Collaborative Governance
A new blog post on the Pressbooks website recounts MEDLab's role in supporting the development of a governance strategy for the textbook Humans R Social Media, which I use in my Introduction to Social Media course: One of the pivotal moments in the
Creating an effective way for users to navigate and utilize an online platform with extensive content can be a challenge, particularly for new users unfamiliar with the site’s structure. This was the case with CommunityRule, our online tool that
CommunityRule is a tool that helps make communities better by providing a central place where people can create and share governance designs for their communities. It offers nine simple templates for setting up community structures. Communities can
Imagine a world in which the cooperative movement has won. The old dream of a cooperative commonwealth has arrived. You go about your day from cooperative to cooperative—shopping, working, scrolling on apps, and utilizing infrastructure
Background Last year, Smart Contract Research Forum provided a grant to CommunityRule, an open-source Web app led by MEDLab at CU Boulder meant to serve as an interface for community governance design. The project was led by Deacon Rodda at SQGLZ,
In February, we announced an open call for Sacred Stacks, an invitation to "Bring Decentralized Tools to Your Community." We were astonished by the response. Around fifty communities applied for only three available slots. Clearly, there is a
CommunityRule is a Web app we've been building at MEDLab to help communities design, edit, and share their own governance systems. You can think about it as an effort to re-think the idea of bylaws in an Internet-native way. It's something that
Modpol is a self-governance toolkit for communities in online worlds. We are creating the first implementation in a multiplayer game called Minetest. Consider a group of friends meeting for a picnic in the park. How do they make decisions, such as
MEDlab is proud to launch Excavations: Governance Archaeology for the Future of the Internet, an online art exhibition and discursive space, exploring the future of the Internet through the past and present of human self-governance. It has resulted
This post was originally written for the Smart Contract Research Forum and is cross-posted there. The user experience for most organizational governance is pretty lousy. In meatspace, it generally consists of impenetrable legal prose that, in order