onAir networks has started a People’s Internet onAir hub  at people.onair.cc that seeks to bring together the leaders and organizations behind the DSNP movement to a common place where they could share their knowledge and collaborate as well as promote their content and new topical networks and hubs.

This People’s Internet hub is based on Project Liberty’s various initiatives and “commitment to building a better internet—where the data is ours to manage, the platforms are ours to govern, and the power is ours to reclaim.”

DSNP stands for Decentralized Social Networking Protocol, which is an open protocol and potential standard for social networking and social media. It is not owned or controlled by any one person or company, allowing anyone to build on it or use it. DSNP is stewarded by Project Liberty Institute, a 501(c)(3).

DSNP is an open-source social media protocol designed to decentralize data ownership, allow easier cross-platform interaction, and let users regain control over their personal data. This includes posts, connections, and messages. The decentralized approach allows users to retain ownership of their information and move it between platforms without relying on a single provider.

Frequency is a blockchain designed to support decentralized social networks to give people control over their online presence. With Frequency, users can freely choose and connect on social apps while retaining ownership of their data.

Built on the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), Frequency offers scalable tools for message discovery, flexible storage for social and identity data, and a unique cost-sharing model that allows apps to deliver smooth, secure experiences that put users in charge.

ActivityPub is a protocol and open standard for decentralized social networking. It provides a client-to-server (C2S) API for creating and modifying content, as well as a federated server-to-server (S2S) protocol for delivering notifications and content to other servers.

ActivityPub has become the main standard used in the fediverse, a popular network used for social networking that consists of software such as Mastodon, Pixelfed and PeerTube.

The AT Protocol (Authenticated Transfer Protocol, or atproto) is a standard for public conversation and an open-source framework for building social apps.

It creates a standard format for user identity, follows, and data on social apps, allowing apps to interoperate and users to move across them freely. It is a federated network with account portability.

Source: Bluesky

The Project Liberty Alliance consists of over 100 organizations—tech companies, policy groups, impact initiatives, academic institutions, and more—committed to a people-powered internet.

The Alliance serves as a learning and collaboration engine through which members of the community can advance their organizational goals, all while strengthening the overlaps in our missions. It is designed as a way to share learnings, build relationships, and spark collaborations throughout the responsible tech ecosystem and related fields.

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Frank H. McCourt Jr. (born August 14, 1953) is an American business executive and philanthropist. As of 2023, he is the executive chairman and former CEO of McCourt Global, owner of the football club Marseille and founder and executive chairman of international non-profit Project Liberty.

In 2013, he donated $100 million to establish the McCourt School of Public Policy, the ninth school of Georgetown University. He made a second $100 million gift to Georgetown University in March 2021, for the express purpose of ensuring that “the McCourt School can open its doors more widely and build a pipeline of future public policy leaders that reflects the true diversity of our communities.”

In 2021, he founded the non-profit Project Liberty. The initiative has multiple components which includes the development of the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), the founding of the McCourt Institute with founding academic partners Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., and Sciences Po in Paris, and a network of partners within the Unfinished network.

In 2024, he announced plans to build a consortium to buy the US arm of TikTok.

Frank McCourt was featured in the December 19, 2024 US onAir news post titled: The Vision of Frank McCourt.

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As President of Project Liberty, Tillemann, who is based in Washington, D.C., will be a key member of McCourt Global’s leadership team and serve as a strategic advisor to both the Project Liberty Foundation and Amplica Labs, which is led by Braxton Woodham, technologist and co-creator of the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP.) Tillemann will also serve as Interim CEO of the Project Liberty Foundation, as its inaugural CEO, Martina Larkin, departs the organization this month.

Most recently, Tomicah Tillemann was the Chief Policy Officer for Haun Ventures, where he built policy architecture to support the next generation of the internet. Prior to Haun Ventures, he was a partner and Global Head of Policy at Andreessen Horowitz, where he oversaw the firm’s policy work on digital assets.

Zoe Kalar (formerly known as Sue Fennessy) is a serial tech entrepreneur who has spent 35 years building four transformational companies.
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At WeAre8, she is transforming social media by eliminating anonymity and hate, transforming social media in a way that inspires and mobilizes hundreds of millions of people to make positive change in the world. WeAre8’s social technology and centralized wallet has restructured the capital flows, so that the money from advertisers is shared with people, publishers, non-profits and planet projects rather than into the pockets of a few social tech giants.

Source: We Are 8 website

Joseph Lubin is a co-founder of Ethereum and the founder of Consensys, a full-stack, global blockchain company. Lubin has established himself as a guiding force in the fast-growing blockchain industry and a powerful advocate of decentralized technology.

Founded in 2014, Consensys has cultivated a global presence, employing top entrepreneurs, computer scientists, protocol engineers, software developers, and experts in enterprise delivery. As one of the largest and most foundational entities in the blockchain technology space, Consensys’ worldwide Mesh of people, projects and companies is building the blockchain industry’s developer tools, decentralized applications, and solutions for enterprises and governments that determined to harness the power of Ethereum. The organization was referred to by The New Yorker in 2018 as “the Ethereum community’s most prominent and ubiquitous developer and promoter of decentralized apps.”

Source: Consensys

Braxton Woodham, Co-Founder of Frequency, is a technology leader with 20+ years of experience building scalable platforms. At Project Liberty, he develops infrastructure for decentralized social networking.

Previously, he led product and technology at Fandango, co-founded Sun Basket and kuma.capital, and built Tap11, a real-time media analytics platform. He also held key roles at Sony Music and InfoSpace.

Braxton began his career as a Lead Propulsion Engineer for Atlas missions and served as a U.S. Air Force Captain. He holds a BE in Mechanical Engineering from Vanderbilt University.

Source: Coindesk

We are a privacy-first social network with over 20 million users worldwide and more than 700,000 interest groups that is committed to giving our users control, protecting their data and providing a great user experience. MeWe contains no ads, no targeting, and no newsfeed manipulation. It is available on iOS, Android and desktop in more than 20 languages and over 200 countries worldwide.

Our journey began in New Mexico in 2011 when co-founders Mark Weinstein and Jonathan Wolfe began dreaming of the next generation of social media. The duo were disillusioned with big-tech’s disregard for personal privacy and its willingness to target, track and sell our data. They envisioned a new experience built on safety and respect and one that would bring people together while making social networking fun again. After several years of testing and a public beta, MeWe was officially launched at the SXSW.

Interactive Media festival in 2016 where we were honored as a finalist for their ever “Innovative World Technology” award.

In the years that followed we continued to refine both our free and subscription offerings while staying true to our ethos of privacy and user control. In March 2021 long time entertainment and technology executive Jeffrey Edell was named Chairman and CEO. Under Edell’s leadership we made considerable progress in improving our user experience, growing our membership and doubling down on our privacy-first message.

In 2022, we made the strategic decision to move to the blockchain and incorporate the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP), an open internet protocol released by the Project Liberty Foundation. The foundation, launched in 2021 by Frank McCourt, and Frequency Labs, is part of the $500 million Project Liberty initiative, aimed at creating a better internet and a healthier digital ecosystem. DSNP has the potential to transform the internet by liberating social networking functionality from closed, proprietary platforms and integrating this functionality into the web itself.

With this move we put MeWe’s ethos into code and are completely solidifying our commitment to user protection and control.

We were honored again by SXSW in 2024 as a finalist for their Social Media Innovation Award and as of March have more than 670,000 active users on the blockchain, making MeWe the largest truly decentralized social network in the world.

MeWe has been supported by some of the most respected figures in tech, media/entertainment and finance, including Sir Tim Berners-Lee (inventor of the World Wide Web), Steve Wozniak (co-founder of Apple), Divya Narendra (co-founder of Harvard Connection), Gavin Wood / Bjorn Wagner (co-founders of Polkadot/Parity / Web3 Foundation) and Frank McCourt (founder / chairman of McCourt Global & Project Liberty).

Source: MeWe Website

Son of an undocumented immigrant. Business Dad.

• I’m a technology entrepreneur and investor. I want to be known for making this world better—much better.
• I’m an investor in startups—almost always at the earliest possible stage—including 40 Unicorns (companies worth at least $1B): Coinbase (NYSE: COIN), Hubspot (NYSE: HUBS), Opendoor (NASDAQ: OPEN), Filecoin, Instacart, Impossible, Gusto, Reddit, Flexport, Ro, Sky Mavis (Axie Infinity), Sorare, Pipe, Clubhouse, Easypost, Patreon, GOAT, Cruise, Rippling, Standard, Deel, Algolia, Flock Safety, Lattice, Blend, Color, Wave, OpenSea, Sift, Papa, Clipboard Health, Envoy, Optimism, Weave, Apollo GraphQL, Plangrid, Front, Simulate, Commsor, Daily Harvest, Silo, withco, and Cloud9.

Source: Personal Website

Scott is the Head of Software Engineering at Unfinished Labs where he manages the development team, leads the engineering execution to realize our product vision, and with the CTO develops and maintains the technical roadmap.

Prior to Unfinished Labs, Scott was CTO at FreedomPop where as the first employee hired, he helped build a global company providing free mobile services, including architecting and building the platform and hiring and managing the development team.

Source: The Org

Harry is the Chief Technology Officer at Amplica Labs, and is the co-creator of Frequency and the Decentralized Social Networking Protocol (DSNP). He has spent his career designing, delivering and operating high volume transactional systems for both startups and Fortune 500 companies.

For the last two years, he has been an independent consultant advising clients on technology, team, and process. Previously, he has been a partner at a boutique mobile services consulting firm, Chief Architect at Ticketmaster, and a founder of a social network. He implemented his first blockchain project doing cross-exchange arbitrage in 2014. He studied Computer Science at both West Point and the University of Southern California.

Source: Coindesk

Michelle De Mooy is director of the Tech & Public Policy program in Georgetown University’s McCourt School of Public Policy. She is a leader in technology policy, focused on ensuring that emerging technologies advance human rights and democratic values.

For the Tech & Public Policy program, De Mooy is building initiatives that translate academic insights into actionable policy that drives impact. Current projects include innovative programming to reimagine policymaking, a partnership with a social media platform to provide access to data for Georgetown researchers and an AI Policy Lab.

Source: Tech & Public Policy website