Design Patterns and Principles for Ecological Governance
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Topic
Design Patterns and Principles for Ecological Governance
Description
This workshop will introduce the DWebCamp community to the stack of projects and mechanisms currently being designed around collective governance of our ecological heritage, and seek the community’s input to guide their ongoing development. In avoiding the pitfalls of the existing carbon commodification systems, these projects seek to embed principles around equitable governance and stewardship to ensure community ownership of accounting, science, and market infrastructure. Web3 design patterns around coordination and interoperability are being embedded in smart contracts and NFT frameworks to support: artistic expression and representation of the unique biodiversity vitality of a bioregion; embedding of transparent and equitable resource distribution mechanisms aligned with local governance and empowerment; representation of Digital MRV (measurement, reporting, and verification) data flows (and corresponding royalty/licensing mechanisms), including from earth observation satellite data and on-the-ground crowdsourced data, verified and validated to standards required by evolving carbon and ecological impact offset programs; and the ability to compose these into special drawing rights and other financial mechanisms that express fungibility, thus potentiating widely acceptable “EcoCoins” that would enable a viable full-cost accounting system for the biosphere. Participants will take away a sense of how Dweb infrastructure provides a seminal opportunity to affect our collective coordination capacity around ecological diversity and vitality, on a local and global level, and hopefully see their own potential role emerging and connecting.
Hopes & dreams
Our hope is to attract participation from DWeb aficionados and attendees with a background in ecology, as well as those drawn to governance, to excite and engage participants with the possibility space, and to seed further informal discussions around the subject matter throughout DWebCamp and thereafter. From a documentation basis, we hope to see a mapping of everyone’s current and imagined involvement, and to also seed artistic and poetic expression, that we might see:
Co-created mechanisms for life and connection. Bionomic interfaces for collective manifestation, Extitutional relationships transcending isolation, Architected porosity and sovereign identification, For trees and animals, mountains and rivers, Every multiplicity of I, and us.
Core facilitators
Tony Lai Chris Lejeune
Main contact (email)
Space Requirements
- [] Electricity
- [] Monitor
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Whiteboard or pad - [] Table and chairs
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Seating in circle - [] Open space outdoors
- [] Either indoors or outdoors is fine
- [] Other (Specify)
Time Requirements
- [] 1 hour
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2 hours - [] Multiple sessions across 1 day
- [] Multiple sessions across 2 days
- [] Multiple sessions across 3 days
- [] Pre breakfast session
- [] Evening session
- [] Other (Specify)
Who should participate
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Coders -
Creatives -
Policymakers - [] Children under 12
- [] Teens 12 - 18
- [] Anyone and everyone
- [] Other (Specify)
What will participants take away?
Participants will take away a sense of how Dweb infrastructure provides a seminal opportunity to affect our collective coordination capacity around ecological diversity and vitality, on a local and global level, and hopefully see their own potential role emerging and connecting.
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Relevant Experience -- share why you'll be great!
Tony Lai recently taught a law school course on Legal Engineering for the Biosphere, and has been researching and weaving for the past decade with a range of projects and collaborators at the intersection of law, technology, finance, art, and ecology. He recently helped coordinate a series of similar workshops with a group of 30 such collaborators that included Brewster Kahle, Stewart Brand, Jerry Brown, Kim Stanley Robinson, Amanda Ravenhill, Hailey Mellin, Justin Rosenstein, Will Marshall, Robbie Schingler, and Gregory Landua. Chris Lejeune is a California native Entrepreneur, Designer, Inventor & Environmental Activist, cofounder of artist collectives, Projecting Change and Obscura Digital.
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