Stewarded by humanity. For humanity.
Semo is programmed to become decentralized and democratic. Become part of Semo's emerging decision making in the Semo Vote app.
Held in commonHeld in trust
The network and its commons cannot be sold or captured. Capital contributions confer no special voting rights and no veto powers.
One human, one vote
Every verified human has the right to one account to propose, discuss and vote on matters that affect Semo.
Designed for self-dissolution
Stewards promise to develop decentralised governance until their steward role becomes irrelevant — then to drop their rights.
Nine commitments every curator makes.
Anyone with curation access to Semo — the people who can change code, governance or operations — promises the following. Anyone with curation access can be outvoted from curation access.
- Ensure accessible insight regarding any change to Semo for anyone, anywhere.
- Ensure that each change to Semo signals acceptance of the Constitution.
- Ensure that, if any clause is found unenforceable, the remainder remains in effect.
- Develop decentralised, collective governance — to make their own steward role irrelevant.
- Develop Semo toward a regenerative and equitable economy.
- Use traditional resources and revenue streams (with all their imperfections) to grow Semo into a self-sustaining system.
- Enable private financial gain only through transparent, rule-based flows adopted by the community.
- Focus initially on underprivileged people regarding adoption of the Semo economy.
- Drop all rights to make changes to Semo as soon as the other promises are fulfilled.
Money flows in. It does not capture.
Semo accepts grants, redeemable capital and other non-extractive instruments to bootstrap the work. None of it buys influence.
- No special rights. Capital contributions confer no voting rights and no veto powers.
- Public accounting. All capital agreements, flows and balances are disclosed.
- Capped returns. Any financial return is capped, paid only from designated surplus, and never compromises core services or contributor rewards.
- Voice ≠ capital. Voice tokens remain distinct from, and unrelated to, any capital inflow.
Steward, contribute, or vote.
The Constitution is the contract. The commons is the practice. Join in decision making. Download the Semo Vote app.