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Dec 2, 2022
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Provide resources necessary to support participation 🙌
Governance takes time and work. It should not always be assumed that users have that time or the resources to enable participation. Designs should remind users not to place unfair demands on each others’ time and efforts, and to provide resources necessary to support their involvement.
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Establish rituals and habits of maintenance 🕰️
Community agreements and values must be maintained to function. Rituals can help reinforce shared commitments among participants. Those commitments should be accessible and frequently visible to remind people what they have agreed to.
Nov 17, 2022
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Motivate communities to establish a code of conduct that encourageencourages positive behaviors and ensures that harmful behavior can be identified and addressed. Make sure participants understand what powers they do and do not have in a given context, to prevent overreach or disappointment.
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When automated algorithms guide processes, they should be subject to human oversight at key points of itstheir inputs and outputs.
Oct 7, 2022
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As the self-governance surface of online spaces grows, interfaces guide how people interact with each other and the underlying software. A new paradigm is in the making: governance experience design.
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What follows are notes intended for the designers of the interfacessurfaces, processes, norms and normsinterfaces for online governance. This is a living document, first developed through research and experimentation in the Metagovernance Project, which will continue stewarding the text's ongoing development through improvement proposals from readers.
Oct 6, 2022
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As the self-governance surface of online spaces grows, interfaces guide how people interact with each other and the underlying software. A new paradigm is in the making: governance interfaceexperience design.
How we design the interfacesexperience of governance will shape the flows of power.
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What follows are remindersnotes intended for the designers of the surfacesinterfaces, processes, and norms for online governance. This is a living document, first developed through research and experimentation in the Metagovernance Project, which will continue stewarding the text's ongoing development through modificationimprovement proposals from readers.
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There is no single formula for self-governance—no perfect voting system or group size. Healthy communities generally have multiple concurrent pathways for participation in power, multiple feedback loops.
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The more that online spaces become self-governable, the more that such demands will grow. Be careful about overwhelming participants with information or expectations. Practice reciprocity: Match what the community asks of them with what it provides.
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The original version was drafted by Nathan Schneider at DWeb Camp, August 2022, with subsequent improvements by Metagovernance Project contributors Greg Cassel, Val ElefanteEfante, Cent Hosten, Kelsie Nabben, Aviv Ovadya, Niccolò Pescetelli, Divya Siddharth, Danny Spitzberg, Ronen Tamari, and Michael Zargham.
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EncourageMotivate communities to establish a code of conduct that encouragesencourage positive behaviors and ensures that harmful behavior can be identified and addressed. Make sure participants understand what powers they do and do not have in a given context, to prevent overreach or disappointment.
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The original version was drafted by Nathan Schneider at DWeb Camp, August 2022, with subsequent improvements by Metagovernance Project contributors Greg Cassel, Val EfanteElefante, Cent Hosten, Kelsie Nabben, Aviv Ovadya, Niccolò Pescetelli, Divya Siddharth, Danny Spitzberg, Ronen Tamari, and Michael Zargham.
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Oct 4, 2022
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Sep 29, 2022
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Start from the assumption that there should be multiple, overlapping mechanismsprocesses rather than searching for a single one. No system is truly universal, but systems with diverse forms of input can be more inclusive and accessible.
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Practice reciprocity: Match what the community asks of participantsthem with what it provides. In some cases, it may be appropriate to provide financial compensation or training for governance work. Assume that participants are involved in governance elsewhere as well and have time-constrained lives, and provide APIs where appropriate to support thirdcross-partyplatform dashboardsintegrations.
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Practice reciprocity: Match what the community asks of themparticipants with what it provides. In some cases, it may be appropriate to provide financial compensation or training for governance work. Assume that participants are involved in governance elsewhere as well and have time-constrained lives, and provide APIs where appropriate to support third-party dashboards.
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Healthy communities generally have multiple concurrent mechanismspathways for participation in power, multiple feedback loops. Some people might contribute best as charismatic leaders, while others might be better at making impartial judgements.
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Support diverse mechanismspathways for inputparticipation 💐
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An early experience participating in aan functionalinclusive process can lead to a lifetime of faith in the power of self-governance. If a process does not feel respectful to someone, they will not respect the process.
Sep 11, 2022
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This manifesto is a living document developed through research and experimentation in the Metagovernance Project. Drafted by Nathan Schneider at DWeb Camp, August 2022, with subsequent contributions by Val Efante, Cent Hosten, Kelsie Nabben, Aviv Ovadya, Niccolò Pescetelli, Divya Siddharth, Danny Spitzberg, Ronen Tamari, and Michael Zargham.
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Drafted for Metagov by Nathan Schneider at DWeb Camp, August 2022, with subsequent contributions by Val Efante, Cent Hosten, Kelsie Nabben, Aviv Ovadya, Niccolò Pescetelli, Divya Siddharth, Danny Spitzberg, Ronen Tamari, and Michael Zargham.
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Sep 9, 2022
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SetHelp communities set clear expectations 📏
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Make systems explicit and transparent by default ☀️
Tyrannies of structurelessness are common online: the lack of an explicit power structure produces an especially rigid and unaccountable one, invisible to most participants. Governance tools should help people see how power operates, including both the shared values and the specific rules that express them.
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Make systems explicit and transparent by default ☀️
Tyrannies of structurelessness are common online: the lack of an explicit power structure produces an especially rigid and unaccountable one, invisible to most participants. Governance tools should help people see how power operates, including both the shared values and the specific rules that express them.
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Strive for pleasure, not just function. Art, celebration, and sensuousness matter as much in governance as in any other part of human life. Governance experience should not crowd these out with all the serious business.
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Drafted for Metagov by Nathan Schneider at DWeb Camp, August 2022, with subsequent contributions by Val Efante, Cent Hosten, Kelsie Nabben, Niccolò Pescetelli, Divya Siddharth, Danny Spitzberg, Ronen Tamari, and Michael Zargham.
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Governance tools should help people see how power operates, regardlessincluding ofboth theirthe roleshared invalues and the communityspecific rules that express them. Interfaces, in turn, should be accessible up and down the ladder of participation, showing newcomers how to get involved and encouraging veterans to share their knowledge more widely.
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Platform cooperatives, data trusts, encrypted chats, mesh networks, blockchain protocols, DAOs, and more are introducing governable spaces, where users canmay havechoose to exercise more control over their digital lives.
How we design the experienceinterfaces of governance matterswill atshape least as much as the formalflows structures of power involved.
As we build the governance experienceinterface paradigm, we acknowledge the need to honor the experience of our ancestors across time, space, cultures, and species.
What follows are reminders intended for the designers of interfacesthe surfaces, processes, and norms for online governance. They reflect the research and experiments represented in the Metagovernance Project.
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Some rules might be harder to change than others, for good reason, but nothing important should be written in stone or hard-coded.
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Sep 5, 2022
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Platform cooperatives, data trusts, encrypted chats, mesh networks, blockchain protocols, DAOs, and more are introducing governable spaces, where users maycan choosehave to exercise more control over their digital lives.
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As we build the GovExgovernance experience paradigm, we acknowledge the need to honor the experience of our ancestors across time, space, cultures, and species.
Sep 2, 2022
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Platform cooperatives, data trusts, encrypted chats, mesh networks, blockchain protocols, DAOs, and more are introducing governable spaces, where users canmay havechoose to exercise more control over their digital lives.
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Suggestion from ntnsndr
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Hold space for culture and fun 🦦
Make room for pleasure, both in and around governance processes.
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Aug 29, 2022
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