Civics Committee Minutes 4th June 2026

Attendees

Name	Attendance	Role	Voting Seat (Y/N)	Election Term
Nicolas Cerny	Yes	Chair	Y	April 2028
Larisa Mcfarlane	Yes	Intersect	N	N/A
Megan Dyamond	No	Member	Y	October 2026
Thomas Lindseth	Yes	Secretary	N	N/A
Ken-Erik Ølmheim	Yes	Member	Y	April 2028
Simon Fleck	No	Member	Y	October 2026
Ian Hartwell	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Musa Ridwan Itopa	Yes	Member	Y	October 2026
Beatrice Anihiri	Yes	Member	Y	April 2028
Jose Miguel De Gamboa	Yes	Member	Y	April 2028

Sources

CIVICS Committee (Intersect) Meeting - 2026/06/04 14:56 CEST - Notes by Gemini

CIVICS Committee (Intersect) Meeting - 2026/06/04 14:56 CEST - Recording

Agenda Items

• Intersect Steering Committee (ISC) Updates

• Committee Chair and Vice Chair Elections Status

• Constitutional Committee (CC) Election Timeline and Candidate Shortage

• Beyond Minimum Viable Governance (Beyond MVG) Presentation

Decisions/Actions

Decisions Made

• CC Election Registration Extension: The committee voted 6-0 (with 1 abstention) to extend the Constitutional Committee election registration deadline by two weeks to June 21, 2026, at 21:45 UTC, to address a critical shortage of candidates.

Action Items

• TL & LM: Conduct a back-end data audit of the internal Chair/Vice Chair results immediately following the meeting closure to guarantee technical system integrity before making a public announcement.

• TL: Coordinate immediately with the Ekklesia team to implement the extended registration changes before the weekend.

• Civics Committee members: Launch social media outreach campaigns and directly engage core ecosystem teams (Cardano Foundation, Intersect, IOG) to amplify and boost candidate registration visibility.

• NS: Coordinate directly with the Africa Asia Coalition to source potential qualified candidates for the open CC positions.

• TL: Compile the specific operational and logistical blockers raised by potential candidates who decided against applying.

• Civics Committee members: Review the Beyond MVG slide deck and cost-benefit analysis data to prepare for building a prioritisation matrix in the upcoming strategy workshops.

Topic Notes

Topic	Discussion	Notes
1. ISC Policy Updates	NC presented the updated Committee Member Dismissal and Replacement Policy. Grounds for dismissal were made explicit, focusing on a 50% attendance threshold across official voting sessions.	NC commended the current Civics cohort for maintaining strong, active engagement.
2. Internal Elections	The committee's internal Chair/Vice Chair vote entered its final minutes. Results will be delayed by two hours on the portal to allow administrative back-end tracking audits.	Civics is serving as the initial trial group for this year's automated web framework.
3. CC Registration	Four candidates registered for the four expiring spots, eliminating any competitive element for an off-chain community vote.	TL noted that only two expiring members applied to re-run, while others explicitly declined to seek another term.
4. Technical Bottlenecks	TL confirmed that two draft profiles remain unsubmitted in the portal due to candidates assessing community dynamics or awaiting clarity on the landscape.	Competitive choices are seen as constitutionally critical for sustaining valid ecosystem selection dynamics.
5. Beyond MVG Insights	DS delivered a summary detailing data-driven vulnerabilities, highlighting gradual voting power concentration risks driven by unconstrained DRep stake accumulation.	Dormant network stake remains far higher than active voting footprints across Cardano governance.
6. Tooling & Support	Existing CC members face severe information asymmetry and overhead. Unlike DReps, specialized review software was never prioritized or deployed for constitutional analysis.	DS recommended a baseline $50,000 reimbursement pool for secure local hardware and entity protections.
7. Operational Anonymity	BA highlighted historical security feedback where sharing detailed hardware asset invoices or physical business locations exposed members to targeted threat vectors.	Future funding systems must balance public accountability against absolute physical safety requirements.