Today, thanks to collaborative online tools, the citizens of a state or community are interconnected and can participate in building the world of tomorrow. Whether or not the citizen is geographically ...

Divya Siddarth is associate political economist and social technologist at Microsoft, the RadicalxChange Foundation, and the Ostrom Workshop. Danielle Allen is the James Bryant Conant University ...

Democratic reforms through decentralization could significantly help struggling nations better respond to their local populations and increase cooperation among government officials, they conclude ...

Some inventions are so profound that their second order effects reshape the very structures of societies. The term general purpose technologies (GPTs) is used to describe innovations like electricity, ...

As ShapeShift winds down and the DAO ramps up, the foundation sets a model in ensuring a smooth transition to full decentralization The majority of DAOs form from the ground up, as DAOs from the ...

The process of decentralization involves a structured transfer of political power from central governments to subnational jurisdictions. This becomes particularly important in the Amazon, rich in ...

On April 6, 2023, the U.S. Department of the Treasury released a report examining vulnerabilities in decentralized finance (“DeFi”), including potential gaps in the United States’ anti-money ...

In the Andean countries responsibility for the provision of key public services has been transferred to local institutions. However, national governments still exert control over strategic assets such ...