Zuzalu Chiang Mai

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Good afternoon everyone. I'm Lauren from a Zuzalu community in Chiang Mai. So, the building on the screen is 1517 in my in a very lively part of the city. That's what I will That's what I will talk about in the next few minutes. The wave of AI has reached every industry. Internet, health care, manufacturing, advertising, and more. And our ideas about family, education, work, and the city planning are changing fast as well.

At the same time, our world is getting more chaotic. Each of us has to face it. The answer doesn't lie in large institutions or large-scale solutions. In asking whether technology can be used well and whether different communities can share their ideas and find what actually works and they ain't looking to everyday life and to communities for the patterns of next year.

So, we are looking for the right ways to use technology through communities. This is the direction we believe in. From Bitcoin white paper to Ethereum, this is a world we want to live in. We're part of Zuzalu community and uh Zuzalu started in Montenegro in 2023. Since then, we've been exploring whether permanent node with Zuzalu model can work.

Along the way, we have met a lot of questions and to be honest, we're still figuring some of them out. And here some questions we have met before. First, what can a permanent node do for pop-up cities? A physical space has one advantage. It can work with all kinds of nomadic cities and give pop-up cities the local support.

Second, how do we get along with resident communities? We have to find our own role and do something for communities already in the city. So, we we become a hub where the communities can come or cross paths here. Where we become partners. And third, how does the physical node grow? Our community keeps growing and it needs different things. And that makes our operation much more complex.

So, right now beyond co-living and co-working part, we are building more parts like library, children space, longevity. Each one is an independent module and they all can fit together. At the first page, I showed you a picture of our building. But since we are not a building, it is a neighborhood. A neighborhood is many communities connected. That means we collaborated with pop-up cities and builders from around the world, like many of you here today.

And we work with government, with innovation agencies from government, with communities from tech, arts, health, with foundations, volunteers, and also with local business like firm teams. We are so grateful for all these partners we have. And if we can face the challenges of our time together with all these partners, we may find the right ways to use technology in the healthier future.

Thank you.