# United in Privacy - The importance of Collaboration | from Harvard to Internet Archive and IPFS

- Channel: [Ethereum Cypherpunk Congress](https://streameth.org/ethereum-cypherpunk-congress)
- Date: 2025-12-09
- Duration: 01:49
- Topics: web3, privacy, now, crypto, cryptography, blockchain, data, security, human right, rights, tech, technology, internet, open source, free, freedom, ethereum, hackers, ethics, cypherpunk, dev, developer, dapp, decentralization, bitcoin, computer, surveillance, cyber, peer2peer, p2p, love, solidity, zk, zero knowledge, education, academy, w3pn, Education
- Watch: https://streameth.org/watch/yt-ZWDF3B8hT6M
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWDF3B8hT6M

## Description

UNITED IN PRIVACY
The importance of collaboration 🧩🧩

featuring
- Brewster Kahle x Internet Archive
- T. Brown x Germnetwork
- vpavlin, Logos_network 
- A. Ozdemir, Stanford, 
- Nanak Nihal, Human.tech
- R. Fraser, BKC Harvard
- Andy Guzman, Privacy Stewards of Ethereum
- Jaromil, DyneOrg, 
- mosh x IPFS
- Alexis Roussel, Nym
- Alisher, Keycard.

Only together are we strong.   

Shot by BabyBit at Cypherpunk Retreat — our exclusive C-level gathering organized with Protocol Labs.

## Transcript

Collaboration is hard. Humans are complicated creatures, but it's important to try to collaborate. The internet and the promise of this digital era is to be able to learn from people no matter where they're from, to be able to share and be able to cooperate. we can as a group in events like this make uh shifts at largest scale. >> An amazing opportunity to meet who care about privacy, who are developing standards, people building other encrypted messengers. We are allies and our movements are built in relationship with each other. So we need each other and we need moments like this. >> Nothing can replace real human talk. It is hugely important like like nothing could be more important in my mind. All of our best partnerships have come from meeting other people in person. You know, have complimentary skill sets, complimentary audiences, tangible cost savings. There's lots of upside to to collaboration. Without the dialogue, you cannot move past your own biases because that enables you to find a better solution that you might have never thought about it if you hadn't met them. A method to help each other to think outside of the box. >> If you look back through history, interorganizational collaboration has always been the way that um exciting new things move forward.