Convenings
This gathering is intentionally timed: 30 years after John Perry Barlow’s Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace, and 250 years after the Declaration of Independence. In a world shaped by those ideas, we ask what the next declaration must be, and whether interdependence can become a shared foundation rather than an emergency response.
A Working Declaration of Interdependence, Davos
January 22, 2026
Davos World Economic Forum
This activation draws on the science of interdependence to explore how cooperation, shared risk, and commons-based systems can be deliberately designed and scaled.
Partners
The Cooperative Futures Institute partners with organizations that share our commitment to translating cooperation science into real-world systems. Together, we develop technologies, frameworks, and spaces that strengthen resilience, foster innovation, and enable collective action across sectors.
At the Cooperative Futures Institute, we apply biological and evolutionary principles of cooperation to build technology and institutional infrastructre systems that are truly mutually beneficial.
AI Commons is a nonprofit initiative in partnership with the ecosystem of AI practitioners, entrepreneurs, academia, NGOs, AI industry players and organizations/individuals focused on AI as a common good.
A collective inquiry into the practice of interdependence.
The Wisdom Foundation's core mission is to accelerate the philanthropic engagement of early stage companies (start-ups and scale-ups) that have products or services which can create social good, but no bandwidth in terms of time or resources to establish their own foundation or assimilated entities yet.
