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.

Kaliya Hamlin is the Network Director for Planetwork. Her role is to build relationships diversely through the many strands of value sets the Planetwork bridges. 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. This past year she co-convened with Bill Aal from Tools for Change and Chris Lindstrom of the E. F. Schumacher Society the UnMoney Convergence in Seattle. She's Geeky is a Planetwork project she initiated. She is leading the partnership with the Rockwood Institute in the FOSS Leadership Training.

Lee Buric is Creative Director for Planetwork. An American filmmaker and video journalist whose work explores the discourse between art, theory, and activism, she has worked extensively as a television producer for several major US independent media outlets, notably Free Speech TV, the first independent, national progressive television network in the US, and Democracy Now, a digital media pioneer and the largest community media collaboration in the US. An independent media veteran and a student of experimental film, her work employs cinema-verite and non-narrative elements within the documentary genre. Her current project focuses on climate change as a social construct in a new film – "Climate of Denial." She is also a creative consultant in integrated social media and UI/UX.

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

Michael 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 Chair and co-founder.

Elizabeth Thompson is a Board Member and co-founder. 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.

Heather Newbold Secretary and Board Member.

Brad deGraf is a Board Member and Chief Financial Officer. Brad is co-founder and CEO of Sociative, Inc., a company dedicated to collective intelligence facilitated by meritocratic social signaling. In a previous life, he was a pioneer of 3D computer animation.

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