The Metagovernance Project: Community governance and participatory budgeting for the
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Public call awardee
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October 2020
Civic Tech, Software, Social Justice
Prototyping a modular, customizable governance standard and framework for online communities that will allow users to design their own rule-sets, choose voting schemes, and make collective decisions about resource allocation and monetary flows through the Web Monetization standard. Rather than providing a fixed governance algorithm, the Metagovernance standard allows developers and users to build, assemble, and share their own governance processes, appropriate to their needs. Through it, for instance, a community that earns money through Web Monetization would have a transparent, accountable means for deciding together how that money should be saved or spent. Team includes Nathan Schneider, Primavera De Filippi, Ricardo Saavedra, Seth Frey, and Amy Zhang.