Rufus Pollock is an entrepreneur, researcher and technologist working to create an open information age. Founder and President of Open Knowledge, a leading international non-profit that empowers people and organizations with access to information and the tools and skills to make sense of it. A recognized global expert on open data and open knowledge. He has worked with multiple governments, IGOs such as the World Bank and the UN, businesses and CSOs.

You can find more about his projects here:
https://lifeitself.org/
https://secondrenaissance.net/
https://secondrenaissance.net/oasis
https://secondrenaissance.net/paper
https://lifeguild.earth/

About Life Itself
We’re a collective of pragmatic utopians, committed to practical action for a radically wiser, weller world. Our team includes artists, technologists, researchers and contemplatives. We create conscious coliving hubs, start businesses, do research and engage in activism to pioneer a wiser culture and plant the seeds of a second renaissance.
We’ve created startups, been exhibited in galleries, developed global non-profits and carried out academic research. We are ordinary people choosing an extra-ordinary path, a community seeking to integrate presence with purpose.

Second Renaissance

Our current civilization is crumbling, leading to a period of crisis and potential rebirth – what we call a second renaissance. There are many terms associated with it: great turning, metamodern, metacrisis, integral, teal, liminal web, gameB, regenerative and more.The Second Renaissance initiative provides an introduction to this moment of civilization crisis and awakening — and a home for a growing community of people who are supportive of a Second Renaissance and working to make it happen.