> > > What does it mean to "govern"? > I define governance as enabling constraints on the social systems to achieve least effort coordination. Government has a role as do Corporations.
Elinor Ostrom provides alternative bottom up rules for governance and is a guiding ethos of our "digital acequia" work. https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/ And of course, Marx dissolution of the state as a natural outcome of a classless society where communal ownership would render centralized governance unnecessary has connections to Ostrom's work on collective management of common resources which suggests that decentralized, self-organized communities can effectively govern shared resources without the need for a traditional centralized state apparatus. While dissolution of Nation States is not on the near term horizon, dissolution of Big Tech "governing" our data is a more reasonable near term target.
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