This paper investigates decentralised autonomous organisations (DAOs) as a potential policy response to the issue of declining trust online and argues that while DAOs have privileged displacing the need for trust, they can also be designed to nourish trust thereby fostering participation and prosocial use cases.
News and Research articles on Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs)
This paper explores how four commonly proposed collective data intermediaries – data trusts, decentralised autonomous organisations, data cooperatives and data unions – have been envisioned and enacted by their proponents.
Decentralised Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) promise to be decentralised, but many fall short of this promise in practice. This is why.