Interesting opportunity forwarded from @nati and @ntnsndr. Perhaps a member could seek funding for a research project of benefit to the co-op?
"This project aims to open the spaces between the visible and the layered, nuanced particularities of specific communities and platforms, through a collaborative excavation of what it means to make and be community on the Internet today. We hope to explore governance challenges including, but not limited to:
- Accountability for how platforms organize work and personal data
- Participatory design and consent
- Building and sustaining communities
- Resolving rule violations and conflicts
- Overseeing algorithmic decision making
We invite creators to explore possible futures for Internet governance, drawing inspiration from non-digital sources of experience including:
- Indigenous practices exploited, ignored, or suppressed by colonizers
- Historical democratic practices that have been absent from more recent governance norms
- Emergent innovations in subcultures past or present
- Imaginations of future governance from science/speculative fiction
- Rituals of community in conversation with rituals of justice systems"
