Discussion around how peer-to-peer technology can decentralize and streamline civic and democratic processes.

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Decentralized Civics

Plurality philosophy in an incredibly oversized nutshell

https://vitalik.eth.limo/general/2024/08/21/plurality.html

Cool civic tech event coming up at the Internet Archive in SF on June 8th, for anyone interested. Thanks @cstreet for letting me know about it! https://t.co/zD8igvMrBV

Finally finished reading the declaration, articles of confederation, constitution, and all 85 federalist papers, from a PoV of curiosity around P2P protocol-based statecraft. 

Any discourse in this vein of things people would recommend?

Democracies exist in complex environments, not silos.. Deliberative democracy tools are often either too monolithic or narrow in scope to integrate into existing workflows.

web3 can fix this by bringing the ethos of cooperation and interoperability to the space, but only if we *actually use* and extend these tools.

OpenCivics Consortium Round 02 is live! 

We’re giving away $41,000 in matching funds to critically underfunded civic utilities thanks to @gitcoin and DeCiv Fund.

This round’s theme: collaboration and coordination.

To learn more and apply, visit https://opencivics.co/grants/.

Grants = Growth 💚 Gitcoin Grants Program 💸 Gitcoin /gitcoin /passport /grants 

g0v.tw

"Civic never sleeps" 

Communities after epidemic must regain momentum to move forward together. In a year with many democratic countries holding elections, we hope that the g0v Summit can continue to remain a place to gather, listen, find common ground and build collaboration. 

https://summit2024.g0v.tw/en

Just submitted a proposal for the next @opencivics QF round to be included for matching as a GG20 Community Round! Would appreciate any ideas/feedback, either here or on the forum:

OpenCivics is a civic stewardship network & consortium in service of a vital, resilient, and participatory civilization. /deciv 
https://opencivics.co

Just submitted a proposal for the next @opencivics QF round to be included for matching as a GG20 Community Round! Would appreciate any ideas/feedback, either here or on the forum:

https://gov.gitcoin.co/t/gg20-proposal-opencivics-consortium-round/18296

https://x.com/pepoospina/status/1763644634042126517?s=46&t=Tyvps7uYvva1t2fVJJasyA

I’m here because of my love to everything the founders of Open Civics are working on https://opencivics.substack.com/p/2023-retrospective 

Serious question tho, am I the only one pronouncing DeCiv as deceive? I’m sad.. 

Possible to rename it to DeCivic?

@ssj2 I’m doing some Statecraft on Tap, live in Denver! On Federalist #8:

United States Marine Corps Veteran | Dominican | BD for Compound Finance

https://twitter.com/SSJ2_Spartan

Machiavelli on statecraft, from The Discourses, section "How many Kinds of States there are and of what Kind was that of Rome"

DeSci

Holonym is hosting a Hacker House for ETH Denver 2024, with subsidies and stipends to help with costs! If any devs want to work on ZK projects, especially relating to /desci and /deciv, you are encouraged to apply.

Holonym is hosting a Hacker House for ETH Denver 2024, with subsidies and stipends to help with costs! If any devs want to work on ZK projects, especially relating to /desci and /deciv, you are encouraged to apply.

https://holonym.typeform.com/to/Jv3NxJEA
https://x.com/silkysignon/status/1750938337282580858?s=20

frames

Meet the RANDOM FRAME OF KINDNESS 

It finds a random nonprofit to support. And maybe soon will support a simple .001 ETH donation. 

Note: This 100% isn't functional yet. Expect bugs. Fun to experiment!! Going to bed. Thanks @Zizzamia for the template and inspo!! 

https://random-frame-of-kindness.vercel.app/

What is g0v? 

g0v is a civic-minded, grassroots community that encourages public collaboration and reimagines government using open-source principles. The name g0v (gov-zero), using a "0" instead of an "o" in "gov," symbolizes a reimagining of government roles from the ground up

https://g0v.eth.limo/

https://x.com/512mace/status/1745510589915689284?s=20