Meeting - 26th April 2022
Meeting 1 of DAO Governance Literature Review - 26th April 2022
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Meeting 1 of DAO Governance Literature Review - 26th April 2022
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Amar Khan
George Ramayya
Kenric Nelson
Photrek
Jack Briggs
IOG
Stephen Whitenstall
QADAO
Steph Macurdy
Wolfram Blockchain Labs
Thorsten Pottebaum
https://quality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io/community-governance-oversight/
https://github.com/Catalyst-Auditing/Community-Governance-Oversight-Coordination/issues/70\
This meeting aimed to address tough questions for governance design.
To investigate bottom up principles and tensions that arise in a community with natural competitiveness
What type of decentralised organisation is most effective ?
How to uphold principles of decentralised governance and stay competitive ?
How to shift from invite to general community involvement
Produce a white paper over a 3 to 4 month period
Kenric gave a short introduction to the Zotero research reference tool
Action : install Zotero application & explore functionality - All
Action : setup biweekly meeting for DAO literature review - Kenric / Stephen
Our Focus : "Measuring voting power in Catalyst D-reps"
Action : identify questions & challenges for literature review - All
Action : add tags to identify papers relevant to measurement of d-rep implementation
A focus on -
Metrics - pros / cons of different measurements
Rollout / implementation
How to score capabilities of d-reps
For example in the "Liquid democracy" category the paper "Power in Liquid Democracy", Yuzhe Zhang and Davide Grossi (2010)
What is the power of my vote ?
Vote on proposals - what point do I not have a voice ?
Voting power not proportional to a weighting but to an approx quadratic measure ?
This is contingent on a successful Fund 8 vote for Community Governance Oversight.
4 Research
The Oversight group will facilitate literature reviews and meta-analysis of decentralized governance methods and practices. This research will be used to facilitate informed feedback on design proposals regarding delegated representatives and Catalyst parameter changes.
May 2022 - Establish Gitbook and Zotero resources
June 2022 - Gather literature and interview inputs
July 2022 - Draft “Securing Decentralized Governance”
August 2022 - Publish first version of “Securing Decentralized Governance”
$ 10,000 for 4 months' research work ($ 2,500 per month)
Useful features include -
How many citations
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