DVs should/will evolve to be some form of ideal political parties meant to represent the very wide multidimensional spectrum that are token holders, e.g. some people want to be represented based on their geography, others based on their areas of interest, etc. therefore a DV must be an agenda, a set of ideals that focuses on a narrow slice of that spectrum, the more DVs the better as we can get to represent more people. We should take some time to identify said spectrum to know better what kind of DVs we want.
Based on that, here are some musts I consider necessary with my bit of shameless self promotion
- As DVs represent ideas and opinions, all DVs must be DAOs, it doesn’t matter if it starts as a one person governed DAO, the “founder” can leave but the ideals and purpose stay.
- All DAOs must have a clear manifesto that positions them in some part of the identified token holder spectrum.
- To guaranty transparency, provide flexibility and resilience(the purpose that a DAO represent can’t be shut down), all DAOs must be actual DAOs, not discord bots, not even multisigs/proxies, DVs need robust organizational infrastructure where decision makers are identified, where they can define simple or complex decision making strategies, ability to define teams to manage budgets, etc. The kind of OpenGov based tech that is a common good and can give a lot of structure to the program, you know, the kind of tech that already exists that our team(Virto) already created and is gathering dust in some corner of the ecosystem.
My suggested action plan would be to take time to do things right(doesn’t need to take long though), the W3F along with competent parties in the ecosystem first need to do some initial research for the “token holder spectrum identification”, the outcome can already be the creation of the needed DAOs by the W3F(ping us for support on that ;)) based on what the foundation can delegate, have their initial manifestos defined, create some tooling and when things are ready open the applications for DVs again, this time it’s mainly a bootstrapping action to decide what groups or individuals are going to lead the newly created houses. As it’s the W3F’s delegation, the foundation can remain a member of each DAO to keep tabs on them.