[FRIAM] on government

[Stephen Guerin]

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> What does it mean to "govern"?
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I define governance as enabling constraints on the social systems to
achieve least effort coordination. Government has a role as do
Corporations.

Elinor Ostrom provides alternative bottom up rules for governance and is a
guiding ethos of our "digital acequia" work.
https://www.shareable.net/how-to-design-the-commons-or-elinor-ostrom-explained/

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.
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