Hey everyone!
It’s Ben here, governance researcher at Mina Foundation 
In the spirit of Mina’s core values of curiosity, openness, respect and excellence, The Mina Foundation Protocol Governance team is committed to raising awareness and building the community’s understanding about governance. We have been carrying out research on relevant governance concepts, principles and best practices that we want to start sharing more widely.
Governance is crucial to the future of the Mina Protocol for key decisions to be made effectively. To realize Mina Protocol’s vision of a verifiable internet powered by participants, these decisions also need to align with the wishes of the Mina community. Consequently, all key stakeholder groups in the ecosystem need to have a voice, agency and support to participate in decision making.
This raises the question: how should Mina Protocol’s governance be organized to harness the intelligence of individual community members to make the best decisions? To answer it, this is the first in a series of research blog posts that explore collective intelligence, where groups of people are organized at scale to solve public problems in ways that often outperform individual people alone.
We welcome any initial feedback on this draft blogpost before we publish it shortly.
Please feel free to provide comments in the document linked above as you read or leave messages directly here in MinaResearch. We are thinking about publishing this blogpost in the week of 29 July 2024 so feedback before then would be great!
For example, some questions to consider:
- Collective Intelligence provides a deep source of insights for how to harness the cognitive power of Mina’s community. How do you think it can be applied to Mina’s decision making?
- Are there any specific frameworks and methods that seem promising that you think we could trial?
- Ongoing experimentation and learning is central to collective intelligence. What do you think about the experimental and incremental proposal so that Mina’s community can iteratively add, test and improve governance processes based on real world learning?
- Are there any other governance concepts and principles you think we should research?
We hope that this feedback will stimulate community discussions about governance that we could continue at townhalls) and other events.
We hope to have a regular flow of drafting and sharing research blog posts in this way, so stay tuned for more!
Best wishes
Ben
