Tara Merk she/her

Tara is a postdoc researcher at the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS), Paris, an ICDE research fellow at The New School, New York and associate researcher at the Weizenbaum Institute in Berlin. Her research focuses on platform and protocol governance, cooperativism, DAOs and exploring alternative ownership structures for data centers. Her PhD thesis explored the process of Exit to Community, i.e. transitioning organizations and technologies in the digital platform economy into community ownership and governance.