“The application of decentralised autonomous organisation (DAO) governance mechanisms—token-weighted voting, proposal systems, treasury management—to coordinate geographically distributed teams through on-chain decision-making, enabling democratic, transparent collaboration without centralised ma…
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DAO Governance for Telecollaboration enables distributed teams to make decisions democratically through blockchain-based voting. Token holders propose initiatives (“Fund project X with £50K”), vote proportionally to token ownership or reputation, and approved proposals execute automatically via smart contracts TELE-251-smart-contract-coordination.
Governance Models
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Token-Weighted Voting: 1 token = 1 vote (risk: plutocracy)
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Quadratic Voting: Cost of N votes = N² tokens (prevents whale dominance)
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Reputation-Based: Non-transferable reputation from contributions
Examples
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Uniswap DAO: 400K token holders govern $5B decentralised exchange
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Gitcoin: Funds open-source developers via quadratic funding
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MakerDAO: Manages $5B DeFi protocol via MKR token voting
Advantages
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Democratic: All token holders participate in decisions
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Transparent: Proposals, votes, transactions public on blockchain
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Global: Anyone with internet can join, regardless of geography/citizenship
Challenges
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Low Turnout: Only 5-10% of token holders vote (governance fatigue)
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Plutocracy: Wealthy token holders dominate decisions
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Slow: Proposal-vote-execution cycle takes days-weeks
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