Governance Praxis

To achieve the highest potential of human collaboration, we need to try new approaches and have the opportunity to experiment and learn.

Multiple parallel governance experiments trying new methods & systems of human organization and collaboration.Community-designed governance.

• Number of experiments we are able to run
• Effectiveness of collaboration and cooperation
• More effective and fair decision-making models created
• Reflection on successes and failures (especially failures) so we learn
• Increasing governance capacity of the community
• Better understanding of role of human relationships in decentralized governance
• Number of new educational groups
• Number of experiments with consensus-building mechanisms
• Number of people involved in D-Reps and Liquid Democracy
• Number of ADA delegated to D-Reps
• Number of people participating in the governance layer of Catalyst (Catalyst Circle, Admin Team, Oversight Team, etc.)
• Number of people participating in Catalyst

Praxis (from Ancient Greek: πρᾶξις, romanized: praxis) is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, or realized. "Praxis" may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practicing ideas.

We chose the word "praxis" because it is time to engage, apply, and practice our theories of governance in many parallel experiments. It's time to enact and do governance through experiments and trials and share what we learn. It's time to put the ideas into practice and to reflect, iterate, and improve. Voltaire is coming, and the community can have a great deal of input into what that looks like, but we have very little practical knowledge of what works and what doesn't. Let's change that by encouraging experiments in parallel and gaining the critical knowledge and experience needed to make better choices for how we implement governance in Cardano.

Potential Directions:

• Experiments in decentralized decision-making and consensus
• Experiments in sociocracy, holocracy
• Alternative problem sensing and input gathering strategies
• Building welcoming spaces and increasing participation
• Experiments in human swarm behavior and super-collective consciousness
• Better training in meeting facilitation and group collaboration
• Experiments in consensus-building mechanisms and building networks
• Teaching roles and responsibilities in a Liquid Democracy
• Broad mentorship from Industry professionals
• Panel Discussions by Governance Topics
• More experiments!