Lauren Razavi is a technologist, political scientist and lifelong global citizen who has lived as a digital nomad since 2013. She is executive director of Plumia, an innovation lab (part of the all-remote company SafetyWing) that aims to build “a country on the internet” for borderless workers.
She is the author of Global Natives, a book on the past, present and future of borderless work, and writes an award-winning newsletter of the same name.
Plumia sits inside SafetyWing, a company selling insurance and benefits to people who work outside any one country’s system, which gives the project something most network-state proposals lack: a business already serving the population it wants to organise.
Her argument is that the digital nomad is a preview rather than a curiosity. Once work is portable, the bundle a state offers, residence, healthcare, pension and taxation, comes apart, and somebody has to reassemble the parts for people whose lives no longer fit inside one border.
Podcast Episode 122
Lauren Razavi: Digital Nomads, Global Mobility & Network States
Plumia's Lauren Razavi on digital nomad visas, global mobility rights and the idea of building a network state country on the internet.
