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what is project
Open Source Governance?
Open Source Governance aims to design a blueprint with which a group can collectively and inclusively form questions and find answers that can help organize their community. The project is an interdisciplinary research and social design process that uses debates, workshops, case studies, publications, and other mediums to empower groups to find possible ways of self-governing. This is done by investigating the wisdom of the crowd. At the core of the idea lies the notion of governmentality. The concept departs from the disappointment with the representative systems in inclusively and fairly organizing societies, and observation of available tools (namely open-source programming) that can replace or challenge the current systems in place.
what is project
Open Source Governance?
Open Source Governance aims to design a blueprint with which a group can collectively and inclusively form questions and find answers that can help organize their community. The project is an interdisciplinary research and social design process that uses debates, workshops, case studies, publications, and other mediums to empower groups to find possible ways of self-governing. This is done by investigating the wisdom of the crowd. At the core of the idea lies the notion of governmentality. The concept departs from the disappointment with the representative systems in inclusively and fairly organizing societies, and observation of available tools (namely open-source programming) that can replace or challenge the current systems in place.
Collectivity
Its all about collective thinking and inclusivity. We meet each other, discuss ideas and concerns, and make things possible through a collective will
Rethinking
By thinking outside of the box, unlearning the complexity, and rethinking how we do things, we try to create a simpler and more efficient flow in how we organize ourselves
DECISION-MAKING
With respect and care for all parts of the society, collective decisions can happen directly by all members. This helps involving people in affairs that directly affect their livelihood
Blueprint
The main aim of project OSG is to design a blueprint with which different societies with different sizes and qualities can be able to form their own regulations
The podcast
Here are the latest podcast episodes of ProjectOSG
Events and workshops
Events and workshops
The debate sessions and workshops include regular OSG public sessions and workshops hosted by OSG partners, as well as presentations and talks. Debate sessions and workshops are intended to first talk about different aspects of collective decision-making, and second, to actually make a collective decision within that community. This includes discussing the basic idea, its possibilities, ethical questions, and practical possibilities/obstacles. This is also where we try to collectively diagnose a problem for a small community, and attempt to solve it. During these sessions, we will use the Communal List and the Socratic Debate to reach a common question and a set of possible answers to that question. Then we will try to come to a collective decision, based on the given choices.
Our events, workshops and public sessions are announced on our social media, as well as on this site under events.
Episode 1 of our #podcast #opensourcegovernance will be released soon, with the main focus on #RepresentativeSystems, their history, flaws, problems, and impracticalities.
We will be inviting very interesting quests to talk about representative system in later episodes.
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