coops and governance: mood board

tldr: still deep in my coops + governance + web3 rabbit hole :-) also join our coops + governance discord!

have since joined a number of lovely web3 communities, including kernel, web3baddies, and crypto, culture, and society! had a really nice time at ethdenver and schelling point recently as well (special thanks to hudson jameson and 3box labs for making this trip possible) :-)

wanted to compile my current coops + governance + web3 mood board, a list of resources and topics that have been simmering for a while. would love to dig deeper, research, write, and collaborate with others on these topics + hoping to maybe go through a round of applying for grants to formalize some of these explorations, conduct interviews, facilitate conversations, and co-create resources. if you’re interested in any of these, please contact me, i do read my messages!

special thanks to friends and collaborators kadallah burrowes, em, and bert muthalaly for their feedback and conversations <3

also — just created a coops + governance discord server (join us!) :-) originally was a big signal chat of friends and am hoping to build a more accessible community and open it up, would love to have more ppl share ideas and resources and create conversations with!

word cloud of primary interests rn: coops, governance, solidarity economy, collective ownership, public goods and the commons, coalition building, p2p models, distributed networks, systems thinking, interdependence
+ secondary interests: privacy, zero knowledge proofs, cryptography

coops + governance mood board 

// coops


// governance 

  • polis

  • quadratic voting

  • arweave profit sharing communities tokens / voting

    • voting power = ownership * commitment (staking) time

  • dynamic participation ?!

    • interested exploring in governance models that allow for dynamic and fluid frameworks of participation, e.g. different people can have varying levels of involvement over time 

// profit sharing, local currencies, funding models

// mechanism design

  • demurrage - small charge on holding of money, in order to encourage some exchange, not inflation

// public goods, the commons 

// universal basic income (ubi) / universal basic services (ubs); debt jubilees

  • tradeoffs: legibility, proof of personhood, accessibility, quality of services  

    • universal basic income: 

      • pros: those who are less legible to institutions may have more autonomy for support

        • e.g. trans or poc access to hormones may not be supported by traditional healthcare systems

      • cons: those who are in debt, ubi just goes towards debt. basic needs may not be met for those who exist at a deficit or those who are working against the system

    • universal basic services

      • pros: ensures basic needs are met. e.g. healthcare, education, housing, legal services, etc. 

      • cons: less autonomy to what an individual may need. institutions may not provide adequate care for marginalized communities

  • proof of personhood, sybil resistance

  • emerging ubi systems

  • other experiments in ubi

  • debt collective: debt jubilees, debt abolition, rolling jubilee fund 

// orgs

// books 

// resources