- This is a basic learning project about shared decision making. It doesn’t matter whether that shared deciding happens in the context of a horizontal or vertical authority experience. Each experience needs a type of governance used by the people participating in it. Whatever the type, it requires consistency, at least within itself. People need to understand how it works and what they are entitled to in it. People want to be able to use it, develop it, defend it, challenge it, discard it in favour of a better model. A valuable insight people might entertain about governance is it is a process that can review and reform itself even while it’s in use. But people also need to understand what governance can and can’t do.