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Metagov
Metagov is a nonprofit research-to-infrastructure laboratory building tools, standards, and communities for digital self-governance, network governance, and public-interest AI.
Boston, United States
Govbase Dataset
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Maintained by Metagov and hosted primarily as linked Airtable tables, Govbase organizes data about online-governance projects, organizations, institutions, documents, cases, configuration parameters, and research outputs. Its website provides curated views and contribution paths for editors, researchers, and research partners.Category: Data
D20 Governance
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D20 Governance is a Discord bot/game for online communities. Participants embark on governance quests and make lightweight decisions while the bot applies different decision and culture modules to moderate or transform interactions. The project was built by Metagov researchers and is publicly testable through Discord.Category: Uncategorized
Governance Surfaces
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Governance Surfaces is a Metagov research dataset and open-source analysis tool for DAO governance smart contracts. It extracts contract objects, functions, parameters, comments, access metadata, and keyword labels into linked tables and CSV outputs for studying configurable DAO governance actions.Category: Data
Agreement Engine
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Agreement Engine is an open-source software service/library for building net-native agreement systems, with configurable agreement paths and interfaces to external platforms and enforcement services.Category: Developer Tooling
Telescope
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Telescope is a Metagov project providing a Discord bot for participatory qualitative ethnography. It lets researchers and community members flag relevant posts, obtain participant consent, and archive approved material for research and community knowledge curation.Category: Uncategorized
Metagov Gateway
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Metagov Gateway is an open-source API gateway and architecture for digital governance services, connecting decision-making tools with online communities and platforms. Its development has mostly been folded into PolicyKit.Category: Developer Tooling
Public AI
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Public AI is a global movement and coalition working to make AI public infrastructure: publicly accessible, publicly accountable, and capable of creating permanent public goods. The network coordinates research, policy, community-building, public-sector implementation, and related technical projects.Category: Impact Initiative
KOI Pond
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KOI Pond is Metagov’s instantiation of the open KOI protocol. It combines a knowledge-management system and Reference Identifiers (RIDs) to map and permission relationships among Metagov knowledge objects in a graph database. Its former Slack chatbot interface, KOI-GPT, was sunset in February 2026; the team is developing the Ask Metagov workflow as a new community-facing interface.Category: Data
DAOstar
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DAOstar develops and maintains interoperability frameworks for decentralized autonomous organizations, including ERC-4824/DAOIP-2, DAO identity infrastructure, APIs, research, and OpenGrants data infrastructure. It is an active, fiscally sponsored Metagov project, distinct from the historical DAOstar One roundtable that helped establish its work.Category: Developer Tooling