Help Build the Knowledge of the Next Economy

My name is Irene Ng — academic, entrepreneur, and investor. If you’ve read my book “The Great Sleepwalk” or followed my work at my personal website , you know my mission: to design and implement the market architecture that enables people to become visible and valued in the next economy as the inventor, founder and CEO of Dataswyft .

This GoFundMe is a personal fund to support my academic research and writing team documenting the ongoing projects being deployed across Africa and Asia — initiatives that help people hold their own data, access capital, and participate fully in emerging markets.

Your contribution supports the rigorous documentation, analysis, and knowledge-building that make these efforts transparent, transferable, and teachable.

Why Your Support Matters

We are living through a rare moment of transition. The old market infrastructure is failing; the new architecture is emerging but not yet scaled. Your support ensures that the academic team can continue writing, documenting, and analysing these real-world deployments — so the knowledge created now is preserved, refined, and passed on to future generations.

If this mission resonates with you, please consider contributing.

Together, we can not only build markets that recognise the whole human being — we can ensure the learning from this transformation becomes part of our shared history.

For Impact Investors

If you are interested in participating in the funds I manage — which blend impact and yield to invest in the newly visible — please contact me directly.

Please do not contribute to this GoFundMe for that purpose; this fund is solely for supporting the research team.