Distributed social governance

Distributed social governance is an idea that the principle of distributed / decentralized computer systems -- systems without central locus or control -- can be applied to social governance. We define distributed social governance as:

a collective and conscious use of social system design methodologies and tools comprising an intellectual technology by which alliances of intelligent agents build shared representations of reality, visions of the future and seek their realizations without building control hierarchies.

We discuss it in some more detail in the paper on Living Cognitive Society.