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What does it mean to "govern"? <br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I define governance as enabling constraints on the social systems to achieve least effort coordination. Government has a role as do Corporations. </div><div><br></div><div>Elinor Ostrom provides alternative bottom up rules for governance and is a guiding ethos of our "digital acequia" work.<br><a href="https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/">https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/</a><br><br>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.<br><br> </div></div></div>