4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images anonymously.
https://www.4chan.org/
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
product
software framework
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
A technology stack to build and manage decentralized projects. No coding required.
https://abridged.io/
Joshua Tan
2016
Active
Online communities
standard
application protocol
social networking
dweb
fediverse
The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format. It provides a client to server API for creating, updating and deleting content, as well as a federated server to server API for delivering notifications and content.
This specification details a model for representing potential and completed activities using the JSON format. It is intended to be used with vocabularies that detail the structure of activities, and define specific types of activities.
https://www.w3.org/TR/activitystreams-core/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
ActivityPub
2010
Active
Online communities
Voting
Liquid democracy
product
software library
Adhocracy is a policy drafting and decision making software for distributed groups and open institutions.
https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy
https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy
Open-source
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Joshua Tan
2019
Active
Online communities
Voting
Liquid democracy
platform
voting/decision-making platform
adhocracy+ is a SaaS platform to make digital democracy easy for everyone
https://adhocracy.plus/
https://github.com/liqd/adhocracy-plus
Open-source
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Liquid Democracy e.V.
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
social network
“the social network for e-democracy”
http://www.airesis.eu/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
The goal of Apiary Explorer is to provide a way for users to discover, explore, and more effectively participate in Aragon organizations.
https://apiary.1hive.org/
https://github.com/1Hive/apiary
1Hive
PieDAO
BrightID
1Hive uses Apiary
PieDAO uses Apiary
BrightID uses Apiary
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Creates "a market . . . using SourceCred to page rank all the things," thus creating "graphs of contributions such as GitHub repos or community chats" to get a "sense for how much value a person or thing has provided to a project. As a result, . . . 'value' is determined by the engagement of all the contributors to a project."
https://aracred.github.io/website/
Open-source
Aragon
https://github.com/burrrata
Joshua Tan
2016
Active
Online communities
DAO
product
software framework
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
The most popular Ethereum stack for DAOs with a modular, app-based framework based on templates, rich permissions, and transaction forwarding between apps. There is a small list of existing apps such as Dandelion or Open Enterprise, mostly focused on voting and ETH fund management and a small but growing list of existing test cases (mostly in other blockchain projects, not in industry).
https://aragon.org/
https://github.com/aragon/aragon
Open-source
Overview (non-binding) of Aragon Network DAO Aragon
Constitution (binding) of Aragon Network DAO Aragon
Aragon Association
Curve Labs
Aragon Network DAO
Aragon Association
Autark
Aragon One
Aragon Black
1Hive
Aragon Association
cadCAD
elimu.ai
Curve Finance
OpenEsq
Melon Protocol
Decentralized Pandemic Reserve
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
EstoniaDAO
Collab19
Galt
BlankDAO
Pocket Network DAO
UniDAO
Decentraland
1Hive
BrightID
DappNode
NEDAO
Stake Capital
PieDAO
BitFWD
LexDAO
Aragon Network DAO
SaintFame
MetaGame
CRDAO
/r/ethtrader
cadCAD uses Aragon
elimu.ai uses Aragon
Curve Finance uses Aragon
OpenEsq uses Aragon
Melon Protocol uses Aragon
Decentralized Pandemic Reserve uses Aragon
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses Aragon
EstoniaDAO uses Aragon
Collab19 uses Aragon
Galt uses Aragon
BlankDAO uses Aragon
Pocket Network DAO uses Aragon
UniDAO uses Aragon
Decentraland uses Aragon
1Hive uses Aragon
BrightID uses Aragon
DappNode uses Aragon
NEDAO uses Aragon
Stake Capital uses Aragon
PieDAO uses Aragon
BitFWD uses Aragon
LexDAO uses Aragon
Aragon Network DAO uses Aragon
SaintFame uses Aragon
MetaGame uses Aragon
CRDAO uses Aragon
/r/ethtrader uses Aragon
Ethereum
Ethereum
Joshua Tan
1Hive Gardens
Aracred
Dandelion
Open Enterprise
Active
Online communities
platform
publishing platform
https://archiveofourown.org/
https://github.com/otwcode/otwarchive
Organization for Transformative Works
AO3 Community
AO3 Community
AO3 Community uses Archive of Our Own (AO3)
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Augur is an open, global prediction market protocol that allows anyone to create a market for anything. There is no single entity that controls the protocol; it’s community owned and operated."
http://www.augur.net/
Ethereum
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Online communities
research
data set
https://birds.recursivepublic.net/
Open-source
Part.Lab at UCLA
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
blockchain
Joshua Tan
2013
Active
Online communities
Consensus protocol
product
software framework
blockchain ecosystem
dweb
Blockstack is a full-stack decentralized computing network that enables a new generation of applications where developers and users can interact fairly and securely. Blockstack uses blockchain technology to build protocols and developer tools designed to enable a fair and open Internet that returns digital rights to developers and consumers.
Haskell implementation for voting securely on a satoshi blockchain using liquid democracy
https://github.com/XertroV/blocvoting
https://github.com/XertroV/blocvoting
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
“blockchain governance suite” by Consensys based on Ethereum
http://boardroom.to/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
recruiting/HR platform
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
The Bounties Network empowers humans to incentivize and self-organize, from freelancing to grassroots social action, and anything in between.
https://bounties.network/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
https://fed.brid.gy/
ActivityPub
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Models, simulations, and analytics
product
software library
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Generalized Dynamical Systems, data science tools for modeling social and economic games
https://cadcad.org/
Open-source
Block Science
cadCAD
Block Science
Gitcoin Community
1Hive
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
1Hive uses cadCAD
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses cadCAD
Joshua Tan
Commons Stack
Active
Online communities
platform
social network
https://chatroulette.com/
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Dead
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Civitas is a coordination platform for bootstrapping communities to get work done! Anyone in the world can launch a community and its currency, which is tradable with any other community token or Ethereum token in the Bancor Network.
https://github.com/CivitasVoto/app
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
platform
blockchain
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
CoGov is a proposal for a ecosystem of startups, with each startup modeling its operations to be infused with Loving Kindness and Vulnerable Transparency, which is also omini-win and anti-rivalrous. Keys to accomplishing this goal include the implementation of a common, shared cryptocurrency and protocol.love.
https://cogov.tech/
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Collab.Land is a user-friendly, tokenized, community-management system. Quickly create a concierge for your community with our bot integrations.
https://collab.land/
Telegram
Discord
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
CollectiveOne is a method (and a platform) to develop open, decentralized and collaborative initiatives: initiatives to which anyone can, potentially, contribute, and which are collectively owned and self-governed by their contributors.
https://www.collectiveone.org/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
business collaboration software
“Colony is infrastructure for the future of work: self-organizing companies that run via software, not paperwork”
https://colony.io/
LeapDAO
LeapDAO uses Colony
Joshua Tan
2019
Work in progress
Online communities
Bonding curve (blockchain)
Common property
Participatory budgeting
Conviction voting
Funding
Models, simulations, and analytics
Commons
product
software library
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Our library of open-source, interoperable web3 components will put effective new tools in the hands of communities, enabling them to raise and allocate shared funds, make transparent decisions, and monitor their progress in supporting the Commons.
https://commonsstack.org/
Open-source
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
Giveth DAC
Block Science
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
General public (crowdfunding)
cadCAD
Giveth DApp
https://commonsstack.org/community#contact
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
forum platform
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Commonwealth is an all-in-one platform for blockchain communities to host discussions and governance.
https://commonwealth.im/
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
product
application/tool
https://communityrule.info
https://gitlab.com/medlabboulder/communityrule
Open-source
MEDLab at CU Boulder
The Metagovernance Project
The Metagovernance Project uses CommunityRule
medlab@colorado.edu
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
data model/API
blockchain ecosystem
Cone is a universal API to connect your financial apps to any blockchain, exchange or smart contract
https://cone.io/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Code of conduct
product
A popular Code of Conduct for Open Source Projects
https://www.contributor-covenant.org/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Voting
Conviction voting
product
A "signal processing" algorithm for fusing time varying preferences
While evolutionary science focuses on adaptations of individuals and groups over time, it also provides a set of practical tools to help groups of all sorts function better and adapt to ever-changing environments. Prosocial harnesses these tools in an evidence-based method for increasing motivation, satisfaction and productivity among group members in many contexts.
Cordite is an open source project creating DeFi features for the Corda community. Cordite and XDC are governed by the Cordite Society Limited (CSL).
https://cordite.foundation/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain ecosystem
The Cosmos Network is a decentralized network of independent, scalable, and interoperable blockchains, creating the foundation for a new token economy.
https://cosmos.network/
Joshua Tan
Kava Committee Module
Kava
Active
Online communities
Two-sided matching problem
platform
recruiting/HR platform
blockchain ecosystem
Covee helps smart people find teammates - and matches them with rewarding projects.
https://covee.network/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
“a software libre web application designed for social networking, group collaboration and network organizing”
https://we.riseup.net/crabgrass/about
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Cryptovoxels is a virtual world powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Players can buy land and build stores and art galleries. Editing tools, avatars, text chat and voice chat are built in.
https://www.cryptovoxels.com/
MetaFactory
MetaFactory uses Cryptovoxels
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
cross-platform module manager
curseforge.com
Twitch Interactive, Inc
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
template that "facilitate[s] collaboration by providing an organization structure that makes it easy for contributors easily part ways when disagreements occur."
https://github.com/1Hive/dandelion-template
https://github.com/1Hive/dandelion-template
Open-source
Aragon
https://twitter.com/1hiveorg
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Daohaus strives to be the most forward-thinking, user-friendly dao experience. In Daohaus, you can discover and join existing daos, as well as launch your own. Launching a dao on Daohaus provides a landing page where others can pledge to join. With our latest release, daos also get a Pokemol interface automatically.
https://daohaus.club/
Machi X
MolochDAO
MetaClan
Machi X uses DAOHaus
MolochDAO uses DAOHaus
MetaClan uses DAOHaus
Joshua Tan
2019
Dead
Online communities
product
software library
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
On-chain metrics for DAOs
https://github.com/kermankohli/daometrics
Joshua Tan
2019
Inactive
Online communities
product
software library
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Daonuts provides a suite of tools for enhancing online communities.
https://daonuts.org/about
https://github.com/daonuts/daonuts
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
DAO
product
software framework
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
https://daostack.io
https://github.com/daostack
Open-source
DAOstack
Curve Labs
NFX
1UP World
GenesisDAO
ethFinex
BuffiDAO
dxDAO
1UP World uses DAOstack
GenesisDAO uses DAOstack
ethFinex uses DAOstack
BuffiDAO uses DAOstack
dxDAO uses DAOstack
Ethereum
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
Debate Hub is an open, online, collaborative tool to support collective ideation, deliberation and democratic decision making. It allows you to set up staged online challenges/debates
http://debatehub.net/
Joshua Tan
2013
Active
Online communities
platform
debate platform
The Debate Map project is a web platform aimed at improving the efficiency of discussion and debate. It's crowd-sourced and open-source, and welcomes reader contributions.
https://debatemap.app/
https://github.com/debate-map/client
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Decentraland is a decentralized virtual reality platform powered by the Ethereum blockchain. Within the Decentraland platform, users can create, experience, and monetize their content and applications.
https://decentraland.org/
Decentraland
Joshua Tan
2017
Active
Online communities
product
https://democracy.earth/
https://github.com/DemocracyEarth/sovereign
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2015
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
gaming ecosystem
Discord is a proprietary freeware instant messaging and VoIP application and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities ranging from gamers to education and businesses. Discord specializes in text, image, video and audio communication between users in a chat channel.
https://www.discord.com
Privately-owned
Terms of service (legally-binding) of Discord
Code of conduct of Discord Community Discord
https://discord.com/developers/docs/intro
Discord Inc.
Discord Inc.
Index Ventures
Greenoaks Capital
Benchmark
Greylock Partners
SourceCred Community
cadCAD
MetaGame
Compound
UMA
Synthetix
YangDAO
Aave
LexDAO
Machi X
Avaegotchi
NEDAO
BrightID
MetaClan
PieDAO
EstoniaDAO
1Hive
Balancer
MetaFactory
NuCypher
Raid Guild
Decentraland
Seed Discord Community
Blockstack Community
SourceCred Community uses Discord
cadCAD uses Discord
MetaGame uses Discord
Compound uses Discord
UMA uses Discord
Synthetix uses Discord
YangDAO uses Discord
Aave uses Discord
LexDAO uses Discord
Machi X uses Discord
Avaegotchi uses Discord
NEDAO uses Discord
BrightID uses Discord
MetaClan uses Discord
PieDAO uses Discord
EstoniaDAO uses Discord
1Hive uses Discord
Balancer uses Discord
MetaFactory uses Discord
NuCypher uses Discord
Raid Guild uses Discord
Decentraland uses Discord
Seed Discord Community uses Discord
Blockstack Community uses Discord
Twitch
YouTube
https://dis.gd/contact
Joshua Tan
SourceCred
Collab.land
2013
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
forum platform
"Modern forum software." There are many tools on the market for wide-ranging discussion and deliberation, but a free, open-source platform is Discourse, which was created by one of the co-founders of Stack Exchange. Discourse is designed for asynchronous discussion. As a result, the features are optimized for producing civil and productive online conversation and building communities.
Epitome is an online platform of mass deliberation and consensus decision-making, that enables large groups to simultaneously communicate and develop proposals to reported issues.
https://democracy.foundation/epitome/
https://github.com/TheDemocracyFoundation/epitome
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
https://ethereum.org/
Ethereum Foundation
Balancer
Pando
terra0
MakerDAO
The DAO
VirtueDAO
Balancer uses Ethereum
Pando uses Ethereum
terra0 uses Ethereum
MakerDAO uses Ethereum
The DAO uses Ethereum
VirtueDAO uses Ethereum
Solidity
Joshua Tan
Aragon
Augur
Opolis
DAOstack
Gitcoin
Tenderly
ETHKan
The DAO hack
Active
Online communities
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
DAO ecosystem
EthKan.io is an open source project management and fundraising tool; the first DAICO GUI for Ethereum.
https://www.ethkan.io/
Open-source
Ethereum
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
https://www.everquest.com/home
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
social network
https://www.facebook.com/
Privately-owned
Facebook, Inc.
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
https://www.messenger.com/
Privately-owned
Facebook, Inc.
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
DAO ecosystem
Turn any Discord group into a DAO and start collaborating on bounties in one click.
Receive recurring funds to build our shared digital infrastructure.
https://github.com/sponsors
Privately-owned
GitHub
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
Giveth is re-engineering charitable giving, by creating an entirely free, open-source platform, built on the Ethereum Blockchain. Our system cuts out bureaucracy and enables contributors to create a high level of transparency and accountability towards donors, who we call 'Givers'.
https://giveth.io/#dapp
Open-source
Overview (non-binding) of Giveth DAC Giveth DApp
Giveth DAC
Joshua Tan
Commons Stack
2020
Work in progress
Online communities
Social ontology
research
data set
" a catalog of projects and tools in online governance" that is "a function that maps a table of software projects to a table of governance structures [and also] a visual map of software projects."
https://www.metagov.org/govbase
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Metagov
2017
Active
Online communities
standard
application protocol
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
A library of smart contracts and APIs that enable a blockchain platform / dApp to configure governance models on a sliding scale, moving from loosely-coupled governance to tightly-coupled governance. Read https://medium.com/govblocks/using-the-govblocks-browser-v0-5-dfc2470cdeec for a nice intro.
https://govblocks.io/
Somish Solutions Limited
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Voting
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
Govurn provides comprehensive and secure decision management tools for organizations to collect information and opinions to derive outcomes and increase productivity. Leveraging advanced technologies, we focus on voting, including elections, polls, surveys, and governance workflow systems.
https://www.govurn.com/about-4
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
software library
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
We enable fast and cheap governance for your DAO or DEFI project.
https://habitat.deora.earth/
https://github.com/deora-earth
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Online communities
product
gaming ecosystem
The HeapCraft collaboration tools help Minecraft server admins to build strong, friendly, and collaborative communities. They add features to motivate player collaboration and provide community insight and visualizations.
http://heapcraft.net/?p=tools
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
Hubzilla is a powerful platform for creating interconnected websites featuring a decentralized identity, communications, and permissions framework built using common webserver technology.
“a collaborative decision-making tool based on ranked-pairs voting” designed for GitHub
https://github.com/nathansobo/hyperarchy
Joshua Tan
2012
Active
Online communities
product
software library
IdeaBox is a Django app for collecting and surfacing ideas from users, in the vein of IdeaScale, IdeaX, and Django Voice. IdeaBox differs from these projects in its minimal, easily integrate-able interface. IdeaBox also takes a strong stance on transparency, such that ideas, votes, etc. are tied to specific users.
IPLD is the data model of the content-addressable web. It allows us to treat all hash-linked data structures as subsets of a unified information space, unifying all data models that link data with hashes as instances of IPLD.
https://ipld.io/
https://github.com/ipld/ipld
Open-source
https://github.com/ipld/ipld/blob/master/LICENSE
Code of conduct of Interplanetary Linked Data
License of Interplanetary Linked Data
Overview (non-binding) of Interplanetary Linked Data
https://github.com/ipld/specs
Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs
Protocol Labs
Git
Bitcoin
Ethereum
IPFS
contact@ipld.io
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
standard
application protocol
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
Agreement
product
software framework
blockchain ecosystem
Jur is a blockchain-based ecosystem for recording agreements and providing unbiased, swift and affordable resolutions for disputes over any kind and size
https://jur.io/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain
https://www.kava.io/
Kava Labs
Cosmos
Joshua Tan
Kava Committee Module
Work in progress
Online communities
product
The x/committee module is Cosmos-SDK module that acts as an additional governance module to cosmos-sdk/x/gov. It allows groups of accounts to vote on and enact proposals without a full chain governance vote. Certain proposal types can then be decided on quickly in emergency situations, or low risk parameter updates can be delegated to a smaller group of individuals.
https://docs.kava.io/modules/committee/
Kava Labs
Cosmos
Kava
Joshua Tan
2014
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
dweb
Keybase is a key directory that maps social media identities to encryption keys in a publicly auditable manner. Additionally it offers an end-to-end encrypted chat and cloud storage system, called Keybase Chat and the Keybase Filesystem respectively.
Decentralized Courts. An open online dispute resolution platform bringing justice for all.
https://kleros.io/
Kleros
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
http://lambda.moo.mud.org/
LambdaMOO active users ca. 1993
LambdaMOO active users ca. 1993 uses LambdaMOO
Joshua Tan
The Rape in Cyberspace
Unnamed record
Unnamed record
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
product
Open-source software, powering internet platforms for proposition development and decision making.
http://www.liquidfeedback.org/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2013
Active
Online communities
Group decision-making protocol
Communication media
Democracy
platform
voting/decision-making platform
Loomio is an open-source tool designed to make it easy for small to medium-sized groups to make decisions together. Participants can start a discussion on a given topic and invite people into a conversation. As the conversation progresses, anyone can put a proposal to a vote. It is specifically designed to enable consensus-based decision-making.
Mastodon is a free and open-source self-hosted social networking service. It allows anyone to host their own server node in the network, and its various separately operated user bases are federated across many different servers. These nodes are referred to as "instances" by Mastodon users.
Code of conduct of Mastodon Developer Community Mastodon
Overview (non-binding) of Mastodon Developer Community Mastodon
Code of conduct of Mastodon.social Mastodon
https://docs.joinmastodon.org/client/intro/
Eugene Rochko
Mastodon Developer Community
Eugene Rochko
General public (donations)
Patreon Users (crowdfunding)
Mastodon.social
Mastodon.social uses Mastodon
ActivityPub
Keybase
hello@joinmastodon.org
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
standard
application protocol
Matrix is an open source project that publishes the Matrix open standard for secure, decentralised, real-time communication, and its Apache licensed reference implementations.
https://matrix.org/
Open-source
Matrix.org Foundation
Joshua Tan
2015
Active
Online communities
platform
messaging platform
dweb
Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations.
https://mattermost.com/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
wiki platform
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki
Wikipedia
Wikipedia uses MediaWiki
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
2019
Work in progress
Online communities
standard
application protocol
gaming ecosystem
DAO ecosystem
https://www.metagov.org
Open-source
The Metagovernance Project
Grant for the Web
Govbase
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
messaging platform
Microsoft Teams is a Universal communication and collaboration platform that combines persistent workplace chat, video meetings, file storage (including collaboration of files), and application integration.
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
social network
a kind of meta-network of interest-based social networks? looks more like a website creator...
Management system + SDK for smart contracts and blockchain contracts, targeted at law firms
https://monax.io/
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Online communities
product
application/tool
gaming ecosystem
“a free, open source launcher for Minecraft” that “allows you to have multiple, cleanly separated instances of Minecraft (each with their own mods, texture packs, saves, etc) and helps you manage them and their associated options with a simple and powerful interface.”
https://multimc.org/
Minecraft
Joshua Tan
2019
Work in progress
Online communities
platform
Native is a platform that enables communities to unlock their inherent value. By encouraging local spending within the community and providing new types of monetary incentives to members, Native enables new ways for communities to engage online. In addition to the economic benefits, it is possible to build communities that are owned by its members using Native.
https://nativeproject.one/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
social network
ActivityPub
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
cross-platform module manager
https://www.nexusmods.com/
Joshua Tan
Dead
Online communities
platform
blockchain
OATH is building a decentralized, standard, and extensible public chain-agnostic protocol that protects dApp users’ rights and assets.
https://oaths.io/
Joshua Tan
2015
Inactive
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
A distributed blockchain-based voting system.
https://github.com/jonahkall/blockchain-voting
https://github.com/jonahkall/blockchain-voting
Joshua Tan
2016
Active
Online communities
Group decision-making protocol
Funding
Crowdfunding
platform
crowdfunding platform
OSS ecosystem
Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.
A suite of apps that includes allocation, dot voting, issue curation, and other planning tools so organizations can collectively budget and design custom reward & bounty systems.
https://github.com/AutarkLabs/open-enterprise
https://github.com/AutarkLabs/open-enterprise
Aragon
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
platform
blockchain
blockchain ecosystem
A token designed for open source communities.
http://oscoin.io/
https://github.com/oscoin/oscoin
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2016
Inactive
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
Anonymous voting on Ethereum without a tally authority. Protocol from this paper http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/feng.hao/files/OpenVote_IET.pdf
https://github.com/stonecoldpat/anonymousvoting
https://github.com/stonecoldpat/anonymousvoting
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Legal contract
platform
blockchain ecosystem
Be smart, save money, and close more deals with our digital contracting platform.
https://www.openlaw.io/
ConsenSys
Open Esquire
Open Esquire uses OpenLaw
Joshua Tan
2015
Active
Online communities
platform
recruiting/HR platform
gig economy
The Opolis Employment Commons is a place where you and other freelancers, creatives, consultants and gig workers can come together to access group services that make life a little more manageable.
https://www.opolis.co/
Open-source
Terms of service (legally-binding) of Opolis
Terms of service (legally-binding) of Employment Commons LCA Opolis
Membership agreement (legally-binding) of Employment Commons LCA Opolis
Bylaws (legally-binding) of Employment Commons LCA Opolis
Opolis, Inc.
Opolis, Inc.
Employment Commons LCA
Employment Commons LCA
Employment Commons LCA uses Opolis
Ethereum
hello@opolis.co
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Legal association
product
blockchain ecosystem
DAO ecosystem
Otonomos helps the crypto community form offchain and onchain legal entities.
https://otonomos.com/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
A platform enabling player-driven markets and virtual economies
Privately-owned
Overflow Labs
info@overflowlabs.io
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
git platform
blockchain ecosystem
A distributed remote protocol for git based on IPFS, ethereum and aragonOS
https://github.com/pandonetwork/pando
https://github.com/pandonetwork/pando
Curve Labs
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain
blockchain ecosystem
Panvala is the sustainable treasury for communities to share.
https://panvala.com/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
debate platform
Joshua Tan
2017
Active
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
PLCR voting is an efficient system for token-weighted voting on the Ethereum blockchain
https://github.com/ConsenSys/PLCRVoting
https://github.com/ConsenSys/PLCRVoting
Open-source
ConsenSys
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Crowdfunding
Funding
platform
crowdfunding platform
https://www.patreon.com/
Mastodon.social
Mastodon.social uses Patreon
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Online communities
Group decision-making protocol
product
application/tool
The goal of this application is to improve how we do group decision making in our communities.
https://github.com/peer/mind
https://github.com/peer/mind
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
Decentralized infrastructure for developers to build peer to peer applications
Constitution (binding) of Pocket Network DAO Pocket Network
Bylaws (legally-binding) of Pocket Network Foundation Pocket Network
License of Pocket Network
Overview (non-binding) of Pocket Network
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Unnamed record
2020
Work in progress
Online communities
product
application/tool
allow online communities to design, author, and carry out their own governance on their community platform.
https://github.com/amyxzhang/policykit
https://github.com/amyxzhang/policykit
Open-source
Amy Zhang
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Voting
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
Secure and transparent online voting system. Easy to set up and vote on-the-go. Blockchain based for top-level safety and voting process decentralization.
https://polys.me/
Joshua Tan
2015
Dead
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
PublicVotes is a voting application based off of Ethereum, a novel new smart contract platform. Through Ethereum, PublicVotes is able to create a provably fair and transparent voting system. All votes are recorded publicly on the Ethereum Blockchain and can be viewed and audited by anyone.
https://github.com/domschiener/publicvotes
https://github.com/domschiener/publicvotes
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
https://gitlab.com/dustyweb/pubstrate
ActivityPub
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
We make it easy for small businesses, remote companies to buy/share Bitcoin, Ether and Dai with their members now.
https://quid.li/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
git platform
blockchain ecosystem
Secure peer-to-peer code collaboration without intermediaries.
https://radicle.xyz/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
forum platform
http://reddit.com/
Reddit Inc.
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
dxDAO
MakerDAO
Reddit Community
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses Reddit
dxDAO uses Reddit
MakerDAO uses Reddit
Reddit Community uses Reddit
Joshua Tan
Banning
Eternal September
Reddit Blackout
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
https://rimworldgame.com/
Joshua Tan
Rimworld gay women
Active
Online communities
platform
messaging platform
Decentralised, encrypted chat & collaboration powered by [matrix]
https://riot.im/
Giveth DAC
Matrix
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
Communication media
platform
gaming ecosystem
https://www.seed-project.io
Seed Discord Community
Seed Discord Community uses Seed
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
A beautiful decentralized & open source blog maker.
https://www.sigle.io/
Open-source
Blockstack
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
programming language
blockchain ecosystem
Joshua Tan
Ethereum
2018
Active
Online communities
Payoff function (assigned to agents)
Reputation system
product
software library
OSS ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
A tool for measuring the value of contributions to a community, and assigning Cred (a score) and Grain (a token) to community members. These quantitative scores can be used to distribute financial rewards, distribute voting power, etc.
Spokenvote.org is a social voting app for reaching consensus in a group of any size, coded in Ruby on Rails and AngularJS. At the center of the direct democracy movement, Spokenvote radically enhances a group’s ability to reach consensus and make better decisions using an intuitive democratic process.
http://www.spokenvote.org/
https://github.com/Spokenvote/spokenvote
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
Privately-owned
Valve Corporation
Joshua Tan
Steam Workshop
Active
Online communities
platform
gaming ecosystem
https://steamcommunity.com/workshop/
Privately-owned
Valve Corporation
Steam
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
social network
blockchain ecosystem
LinkedIn for blockchain
https://talao-ac36e1.appdrag.site/?lng=en
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
blockchain
blockchain ecosystem
Telos is a networked ecosystem enabling visionary leaders and communities to work together to build a new global economy.
https://www.telosfoundation.io/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
A real-time monitoring, alerting, and troubleshooting solution for smart contracts integrated with Ethereum and Aragon.
https://tenderly.co/
Ethereum
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
DAO ecosystem
blockchain ecosystem
Tezos is an open-source platform for assets and applications backed by a global community of validators, researchers, and builders.
https://tezos.com/
Open-source
Executable code of Tezos (validators) Tezos
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators) uses Tezos
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
Tezos Agora is a discussion forum and governance explorer designed to complement the on-chain amendment process.
https://www.tezosagora.org/
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators) uses Tezos Agora
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Metagovernance system
product
application/tool
We built this to support groups in decision making and to help groups become more conscious of their decision making.
https://thedecider.app/
NOBL
Slack
Joshua Tan
1983
Active
Online communities
platform
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to communicate between networks and devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet
Open-source
Internet protocol suite
Joshua Tan
2020
Work in progress
Online communities
product
application/tool
DAO ecosystem
Themis Contract is a command line-based tool to help with legal contracting.
The Underscore Protocol (_Prtcl) combines the core ideas behind the World Wide Web and GIT into the concept of Evolving Entities, or "Evees".
http://www.uprtcl.io/
https://github.com/uprtcl/spec
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
software framework
gaming ecosystem
popular scripting language for games
https://unity.com/
Privately-owned
Joshua Tan
2013
Inactive
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
This project started after someone on Hacker News suggested implementing a Hacker News/Reddit/Digg style site where story submission and voting required Dogecoin. This is my attempt at something similar.
https://github.com/aaron-lebo/updn
https://github.com/aaron-lebo/updn
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Communication media
platform
social network
Privately-owned
Joshua Tan
Work in progress
Online communities
product
The governance toolkit. Vocdoni provides secure voting, reliable communications and the necessary tools to coordinate your collective.
Joshua Tan
2015
Inactive
Online communities
Voting
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
A secure, open source, open data e-voting and vote counting platform
http://votosocial.github.io/
http://votosocial.github.io/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
product
Welcome to Warcraft Logs, a Web site that provides combat analysis for Blizzard's World of Warcraft MMO. Record your combats, upload them to the site and analyze them in real time. Find out exactly what went wrong and discover what you need to do to fix it!
https://www.warcraftlogs.com/
Nurfed
Nurfed uses Warcraft Logs
Joshua Tan
2017
Inactive
Online communities
Voting
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
WaveVote is a voting system based on Ethereum.
https://github.com/descampsk/wavevote
https://github.com/descampsk/wavevote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
Organizations
product
software framework
blockchain ecosystem
Wetonomy combines blockchain smart contracts and incentive frameworks to help you create an organization ran by code.
https://wetonomy.com/
Joshua Tan
Active
Online communities
platform
publishing platform
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Active
Online communities
platform
online game
Nurfed
Nurfed uses World of Warcraft
Joshua Tan
Corrupted Blood
Active
Online communities
Company
platform
blockchain ecosystem
xDAC is a place to start and manage digital companies and their payments.
https://xdac.co/
Joshua Tan
Dead
Offline communities
Democracy
product
“the only 'always on' platform that works in both campaign and governance (coming soon) phases of government ensuring continuity amongst supporters and reducing the need to campaign in cycles”
https://advocate.io/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
"Beautiful Trouble is a book, web toolbox and international network of artist-activist trainers whose mission is to make grassroots movements more creative and more effective."
https://beautifultrouble.org/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Models, simulations, and analytics
product
“Get clear, concise summaries of bills going through Congress, see what others think, then take action. Telling your reps how you feel is easier than ever with email and now video messages.” Formerly named Countable.
https://www.causes.com/
Joshua Tan
2016
Active
Offline communities
product
software library
cities
CHVote aims to be an opensource, publicly owned evoting system. It is the result of the collaboration between the Geneva State Chancellery and the Geneva IT Department. CHVote is currently used by 4 cantons in Switzerland: Basel-City, Bern, Geneva and Luzern, either for votations or elections.
CitizenLab is a citizen engagement platform, used by local governments and organisations to reconnect with their community, engage them in the decision-making process and regain trust.
https://www.citizenlab.co/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
The Civic Tech Field Guide is a crowdsourced, global collection of civic tech tools and projects.
https://civictech.guide/
Joshua Tan
2013
Dead
Offline communities
Group decision-making protocol
platform
voting/decision-making platform
CivilHub is a free and open-source platform written in Python & Django for the purpose of collaboration in local civic communities.
https://github.com/CivilHub/CivilHub
https://github.com/CivilHub/CivilHub
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Offline communities
research
Explore a curated list of 1369 companies changing the way legal is done.
http://techindex.law.stanford.edu/
CodeX at Stanford
Joshua Tan
Dead
Offline communities
Voting
product
“Quadratic Voting is a way for groups to make decisions together that achieves the greatest possible good for the greatest number of group members” - “It was invented by University of Chicago economist and CDE co-founder Glen Weyl, who has proven with University of Chicago statistician Steven Lalley that it is the only optimal and practical way to make collective decisions.”
http://www.collectivedecisionengines.com/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
ontology and labeled data set of national constitutions
https://www.constituteproject.org/
Public domain
Comparative Constitutions Project
Psycle Interactive
Jigsaw LLC
Indigo Trust
IC2 at University of Texas
National Science Foundation
Cline Center for Advanced Social Research at U Illinois
United States Institute of Peace
University of Texas
Constitution Unit at UCL
University of Chicago
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Voting
Participatory budgeting
Surveys
Group decision-making protocol
platform
voting/decision-making platform
cities
"the most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government", developed out of the city of Madrid" widely-used digital democracy tool for cities with a large set of features. Its feature set is wide enough and customizable enough for use-cases involving cities (with a GraphQL API for all data, enabling extensions)
http://consulproject.org/en/
https://github.com/consul/consul
Open-source
City of Madrid
Joshua Tan
Decidim
Active
Offline communities
research
Corpus Legis is an online library of governmental regulations encoded in computable form. The ultimate goal is a comprehensive collection of computable regulations across multiple areas of the law and multiple jurisdictions - federal, state, and local.
"Crew is an online hub designed to amplify social movements and education programs."
https://www.crew2030.org/
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Offline communities
research
D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.
http://tools.dcentproject.eu/
Open-source
European Commission
Your Priorities
Decidim
Freecoin
Objective[8]
Stonecutter
Mooncake
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Voting
Participatory budgeting
Surveys
Group decision-making protocol
platform
voting/decision-making platform
cities
platform of Barcelona city government: Stark, Kevin. ”Barcelona's Decidim Offers Open-Source Platform for Participatory Democracy Projects.“ Shareable. September 5, 2017. Fork of Consul
https://decidim.org/
Consul
Consul
Joshua Tan
D-CENT
Active
Offline communities
Surveys
product
Build, publish, manage, analyse and feed back in one place.
https://www.delib.net/citizen_space
Delib
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Group decision-making protocol
product
a service from the United Kingdom that also allows participants to suggest ideas, refine them via comments and discussions, and rate them to bring the best ideas to the top.
https://www.delib.net/dialogue
Delib
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Models, simulations, and analytics
product
Simulator is an online tool to engage people in complex decisions
https://www.delib.net/citizen_space
Delib
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
Digital democracy tools including participatory budgeting, crowd law making, and public consultation.
https://democraciaos.org/
Democracia en Red
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Voting
product
“Frustrated by the endemic corruption and electoral dysfunction of his native Czech Republic, mathematician and anti-corruption activist Karel Janeček began work on a new model voting system in 2012. The system, tested for the first time in October 2013, challenges centuries-old presumptions of how voters can participate in the democratic process.”
https://en.d21.me/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
Chafkin, Max. ”Why Y Combinator Funded a Radical Political Party in Argentina.“ Fast Company. March 12, 2015. See Mancini, Pia. ”How to upgrade democracy for the Internet era.“ TED Talk. October 2014.
http://democracyos.org/
Y Combinator
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
“harnesses the power of free, open-source software to provide civic organizations, legislatures, and political parties with the capabilities to effectively engage 21st century citizens and build better democracies”
https://dem.tools/
National Democratic Institute
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
business collaboration software
“enables you to instantly get feedback on your proposal, identify conflicting views, suggest better solutions and find common ground”
https://www.discuto.io/
Joshua Tan
2011
Active
Offline communities
Voting
Participatory budgeting
Group decision-making protocol
platform
cities
A combination of a powerful algorithm for decision-making with a social media interface. Targets primarily local governments.
https://ethelo.com/
Privately-owned
Joshua Tan
Dead
Offline communities
product
a service that uses crowdsourcing to rank user-submitted questions, suggestions and ideas. The tool manages feedback from a large number of people, any of whom who can submit a question or vote up or down on the top questions.
http://www.google.com/moderator/
Joshua Tan
2018
Active
Offline communities
Voting
product
application/tool
A collaborative democratic platform built atop GitHub, designed for open policymaking and manifesto writing.
https://votebot.openpolitics.org.uk/
https://github.com/openpolitics/groupthink
Open-source
GitHub
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Offline communities
research
The Hammurabi Project is an experiment in codifying U.S. law - such as the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, state laws, etc. - in a machine-executable format.
http://mpoulshock.github.io/hammurabi/
Joshua Tan
Dead
Offline communities
product
“a platform built from the ground up to help small democratic groups to do process online. It provides structure to improve the efficiency of specific communication tasks like brainstorming and proposals.”
https://intertwinkles.org/
Joshua Tan
2014
Inactive
Offline communities
product
software library
A D-CENT project: Secure notifications combined with w3 activity streams
https://github.com/d-cent/mooncake
https://github.com/d-cent/mooncake
Open-source
Joshua Tan
D-CENT
2014
Inactive
Offline communities
Crowdsourcing
product
software library
A D-CENT project: an application for crowd sourcing and drafting policy.
https://github.com/d-cent/objective8
https://github.com/d-cent/objective8
Open-source
Joshua Tan
D-CENT
Active
Offline communities
product
OpaVote is a secure online voting platform that makes it easy to run elections at a fraction of the usual cost. We're the leading provider of ranked choice elections, which help achieve more democratic outcomes by better representing the will of your voters.
https://www.opavote.com/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
software framework
The openDCN software environment -- where DCN stands for Deliberative Community Networks – provides on-line dedicated tools to support participation and deliberation.
http://www.opendcn.org/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
"A crowdsourcing platform for researchers, activists, practitioners, and anyone interested in public participation and democratic innovations"
https://participedia.net/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Voting
Surveys
product
“helps communities and organizations understand themselves”. Also see, Simonite, Tom. ”The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Bad for Democracy.“ MIT Technology Review. June 2, 2017.
https://pol.is/
Open-source
Consul
Decidim
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Dead
Offline communities
platform
research product
RegulationRoom is an experimental platform for public participation in government rulemaking processes created by a cross-disciplinary group of Cornell researchers, the Cornell eRulemaking Initiative (CeRI). CeRI uses selected live rulemakings to experiment with human and computer support for public engagement and discussion. The ultimate goal of RegulationRoom is to provide guidance on design, technological, and human intervention strategies—grounded in theory and tested in practice—for effective Rulemaking 2.0 systems.
http://regulationroom.org/
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Active
Offline communities
Surveys
product
Understand your constituents in order to better govern and build campaigns that address the issues that matter.
http://remesh.ai/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
Database of governance systems for various commons
https://sesmad.dartmouth.edu/
Institutional Analysis and Development
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Offline communities
platform
research product
SmartParticipation is an open source e-participation platform based on Drupal and designed to offer an effective and adaptable environment for informed online discussion. Developed by CeRI, a cross-disciplinary group of Cornell University researchers.
http://smartparticipation.com/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
Participatory budgeting
product
a free, open-source platform that "allows cities, municipalities, states and foundations and other organizations to run a participatory budgeting (PB) election in which people can vote on the budget."
https://pbstanford.org/
contact@pbstanford.org
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
business collaboration software
a software platform providing tools to help groups make collective decisions and govern together without reliance on managers and centralised decision-makers
https://swae.io/
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
research
"Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy."
https://www.v-dem.net/en/
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Offline communities
mashup
https://info.vtaiwan.tw/
Pol.is
YouTube
Discourse
GitBook
Hackpad
SlideShare
Typeform
Sli.do
LIVEhouse
Regulation Room
Joshua Tan
Active
Offline communities
product
cities
Your Priorities connects governments & citizens through constructive ideas and debate that minimizes personal arguments and trolling.
Zinc is redefining the reference check. Offering new formulas for referencing, unlocking new data and opening up new insights.
https://zinc.work/
Blockstack
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Anonymised voting with identity checking.
https://github.com/Emberwalker/Arke
https://github.com/Emberwalker/Arke
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2011
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Asturix People is a direct democracy system. You take the decision
https://github.com/luisivan/asturixpeople
https://github.com/luisivan/asturixpeople
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Not specific
product
mutual-credit-based platform for shared expenses in collectives
http://balance.sharett.org/#
https://github.com/sharett/balance
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Crowdfunding
product
communicative crowdfunding tool
https://cobudget.co/
Open-source
Greaterthan
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
programming language
Common Form is a computer language for legal forms. It allows software to express not just legal text, but the sections, references, definitions, and placeholders that give it structure. Programs that speak Common Form can work together to solve problems word processors and document assemblers can’t.
https://commonform.github.io/
kyle@kemitchell.com
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Condorcet
Borda count
Voting
product
software library
Command line application & PHP library providing a powerful, simple and complete election manager.
https://github.com/julien-boudry/Condorcet
https://github.com/julien-boudry/Condorcet
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2009
Active
Not specific
Condorcet
product
software library
This is a open-source release of the CIVS voting system software. If you simply want to run an election, it may be easier just to use the existing CIVS election server running at Cornell University, at http://civs.cs.cornell.edu.
http://civs.cs.cornell.edu
https://github.com/andrewcmyers/civs
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Models, simulations, and analytics
Group decision-making protocol
product
Consider.it creates CIVIL, ORGANIZED, AND EFFICIENT ONLINE DIALOGUE by visually summarizing what your community thinks and why
https://consider.it/
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
A set of common copyright licenses.
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/
Public domain
Creative Commons
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Voting
product
CryptoBallot is a cryptographically secure decentralized end-to-end verifiable voting system meant for real-world elections. It is a "backend" service providing vote storage, cryptographic operations, and an API. It does not provide a user interface - although it is built to make creating a UI that interfaces with it easy.
django-vote is a simple Django app to conduct vote for django model.
https://github.com/shellfly/django-vote
https://github.com/shellfly/django-vote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
E-Vote is an open source system for secure, trusted, anonymous, and verifiable voting online. It is based on the web2py framework.
https://github.com/mdipierro/evote
https://github.com/mdipierro/evote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2014
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
Real-time, representative and participative democracy
https://github.com/ekratia/ekratia
https://github.com/ekratia/ekratia
Open-source
Joshua Tan
1971
Active
Not specific
standard
network protocol
Electronic mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages ("mail") between people using electronic devices.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email
Public domain
Joshua Tan
GNU Mailman
2012
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
A barebones simple majority voting system with delegates created as a proof of concept.
https://github.com/alper/enhydris
https://github.com/alper/enhydris
Django
Joshua Tan
2014
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Electronic Democracy Tool Kit
http://www.deliberate.com/
https://github.com/marilyndavis/evote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Direct democracy
Liquid democracy
Group decision-making protocol
product
“a gateway Australians can use, to participate directly in parliament, making the need for trust in elected officials a thing of the past”. Also see Kaye, Max and Nathan Spataro. Redefining Democracy. January 2017.
https://voteflux.org/
Flux (political party)
Flux (political party)
Flux (political party)
Flux (political party) uses Flux
SecureVote
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Values, ideologies, incentives, intentions, and other motivations
product
software library
blockchain ecosystem
Freecoin is a set of tools to let people run reward schemes that are transparent and auditable to other organisations. It is made for participatory and democratic organisations who want to incentivise participation, unlike centralised banking databases. Freecoin aims to leverage the use of social digital currencies in a reliable, simple and resilient way.
https://freecoin.dyne.org/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
D-CENT
Active
Not specific
platform
conferencing platform
Proximity video chat in fully customizable, 2D interactive spaces
https://gather.town/
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
GitBook started mid-2014 as an open-source tool for developers to build documentation. Today we empower teams of all sizes to build great internal & external docs.
https://www.gitbook.com/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Loomio
vTaiwan
Active
Not specific
platform
https://github.com/
Privately-owned
cadCAD
Block Science
TrojanDAO
The LAO
terra0
Raid Guild
PieDAO
Pando
NuCypher
MolochDAO
MetaGame
LexDAO
LeapDAO
EstoniaDAO
Curve Finance
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
Collab19
Balancer
1Hive
cadCAD uses GitHub
Block Science uses GitHub
TrojanDAO uses GitHub
The LAO uses GitHub
terra0 uses GitHub
Raid Guild uses GitHub
PieDAO uses GitHub
Pando uses GitHub
NuCypher uses GitHub
MolochDAO uses GitHub
MetaGame uses GitHub
LexDAO uses GitHub
LeapDAO uses GitHub
EstoniaDAO uses GitHub
Curve Finance uses GitHub
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses GitHub
Collab19 uses GitHub
Balancer uses GitHub
1Hive uses GitHub
Git
Git
Joshua Tan
GitHub Sponsors
Ranked-Vote
OSS
Active
Not specific
platform
https://about.gitlab.com/
Open-core
Grass Roots Economics
Grass Roots Economics uses Gitlab
Git
Git
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
application/tool
Mailman is free software for managing electronic mail discussion and e-newsletter lists.
https://list.org/
Open-source
csail-related
csail-related uses GNU Mailman
Email (all protocols)
Email (all protocols)
Joshua Tan
Famous troll
Active
Not specific
product
application/tool
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
https://docs.google.com
Joshua Tan
2012
Dead
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
This paper introduces Google Votes, an experiment in liquid democracy built on Google's internal corporate Google+ social network.
Hackpad is a web-based realtime wiki, based on the open source EtherPad collaborative document editor.
https://github.com/dropbox/hackpad
Open-source
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Active
Not specific
Voting
Elections
product
application/tool
Helios offers verifiable online elections.
https://heliosvoting.org/
https://github.com/benadida/helios-server
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Zeus
2012
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
Hyperarchy is a collaborative decision-making tool based on ranked-pairs voting. This version is a stripped-down prototype designed for internal use at GitHub.
The intention behind this repository is to make source code of the Estonian online voting system available for public review.
https://github.com/vvk-ehk/ivxv
https://github.com/vvk-ehk/ivxv
Open-source
Estonia
Estonia uses IVXV
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
"Jitsi is a set of open-source projects that allows you to easily build and deploy secure video conferencing solutions, including Videobridge and Jitsi Meet, which let you have conferences on the internet, while other projects in the community enable other features such as audio, dial-in, recording, and simulcasting."
https://jitsi.org/
Open-source
Complexity Weekend
Complexity Weekend uses Jitsi
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
standard
application protocol
linked data/Semantic Web
https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
platform
crowdfunding platform
https://www.kickstarter.com/
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
2013
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
A voting system where people can either directly approve or disapprove propositions associated to tags or delegate that decision.
https://github.com/virteal/kudocracy
https://github.com/virteal/kudocracy
Joshua Tan
2012
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
An Extremely Light Liquid Democracy Tool
https://github.com/phynfo/LiquidDemocracy-XXS
https://github.com/phynfo/LiquidDemocracy-XXS
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
application/tool
Computer software designed to empower organizations to make democratic decisions independent of physical assemblies, giving every member of the organization an equal opportunity to participate in the democratic process
https://liquidfeedback.org/
Joshua Tan
Dead
Not specific
livehouse.in
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
2012
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
MakeYourLaws.org aims to eventually be an international scale replacement of legislatures, by enabling citizens to participate in liquid democracy. It will bootstrap through existing legal mechanisms for direct action with teeth: ballot propositions and grassroots campaign financing.
https://github.com/MakeYourLaws/MakeYourLaws
https://github.com/MakeYourLaws/MakeYourLaws
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
publishing platform
DescriptionMedium is an online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation.
https://medium.com/
Privately-owned
Tezos (validators)
Raid Guild
PieDAO
Pando
MolochDAO
MetaClan
MetaCartel
Melon Protocol
Machi X
LexDAO
elimu.ai
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
BrightID
Balancer
Aave
1UP World
MetaFactory
The LAO
Avaegotchi
Tezos (validators) uses Medium
Raid Guild uses Medium
PieDAO uses Medium
Pando uses Medium
MolochDAO uses Medium
MetaClan uses Medium
MetaCartel uses Medium
Melon Protocol uses Medium
Machi X uses Medium
LexDAO uses Medium
elimu.ai uses Medium
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses Medium
BrightID uses Medium
Balancer uses Medium
Aave uses Medium
1UP World uses Medium
MetaFactory uses Medium
The LAO uses Medium
Avaegotchi uses Medium
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
software framework
https://www.npmjs.com/
Joshua Tan
NPM
Active
Not specific
Voting
Elections
platform
Online voting system trusted by millions around the world. Grant legitimacy to your election with our auditable online voting software.
https://nvotes.com/
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Not specific
Copeland voting
Voting
product
application/tool
A custom online voting tool to fit the requirements of the 'Online-Abstimmung' of Junge Piraten e.V.
https://github.com/lutoma/oavote
https://github.com/lutoma/oavote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2015
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
OpenRCV is an open source software project for tallying ranked-choice voting elections like instant runoff voting and the single transferable vote. It also supports auditing, reporting, and ballot file conversion. It can be used both as a command-line tool or as a Python library.
https://github.com/cjerdonek/open-rcv
https://github.com/cjerdonek/open-rcv
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
https://www.openstack.org/
Open-source
Overview (non-binding) of OpenStack
Bylaws (legally-binding) of OpenStack Foundation OpenStack
Bylaws (legally-binding) of OpenStack Technical Committee OpenStack
OpenStack Foundation
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
https://joinpeertube.org/
ActivityPub
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
application/tool
blockchain ecosystem
POAP is a software system that allows humans to collect badges (in the form of non fungible tokens) every time they participate in an activity, in person or remotely.
https://www.poap.xyz/#start
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2012
Inactive
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
application/tool
A liquid democracy system with a focus on deliberative policy building and consensus finding.
https://github.com/ppau/polly
https://github.com/ppau/polly
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
This is a simple application for "progressive timekeeping" – keeping track of speaking time by categories of identity (e.g. sex, gender, racial identity, power position, etc). It can be used to help people think about whether speaking time in their organization's meetings is really equitable.
https://timeoff.intertwinkles.org/#
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
standard
Prosocial is the only change method that actually uses the latest developments in evolutionary science to achieve its goals.
https://www.prosocial.world/
Joshua Tan
2018
Active
Not specific
Liquid democracy
product
software library
proxyfor.me Electronic Direct Democracy client and server
http://proxyfor.me/
https://github.com/metamerman/proxyfor.me
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
https://www.python.org/
Open-source
Overview (non-binding) of Python
Python Software Foundation
Python Community
Joshua Tan
python-vote-core
Social Choice
Active
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
python-vote-core implements various electoral methods, providing the results calculated off a provided set of ballots and options.
https://modernballots.com/
https://github.com/bradbeattie/python-vote-core
Open-source
Python
Joshua Tan
2016
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
A ranked voting system with github authentication.
https://github.com/SpaceKrakens/Ranked-Vote
https://github.com/SpaceKrakens/Ranked-Vote
GitHub
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
application/tool
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
https://rocket.chat/
MakerDAO
MakerDAO uses Rocket
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
Sandstorm is an open source project built by a community of volunteers with the goal of making it really easy to run open source web applications.
https://sandstorm.io/
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Group decision-making protocol
product
blockchain ecosystem
The world's most secure, scalable, and reliable blockchain voting platform
https://secure.vote/
SecureVote
Joshua Tan
Flux
2016
Active
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
SimpleVote is an open-source, self-hostable, live-updating voting/polling platform, for both live meetings, or extended polls.
https://github.com/dessalines/simple-vote
https://github.com/dessalines/simple-vote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
Privately-owned
Block Science
The Metagovernance Project
Gitcoin Community
OpenCollective Community
Giveth DAC
Block Science uses Slack
The Metagovernance Project uses Slack
Gitcoin Community uses Slack
OpenCollective Community uses Slack
Joshua Tan
The Decider
Active
Not specific
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Active
Not specific
product
SlideShare is an American hosting service for professional content including presentations, infographics, documents, and videos. Users can upload files privately or publicly in PowerPoint, Word, PDF, or OpenDocument format. Content can then be viewed on the site itself, on hand held devices or embedded on other sites.
https://www.slideshare.net/
Privately-owned
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Active
Not specific
platform
Sobol is the operating system for your organization.
https://sobol.io/
Joshua Tan
2014
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Python program to calculate the winner of well-known winner selection methods, including the plurality method, the runoff method, the elimination method, the Borda count, and the pairwise-comparison method (a.k.a. Condorcet mthod).
https://github.com/morinokami/social_choice
https://github.com/morinokami/social_choice
Python
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
platform
forum platform
Stack Exchange enables a community to set up its own free question-and-answer board. It is optimal when a group has frequent, highly granular, factual questions that might be answered by others using the service.
http://stackexchange.com/
Tezos (validators)
Tezos (validators) uses StackExchange
Joshua Tan
StackExchange
Inactive
Not specific
research
The Computable Contracts project works on developing a universal Contract Definition Language that will allow terms and conditions to be represented in machine-understandable way. As a result, computers will be able to process and reason over the contracts automatically with a guaranteed degree of accuracy. The effect is not only a significant reduction of legal transaction costs, but it also opens a variety of new options to create better contracts.
http://compk.stanford.edu/
Joshua Tan
2014
Inactive
Not specific
Agent authentication
product
software library
A D-CENT project: an easily deployable oauth server for small organisations.
https://github.com/d-cent/stonecutter
https://github.com/d-cent/stonecutter
Open-source
Joshua Tan
D-CENT
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
newsletter platform
publishing platform
https://www.substack.com/
MetaCartel
Compound
MetaCartel uses Substack
Compound uses Substack
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Real-time crowd decision-making
Group decision-making protocol
product
An “AI platform that amplifies the intelligence of networked business teams, enabling significantly more accurate forecasts, predictions, decisions, and insights,” by “employ[ing] the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence – the process that allows flocks of birds, schools of fish, and swarms of bees to reach optimal decisions with remarkable efficiency.”
https://unanimous.ai/
Privately-owned
Unanimous AI
https://unanimous.ai/contact/
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
YangDAO
TrojanDAO
SignalDAO
PrinterDAO
NEDAO
MetaClan
MetaCartel
MakerDAO
Machi X
dxDAO
Curve Finance
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
Collab19
BrightID
1UP World
Blockstack Community
Giveth DAC
YangDAO uses Telegram
TrojanDAO uses Telegram
SignalDAO uses Telegram
PrinterDAO uses Telegram
NEDAO uses Telegram
MetaClan uses Telegram
MetaCartel uses Telegram
MakerDAO uses Telegram
Machi X uses Telegram
dxDAO uses Telegram
Curve Finance uses Telegram
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses Telegram
Collab19 uses Telegram
BrightID uses Telegram
1UP World uses Telegram
Blockstack Community uses Telegram
Joshua Tan
Collab.land
Active
Not specific
product
https://www.typeform.com/
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
2004
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
Elections
product
software library
The Vocal Democracy Project is focused on the development of a phone-based voting system to be used in elections. The goal is to provide a reliable, intuitive and highly secure speech-enabled voting mechanism for voters with visual impairments and other disabilities.
VoteFlow is a website/app built on django to try out a LiquidDemocracy-like system.
https://github.com/chozabu/VoteFlow
https://github.com/chozabu/VoteFlow
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2013
Active
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Android client for server side Condorcet style voting system.
https://github.com/gvamos/votron
https://github.com/gvamos/votron
Joshua Tan
Inactive
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
An Anonymous and Tracable Online Voting System
https://www.vvvote.de/cms/
https://github.com/vvvote/vvvote
Open-source
Joshua Tan
2012
Inactive
Not specific
product
application/tool
proposal management
Wasa2il is a participatory democracy software project. It is based around the core idea of polities - political entities - which users of the system can join or leave, make proposals in, alter existing proposals, and adopt laws to self-govern.
https://github.com/smari/wasa2il
https://github.com/smari/wasa2il
Django
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
messaging platform
Privately-owned
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
product
wiki platform
https://www.wikipedia.org/
Open-source
Overview (non-binding) of Wikimedia Foundation Wikipedia
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikipedia
Wikipedia uses Wikipedia
Joshua Tan
Unnamed record
Unnamed record
Active
Not specific
platform
conferencing platform
spatial
video
Wonder is a virtual space where people can meet and talk.
https://www.wonder.me/
Joshua Tan
Active
Not specific
Communication media
platform
publishing platform
https://www.youtube.com
Privately-owned
Alphabet Inc.
Commons Stack Trusted Seed
MakerDAO
PieDAO
Commons Stack Trusted Seed uses YouTube
MakerDAO uses YouTube
PieDAO uses YouTube
Joshua Tan
vTaiwan
Active
Not specific
platform
recruiting/HR platform
Joshua Tan
2009
Active
Not specific
Voting
product
software library
Based on the Helios voting system but instead of election results, Zeus produces a tally of the ballots cast.