The 0mega Working Group examines the ethos of and ethics in token engineering as well as the shared vision and diversity of its communities.
[post updated Oct 6th, 2022]
We keep track of our explorations through our 0mega Working Group Agenda since June 2021.
We have intentionally created an open space for exploration of:
- TE Ethics & Ethos
using participatory action research approaches.
TE Ethical Principles we identified through 1st Focus Group on “Ethical Dilemmas”:
- Host multiple worldviews
- Navigate dynamic landscapes
- Beware of social engineering
- (Enable) Informed participation
Two more focus groups have been conducted and are currently being analyzed by social scientists:
- “The practical applicability of the TE Value System”
- “Private Profit vs. Public Benefit”
We want to continue to offer support for researchers to conduct focus groups and enable deep discussions between active, aspiring token engineers as well as token economy participants, which are the TE Commons and Community. The results shape our understanding of this emerging field and its actors in context.
The second aspect that we value is that this space has the potential to strengthen the “inner work of token engineering” through practice. Initially, we had identified practice sessions and potential facilitators. However, the notion of “facilitators” undermines the insight we gained through our collaborative explorations over the past years:
This is A Course in Self-Sovereignty
All four TE Ethical principles point to self-sovereignty, and are applicable to both token engineers as well as token economy participants. Except the parenthesis “Enable”, which requires provision of knowledge in a way that connects the transdisciplinary art of token engineering with those who are new to it.
This latter principle, Enabling informed participation, we set out to achieve by initiating the TE Consilience Library. The Consilience experience is being prototyped with 0mega participants who have backgrounds in computer science, law, political economics wrt. cryptoeconomics flower, active participants in TEC, token engineers in token economies, as well as from arts and sciences new to web3.
We meet Wednesdays 8PM CET in the discord 0mega voice channel with alternating topic areas on:
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TE Consilience Library updates
- Test curation, Self-discovery NFT game for navigation, KMS, technical design docs for next phase
- stef gathered info from collective curation test discord into these templates
Omega Collective Curations template index - Google Docs (please complete your own curations, with one thumbnail image, and which location/petal of the consilience flower it relates to)
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[NEW] A Course in Self-Sovereignty
- self-sovereignty starts with self-knowledge but in web3 also has technical aspects such as key/wallet management as well as socio-technical and self-leadership aspects. We will weave TE ethical principles into the art of being human in web3.
- If added to the agenda 2 weeks in advance: researcher(s) present a topic they want to lead focus groups on and how they intend to analyze and share the insights; explain the support they need from TEC#0mega.
Each area is an experiment in self-organization and testing regenerative workflows. Insights will be synthesized into A Course in Self-sovereignty.
Participation is self-funded. However, the group could to lead an experiment with $TEC distribution via CV. Stay tuned and feel welcome to share feedback in the comments.