A helpful framing of creating online governance structures is “civic” design. Civics are another way of saying “democracy in the small”. It helps define who are members or citizens of a space, and the rules that help structure it.
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A helpful framing of creating online governance structures is “civic” design. Civics are another way of saying “democracy in the small”. It helps define who are members or citizens of a space, and the rules that help structure it.