Thanks for these questions! We’re a small nonprofit research and design team that has been hired by AOS to lead this community research. For this survey, the scope is exactly what we’ve already published:

Participation is optional.

Free-text answers are de-identified before anything is shared.

The anonymized dataset will be openly published for the Nostr community to use and build on.

We were hired by AndOtherStuff to support this work. We’re not collecting data for any external institution, and no one outside the research team has access to identifiable information. Only a four-person research team sees non-anonymized responses. The goal is to help the community understand itself and improve the ecosystem.

If you have specific questions about this research, please reach out to the Nostr community. The anonymized dataset will be released with an open-data permissions statement that makes it freely accessible and reusable by the community, in line with established open-data principles. The whole point of this effort is openness, not agenda-setting.

As for the WEF references: having a board member or past collaborator whose work has intersected with large institutions doesn’t mean those institutions influence this project. What matters is the structure of the work and here, the structure is transparent, community-reviewable, and intentionally built to prevent hidden influence.