# Consortium DAC > Collective governance tools for communities Canonical: https://help.blockzhub.io/articles/consortium-dac ![](https://s3.amazonaws.com/blockzhub-help-center-public-images/articles/33cac5ff-ec9c-4ed3-98fb-6e5f068f206c/6c98d31f9be1.png) **Consortium** is a voting protocol that addresses those aspects of collective governance by enabling communities to access a token-weighted voting system. Consortium provides a method to aggregate community’s ideas and opinions that are: **Trustworthy** —signals provided only by the community’s token holders and stored on a public blockchain. **Incentive-based** —signal providers are rewarded with GOVRN tokens. **Accurate** — signals' strength is calculated utilizing [Quadratic Voting](https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2003531) principles. The aim is to incentivize communities to be part in their organization’s development. Being part by the provision of valuable information (signals) that could be used to: * **create new products and services or provide feedback to the existing ones** * **provide reactions to the recent news and formulate the community’s general sentiment** * **formulate new worker proposals for the workers or multi sig for custodians (in case of a DAC)** * **keep custodians and workers continuously in check (in case of a DAC)** Such signals are invaluable for social organizations since that information could be utilized continuously in general decision-making by all the stakeholders. The Consortium is accessible from: --- Author: Peter Valenčič Editor: Markus Hinrichs Translation: - Sources & References: * [Consortium](https://app.consortium.vote/)