Nate Otto

Eugene, Oregon Area, Oregon United States

Director, Open Badges, Concentric Sky; Interim Director, Badge Alliance

Technology / Software / Internet

I'm passionate about how Internet technology opens up democratic participation in culture, business, and politics and think that we have hardly begun to explore what is possible through our connections with community. I intend to apply my knowledge to projects that aim to revolutionize commerce, politics, and education. In web development, I do client work building personal, blog, portfolio, wedding, and eCommerce websites. I build on my own ideas in my spare time. In business, among other initiatives, I want to be part of creating a distributed system of community credit clearing that is free from the inflationary growth pressure created by money-as-debt from central banks. In politic...