Meeting - 26th April 2022
Meeting 1 of DAO Governance Literature Review - 26th April 2022
Attendees
Amar Khan | |
George Ramayya | |
Kenric Nelson | Photrek |
Jack Briggs | IOG |
Stephen Whitenstall | QADAO |
Steph Macurdy | Wolfram Blockchain Labs |
Thorsten Pottebaum |
Information
Community Governance Group
https://quality-assurance-dao.gitbook.io/community-governance-oversight/
Meeting GitHub Task
https://github.com/Catalyst-Auditing/Community-Governance-Oversight-Coordination/issues/70\
Overview
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
Brief intro to Zotero tool
Kenric gave a short introduction to the Zotero research reference tool
Paper - Power in liquid democracy
Actions arising from meeting
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"
1) recommendations for searches and/or papers to add to the database
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
2) selecting a few key articles to provide 1-3 page reviews.
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 ?
3) Planning for a community white paper
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)
References
1 Example of liquid democracy at google
2 Current Catalyst d-rep materials Community Oversight has tracked -
3 Google Scholar
Useful features include -
How many citations
Related articles
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