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RxC Community Poll Results 2022

July 8, 2022

To the Community of RadicalxChange Foundation Ltd.:

We recently concluded our second annual Community Poll using RxC Voice.[1] Over the first three weeks of May, 38 members[2] of our community considered the question: “What activities should the RadicalxChange Foundation prioritize in 2022-2023?” Participants in the poll delegated voice credits to fellow community members, deliberated in a Polis conversation, ratified the resulting ballot curated by RxC Foundation, and prioritized the ballot’s 23 proposals in a quadratic vote. Consistent with the results from last year’s inaugural Community Poll[3], the democratic process ran smoothly and resulted in actionable and valuable takeaways.

Community poll results 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. Improve the UI/UX of RxC Voice so that anyone can get their community/organization up and running quickly. (50 votes)
  2. Provide clear guidelines, toolkit, educational materials & other resources to help chapters organize. (43 votes)
  3. Leverage the newsletter, so interested members don’t have to be on Discord 24/7. (43 votes)
  4. Help organizations and communities experiment with RadicalxChange ideas in the real world. (40 votes)
  5. Make educational content to explain RadicalxChange ideas and philosophy to people without background in political economy / tech. (37 votes)

The poll results send a clear signal for the RadicalxChange Foundation to focus on making its tools, methodologies, and resources legible and useful to chapters and other communities.

As a matter of fact, we have already begun a project that we believe will be instrumental in achieving this goal: an RxC Wiki. We would like the RxC Wiki to become a central repository containing all collective knowledge about RxC concepts, tools, and methodologies. For example, we want the page on Quadratic Voting to contain not only detailed information on how QV works, but also what decision-making bodies have experimented with QV and what they learned from those experiments. We also want the Wiki to be a source of collective knowledge, so we are designing it to be editable by anyone on Github. Once we have finished writing the core content for the Wiki, we will publish it to our website and make it editable by the whole community. Relatedly, we are also developing digestible educational content, including a series of videos intended to explain various RadicalxChange concepts to a wider audience.

We will continue to expand our efforts to facilitate pilots of RadicalxChange ideas in the real world. We have had some major successes this year, including Quadratic Voting polls in the Colorado State Legislature and the Nashville Metropolitan Council. Controlled, iterative, real-world experimentation with radical ideas remains core to our mission at RadicalxChange.

We also hear the feedback regarding our newsletter loud and clear. We will put greater focus on making it an engaging and reliable source of information about ongoing projects, new publications, and other RxC news.

Finally, we will continue to iterate on the RxC Voice platform itself. There remains much work to be done to improve the UI/UX, particularly for those who wish to run decision-making events of their own using the app.

These were just a few of the many valuable signals expressed in the poll—you can find the rest below. 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.

Appendix

  1. Improve the UI/UX of RxC Voice so that anyone can get their community/organization up and running quickly. (50 votes)
  2. Provide clear guidelines, toolkit, educational materials & other resources to help chapters organize. (43 votes)
  3. Leverage the newsletter, so interested members don’t have to be on Discord 24/7. (43 votes)
  4. Help organizations and communities experiment with RadicalxChange ideas in the real world. (40 votes)
  5. Make educational content to explain RadicalxChange ideas and philosophy to people without background in political economy / tech. (37 votes)
  6. Promote data dignity (the term and its underlying ideas) and recommend policy to accelerate its implementation. (33 votes)
  7. Focus on building tools. (31 votes)
  8. Support the production of educational material on partial common ownership. (29 votes)
  9. Reward artists & content creators focused on pluralistic imaginaries, to give its theory a palpable texture, color & aesthetics. (28 votes)
  10. Author a new book. Radical Markets is kind of outdated and lacks the right voice. It needs to be grounded yet aspirational. (23 votes)
  11. Engage with DAOs wanting to adopt soulbound NFTs for their communities. (21 votes)
  12. Open an application process through which organizations that meet specific criteria can receive free consulting and implementation of RxC Voice. (20 votes)
  13. Proliferate educational resources & cultural artifacts (e.g. videos, gifs, memes, etc) that help RadicalxChange concepts reach gen Z-ers & mainstream audiences. (20 votes)
  14. Create more podcasts. (20 votes)
  15. Ballot Ratification (19 votes)
  16. RxC should produce English language videos about Taiwan’s political reforms. Ideally vlog style with interviews, not lectures. (19 votes)
  17. Operate more like an open-source project, using online tools that facilitate collaboration and exchange of knowledge. (19 votes)
  18. Rather than data, let’s focus on knowing. Societally-shared knowing. Comprehensively reflective. Ground-reported. e.g., from all colleges. Create collective-knowing websites. eg, no-water-HERE. (12 votes)
  19. Encourage voices to volunteer identifiers (e.g. male, euro.) in dialogue with others for transparent pluralism. ‘Real World’ democracy requires diversity of stakeholders. (11 votes)
  20. Focus on web3 governance as a top priority issue. (8 votes)
  21. Enable connection to web3 wallets on RxC Voice. (4 votes)
  22. Develop a name for RadicalxChange’s ideology and a polcomball wiki page and flag to go with it. (1 votes)
  23. Help make Twitter a place that espouses the ideals we hold in the RadicalxChange community. (-3 votes)
  24. Develop shared symbolism and “mythology”. Flags, songs, events, rituals, etc. Like how Georgists had the Land song. (-9 votes)

Notes

  1. We built RxC Voice as an open source, a participatory governance platform that combines liquid democracy, online deliberation, and Quadratic Voting. Reach out if you want help integrating the tool into your community! ↩︎

  2. All members of our community were invited to this open process via the RadicalxChange newsletter, Twitter, and Discord. All who responded to the sign-up form were invited to participate in the poll. ↩︎

  3. See results from last year’s inaugural poll. ↩︎