strategy

Strategy & Goals 2019

DGov 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

Principles: Deep and Active Listening, Non-violent communication, Horizontal Organizing and Participatory Leadership.

Develop a Vibrant Network

Purpose: Create meaningful connections and shared agency among its members. ****

Facilitate group communication

• Integrate ID system
• 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.
• Developing the #dgov forum, so members can exchange valuable info on more in-depth topics
• Moderating the #dgov chat on Telegram and potentially other channels (rotating moderation?)
• Allowing for cross-posting: #dgov tweets on Telegram
• Beweekly community calls (Ela)


****Create information flows

• Maintaining and expanding the #dgov wiki
• Maintaining and expanding the ecosystem map
• Curating a monthly newsletter (+ dgov highlight of the month)
• Curating a #dgov event calendar


Establish processes within the network (Ela?)

• Organize and participate in local network events / meetups
  • Regular meetups in Berlin (Ela?)
  • London (Phoebe)
  • Barcelona
  • Amsterdam
  • Global meetup page?
• Support Medias + info partnerships

Co-Create Events

Doing amazing events

• Athens Conference
• Dgov retreat
• Web3 node
• Devcon node

Advocate diversity in the #dgov space

#dgov aims at including a more diverse groups of practitioners and researchers from the following domains:

• Political Science / Governance researchers
• Psychologists
• Anthropologists
• Facilitators
• Legal consulting


Promote our values / Suggest guiding principles & culture for the world we want to live in

• Maximum integratabtle cognitive diversity
• Omni-considerative / omni-win decision making
• The principle Life - Change and Adoption
• The principles of wholeness - interconnectedness.
• Cohesion
• Collaboration “Act local - think global”
• Be excellent to each other

Create research opportunities

• #dgov report (+DAO legal page)
  • Research: Self organizing practices / soft governance in the blockchain teams (e.g. Aragon, Consensys...)
• Web3 conf Node
• Dgov council #2
• Soft governance workshops
• Tweet about (new?) projects in the space (e.g. weekly)
• Coop with Nathan Schneider / MEDLabBoulder

Launch #dgov experiments

• Launch 3 public governance experiments
• Support the projects
• Create open workshops (e.g. DAO Crash Test)
• Launch DGOV SEED DAO
  • Raise funds ($50-100k)
  • Get 50 members to DGOV Seed DAO

Sustainability for the team

Aquire funding for the team