Talk about governance for the Barcelona Decentralized Organizations September Meetup. Thank you to Adrien Berthou, Lorenzo Patuzzo for organizing and collaborating. Thanks to the lovely crowd for participation and discussion. Thank you Sociocracy For All Ted J. Rau Jerry Koch-Gonzalez and Tom van der Lubbe for your input and slides. There's a video here: https://lnkd.in/eCChvZS

1. Outline
Radically distributed peer networks
1. Genesis DAO has a governance system - holographic consensus:
Do you know how the system works, and what consequences it has?
What are the options?
2. Don’t reinvent the wheel - Experience and expertise on governance
Examples
3. Common approaches - Decision making types
Sociocracy and holacracy
4. Run an experiment: Create and decide on a proposal

2. Sociocracy, Holacracy and …
Participatory governance for DAO
DAO Barcelona Meetup, September 4, 2019
Nikoline Nik & Vincent van der Lubbe

3. 1. Genesis DAO
The system and its rules for deciding (governance) at the
moment (as we understand it)
● Majority voting based on reputation and money
● Accessibility: need to be tech-savvy

7. Money is voice
Decision for proposal seems to depend on
absolute majority in normal queue, but on
simple majority when staked positively

8. How do we decide together?

9. 2. NEW! Governance

10. Who might know about this? “Rules for living
together”
For people living / collaborating together we have several
hundred years of experience in …
● Law
● Politics / Political science
● Religious traditions / ethics / morals

19. 3. Common approaches - Decision making types
● Autocracy
● Hierarchical authority
● Majority voting
● Consensus

21. Sociocracy (and Holacracy)
Socio - cracy: Peer-rule
1. Decisions by consent
2. Circle structure
3. Open elections (by consent)
4. Double link between circles

26. 4. Run an experiment:
Create and decide on a proposal

28. Criteria
● Good enough for now
● Safe enough to try
● Not losing an opportunity to learn

29. Holacracy

30. Bio details Vincent & Nikoline
Hi, I am Vincent van der Lubbe, Consultant/Trainer/Coach. I support office/knowledge workers to make their
work/environments easier, more fun and more productive. Before: systems thinking management consulting, stints in
startups (finance, customer feedback).
Chair of Sociocracy for All (2 yr term), a non-profit making good governance (in our case, sociocracy) more accessible.
Passionate about doing less, and better.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentvanderlubbe/
Hello, My Name is Nikoline Arns, Product Designer for #socent/DAOs ▲ UI & UX ■ Editor @impactboom.org ● Mentor
#socent accelerator program ▲ Passionate about decentralisation, inclusion and organisations that are doing the bigger
picture.
6 years experience with applying governance models in Education, of which 3 years with Sociocracy within a cooperative
of 200 members. Intrigued by comparing and making bridges between different decentralized models and organisations.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikoline-nik/

31. Links
https://www.sociocracyforall.org/ (most of resources free, non-profit)
https://sociocracy30.org/ (“pattern” version of sociocracy)
https://www.holacracy.org/ (proprietary “fork” of sociocracy)
https://www.glassfrog.com/ (software for holacracy)