Knowledge Futures
Travis Rich is an accomplished professional with extensive experience in research and development, technology, and engineering. Currently serving as the Head of R&D and Co-founder at Knowledge Futures since June 2018, Travis has previously held significant roles including Executive Director at the same organization and Research Scientist at MIT Media Lab from September 2011 to June 2019. Additional experience includes directing the Smart Country Program for Govern d'Andorra, co-founding ByteLight, and contributions to various research projects at institutions such as Smart Lighting Center and Boston University Center for Space Physics. Travis holds a PhD and MS from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has a strong foundation in Electrical Engineering with degrees from Boston University.
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Knowledge Futures
Knowledge Futures builds public digital infrastructure that enables communities to publish documents and data more effectively. Knowledge Futures is an independent nonprofit organization powered by academic, industry, and advocacy groups. Together we build and support products and protocols to make knowledge open and accessible to all. Founded in 2018 as a partnership between the MIT Press and the MIT Media Lab, Knowledge Futures was created to build sustainable tools and technologies for libraries, presses, museums, activist organizations, researchers, and others whose knowledge work seeks to serve collective understanding and the public. What began as a handful of grad students working on publishing tools grew to an organization focused on addressing the systemic challenges faced by public-oriented groups beholden to infrastructure that is designed with misaligned incentives and unjust power dynamics. In September 2019 we formally organized as an independent 501c3 nonprofit. Today, we are committed to building a full-stack of technology protocols and products that demonstrate an effective, equitable, and sustainable knowledge economy is possible. We work with partners to design for interoperability and to catalyze a distributed ecosystem of development.