Project Updates from The Calm Tech Institute - January 2026 Complete Calm Tech Certified™ Product List, successful CES 2026 booth, international press coverage, conference keynotes, and what's on the horizon for this year. Read the full article on our Substack: metagov.substack.com/p/project-up...

Hot off the Substack press! Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention (Digital Zine Release) Check out our latest community-led research output and learn about how to leverage Metagov's community infrastructure for collaborations. metagov.substack.com/p/collective...

Like many collaborations in our community, it all started with a shared Google Doc (s/o @ntnsndr.in)... The Metagov community proudly presents "Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention" metagov.org/cg-ai/

If we're going to build AI at all, it'd BETTER BE to do good, to empower people, & to help us solve the most important problems that face humanity and our planet! @aspendigital.bsky.social is seeking input from food systems practitioners by Sept 30: www.aspendigital.org/feeding-the-... #UNGA #SDG2

The latest from our Research Director Josh Tan: International Access to Swiss AI's Apertus Language Model Now Available Through the Public AI Inference Utility: publicai.co Full Press Release: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Join us on Wednesday July 30th at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: @lukethorburn.com - Research Fellow at AI & Democracy Foundation will present on the Democracy Levels Framework. Learn more and register here - lu.ma/grmr04ke

Join us on Wednesday July 23 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: @kelani.bsky.social presents on Transfer Data Trust. ​TRANSFER Data Trust is a decentralized artist-owned archive and cooperative value exchange network. (​http://transfer.art) Learn more and register here - lu.ma/wondemt3

Join us on Wednesday July 2 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: @jamiejoyce.bsky.social will present on her work with The Society Library (www.societylibrary.org) Learn more and register here - lu.ma/bsqnutec

Announcing the selected fellows for Metagov's Governable Spacemakers Fellowship open.substack.com/pub/metagov/...

Join us on Wednesday June 4 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Discussing Veri Me (verimyid.com/home) - Identifier for researchers that goes beyond the traditional OrcID Identifiers Register and learn more here - lu.ma/i9ei12sm

Join us on Thursday May 22 at 11 AM ET for Theory and Practice Seminar: Deliberation @josephgubbels.bsky.social will facilitate a discussion on how deliberative democratic theory connects to new deliberative tech. Register and learn more here - lu.ma/gy8al1qt

Join us on Wednesday May 7 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: What are Meetings? @dsp.bsky.social will debut a new zine based on a learning club facilitated at Bathers Library in 2024, designed for you to use with your own learning club. For details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/291lt7pf

We’re hiring two postdocs at UC Davis and Cornell for research on collective intelligence and creativity. This project will use large-scale online experiments to study how groups become smarter and more creative through self-governance. ⅓

Join us on Wednesday April 30 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Becoming "Net Fiduciaries" with the GLIANet Alliance (Richard Whitt, Estefanie Govea). For more details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/2j4t2t12

Join us on Thursday April 24 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Community Call: A community discussion led by Joseph Low on collective intentionality in online & offline communities. For more details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/5ebfnk98

Join us on Wednesday April 23 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: A rule-based approach to mitigating AI-risk (Evan Miyazono). For more details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/m0lc3280

Metagov is looking for a Director of Financial Operations to manage and evolve the finances of a leading digital governance nonprofit. 🌐 Remote ⏰ Part-time (20+ hrs/week), overlap with US PT afternoons 💸 $55/hr Apply here → metagov.org/join/jobs/di... #Hiring #Governance #NonprofitJobs #Web3Jobs

Join us on Wednesday April 16 at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Metagov's new Theory+Practice project (Joseph Gubbels). For more details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/ty4wz4mj

Join us this Wednesday at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Choral Data 'Trust' Experiment by Serpentine Galleries (Tommy Introna and their colleagues/researchers). For more details and link to join, register here - lu.ma/gk6t0spt

Join us this Wednesday at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Learnings from COPIM (Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs) with Janneke Adema. For more details and the link to join, register here - lu.ma/fedacroh

Join us this Wednesday at 12 PM ET for Metagov Seminar: Intro to Participatory Action Research (PAR) – A Primer for Governance Researchers with Dr. Brett Stoudt from publicscienceproject.org at CUNY. For more details and the link to join, register here - lu.ma/9ev49hbj

Applications close tomorrow for the Governable Space-Makers Fellowship. Reimagine the possibilities for participatory online artwork and receive $8K in funding. More details below.

Join us at 12 pm ET for today's Metagov Seminar featuring Angela Kreitenweis who will be presenting on the Token Engineering Academy and her experience with massive decentralized learning communities. For more details and link to join - researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov...

Calm Tech Certification "Rewards" Less Distracting Tech The first certified devices were shown at CES 2025 spectrum.ieee.org/calm-tech

Join us at 12 pm ET for today's Metagov Seminar featuring Ty Sullberg "Ize “Mycelial Process Platform” demo and workshop" For more details and link to join - researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov...

Update: Based on feedback from our Q&A sessions, the deadline for the Governable Space-Makers Fellowship has been extended 1 month until February 20th.💫

Join us at 12 pm ET tomorrow for Metagov Seminar featuring Wingham Rowan "Modern Markets for All: digital public infrastructure to unlock each person’s economic potential" For more details and link to join - researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov...

Join us at 12 pm ET for today's Metagov Seminar featuring Ted Rau "Is consent watered-down consensus? 3 key differences that are easy to miss." For more details and link to join - researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov...

Applications are still open for our Governable Space-Makers Fellowship. We’ll be holding a Q&A tomorrow, Jan 8, at 18:00 UTC (lu.ma/fikzk8kq) and another on Jan 9 at 06:00 UTC (lu.ma/vr341lta). Come chat with us about any lingering questions, thoughts, and ideas

What does a “governable digital artifact” look like? Here are some examples to inspire you and contextualize what we have in mind🧵

Earn $8K as you explore new ways to bring digital artwork to life with collective agency in the Governable Space-Makers Fellowship! Applications are open until January 20 💫

Big news! Metagov is launching a new fellowship to support experiments in governable digital art. $8K each for an artist, a digital governance engineer, and a digital ethnographer working to open up digital art to new forms of community participation. Open Call below.

What if your digital artwork could take on new life by inviting community participation? Metagov’s new Governable Space-Makers Fellowship will support you in exploring collaborative governance for online creative work, with $8K in funding 🧬 Open Call drops tomorrow—stay posted for details.

Metagov is launching a new fellowship soon! 🌐 Three fellows (Artist, Developer, Ethnographer) will collaborate to make a digital artwork into a governable space. $8K stipend each. Details coming soon—applications open Dec 19. Stay tuned! #Governance #Fellowship #Metagov

Newsletter Droppp!!!🗞️ "Governance Games and Tool Experimentation in the Metagov Community" by @yogival.bsky.social metagov.substack.com/p/governance...

Metagov Seminar Join us today at 12pm ET (in 1 hr) for a presentation by Sam Schikowitz on "ARCH Voting Method Consensus-building Process" As always, more info & Zoom link available here - researchseminars.org/talk/Metagov....

We just had our first meeting of the Open Social Incubator cohort today. So inspiring to meet these extraordinary people from around the world. I can't wait for the communities they build here.

I’m very excited to announce the launch of Calm Tech Certified™, a new certification program from the Calm Tech Institute! A seal of approval for products that respect time, attention, and humanity.

📣 METAGOV SEMINAR Tomorrow October 30 at noon ET NEW FORMAT: a 1:1 debate on the topic of the ranked-choice voting proposals on the ballot in several US states, between leading experts and activists on the topic Link below-