Distributed decision making

High-quality and decentralized decision-making, will increase treasury ROI and legitimize decentralized governance.

The community is consciously improving decision-making processes while growing a group of committed and collaborative leaders.

• To assess ROI of this challenge we will ask ourselves: Did we get better at distributed decision making?
• Community confidence: avg rating or % of Catalyst members who approve of overall results of a funding round.
• Community participation: number of Catalyst participants contributing to improving Catalyst decision making systems
• Measured overall
• Impact of individual initiatives
• Proof of iteration: round over round, is there evidence that "pain points" are evolving? (Failure would look like seeing the same problems emerging each funding round)
• Re-election rates: if proposers receive subsequent funding, this can be seen as a sign of success
• Embracing failure: is the community able to see value in & learn from proposals that did not work out?

Guiding questions

• How do we encourage people to participate in decision making?
• How do we ensure the group of decision makers is diverse and accessible to newcomers?
• How can we ensure that the Catalyst process keeps iterating to improve?
• How will we include the community in decision making?

Potential directions

• Software that supports decision making or iteration
• Experiments in social, collaboration, or meeting structures that encourage improved decision making
• Community advisor training
• Low effort ways to engage voters in assessing proposals and tapping into existing insights.