Governance#

Governance is a tool an [[Organizations|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