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Intercreativity—Web3 Governance is a content management app similar to GitBook, where DAO communities can go and collaborate around written agreements that evolve using their on-chain governance process.

Besides being web3-powered, it is multi-perspective, letting community members control and share their own perspectives of the content, in parallel to the commonly agreed perspective.

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Problem Definition

Many Web3 communities, some by choice, some by force, are at the avant-garde in terms of exploring new technologies for tackling the problem of decentralized governance.

Most of these communities, so far, deploy a Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) engine (Aragon, DAOstack, or Moloch, or Blockchain-native) and use it as a voting proxy to govern a treasury of crypto-assets owned by the community.

Usually, the decentralized governance flow goes as follows: one community member adds a proposal to dispose of the funds, and then the rest of the members vote on whether to approve or reject the proposal.

The act of decentralized governance is expected to occur at the voting step. In practice, this is rarely the case.

Most DAO communities rapidly derive into using web2 communication technologies like telegram channels, discussion forums, and collaborative documents to communicate among them and share ideas about the community purpose, its strategy, and eventually the member's perspective on existing proposals.

It seems governance is as much of a communication problem, as it is a voting one. In fact, the governance happening in the communication channels has a name already, and is usually called "soft-governance".

However, solely relying on web2 for soft-governance comes with its own problems for these communities. Most web2 technologies are designed for hierarchical organizations and small teams, and not for DAOs, resulting on the following issues:

• The information and perspectives of different DAO members, which is what builds the DAO culture and eventually its purpose, gets lost inside a "sea" of information distributed on different applications and hard to navigate. Keeping up to date with the stuff happening in the DAO becomes very expensive in terms of time and attention.
• The influence of DAO members in the soft-governance communication channels does not follow the influence they have on the DAO governance, with the extremes cases of some members hoarding these channels and others simply muting them.
• The administration of soft-governance communication channels is done by a few community members, centralizing a significant amount of power in them. Something that is in conflict with the decentralized nature of the DAO.
• The curation of the soft-governance channels is done by a few community members who, naturally, tend to do it in a neutral and non-controversial manner. Unfortunately, by being neutral, this also reduces the signal these information carries in terms of the community's position around it.

Interecreativity's Unique Solution

Intercreativity offers two unique solutions to this problem: