Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse

Ehud Shapiro; Nimrod Talmon

Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse

Ehud Shapiro
, Nimrod Talmon

Department of Industrial Engineering and Management

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6 Scopus citations

Abstract

While the physical lives of many of us are in democracies (one person, one vote - e.g., the EU and the US), our digital lives are mostly in autocracies (one person, all votes - e.g., Facebook). Cryptocurrencies promise liberation but stop short, at plutocracy (one coin, one vote). What would it take for us to live in a digital democracy? This paper offers a vision, a theoretical framework, and an architecture for a grassroots network of autonomous, people-owned, people-operated, and people-governed digital communities, namely a grassroots democratic metaverse. It also charts a roadmap towards realizing it, and identifies unexplored territory for MAS research.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022
Publisher	International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS)
Pages	1814-1818
Number of pages	5
ISBN (Electronic)	9781713854333
State	Published - 1 Jan 2022
Event	21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022 - Auckland, Virtual, New Zealand Duration: 9 May 2022 → 13 May 2022

Publication series

Name	Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Volume	3
ISSN (Print)	1548-8403
ISSN (Electronic)	1558-2914

Conference

Conference	21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022
Country/Territory	New Zealand
City	Auckland, Virtual
Period	9/05/22 → 13/05/22

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Keywords

Blockchain
Democratic DAO
Digital Democracy
Digital Social Contracts
Grassroots Cryptoeconomy
Grassroots Protocol Stack
On-Chain Governance
Personal & Community Cryptocurrency
Social Choice
Sybil Resilience

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Artificial Intelligence
Software
Control and Systems Engineering

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Shapiro, E., & Talmon, N. (2022). Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse. In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022 (pp. 1814-1818). (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS; Vol. 3). International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS).

Shapiro, Ehud ; Talmon, Nimrod. / Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse. International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), 2022. pp. 1814-1818 (Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS).

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Shapiro, E & Talmon, N 2022, Foundations for Grassroots Democratic Metaverse. in International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022. Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS, vol. 3, International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (IFAAMAS), pp. 1814-1818, 21st International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS 2022, Auckland, Virtual, New Zealand, 9/05/22.

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Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

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