Data Governance Webinar Notes

• Doc Searls
• Nathan Schneider

• Going for over 70 yrs
• Elections, bylaws, processes...

Online Governance

• Amazon, Meta, etc
• Tech and Legal Stack
  • Implicit Feudalism
• Online is more feudal because of the hardware/legalities
  • Easy to say "I'm for democracy"

• Rideshare, Social Media
• Building against the grain
• Financing and Policy
• How do you make it democratic

• We don't have the ability to be democratic
• Crypto does have some demo principles

• many types of governance interact
  • Linus (dictator)
  • Corp (RedHat/Ubuntu)

• Policy Constraints
• We wanted to provoke companies to make changes to moderation
  • Git
    • GitHub Space (github rules)
    • "The New Governors"
    • "Governable Spaces"
    • Facebook/Twitter externalizing moderation

• eric mack
• https://journalists.org/resources/even-if-web3-is-full-of-scams-the-part-that-isnt-might-just-change-everything-midway/
• The Colorado Sun

• shared data model
• modular politics
  • Modularity
  • Composabilty
  • Portability
  • Interopability
• immutability
  • libertarian fantasy. lol

• Polycentric not Federated actually

• expect forms of centralization to develop within
  • Accountable Centralization
    • eg. Gmail
      • email is a standard, but because of all the bad players...

• comment by Johannes Ernst

• attention is going to become the scarcest commodity

• allow people to do things without jumping through as many hoops.

Further Reading

• Metagovernance Project: https://metagov.org/
• social.coop: https://wiki.social.coop/home.html
• JournoDAO: https://journodao.xyz/
• Zebras Unite: https://www.zebrasunite.org/
• Common Stack: https://commonsstack.org/
• Sustaining the Knowlege Commons: https://sustainingknowledgecommons.org/tag/common-pool-resource/
• Datasphere Initiative: https://www.thedatasphere.org/
• Hello Co-op: https://www.hello.coop/
• Ostrom Knowledge Commons: http://www.onthecommons.org/magazine/elinor-ostroms-8-principles-managing-commmons
• Rough Consensus: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc8789/