jicruz96 / govbase

Govbase is an open, crowdsourced database of projects and tools in online governance. Data hosted at https://airtable.com/shrgnUrj0dqzZDsOd

Govbase

Govbase is an open, crowdsourced database of projects and tools for the governance of online communities.

This repository contains code, documentation, visualizations, and other material related to Govbase. The data is currently hosted on Airtable, at https://airtable.com/shrgnUrj0dqzZDsOd.

New: visualization of different governance ontologies

Getting started

1. Skim the write-up on Medium.
2. Browse the documentation.
3. To add a project, use this form: https://airtable.com/shr1BcXojViDgTOdX.
4. To add an organization, use this form: https://airtable.com/shrH8YqwrQMTrFUOu.
5. Questions? Join our Telegram chat: https://t.me/joinchat/JnbpFhQPpwm4BuZ--u7pjg.

Documentation

Go to the docs page.

Getting involved

Govbase is a crowdsourced, community effort. We’re always looking for more editors, contributors, and research partners. If you would like to do research with Govbase, contribute data, or if you have an existing mapping project that you’d like to integrate, please get in touch!

License

The contents of this repo are available under a MIT license. The data set itself is available under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

What we’re working on next

• Nov - Jan: Documents and Policies tables
• Jan - March: The Register of Computational Constitutions

Acknowledgements

Maintainers: Joshua Tan and Michael Zargham. Part of the Metagovernance Project.

Govbase is inspired by and draws on data from several other mapping initiatives, including the Civic Tech Field Guide, Democratic Mediums, Democracy Foundation, CredCatalog, DAOs in the Wild, DAObase, and Participedia. We would also like to thank Jeff Emmett, Nathan Schneider, Nastia Sadovnik, and Burrrata for their helpful comments and suggestions.