> “What’s gonna happen after we leave? It’d be nice to give the guardianship of the project to the community at large somehow. That feels like one the best ways to make sure that the mission of the project continues in the spirit that represents the community.”

Coming from an unusual background in the crypto-community (music), Ezra brings fresh perspectives into the world of DAOs. His business, Groupmuse (https://www.groupmuse.com/), has taken him down the path of decentralized governance to investigate, among other things, how communities can be better integrated into the decision making processes of the services they use. From there, it’s no difficult to see how he ended up being involved with blockchain technology.

In this conversation we discuss some of the challenges faced by decentralized governance, as well as blockchain technologies in general, what are some of the best environments for DAOs to thrive, strategies for organizations to start transition towards a DAO structure, and, of course, much more.

"The thing that we envisioned, which is made possible by what I believe a DAO can do, that was not possible yet."

Ben Visser is a researcher at the Faculty of Civil Engineering at TU Delft, specializing in Construction Management. During his attempts to catalyze a hydrogen-based tech ecosystem, he's stumbled upon the cultural and bureaucratic barriers currently hindering large scale systemic collaboration.

He sees blockchain technology and DAOs as solutions to these challenges and hopes to use them to enable "meta-companies" - virtual companies built on top of a consortium of other companies and stakeholders. Tune in to understand how such a concept can be applied to the field of construction, facilitating the long-term planing of big projects and maintaining transparency to avoid corruption.

“If you then have this thought of open source and forks, where you can just fork a project if you don’t really agree with certain details, that’s something people are not really aware of, really not familiar with. So this whole line of thinking requires quite a change.”

For years, Theodor Beutel (or Theo), has been conducting academic investigations in the fields of social sciences and business. In trying to understand the next steps of the firm, he came across blockchain technology and DAOs, which have since become his focus of study as a MSc student at The University of Edinburg.

Tune in to hear about how Academia is reacting to the world of decentralized governance, how existing structures and models for human coordination compare to the ones emerging out of the blockchain space, how Agent-based modeling can aid in the design of governance protocols, and more.

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