Gabriel Delgado: Próspera Update
“I felt very hopeful for my region that we could get this off the ground, because the reality is that reforming these countries in Central America and other places is just so hard and the incentives are so misaligned, so completely misaligned. My perspective after trying to reform in country is that you have to find a way to reform outside of the system.”
A couple of weeks ago, whilst I was attending the New Cities and Network States weekend at Zuzalu in Montenegro, I got to sit down with one of the founders of Próspera, Gabriel Delgado. During our conversation he ran over the latest news from the project including buildings and infrastructure progress as well as future plans and an update on their ongoing complications with the Honduran government.
With regards to our Montenegro trip, for those of you that don’t know, Zuzalu is an experimental two month pop-up city and gathering in the country. It began on March 25th with 100-150 residents arriving, who have since been spending their weekdays coworking and weekends attending talks and mini-conferences on themes including synthetic biology, technology for privacy, public goods, longevity, and governance. The group will remain on the site until the end of May.
Myself, Titus Gebel and Peter Young were at Zuzalu flying the flag for the Free Cities Foundation and I have to say that it was quite an enlightening experience for me, in particular for understanding the different facets of this movement and how our particular ideas fit into the ecosystem as a whole.
Anyway, here’s the update from Gabriel. Don’t forget to subscribe and review us if you so choose and you can send feedback via our social media channels.
Enjoy the conversation.