BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:researchseminars.org CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-WR-CALNAME:researchseminars.org BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:Kenechukwu Orjiene\, Amos Mwangi\, Gitonga Miriam Njeri\, Golda Ve lez (LinkedTrust) DTSTART:20240717T160000Z DTEND:20240717T170000Z DTSTAMP:20260417T110807Z UID:Metagov/211 DESCRIPTION:Title: Practical Inclusiveness and Earned Governance\nby Kenechukwu Orjiene \, Amos Mwangi\, Gitonga Miriam Njeri\, Golda Velez (LinkedTrust) as part of Metagovernance Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nKenechukwu Orjiene\, Amos Mwangi\ , Gitonga Miriam Njeri\, and Golda Velez are four of the co-founders of Li nkedTrust\, a Public Benefit Corporation with a commitment to sharing equi ty and governance.\n\nSoftware engineers in decentralized protocols\, they are the builders of the LinkedClaim vocabulary used by the US Chambers of Commerce Foundation and being applied to UN Traceability Interoperability standards as well as verifying Candid.org applicants.\n\nIn this seminar Kenechukwu\, Amos\, Gitonga\, and Golda will discuss their direct experien ce in participating in a unique model of shared governance using a rotatin g steering committee selected in a random work-weighted way\, to make toug h decisions about team proposals to spend profits. They will discuss the c onstraints on time and resources in a scrappy\, lean startup\, the reasons for designing this unique model\, and how genuine shared governance can b e a competitive advantage.\n\nIn addition they will touch on the Fairmint method of sharing a growing pie of equity in a tokenized manner between in vestors and founders\, while reserving governance only for participants\, and on the hopes of integrating the LinkedClaim technology into future gov ernance methods.\n\nKenechukwu is located in Enugu\, Nigeria\nAmos is loc ated in Nairobi\, Kenya\nGolda is located in Tucson\, Arizona\, US\n LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/211/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR