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Tweaked Basics to including emphasis on scale; added yunity to Resources

Nathan Schneider 5 years ago
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 **This is a collaborative directory of democratic mediums—patterns for decision, deliberation, and noise.** It brings lessons from political, corporate, and community governance into conversation with the people inventing the next generation of institutions with permissionless networks and radical markets.
 
-The directory collects discrete governance techniques that can be adapted, combined, and modified for new institutional designs. It draws on research and experience to help designers make informed decisions about which tools will best serve their communities.
+The directory collects discrete governance techniques that can be adapted, combined, and modified for new institutional designs, with a focus on large-scale communities. It draws on diverse research and experience to help such communities make informed choices about how they self-govern.
 
 Democratic Mediums is a project of the [Media Enterprise Design Lab](https://cmci.colorado.edu/medlab/) at the University of Colorado Boulder, led by [Nathan Schneider](https://www.colorado.edu/cmci/people/media-studies/nathan-schneider).

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 * Wikipedia:
     - [Comparison of electoral systems](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_electoral_systems)
     - [Portal: Elections](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portal:Elections)
-* [Wise Democracy Project patterns](https://www.wd-pl.com/patterns-by-name/)
+* [Wise Democracy Project patterns](https://www.wd-pl.com/patterns-by-name/)
+* yunity, "[Modules for sustainable organization](https://yunity.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/YUN/pages/18317679/Modules+for+sustainable+organization)"

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 <!-- Chinese citizen score -->
 <!-- social media platforms -->
 <!-- Aragon -->
+<!-- Colony: http://www.erasmuslawreview.nl/tijdschrift/ELR/2019/01/ELR_2018_011_003_005 -->