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.”

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.

Source: Website

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.

Source: Wikipedia

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.

Sheila Warren is the chief executive officer for Crypto Council for Innovation (CCI), a global alliance formed to demonstrate the transformational promise of crypto and educate policymakers, regulators, and people around the globe.

Sheila leads a group of the most influential crypto industry leaders in the world representing Coinbase, Fidelity Digital Assets, Block, Andreessen Horowitz, Ribbit Capital, and Paradigm. Prior to joining CCI, Sheila served as the World Economic Forum’s deputy global head of the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution, head of Data, Blockchain, and Digital Assets, and a member of its executive committee. She founded the blockchain and digital assets team at the Forum, and her pioneering policy work has helped shape the data and technology spaces to be more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable.

Sheila began her career as a Wall Street attorney at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP before turning to philanthropy and civic technology. She was a senior executive and general counsel at TechSoup. She also designed and launched NGOsource, a groundbreaking service focused on international grantmaking. Sheila is the co-host of “Money Reimagined”, CoinDesk’s popular podcast and serves on the board of directors of various nonprofit and social justice organizations. She graduated with honors from Harvard College and Harvard Law School.

Source: World Economic Forum Page

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

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

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

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