{"id":20,"date":"2024-05-23T19:51:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-23T19:51:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beyond-infinity.blog\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2024-10-13T21:38:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T21:38:05","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Who am I?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My name is Greg Isabelli, I live in France and I&#8217;m particularly interested in the ways in which digital technology brings people together and empowers them to do things that would be unthinkable without technology.<\/p>\n\n<p>For 14 years I founded and managed the <a href=\"https:\/\/boardgamearena.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Board Game Arena<\/a> website, which is now the world leader in online board games with over 10 million members.<\/p>\n\n<p>Since last year, I&#8217;ve been working full-time on a project aimed at enabling citizens around the world to have a direct say in the political decisions that affect them: <a href=\"https:\/\/baztille.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baztille<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why this site?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>To pass on what I&#8217;ve learned by creating and growing a company.<\/p>\n\n<p>Explain the background to the Baztille project, the ideas behind it, how it works and how it will evolve.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What is &#8220;Baztille&#8221;?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><strong>&#8220;Within a few years, the way in which citizens participate in decisions that affect them in our democracies will have changed radically.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It was this conviction that led me to create the <a href=\"https:\/\/baztille.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Baztille<\/a> project, a digital tool designed to offer citizens a completely different way of interacting with their elected representatives.<\/p>\n\n<p><strong>I have no certainty that this project will work<\/strong>: it may not be the right tool, it may not be the right method, it may not be the right time&#8230; On the other hand, I am convinced that one or more projects of this type will be the future of our democracies.<\/p>\n\n<p>So one of the aims of this project (and this site) <strong>is to give food for thought<\/strong> and <strong>inspire other designers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>The opinions expressed on this site are those of the author and do not commit the Baztille movement.<\/p>\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do I follow this blog?<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n<p>Notify me when a new article is online:<\/p>\n\n<p>Alternatively, you can be notified of new items by:<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Follow me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gisabelli\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Facebook<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Following me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sourisdudesert\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on Instagram<\/a>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Follow me <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/gisabelli\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on LinkedIn<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My name is Greg Isabelli, I live in France and I&#8217;m particularly interested in the ways in which digital technology brings people together and empowers them to do things that would be unthinkable without technology. For 14 years I founded and managed the Board Game Arena website, which is now the world leader in online [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.beyond-infinity.blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}