1) Designing and Distributing Ownership

History reveals that many governance problems are downstream of the distribution of ownership. What type of incentive alignment is possible when different classes of stakeholders are owners? These talks look at different types of investor-owned, worker-owned, foundation-owned, supplier-owned, and producer-owned organizations and their relevance to crypto.

Camille Canon: Designing and Distributing Ownership - Constitutions and Rule Making

Jillian Grennan: Governance, Boards, and Activist Investors

Dana Brakman: Governance Rules and Regulatory Norms for Philanthropy

2) Decentralized Knowledge & Resource Management

In an environment of permissionless innovation and open source contribution, how do we collaboratively manage information and rights? These talks explore collaborative mechanisms and emergent community rules for managing multiple types of information and knowledge resources.

Sohyeon Hwang: Collaborative Information Strategies

Pavel Kuchar: Governing Markets as Knowledge Commons

Michael Madison: Contemporary Governance Problems in Knowledge, Information, Data, and Law

3) Community, Process, and Decision Making

These talks explore a variety of governance processes drawn from municipal, democratic, and cooperative contexts, where elected officials and delegated authorities must collaborate with community to reach outcomes in the best interest of the public.

Michael Menser: Community, Process, and Decision Making

Keith Taylor: Values, Governance, and Corporate Form

Bartek Starodaj: Community Engagement Processes

Eric Alston: Community, Process, and Decision Making

4) Designing for Credible Neutrality

What can DAOs learn from the history of liberalism? What role does governance play in the design of credibly neutral mechanisms? And how can we preserve both opinionated culture and neutrality in a governance system?

Laura K. Field: History of Liberal Neutrality

Kevin Vallier: Credible Neutrality: Philosophical Challenges