[okfn-discuss] Governance and structure of the Open Knowledge Foundation and its activities

Thu Nov 19 23:11:04 UTC 2009

On Wed, Nov 18, 2009 at 7:36 PM, Ed Pastore <epastore at metagovernment.org> wrote:
> Those are certainly reasonable objections, and many of the tools being
> developed are designed precisely to work around such downfalls.
> Additionally, there's no set requirement that governance be ceded to the
> software (though that is the eventual goal): groups can use it as one form
> of input into decision-making and gradually increase the power of that input
> as they feel comfortable with it.

I should also point out that One Click Orgs (which is supported by the
Open Knowledge Foundation) is an open source/open knowledge project
which aims to facilitate group decision making. They are experimenting
with things like proxy votes - to allow people to pass on votes to
other people:

  http://www.oneclickor.gs/

They are currently beta testing with small groups of test users. I
definitely think that things like this could be useful for the OKF and
its various projects and working groups further down the line.

-- 
Jonathan Gray

Community Coordinator
The Open Knowledge Foundation
http://www.okfn.org