Samantha Corbin presents the basic principles of Self-Organizing as part of the Swarm Training organized by Ayni Institute. In it, Sam lays out Movement Netlab’s approach to differentiating between decentralized networks and formal organizations, including the elements of each network and the conditions needed to cultivate healthy networks.
About the Author: Pablo Benson
a native Puerto Rican, obtained an M.A. in Sociology from The New School for Social Research. Pablo was heavily involved in the Occupy Sandy relief effort as a site coordinator for the network’s first donation and volunteer distribution hub and helped design the Worker Owned Rockaway Coopeartives program that emerged from it. Through his participation in Occupy Wall Street, he helped cofound various projects, including the Spanish language newspaper Indignación and the Spanish General Assembly. Pablo is connected to networked movements in Spain and Mexico through his most recent reserach project with “Networks, Movements, and Technopolitics” at the Internet Interdisciplinary Institute at the University of Catalunya and his involvement in the Ayotzinapa.