Description
Metagov's mission is to cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age. Their vision is to work toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable. Metagov was founded in 2019 and spun out as an independent nonprofit in January 2020. Their original goal was to describe, support, and expand the right to self-governance in online communities, which is enabled and circumscribed by the platform's architecture. Metagovernance describes two related roles: (1) enabling and constraining users’ ability to create their own institutions, and (2) governing the interaction between separate institutions, from small chat groups to billion-dollar blockchain protocols. The community primarily convenes online in the Metagov Slack to coordinate projects, discuss research in online governance, plan seminars, convene governance experiments, collaborate with other organizations, and advance research outputs.