# Exemplar of Humane Tech Social Network: Openbook

**URL:** <https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593>\
**Category:** Solutions program\
**Tags:** social-media\
**Created:** [August 12, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593 "2018-08-12T09:04:54Z")\
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**Author:** ![Free](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/free/32/1247_2.png) [@Free](https://community.humanetech.com/u/Free)\
**Post date:** [August 12, 2018, 9:04am UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593/1 "2018-08-12T09:04:54Z")

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There is a new startup called Openbook in the Hague, Netherlands that is trying to build a new humane social network. They are now trying to raise €100,000 on Kickstarter. This looks impressive and well thought out, though they are still in early development.

[https://www.open-book.org/en/home](https://www.open-book.org/en/home)

They already have a team of 10. They plan on having a for-profit business model relying on funding, with their proposed future revenue coming from talking a cut of online payments made using a proposed digital currency. They will need large funding for rapid growth.

[https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1520156881/openbook-the-honest-open-source-and-awesome-social](https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1520156881/openbook-the-honest-open-source-and-awesome-social)

This article was published yesterday.

> **[Openbook is the latest dream of a digital life beyond Facebook | TechCrunch](https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/11/openbook-is-the-latest-dream-of-a-digital-life-beyond-facebook/)**
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> As tech's social giants wrestle with antisocial demons that appear to be both an emergent property of their platform power, and a consequence of specific

Please note that I have no affiliation with Openbook whatsoever.

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**Author:** ![Yfke](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/yfke/32/69_2.png) [@Yfke](https://community.humanetech.com/u/Yfke)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2018, 1:38pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593/3 "2018-08-13T13:38:14Z")

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oh that’s interesting. I live in The Netherlands so I’ll check them out, thnx for mentioning this 🙂

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**Author:** ![aschrijver](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/aschrijver/32/1498_2.png) [@aschrijver](https://community.humanetech.com/u/aschrijver)\
**Post date:** [December 12, 2018, 12:12pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593/6 "2018-12-12T12:12:57Z")

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I am interacting on the [community forum](https://forum.solidproject.org/) of the [decentralization effort](http://community.humanetech.com/t/towards-the-vision-of-the-decentralized-web/530) called [Solid](https://solid.mit.edu) and in a [MeWe-related](http://community.humanetech.com/t/example-of-humane-social-network-mewe/3116/5) discussion they mention that OpenBook is also considering using Solid to decentralize their social network in the future, which would be a very cool addition to their ‘humane tech characteristics’ checklist 🙂

From their [FAQ](https://www.openbook.social/en/faq):

> # Will Openbook be decentralised?
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> We want to get there eventually. We’re looking into Solid MIT approach (The one from [Tim Berners Lee](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee)) and we’re very pleased with it so far.

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**Author:** ![psharbaugh](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/user_avatar/community.humanetech.com/psharbaugh/32/1818_2.png) [@psharbaugh](https://community.humanetech.com/u/psharbaugh)\
**Post date:** [December 13, 2018, 6:47pm UTC](https://community.humanetech.com/t/exemplar-of-humane-tech-social-network-openbook/2593/7 "2018-12-13T18:47:58Z")

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This reminds me somewhat of the [Dock.io](https://dock.io/) initiative: not a social network platform per se, but what appears to be an infrastructure for social platforms that provides complete ownership and control of your data by using blockchain technology and decentralizing authority.