►
From YouTube: What Can DAOs Learn From
Description
Visit the https://archive.devcon.org/ to gain access to the entire library of Devcon talks with the ease of filtering, playlists, personalized suggestions, decentralized access on IPFS and more.
https://archive.devcon.org/archive/watch/6/what-can-daos-learn-from/index
What can DAOs learn from governments, companies, communities and more?
The ultimate vision of DAOs promises us better ways to organize humans. But we are just scratching the surface in discovering how to optimally structure and operate DAOs. As a result, many DAOs are not serving their mission or members as effectively as they could be.
The good news? We don’t have to reinvent everything.
Speaker(s): Madison Adams, Safder Raza
Skill level: Beginner
Track: Opportunity & Global Impact
Keywords: DAOs,Impact,Governance
Follow us: https://twitter.com/efdevcon, https://twitter.com/ethereum
Learn more about devcon: https://www.devcon.org/
Learn more about ethereum: https://ethereum.org/
Devcon is the Ethereum conference for developers, researchers, thinkers, and makers.
Devcon 6 was held in Bogotá, Colombia on Oct 11 - 14, 2022.
Devcon is organized and presented by the Ethereum Foundation, with the support of our sponsors. To find out more, please visit https://ethereum.foundation/
A
A
A
Dows
are
one
of
my
favorite
things
to
talk
about
and
I
think
sap
feels
the
same
way,
but
basically,
if
you
are
a
power
of
Adele,
this
talk
is
for
you
because
this
question
here,
what
can
dolls
learn
from
I
think
is
something
we
all
need
to
think
about
a
lot
more
within
the
context
of
Dao's
and
also
outside
of
web
3.
What
are
other
non-web
three
entities
that
Dallas
can
learn
from
to
be
more
effective
and
so
now
we're
going
to
hop
into
introductions.
B
And
I'm
saf
I'm
a
co-star
word
of
dreamdale
and
I'm
from
Vancouver
Canada
and
in
today's
talk,
I'm
going
to
give
you
all
a
brief
intro
to
dreamdow
as
well
as
Dao's
in
general,
and
this
will
hopefully
paint
some
help,
paint
some
contacts
on
to
some
of
the
things
that
we'll
talk
about
later
on.
In
the
talk
Madison's
going
to
spark
some
inspiration
with
some
case
studies
and
then
we'll
give
you
an
opportunity
to
share
some
of
your
thoughts
as
well.
B
So
at
dreamtab
we
trained
gen
Z
to
use
web3
for
good.
We
work
with
impact-minded
Gen,
Z,
Youth
and
I
promise
you.
These
are
some
of
the
brightest
kids
you'll
ever
meet
and
we
equip
them
with
tools
and
resources
to
leverage
web
3
in
creating
the
impact
that
they
want
to
create
in
the
world.
And
we
do
this
in
three
main
ways,
the
first
of
which
is
through
educational
sessions.
B
We
host
a
series
of
talks
called
the
learning
together
sessions
with
web
3
leaders.
Past
speakers
for
for
the
series
have
included
Aya
miyaguchi
from
EF,
who
you
all
heard,
speak
yesterday
at
the
opening
ceremony,
as
well
as
Kevin
owaki
from
Bitcoin,
and
we're
always
looking
for
speakers
and
Educators.
C
B
D
E
B
We
have
nfts
governance,
Discord,
all
the
things
that
you
would
expect
from
any
other
Dow,
because
we
truly
believe
in
this
model.
The
ultimate
vision
of
Dao's
promises
us
better
ways
to
organize
humans
from
our
workplaces
to
our
social
communities.
But
the
truth
is
we're
just
scratching
the
surface
of
discovering
how
to
optimally
structure
and
operate
Dows.
Many
processes
that
are
more
democratic,
decentralized
Etc
may
sound
good
on
paper,
but
the
truth
is
they
prove
to
be
impractical
in
practice
for
one
reason
or
another.
A
Thank
you,
staff.
Okay,
now
we're
going
to
get
into
the
tangible
examples.
So
thank
you
for
staying
to
that
introduction.
So
the
first
thing
is
we're
here
telling
you
about
like
that.
You
should
learn
from
other
entities
besides
web3
Dows.
So
what
have
we
learned
from?
The
first
example
is
civics
unplugged,
which
is
actually
our
parent
organization,
so
Civics
unplugged
trains,
young
people
to
be
Civic
innovators,
so
basically
people
who
solve
Civic
and
social
problems
in
more
innovative
ways,
and
it
was
basically
an
off-chain
Dao
before
they
even
knew
Dows
existed.
A
So
if
you're
from
the
US,
you
probably
know
what
Boy
Scouts
is,
but
for
those
of
you
who
don't
the
Boy
Scouts
of
America
is
one
of
the
largest
youth
organizations
in
the
United
States,
with
about
1.2
million
youth
participants
and
I.
Think
there's
a
lot
to
learn
from
Boy
Scouts
in
terms
of
recruiting
and
retaining
young
people
and
honestly
just
people
in
general.
The
two
Core
Design
choices
is
the
first
one
is
recruitment,
so
the
first
thing
that
they
do
is
they
recruit
from
existing
values,
aligned
organizations.
A
So
you
can
become
a
Boy,
Scout
I,
believe
it's
at
10
years
old,
but
they
have
Cub
Scouts
for
younger
boys,
and
so
they
recruit
from
that
organization
and
it's
a
direct
pipeline.
So
that's
kind
of
how
we
at
dreamdoll
do
it.
We
have
Civics
unplugged
as
a
parent
organization
and
there's
a
recruitment
pipeline,
but
this
also
applies
to
dowels,
who
don't
have
parent
organizations
or
direct
affiliations,
because
you
can
find
organizations
that
are
aligned
with
what
you
do
and
have
members
who
wouldn't
find
your
community,
otherwise.
A
So,
for
example,
at
dreamdale
we
look
for
non-technical
people
who
are
interested
in
using
web3
for
good.
They
probably
wouldn't
find
a
dow,
you
know
without
Civics
unplugged,
and
so
we
recruit
directly
from
the
fellowship.
The
second
part
is
a
strong
emphasis
on
Word
of
Mouth
recruitment.
I
think
that
Dallas
can
do
a
lot
better
job
of
emphasizing
this
piece,
because
what
you
can
do
is
actually
encourage
your
members
to
recruit
By
Word
of
Mouth,
but
also
give
them
the
tools
they
need
to
do
so.
A
Give
them
the
tools
to
share
about
what
the
Dao
is,
how
they
can
join
and
other
tools
like
that,
because
that's
one
of
the
biggest
methods
that
boy
scouts
use
to
recruit
people.
The
second
is
gamification.
So
for
Boy
Scouts,
the
the
goals
are
clear.
The
highest
level
you
can
achieve
is
an
eagle
scout.
A
There
are
a
variety
of
requirements
like
having
a
certain
number
of
badges
leadership,
experiences
and
recommendations,
and,
while
there
may
not
be
a
direct
equivalent
in
Dows,
the
principle
is
still
the
same,
make
the
goals
clear
and
make
it
clear
what
people
can
achieve
in
your
Dao,
because
that
makes
them
want
to
stay
and
it
gives
them
something
to
work
towards.
The
second
is
badges
to
reward
small
steps
along
the
way,
so
the
Boy
Scouts
model
is
actually
what
directly
inspired
our
Merit
system.
A
At
dreamdo,
we've
developed
our
our
own
entire
Merit
system
that
we're
about
to
finish
in
the
next
month,
or
so,
but
basically
the
way
that
we're
doing
it
is
on
chain
Boy,
Scout,
badges
for
the
purpose
of
incentivizing
and
recognizing
activity.
So
basically,
the
problem
right
now
is
like
when
I
say,
I'm
a
member
of
dreamdale.
That
doesn't
mean
much
to
you,
because
I
could
be
the
most
involved
person
or
the
least
involved
person,
but
something
like
merit.
A
Badges
gives
context
to
people
internally
and
externally
about
what
level
of
involvement
a
member
has
so
for
elections.
If
I'm
going
to
vote
for
someone,
I
can
see
how
much
they've
been
involved
and
exactly
how
they
contributed
and
if
I'm
putting
dream
down
my
resume
I
get
to
show
that
I'm
a
very
involved
member
okay
number
two
is
Parks,
so
I
actually
haven't
heard.
This
really
talked
about
in
the
context
of
Dao's.
So
I
thought
it
was
a
good
case
study
to
include,
but
actually
public
parks
are
the
the
foundation
of
public
park.
A
So
the
first
part
of
that
is
Master
plans,
so
every
park
that
is
created
creates
a
detailed
plan
for
how
the
park
will
be
developed
and
constructed
along
with
how
the
community
is
involved
in
the
design
process.
So
this
serves
as
a
blueprint
for
others
that
they
can
learn
from.
You
know
like
an
open
source
document
and
at
dreamdale
we're
actually
going
to
be
creating
a
master
plan
of
our
own,
like
a
30
page
document,
something
like
that.
A
Maybe
not
that
long
of
all
of
our
governance
structures,
the
ones
that
we've
really
liked,
the
ones
that
we
see
and
proven
on
and
some
of
our
other
design
choices,
because
we
believe
that
for
the
Dow
ecosystem
to
make
some
of
these
strides
and
how
we
can
better
optimize,
how
we
can
better
structure
Dows
and
like
ultimately,
just
make
them
function.
We
need
to
learn
from
each
other's
mistakes,
and
documentation
is
a
really
powerful
way
to
do
that.
A
The
next
is
the
spokes
Council
model,
so
this
is
not
exclusive
to
Parks,
but
a
lot
of
parks
use
this
model.
Essentially,
the
way
it
works
is
there
are
Representatives
of
different
groups
so
think
for
Parks,
like
there's
a
representative
from
the
police
department,
a
Boy
Scout
teachers
Etc,
and
these
Representatives
meet
in
a
larger
group
to
discuss
their
individual
context
and
make
decisions.
That
would
be
too
high
level
for
any
one
group
to
decide
on
their
own.
A
So
the
way
we
do
that
is
dreamdale
is
we
have
a
dow
Council
that
consists
of
the
leads
of
each
of
our
working
groups.
So,
once
a
month
we
meet
to
talk
about
issues
that
would
be
too
high
level
for
any
one
working
group
to
make
the
best
decision
about,
and
the
last
is
existing
for
users.
So
it's
actually
really
really
impressive.
What
parks
do
to
understand
and
build
for
their
users?
If
you
look
at
some
of
these
Master
plans,
they
have
like
extensive
tables
about
like
what
are
each
of
the
facilities.
A
Who
are
the
users?
Why
do
they?
Use
them
and
Parks
exists
to
make
sure
that
the
people
in
the
community
are
enjoying
the
facility
right,
so
they
build
things
specifically
based
on
like
if
they
have
like
you
know
the
spokes
Council,
what
the
teacher
says
that
they
want
what
the
Boy
Scout
says.
The
needs
are
for
the
park,
and
so
they
exist
for
the
user
and
every
Park
is
different
because
of
that
okay.
So
our
last
case
study
is
Eco
Villages,
so
you
may
or
may
not
have
heard
of
Eco
Villages
before.
A
But
those
of
you
who
have
not,
they
are
small,
sustainable,
physical
and
co-living
communities
with
their
own
work,
currency,
school
and
more
I
will
say
not
all
of
them
have
their
own
currency
or
school
or
work.
They
all
vary
a
lot,
but
the
general
principle
is
they're
their
own
self-sustaining
communities
in
a
physical
space.
A
Think
if
Dallas
also
wants
to
have
a
strong
sense
of
community,
they
need
to
learn
from
that.
It's
important
to
have
a
small
size.
Okay,
the
second
one
is
work
and
play
so
residents
of
Eco
Villages
have
a
lot
of
formal
structure
to
keep
it
running
because,
obviously,
like
I
said
they
really
depend
on
each
other,
but
they
have
an
equal
emphasis
on
community
work
and
play
are
interdependent.
A
So
it's
not
just
a
transactional
experience
of
like
we're
going
to
make
sure
that
you
have
food
and
you
have
shelter
and
everything
they
need
to
make
sure
that
they
have
a
community
and
I.
Think
it's
the
same
for
dolls,
because
without
play
I
think
Dows
are
the
2.0
of
web
2,
because
I
mean
that's
true
for
a
lot
of
reasons.
A
But
the
main
thing
is
that,
unlike
in
web
2
companies,
people
are
voluntarily
coming
to
Dallas
and
don't
have
a
strong
reason
to
say
if
they
don't
have
a
strong
sense
of
community
and
they
don't
feel
valued
in
the
space.
The
third
one
is
making
money.
So
I
will
say
that
Eco
Villages
are
still
figuring
this
out
too
much
like
Dao's,
but
something
that
Eco
Villages
do
because
often
they
can't
export
things
because
of
a
lack
of
resources
or
physical
isolation.
A
They
profit
off
of
information,
so
some
make
money
off
of
providing
education
and
consulting
services
to
Outsiders,
about
living
in
Eco,
Villages
and
so
similar
to
Dallas
I.
Think
if
you
have
not
figured
out
a
revenue
model
outside
of
Grants
like
us
at
dreamdale,
then,
and
you
can't
export
a
product,
maybe
consider
information.
So
the
master
plan
that
I
mentioned
earlier
that
dream
now
is
creating
we're,
considering
doing
it
as
a
mere
post
as
a
way
to
raise
funds
for
dreamdoll.
But
of
course
we
haven't
figured
out
a
superstructured
model.
B
And
we'll
close
it
off
with
a
call
to
action.
What
are
some
steps
that
you
can
start
taking
today
to
encourage
a
culture
of
learning
and
sharing
within
your
teams?
One
look
at
examples
of
other
Dows
in
the
web
3
space,
as
well
as
other
structures
outside
of
web3
and
be
open
to
learning
and
evolving
and
two,
let
others
learn
from
you
to
share
and
document
everything.
This
is
so
important.
We
can
only
move
forward
in
this
next
iteration
of
the
internet
and
human
coordination.
B
A
A
D
A
D
A
Wasn't:
okay,
okay,
yeah,
so
I
think
the
Boy
Scouts
example
is
a
good
one
for
me
to
learn
from
in
this
case,
because
what
Boy
Scouts
does
to
recruit
people
is,
they
have
a
direct
pipeline
from
an
existing
organization
and
that's
what
we
actually
do
as
well.
So
I
think
the
principle
there
is
like,
if
you
don't
know
how
to
get
people
to
just
come
to
your
Club,
naturally
or
your
community
naturally,
and
they
wouldn't
find
the
application
on
their
own.
A
There's
like
a
technical
club
for
like
software
Engineers
or
something
like
that
or
if
you're
targeting
non-technical
people
like
we
do
maybe
there's
some
like
social
impact,
oriented
clubs
that
you
could
talk
to
and
have
like
and
there's
like
more
design
choice
to
talk
about
from
that
point
of
like
if
you
have
live
conversations
or
if
you
just
like
share
information
like
hey,
here's,
the
application
but
I.
Think
generally,
if
you're
targeting
people
who
you
think
it
might
be
hard
to
get
them
to
your
community
Unity.
A
B
B
What
what
brought
you
here
and
like
what
are
some
of
the
things
that
you
wish
you
had
as
in
a
community
that
would
have
helped
you
be
more
excited
about
this
earlier
on
so
yeah,
just
like
think
about
who
you're
targeting
you
know
what
what's
in
it
for
them,
why?
Why
would
they
be
interested
in
something
like
this
and
yeah
just
like
make
it
interesting,
just
think
about
what
would
make
it
interesting
for
you,
yeah.
G
G
F
A
Something
that
I
think
is
almost
impossible
to
solve
is
the
time
zone
problem
so
like
we
are
an
International
Community
with
people
from
like
west
coast,
East,
Coast,
India,
Italy,
Russia,
that's
everywhere,
right
and
so
we've
had
a
very
hard
time
and
we
haven't
figured
it
out.
Like
the
learning
sessions
that
staff
mentioned,
we
did
a
survey
to
try
and
figure
out
what
would
be
the
best
time
for
everyone,
and
there
was
absolutely
no
consensus.
It
was
like
completely
spread
out
and
so
like
what
we
do
is
like
for
important
calls.
A
H
H
What
we
learned
was
that
we
went
through
the
creation
phase,
where
we
taught
people
how
to
do
things,
and
we
made
a
big
mistake
because
we
were
like
oh
this
everything
works,
so
we
can
just
leave
and
you're
gonna
be
fine.
You
know
how
to
organize.
What
we
learned
was
that
there
is
a
creation
phase
and
there
is
a
consolidation
phase.
So
well
everything
stopped
the
moment.
We
went
away
from
chitamal
and
now
we
went
back
to
consolidate
what
we
are
doing.
So
this
was
our
mistake.
H
That's
why
I
wanted
to
share
it,
and
now
we
are
taking
a
five-year
trip
in
a
school
bus
throughout
Latin
America
to
teach
local
people
how
to
use
web3
tools
and
we
are
taking
care
of
the
creation
phase
and
of
the
consolidation
phase.
So
I
just
wanted
to
share
this
and
yeah.
Congratulations
again.
Thank.
H
F
C
Hi
I
guess
I,
just
have
one
question,
I,
think
like
being
in
the
space.
One
thing
I've
always
noticed
is
that
several
Dows
goes
through
different
leaders
coming
in
and
out
different
community
members
coming
in
and
out.
So
how
do
you
sort
of
one
think
ahead
of
that
situation
and
make
sure
like
the
thou
can
sustain
without
people?
You
know
leaving
immediately
so
like
what
are
the
things
you're
doing
to
kind
of
like
get
ahead
of
that
or
make
sure
like
you
have
a
solid
foundation.
A
Yep
I
think
that's
a
great
question.
I
think
two
things
that
come
to
mind
for
me
is
one
information
and
then
two
just
making
people
feel
like
they
are
able
to
step
up.
So
on
the
information
point,
I
mentioned
the
master
plan
that
we're
going
to
be
creating
of
like
all
of
our
governance
structures
and
how
the
Dow
works.
That
will
be
useful
to
people
inside
the
Dell,
but
also
people
outside
the
dough.
So
there's
never
any
questions
about
like
okay.
How
do
we
I,
don't
know
onboard
our
mentors
or
something
like
that?
A
Someone
can
always
pick
up
the
process
because
it's
open
source-
and
the
second
is
even
if
you
do
have
the
right
structures
for
like
elections
and
like
a
system
that
makes
sense,
if
you
don't
have
people
who
feel
like
they
can
step
up.
That's
not
going
to
work,
and
so
what
we
try
to
do
is
embed
leadership
opportunities
into
every
part
of
the
Dow.
So
the
example
for
that
us
would
be.
We
have
working
groups
and
they're
all
led
by
young
people,
so
we
have
a
Roth
who
leads
our
community
working
group
and
Joshua.
A
Who
leads
our
gallery
working
group
and
we
have
a
couple
others
as
well
so,
and
that
also
applies
to
like
smaller
opportunities
like
bounties,
so
people
can
like
take
bounties
at
any
point
and
So.
Eventually,
we
could
see
ourselves
doing
a
structure
where
we
have
one
of
our
Builders
be
elected
to
leave
with
one
of
our
mentors
lead
the
Dow,
and
so
that's
only
going
to
be
the
case,
though,
if
they
feel
comfortable
and
they
have
the
experience
and
so
we're
baking.
Those
experiences
into
every
level
of
the
Dow
okay,.
F
E
Maybe
maybe
a
way
to
get
Revenue
would
be
to
make
like
the
digital,
digital,
twin,
meaning
a
Dao
of
current
organizations
like
the
one,
it's
your
apartment
company.
So
if
you
develop
the
knowledge,
not
only
the
information,
but
the
knowledge
and
kind
of
do
the
design
implementation
for
another
organization,
that
would
be
kind
of
some.
Some
Revenue.
A
B
Yeah
I
mean
I
think
this
is
I
was
too
concentrated
on
my
own
portions
of
the
talks.
I
wasn't
paying
attention
to,
but
I
think
you
mentioned
right
at
the
end,
like
we're
working
on
a
A
playbook
for
for
Dows.
That
kind
of,
like
includes
all
the
learnings
from
how
we
built
dreamdo
and
one
of
the
thoughts
that
we
were
just
talking
about
this
morning,
literally
as
we
were
thinking
about
this
talk
is
like
how.
B
How
can
we
sort
of
like
monetize
that
or
make
that
a?
So
we
were
thinking
we
could
publish
such
a
Playbook
on
mirror,
which
is
sort
of
like
this
decentralized
publishing
platform
that
allows
it
so
that
anyone
can
see.
We
don't
want
to
like
token
gate
or
like
we
want
to
like
make
sure
like
these
learnings
are
truly
open
source,
but
people
can
choose
to
then
donate
and
like
buy
additions
of
this
Playbook
if
they
feel
like
they've
gotten
value
out
of
it.