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SUMMARY:Amy Zhang (University of Washington)
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 PolicyKit: A System for Authoring and Enacting Governance in Online Commun
 ities</a>\nby Amy Zhang (University of Washington) as part of Metagovernan
 ce Seminar\n\n\nAbstract\nThe governance of most online communities today 
 as embedded in the software of their community platform has little variati
 on beyond a UNIX-like permissions model granting administrators and modera
 tors broad power over users. However\, this model is unable to express man
 y forms of governance that communities might prefer\, including democratic
  ones that give users a greater say in decision-making. In this work\, we 
 present PolicyKit\, a system that empowers users to author a broad range o
 f governance models that can then be enacted on their community platform o
 f choice. PolicyKit introduces software abstractions motivated by politica
 l science theory to describe governance as a set of one-off actions that c
 an be proposed by users\, along with a set of user-authored policies\, or 
 continually-running imperative functions that specify how and whether acti
 ons can execute.  Actions cover both everyday activities that happen on pl
 atforms as well as changes to the governance model itself\, allowing for u
 ser-led evolution of governance over time.\n
LOCATION:https://researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov/9/
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