Concentration of Power and Participation in Online Governance: the Ecosystem of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations | Companion Proceedings of the ACM on Web Conference 2024
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Summary:
Samer: "The paper is published in the ACM Web Conference, the top 1 conference on the Web, which is happening this week in Singapore.
The paper is "Concentration of Power and Participation in Online Governance: the Ecosystem of Decentralized Autonomous Organizations"
We built a dataset with all existing blockchain communities (DAOs), with 30K communities, 200K proposals, 22M votes, and we analized it in-depth with a special focus on inequality and power concentration. The highlights of our findings are summarized in the Twitter/Mastodon threads:
Article (and a 2min video presentation on the same link): https://doi.org/10.1145/3589335.3651481
Twitter thread: https://twitter.com/samerP2P/status/1791157083108164086
Mastodon thread: https://social.coop/@samerp2p/112451875603346141