[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":9},["ShallowReactive",2],{"person-bio-hugo-mathecowitsch":3},{"bio":4},[5,6,7,8],"Hugo Mathecowitsch is the founder of Tools for the Commons, a technology organisation building interoperable infrastructure for economic zones that blend state, market and non-profit functions. Its Digital Access Zone lets users register an entity, bill revenue and reinvest the proceeds. He previously worked at Endeavor.","Tools for the Commons builds what it calls digital special economic zones: cloud-first jurisdictions with their own rules, anchored to a host country without being identical to it, aimed at businesses whose operations are already online. The pitch is that a company should be able to register, bank, invoice and pay tax inside one legible framework instead of assembling one out of four countries.","The company has raised early funding for the model and works with public partners, including a digital zone in Zanzibar with the telecommunications and investment authorities, and a project in the Brazilian state of Amapá with the cities of Santana and Macapá.","The approach is a useful counterweight inside a movement that tends to picture new jurisdictions as land. Mathecowitsch’s premise is that most of what a zone actually does is administrative, that administration is software, and that the software can arrive long before the buildings do. He previously worked at Endeavor.",1788062488341]