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RxC Community Poll Results 2021

June 16, 2021

To the Community of RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd.:

In keeping with our goal and promise to make the RadicalxChange Foundation democratically governed and accountable, the RxC team built a new participatory governance application called RxC Voice, combining liquid democracy, online deliberation, and quadratic voting. Having just concluded the first instance of this large-scale collective decision pilot, here are the results for the question posed: ‘What activities should the RadicalxChange Foundation prioritize in 2021-2022?’

The experiment ran from May 17th to June 8th, 2021 and was structured in three foundational stages: (1) Delegation, (2) Deliberation, and (3) Election. Prior to the event, the RxC Foundation team put out an open call inviting members of the community to take part in the pilot. Out of around 150 who requested to take part or were invited, 68 signed up and participated in the process by delegating voice credits to fellow representatives, engaging in a democratic conversation via Polis, ratifying the resulting ballot curated by RxC Foundation, and prioritizing the ballot’s 54 proposals in a quadratic vote. In the end the democratic process ran smoothly and resulted in actionable and valuable takeaways.

RxC Voice pilot results - bar graph

While all of the proposals are recognized, here are the top 5 ranked by votes: (For the complete proposal ranking, see the appendix below)

  1. Develop and refine RxC Voice with the aim of making it useful to other organizations, communities, or blockchain groups. (72 votes)
  2. Develop RxC Voice as an open source project via a community of users and developers who are willing to contribute work or money. (60 votes)
  3. Produce high-quality media (e.g. videos, presentations, podcasts) to communicate ideas more broadly. (54 votes)
  4. Develop RxC software to facilitate pilots of RxC ideas by chapters and others. (54 votes)
  5. Explore solutions outside of crypto/blockchain that relate to ideas identified in Radical Markets. (54 votes)

There was a strong mandate for the RadicalxChange Foundation to continue to develop RxC Voice and provide governance tools to all kinds of communities, which we will do. We also noted the strong support of our content creation. We will redouble our efforts to increase the frequency and caliber of presentations, podcasts, and other media, always striving to better communicate RxC ideas and facilitate discourse. The community signaled that RadicalxChange might be too focused on crypto and blockchain projects. While we maintain that RadicalxChange is not a crypto or blockchain focused community, we will make a concerted effort to broaden the dialogue and exposure of non-crypto and blockchain RxC and RM solutions, projects, and developing ideas.

These were just a few of the many valuable signals expressed in this experiment. Overall, we were delighted with the quality of participation from the delegates, and are really thrilled to have this new mechanism for community governance available to us. Thank you to all who participated and took the time to share their insights. And thanks to all RadicalxChange friends for the energy you continue to bring to the community!

If you have any questions, comments, or ideas about RxC Voice, feel free to visit the dedicated channels on our Discord server or contact us at voice@radicalxchange.org. You can also find the open-source code repository on Github, where you can feel free to clone, fork, submit pull requests, and post issues.

Jennifer Lyn Morone, Chief Executive Officer
Matthew Prewitt, President

Appendix

Complete list of proposals ranked by votes received

  1. Develop and refine RxC Voice with the aim of making it useful to other organizations, communities, or blockchain groups. (72 votes)

  2. Develop RxC Voice as an open source project via a community of users and developers who are willing to contribute work or money. (60 votes)

  3. Produce high-quality media (e.g. videos, presentations, podcasts) to communicate ideas more broadly. (54 votes)

  4. Develop RxC software to facilitate pilots of RxC ideas by chapters and others. (54 votes)

  5. Explore solutions outside of crypto/blockchain that relate to ideas identified in Radical Markets. (54 votes)

  6. Create “SALSA as a Service” to make it easy for anyone to implement Self-Assessed Licensing. (49 votes)

  7. Support business plan competitions featuring RxC ideas (e.g. Quadratic Funding, “data dividends”) in order to strengthen the RxC ecosystem and accelerate the shift of RxC principles from theory to practice. (48 votes)

  8. Experiment with RxC ideas in games (e.g. Minecraft, Monopoly) in order to educate people about public goods. (45 votes)

  9. Ballot Ratification (45 votes)

  10. Support vibrant and independent chapters with diverse approaches to accomplishing RxC’s mission. (44 votes)

  11. Start a regular program (e.g. a series of livestreams, podcasts, and/or blog posts) inviting critiques of RxC ideas in an effort to refine them and avoid groupthink. (43 votes)

  12. Explore alternatives to traditional money and traditional cryptocurrencies in order to account for social and ecological outcomes. (41 votes)

  13. Collaborate with the “democratic workplace” ecosystem as part of RxC’s work on partial common ownership. (39 votes)

  14. Explore non-monetary incentive systems. (38 votes)

  15. Develop accessible, educational resources on the RxC’s website (e.g. glossary, FAQs, “no stupid questions” atmosphere). (38 votes)

  16. Help businesses implement RxC ideas including by connecting them with legal experts. (37 votes)

  17. Hold regular, hands-on, practical workshops on using the various tools linked from the RxC website. (37 votes)

  18. Host online or physical opportunities for RxCers to meet one another. (36 votes)

  19. Do more events where interested participants can discuss, not just “lecture” formats where only the experts speak. (36 votes)

  20. Run public events that better embody democratic participation in order to reimagine democracy. (35 votes)

  21. Produce quality presentations and podcasts focused on putting theory to practice. (34 votes)

  22. Support arts organizations in implementing RxC tools. (32 votes)

  23. Build stronger global connections between chapters. (32 votes)

  24. Support communities outside of RxC, especially ones led by and serving communities with marginalized experiences. (32 votes)

  25. Structure RadicalxChange like a community or network rather than an organization run by an in-group (e.g. change mission statement and execution). (29 votes)

  26. Design RxC’s governance and communication structures to reflect the structures RxC wishes to build in society. (28 votes)

  27. Follow up with previous members of the RxC Fellowship Cohort to measure the impact of the Fellowship program. (28 votes)

  28. Define the core, shared ethical values of RadicalxChange. (28 votes)

  29. Create a debate format between thought leaders, using RxC Voice for audience participation, in order to increase engagement and valuable discussion. (27 votes)

  30. Improve the user experience on the RxC website (e.g. reduce sensory overload on the home page, employ A/B testing). (25 votes)

  31. Explore connections with rural communities. (24 votes)

  32. Build a community DAO to fund and plan features for RxC Voice. (22 votes)

  33. Do more events focused on the arts (e.g. music, art installations, theater). (22 votes)

  34. Invite people from adjacent communities to participate in RxC’s work (e.g. Complexity Weekend, Progress Studies, Effective Altruism). (20 votes)

  35. Increase the number of practical and technical experts involved in RxC’s work. (19 votes)

  36. Repackage RxC content into bite-sized social media posts. (19 votes)

  37. Create a central resource where chapters can request speakers on RxC topics. (19 votes)

  38. Design and sell merchandise (e.g. t-shirts, hoodies, stickers, etc.) to fund operations. (19 votes)

  39. Take a more active role in organizing RxC chapters around a cohesive vision. (18 votes)

  40. Structure communication in the RxC network to reflect peer-to-peer values instead of more centralized organizational structures. (18 votes)

  41. Invite an assortment of independent software projects to use RxC’s banner. (15 votes)

  42. Partner with Systems Thinking communities (e.g. Complexity Weekend, Santa Fe Institute, Systems Innovation) on developing and deploying RxC Voice. (14 votes)

  43. Increase outreach into and exchanges with AI communities (e.g. Alphabet, Facebook, universities). (13 votes)

  44. Build a network of chapters, each with its own RxC Fellowship program. (12 votes)

  45. Explore RxC ideas in the world of religion. (11 votes)

  46. Create a new Certified B Corporation to sell RxC Voice and associated services and pay dividends to RxC Communities. (11 votes)

  47. Establish a stronger “community owner” for each chapter within a decentralized RxC network. (9 votes)

  48. Partner with Our World in Data to identify (using RxC Voice) new articles and subjects to tackle. (8 votes)

  49. Partner with Rationality/Effective Altruism communities (e.g. Less Wrong, Effective Altruism) on developing and deploying RxC Voice. (6 votes)

  50. Support the growth of other non-profit organizations. (4 votes)

  51. Contact Works in Progress to publish the results of RxC Voice experiments. (4 votes)

  52. Clarify RxC’s definition of “sovereignty.” (0 votes)

  53. Partner with the Progress Studies community on developing and deploying RxC Voice for Human Progress. (-2 votes)

  54. Create tools to implement the ideas of Clayton Christensen’s book The Prosperity Paradox. (-3 votes)

  55. Act as a think tank and event promoter instead of building organizations and technology. (-14 votes)

6/25/21 Correction: The results published in the original version of this announcement were not correct. Though the votes were counted correctly, the site displayed incomplete data due to a bug. We have corrected the error, and the results shown are now accurate.