$1,368.93 crowdfunded from 223 people
$12,465.95 received from matching pools
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average score over 6 application evaluations
Nonprofit collective developing standards and tools for digital self-governance, offering APIs, governance data sets, research, and seminars to improve online community management.
Metagov is a nonprofit research collective. We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance. Our collaborations include:
- Metagov Gateway, an API gateway for digital governance services
- DAOstar, the standards body of the DAO ecosystem
- Agreement Engine, a tool for building net-native agreement systems
- CommunityRule, a user-friendly governance toolkit for great communities
- Composing games into complex institutions, a research paper
- Constitutions of Web3, analysis and guides for DAO constitutions
- Cryptopolitics, a study of politics and ideology in crypto
- DAOchem, a holistic view of DAO governance
- Govbase, a set of research data sets in online governance
- Govbase Labs, a weekly lab meeting
- Governance Experience Design, a living manifesto for online spaces
- Governance Surfaces, a tool for analyzing DAO contracts
- Groundwork Fellowship, internet infrastructure design and marginalization
- LARP Governance, speculative governance play, ethnography, and history
- MetagovDAO, a funding body for research on DAOs
- Metagovernance Seminar, a weekly seminar
- Modular Politics, a paper outlining a governance layer for the internet
- Modpol, a governance mod for Minetest
- PolicyKit, an engine for building governance in online communities
- (new) Redwood Parliament, a governance convocation event
- Telescope, a Discord bot for ethical, responsive digital ethnography
- Validator Commons, a cryptopolitical party of validators and allies
Our research is led by a group of principal investigators:
- Federica Carugati, King's College London
- Primavera De Filippi, Harvard / CNRS
- Seth Frey, University of California, Davis
- Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
- Ellie Rennie, RMIT
- Nathan Schneider, University of Colorado Boulder
- Divya Siddarth, RadicalXChange Foundation / Microsoft
- Joshua Tan, University of Oxford
- Philipp Zahn, 20squares / CyberCat Institute
- Michael Zargham, BlockScience / WU Vienna
- Amy Zhang, University of Washington
Metagov History
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applied to the OpenCivics Genesis Round 7 months ago which was rejected
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accepted into Web3 Community and Education 7 months ago. 108 people contributed $219 to the project, and $1,011 of match funding was provided.
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accepted into Token Engineering 7 months ago.
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accepted into Web3 Community and Education 10 months ago. 77 people contributed $204 to the project, and $1,306 of match funding was provided.
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accepted into Web3 Community and Education 1 year ago. 38 people contributed $794 to the project, and $10,149 of match funding was provided.
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applied to the DeSci (Decentralized Science) 1 year ago which was rejected
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