Metagov
a laboratory for digital governance
Our mission
We cultivate tools, practices, and communities that enable self-governance in the digital age.
Our vision
We are working toward a governance layer for the internet that is empowering, creative, interconnected, and accountable.
Our structure
Metagov’s activities occur through three mutually supporting pillars:
- Community: The dynamic interplay among all participants, who develop vibrant and evolving collaborations through our shared spaces. At the base of this pillar is the Metagov Membership.
- Research: The cutting-edge research that advances knowledge in support of our shared goals. At the base of this pillar are the Research Directors and their grant-funded projects.
- Operations: A participatory approach to organizational infrastructure. At the base of this pillar is a commitment to transparency, accessibility, and to honoring the care work that goes into making the organization function.
Our values
Metagov’s core values include:
- Openness: Our work is a commons. We seek to produce public goods that are widely available and accessible, and to operate in a way that is transparent to our stakeholders.
- Inclusivity: Community is at the heart of Metagov’s work. We seek to cultivate a diverse and mutually supportive community of practice, which people can be part of at various levels of engagement and commitment.
- Rigor: Metagov supports research that excels at the highest standards of scholarly and creative work. We prioritize accountability and ethics in relationship to the people and communities we study.
- Experimentation: Online self-governance requires experimentation, and we seek to embody this spirit in everything we do, drawing on scientific, technical, artistic, and social forms of discovery.
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Metagov is a 501(c)3 nonprofit in the US. Consider supporting us.
Our work is generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, One Project, the Grant for the Web, the Internet Archive, the Digital Infrastructure Fund, Project Liberty, NSF, Gitcoin through past cGrants, several Gitcoin Grant Stack rounds, and direct support, the Filecoin Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the EPSRC / University of Oxford, GnosisDAO, Aragon, Arbitrum Radicle, ENS Metacartel Ventures, NEAR, Optimism Commonwealth, the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, RMIT University, and many Metagovernors through our membership program. Our finances are hosted publicly on Open Collective.