Seminar: "I Wrote the Magna Carta, and You Can Too": A New Grand Charter for Democracy Cities ft. Joe Mathews

​The city of Rome assigned Joe Mathews, an American journalist, to write a new grand charter for “democracy cities.” He says, "It went very differently than he expected."

​Joe Mathews is a scholar of local democracy worldwide. We've invited Joe to Metagov Seminar to present on his experience being voluntold to write a new City Charter for Rome during Italy’s 5 star movement and how it spread around the world.

Read Joe's piece for NOEMA "I write the Magna Carta, and You Can Too": https://www.noemamag.com/i-wrote-the-magna-carta-and-you-can-too/

​Learn more about Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joe-mathews-2239aa3/

More about Metagov Seminar: The Metagov Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners. Seminar topics include, but are not limited to, computational tools for governance, governance incidents and case studies from online communities, topics in cryptoeconomics, and the design of digital constitutions.

​​​​The seminar is intended for researchers and practitioners in online governance, broadly defined. We welcome guests and curious members of the public. Note that the discussion is moderated.