Governance

Governance is a tool an organization uses to decide where power should reside and who gets to click on what button. This process places rails around operations, which helps an organization get from point A to point B more smoothly.

• There is an idea that governance — public or corporate — is driven by the self-interested effort of leaders to acquire and keep their power.
• Governance means conflict. It also means resolution. Accept the former, focus on the latter, via transparency.
• There is still much room to try different things around Governance.
• A multi-level liquid democracy where every voter chooses a delegate, and 50-200 delegates can empower second-level delegates, biases for sophistication (because each level ends up more sophisticated than the previous) and guards against populism (because a delegate can’t amass extreme power by gaining a huge following directly) while avoiding empowering pre-selected aristocracies.

Resources

• Democratic Mediums. A directory of patterns for decision, deliberation, and noise.
• Metagovernance Project. An interdisciplinary research collective that builds standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance.
• CommunityRule. A governance toolkit for great communities.
• Verses.
• Decentralized Autonomous Organizations
• Common Digital Infrastructure