Collaborative Governance

  • Cover for zine called Change Is in the Cards
    ÌýDownload for screen readingDownload for booklet printingDownload for standard printingWaves of uncertainty swell around you. They threaten to consume you with confusion as they crescendo. Where do you and your community turn
  • Cover for zine called Change Is in the Cards
    Download hereWhile supplies last, get the newest MEDLab zine, a tarot-infused exploration of governance transitions in open-source software communities. A free online copy will be available for all.Waves of uncertainty swell around you. They
  • Humans R Social Media cover and homepage
    A new blog post on the Pressbooks website recounts MEDLab's role in supporting the development of a governance strategy for the textbook Humans R Social Media, which I use in my Introduction to Social Media course: One of the pivotal moments in the
  • Screenshot of CommunityRule
    Creating an effective way for users to navigate and utilize an online platform with extensive content can be a challenge, particularly for new users unfamiliar with the site’s structure. This was the case with CommunityRule, our online tool that
  • Screenshot of CommunityRule showing login instructions
    CommunityRule is a tool that helps make communities better by providing a central place where people can create and share governance designs for their communities. It offers nine simple templates for setting up community structures. Communities can
  • Photo of Nathan Schneider by Theo Stroomer
    Imagine a world in which the cooperative movement has won. The old dream of aÌýcooperative commonwealthÌýhas arrived. You go about your day from cooperative to cooperative—shopping, working, scrolling on apps, and utilizing infrastructure
  • Preview button on CommunityRule
    Background Last year, Smart Contract Research Forum provided a grant to CommunityRule, an open-source Web app led by MEDLab at ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder meant to serve as an interface for community governance design. The project was led by Deacon Rodda at SQGLZ,
  • "Friends making a Mandala" by Cinema Tigers, via Stocksy United
    In February, we announced an open call for Sacred Stacks, an invitation to "Bring Decentralized Tools to Your Community." We were astonished by the response. Around fifty communities applied for only three available slots. Clearly, there is a
  • Example CommunityRule module for voting created in Blockly.
    CommunityRule is a Web app we've been building at MEDLab to help communities design, edit, and share their own governance systems. You can think about it as an effort to re-think the idea of bylaws in an Internet-native way. It's something that
  • Screenshot of dashboard for an org in Modpol.
    Modpol is a self-governance toolkit for communities in online worlds. We are creating the first implementation in a multiplayer game called Minetest. Consider a group of friends meeting for a picnic in the park. How do they make decisions, such as
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