Divya Siddarth, RadicalXChange Foundation / Microsoft.Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder.Seth Frey, University of California, Davis.Federica Carugati, King’s College London.Our research is led by a group of principal investigators: The Metagovernance Project is an open, collective effort to build a governance layer for the internet. Metagovernance describes these two related roles: (1) enabling and constraining users’ ability to create their own institutions, and (2) governing the interaction between separate institutions, whether they be small informal chat groups on Telegram, open-source communities on GitHub, billion-dollar protocols on a blockchain, or traditional institutions like courts and contracts that have been transposed to a new digital realm.
That same architecture also governs the interaction between separate user-generated institutions. Our goal is to describe, support, and expand that right.īut on the internet, the right to self-governance is not a natural right it is enabled and circumscribed by the architecture of the platform on which people interact. In these worlds, users have the right to self-governance-the right to come together and organize their own social and political institutions. This new generation of online communities is changing the rules of online governance. Mastodon), and collaborative platforms (e.g. Competition, ideology, and technological advances have created the conditions for a new generation of games (e.g. We’re hiring! Metagovernance, or the governance of many worlds Validator Commons, a cryptopolitical party of validators and allies.Telescope, a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography.(new) Redwood Parliament, a governance convocation event.PolicyKit, an engine for building governance in online communities.(new) OSS Transitions, an NSF-funded collaboration.Modular Politics, a paper outlining a governance layer for the internet.Metagovernance Seminar, a weekly seminar.MetagovDAO, a funding body for research on DAOs.LARP Governance, speculative governance play, ethnography, and history.Groundwork Fellowship, internet infrastructure design and marginalization.Governance Surfaces, a tool for analyzing DAO contracts.Governance Experience Design, a living manifesto for online spaces.Govbase, a set of research data sets in online governance.DAOchem, a holistic view of DAO governance.Cryptopolitics, a study of politics and ideology in crypto.Constitutions of Web3, analysis and guides for DAO constitutions.Composing games into complex institutions, a research paper.CommunityRule, a user-friendly governance toolkit for great communities.(new) Calm Technology, a standards body for aligning attention with technology.(new) AI Palace, a residency for open-source, public, and decentralized AI.Agreement Engine, a tool for building net-native agreement systems.DAOstar, the standards body of the DAO ecosystem.Metagov Gateway, an API gateway for digital governance services.We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance. The Metagovernance Project is an interdisciplinary research collective.
0 kommentar(er)
