The Basic Income Subreddit
The Basic Income Earth Network (BIEN) has announced the list of speakers for its “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) series of internet interviews, which will take place on the Reddit website. The interviews will be text only and open to everyone. Anyone in the world can type in a question. The AMA series will take place during the Seventh Annual International Basic Income Week, September 15-21, 2014.
Reddit is one of the world’s most popular websites, last year receiving 731 million unique visitors and 56 billion page views. The Basic Income community on Reddit has recently experience enormous growth, rising from 50 users last summer to over 16,000 today
Participants in BIEN’s AMA series include:
- Karl Widerquist, co-chair of BIEN, Associate Professor at SFS-Qatar, Georgetown University, editor of Basic Income News, and author of A Theory of Freedom as the Power to Say No
- Peter Barnes, author of Who Owns the Sky?, Capitalism 3.0, and With Liberty and Dividends for all
- Barb Jacobson, Stanislas Jourdin, and Enno Schmidt, of Universal Basic Income Europe and leaders of people’s initiatives that raise a total of more than 400,000 signatures for basic income in 2013-2014
- Mike Howard, editor of Basic Income Studies, coordinator of USBIG, and a socialist philosopher at the University of Maine-Orono, with expertise on the Alaska dividend & the cap-and-dividend approach to global warming
- Ann Withorn, of the University of Massachusetts-Boston and USBIG and Shawn Cassiman, of USBIG
- Jeff Smith, of the Geonomy Society
- Jason Murphy, philosopher at Elms College and Gaura Rader, philosopher at Ohio University and of the Socratic Diablogues,
- Pablo Yannes, of Red Mexicana Ingreso Ciudadano Universal (BIEN’s affiliate in Mexico)
- Juon Kim Télémaque Masson of Basic Income Generation
- Mike Munger, Libertarian economist at Duke University
- Toru Yamamori, of Doshisha University and BIEN-Japan
- Hysong Ahn, of the Basic Income Korean Netowrk
- Louise Haag, co-chair of BIEN and Reader in politics and the University of York (UK) and Anja Askeland, Secretary of BIEN and member of BIEN-Norway
- Adriaan Planken, of UBIE-the Netherlands
- Mark Walker, of New Mexico State Univesity, and James Hughes, of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, Oxford University
- Marshall Brain, founder of HowStuffWorks.com, entrepreneur, and author
- Ed Dolan, author of Economics of Public Policy
- Charles M.A. Clark, of St. John’s University
- Michael Bohmeyer, entrepreneur and founder of “My basic income”
The Basic Income Subreddit is online at: https://www.reddit.com/r/BasicIncome/
Information about the grown of the BI Subreddit is online at: https://redditmetrics.com/r/BasicIncome
The IAMA subreddit is online at: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA
More information about the AMA series will be announced soon.
