Human Mediators in Hybrid Territorial DAO Governance

This paper contributes to the track by reframing inter-organizational relations in digital ecosystems as socio-technical arrangements in which algorithmic governance and locally embedded human mediation co-evolve, showing how hybrid territorial DAOs can remain workable and legitimate when algorithmic rules encounter contextual ambiguity. Into this direction, we conceptualize a locally embedded community agent as an intentional human-in-the-loop governance role that mediates between territorial realities and platform logics.