Strategy & Goals
Purpose: Create meaningful connections and shared agency among its members; Shaping the future of networks.
DGOV Foundation connects people to discover practices, implement technical solutions and create complex, scalable governance systems that create cohesion and allow people to flourish.
Values: Trust, Fairness, Integrity, Respect, Empathy, Appreciation, Egoless, Honesty, Caring, Joyfulness, Fun, Relaxed, Timely, Kindness, Self-reflection.
Network & community Builders, DAO member & practitioners, entrepreneurs and academics working with the networks.
Goals:
Clear expectations agreements and participation
Help setup specific goals & tasks
Clear focus, priorities and planning
Decrease cognitive load
Provide financial compensation
Recognize and praise contributors
Enable more transparency (decision making process etc)
Strategy
Open up roles
Use participative tools (github/underscore, google docs...)
Resource distribution protocols
Building alignment across the contributors
Strategy presentations (videos in the newsletter?)
Regular surveying
Fund
Sources
Individual donations (open fun prizes for different level contributions – e.g. 1 hour consulting on self organization, or a set of book/articles)
Grants (talk with foundations)
Membership fee (magazine?)
Paid services (trainings, workshops)
Distribution Mechanism (Giveth, Moloch, Aragon...)
Workshop on paid products
Ask community for help
Legal Institution? partner with someone?
Checklist
Wiki
Personal support
School of self organization project? e.g. monthly education and consulting session
The best place to around major conferences – nice, big, cozy
free for contributors of the dgov
Place for the afterparties
Create more interoperability, collaboration and experimentation.
Goals:
Support the industry standardization & collaborations
Support 3 governance experiments (e.g. with coops)
Identify stakeholders & funding strategy
Ideas:
Should Aragon collaborate with DAO stack? Where?
Curating a monthly newsletter (+ dgov highlight of the month)
Support dgov space projects with publicity
Enable time-warp (send in the most convenient time)
Summary of the month chat topics/activity
Integrate ID system with contacts, hubs maps etc (Keybase?)
Maintaining and expanding the ecosystem map
Add profiling info (interests, skills etc)
Reputation
Matchmaking tool
DGOV chat with channels
Moderating the #dgov chat on Telegram and potentially other channels (rotating moderation?)
Allowing for cross-posting: #dgov tweets on Telegram
Calendar – curating a #dgov event calendar
Regular meetups in Berlin, London, Barcelona, Amsterdam etc – Organize and participate in local network events / meetups. Goal – self-education?
Forum
#dgov blog / journal – use medium or https://dgov.pubpub.org/ for the network relevant articles
Shared glossary/definitions
Job board / forum topic?
Arrangements with John L (Aragon), Kate B (DAO Stack)...
Sobol: goals, structures, agreements
Mediators list & process
Ethical and legal platform for innovation
NVC court
Custodians (funds, personal data)
Workshops (Design Thinking etc)
Use blockchain for efficient data exchange inside the network
If we loose inactive part of the community moving to the new platform – it can be refershing and good
Ministry of memes – develop artful insights on what's going on in the network (sensemaking)
Art
Games
Fun
Inspiration
SWAG
Stickers, posters etc
Create a show – create funny reviews about the companies and people in the industry
Goals:
Run the research producing events
Support the projects & researches with connections, coverage etc
Coordinate the ongoing researches with the academics (avoid overlaps)
Help researchers find right people to interview
Identify the needs for tools
Identify stakeholders & funding strategy
Manage the portfolio of researches
Take any group and develop it forward, even if a bit
Should be titled as the end result of the work
2020 Q1 Dgov council #2
Preset topics for councils
Research WEF/COALA/RxC... approach
Invite people like political scientists, future thinkers, yuval harari etc (see survey)
Developing the #dgov forum, so members can exchange valuable info on more in-depth topics. Harvest from events etc.
Grants/lower prices for the students
ISSDG, Ledgerback, Sensorica, govlabs, Institute of innovating governance
S3nd research straight to the wikipedia. Setup bounties for the successful publish
It will also create great traffic magnet
Compensate top authors, they can delegate funds
Political scientists (governance researchers and academics), Social scientists, Sociologists, Economists (incl. behavioral), Artists, Judges, Lawyers, Politicians, Philosophers & Ethologists, Activists (Do-ers, change agents), Systemic thinkers (complexity experts, practitioners of transformation), Anthropologists, Game theory & mathematics, Hippies, Developers, SSID People, Psychologists, Platform coop people, Interdisciplinary people, Students, Holacracy and sociocracy experts, Coaches, Social workers.
Goals:
Create greater awareness about the topic
Amplify the movement and the network
Identify stakeholders & funding strategy
Print themed sticker pack (dlov, nature etc)
Attract branding specialist
Meetups
Website
#dgov tag campaign – Maintaining the twitter communication channel, so everyone has a chance to exchange news under the „hashtag“ #dgov and can keep up to date with what is going on in the space.
Educational animated videos?
Make a movie about DAOs
Create a wiki page about network/governance/dao (link would be highly important)
