Signal Praxis members have invested toward a host country and Afropolitan aims at an African founded society

Summary

This signal gives two concrete examples of so-called network states, values-based online communities seeking territory and recognition. Thousands of members of Praxis have made financial investments. Their aim is to identify a host country and become a Special Economic Zone. A second project, Afropolitan, hopes to build a society grounded in ancestral African mindsets, histories and mythologies. Both show online communities trying to turn shared values into something resembling statehood. The report uses them to support its story that traditional notions of statehood and citizenship are being challenged.