Planetwork explores how the creative application of digital tools – visualization technologies, software, and the Internet, among others – can open new possibilities for positive global change.

Planetwork operates as a convening organization, gathering people from a wide variety of disciplines and vocations – science, technology, activism, business, the arts. We create international forums where people from distinctly different backgrounds can meet, find common ground, inspire each other, wrestle with and envision answers to solving some of our most pressing global issues.

On the organizational front, we are applying everything we know about collaboration and systems thinking & dynamics to create a new organizational and administrative structure that is distributed yet still has the form and the capacity to evolve creatively. For the last year our interim Executive Director, Karri Winn, has done a great deal of work conceptualizing how to allow the network and organization to function effectively on a more distributed basis – in alignment with the core values it represents.

Karri Winn and the board have determined that Planetwork does not need a traditional Executive Director at this time. Instead, Karri will continue to consult to help design and implement the strategy for a new website and online infrastructure for local Planetwork forums as well as distributed network decision making for projects and programs that more effectively supports fiscally sponsored projects.

Kaliya Hamlin continues to be the primary voice of Planetwork as the Network Director and Program Director for Distributed Digital Identity. Her role is to build relationships diversely through the many strands of value sets the Planetwork bridges. She spends most of her time meeting and talking to people and helping people get connected online. She has been convening the technical players of the identity world so that a neutral identity layer could be developed that would support a values based network.

Troy Lush is coordinating a new Planetwork program focused on accelerating cultural awareness of the threat of mass extinction of species as the first step to averting the outcome of business as usual. The first step in the process is a systematic professional branding and marketing research study to surface the most effective language to frame the issue. This program goes back to Planetwork’s roots and complements our primary focus on digital identity in recent years.

Anee Schneeman is Planetwork’s bookkeeper. Anee has taken on a steadily expanding role serving the numerous fiscally sponsored projects as well as Planetwork’s internal core programs.

Mike Mell continues to maintain the website and web infrastructure as webmaster, while also taking an active creative role in coding the evolutionary experiments in distributed digital identity.

Mike Vincenty has served from the founding of Planetwork as our network admin, both online and at our major conferences. Mike is working full time at blurb.com, a rapidly growing startup offering online short run book publishing, but continues to find time to keep our servers running.

Planetwork Board and Founders

Jim Fournier is board President. Jim is in Boulder Colorado 3/4 time, starting a new company, Biomass Energy and Carbon to develop technology to make energy from biomass and while helping to actually reverse climate change.

Elizabeth Thompson is the board Treasurer and Secretary. Elizabeth is the Executive Director of the Buckminster Fuller Institute in Williamsburg NY, which is launching the Buckminster Fuller Prize for design science innovation this year.

We are planning to expand the board in the coming year.

Directors :: Bios :: Advisors