Frameworks & Tools for Healthy Power Sharing

Abstract: Many of us are invested in integrating democratic participation into how the internet is governed. In this seminar, I would like to offer a set of frameworks that directly address human social power to help us measure our success in achieving this goal.

Building on over 10 years of research, soul-searching, and practical application in groups from Occupy Wall Street to Resource Generation, our worker coop (Round Sky Solutions) has attempted a synoptic integration informed by Ostrom’s principles that enable us to reliably share power and prevent the abuses of both autocracy and collectocracy. The methods that exist already–i.e. Sociocracy, Holocracy, Theory U, Appreciative Inquiry, Participatory Budgeting, Nonviolent communication–each address a partial arena of power-sharing needs. We’ve been working to identify and integrate all of these needs into an ecology of practices that are easily learnable, transfer across contexts, encodable in software, and could create a unifying process fabric for the many aspects of a governance layer for the internet.

In this seminar, we’ll offer a brief introduction to the theory and practice behind this ecology of power-sharing tools and an invitation for dialogue about its practical application.'

game theoryhuman-computer interactionsocial and information networkslaw and economics

Audience: researchers in the topic

( chat | video )

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Metagovernance Seminar

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The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Topics of the seminar include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

See archived videos: archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Metagovernance%20Seminar%22

The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public, but please note that the discussion is moderated. Our governance structure is defined here: metagov.pubpub.org/metagov-governance

Please contact a planning committee member (Nathan Schneider, Divya Siddarth, Michael Zargham, Joshua Tan, and Seth Frey) if you are interested in becoming a member of the seminar.

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