Moderated by Eric Alston, University of Colorado
Organized by Eric Alston, Marcela Gomez, Ilia Murtazashvili, and Martin Weiss
This seminar features research on the frontiers of digital governance. How are our digital communities governed? How should they be governed? The seminar considers several specific governance questions implicated by blockchain (and major cryptocurrencies), and further extends to governance of digital communities more generally, including how and where they intersect with our real world communities.
An increasingly digital world is one whose digital institutions will only grow in terms of their real-world economic and social significance. Institutional and technological innovations like blockchain suggest immense promise (and disruption) to the forms of governance with which we are most familiar, and present a possible path forward for governing ourselves digitally. Nonetheless, digital governance presents many challenges to individuals and institutional practitioners in terms of how to obtain the efficiencies long provided by real-world institutions like default rules and relational contracting, both concepts that do not readily translate to the realm of automated governance by protocol. The one-hour seminar includes a 35-minute presentation by the author followed by 25 minutes for questions and discussion.
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Time
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Author
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Title
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Wed. Sept. 16
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4:00pm EST
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View the talk here.
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Wed. Sep 23 | 4:00pm EST | Nick Cowen University of Lincoln (UK) |
Digital Decentralisation by Design: Escaping the Paradox of Power
Previous research informing the talk View the talk here.
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Wed.
Sept. 30 |
6:00pm EST
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Jason Potts
RMIT University |
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Fri.
Oct. 2 |
4:00pm EST
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Nathan Schneider
University of Colorado |
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Wed,
Oct. 7 |
4:00pm EST
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Kevin Werbach
University of Pennsylvania |
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Wed.
Oct. 14 |
4:00pm EST
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Lawrence White
George Mason University |
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Fri.
Oct. 23 |
4:00pm EST
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Aaron Wright
Yeshiva University |
The Rule of Code: Challenges in Regulating Decentralized Blockchain-based Systems
View the talk here.
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Wed.
Oct. 28 |
4:00pm EST
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Governance in Digitalized Electricity Systems: The Economics of Transactive Energy
Related Papers Implications of Smart Grid Innovation for Organizational Models in Electricity Distribution View the talk here.
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Fri.
Oct. 30 |
2:30pm EST
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Wed.
Nov. 4 |
4:00pm EST
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Eric Alston University of Colorado Michael Madison Martin Weiss Marcela Gomez University of Pittsburgh |
Internal Roundtable: How Might We Govern Ourselves Digitally?
View the roundtable here.
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