Proposal Description
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Milestone & Budget
Milestone title: Research
Deliverables: Interview with different participant groups, Gather publicly available data, Review documents, Send information inquiries to various stakeholders
Outputs: Gather the experiences of key participant groups, estimate the ecosystem's current size, and collect existing governance models, incentives, and decision processes.
Documentation: Raw interview transcriptions, data, and documents.
Time: 1 month
Budget: $16,416
Milestone title: Analysis
Deliverables: Summarize insights from interviews, analyze publicly gathered data, summarize information gathered from documents and inquiries, and provide recommendations.
Outputs: All data is processed into our assessment framework in a succinct format. Review of outcomes and writing of recommendations.
Documentation: Report formatted in a Google doc and a bunch of governance and ecosystem models visualizations.
Time: 1 month
Budget: $16,416
Milestone title: Report publishing
Deliverables: Organizing all information in PDF, disseminating PDF, and sending out invites to public workshops.
Outputs: The community can read the report in a friendly format.
Documentation: A PDF, a slide deck summarizing key findings for each section.
Time: 2 weeks
Budget: $8,083 + $1000 for design.
Milestone title: Workshops
Deliverables: Organizing 2 workshops, gathering feedback on the report and workshop, and disseminating workshop recordings.
Outputs: The report is being discussed, and conclusions and next steps get decided on.
Documentation: Recording and meeting summary. Time: 2 weeks
Budget: $8,083
Long Description
Radical Ecosystems
Dor Garbash & Johnny Nguyen: Creators of Catalyst and Intersect MBO
Summary
Without an ecosystem strategy, it's unlikely for the ecosystem to thrive. We will identify key levers to dramatically improve Singularity Net's Ecosystem's ROI through rigorous data collection, analysis, and workshops with key stakeholders.
Funding Amount
$50,000
The Problem to be Solved
What is Singularity Net's Ecosystem strategy? Without getting this right we will not be able to attract the best talent and create the most powerful innovations.
Our Solution
A Rigorous Builder centric strategy, based on interviews with Ecosystem builders and innovators, and expert assessment.
Marketing Strategy
The Target audience is all stakeholders that impact the ecosystems: Administrators, DAO members, founding organizations, and especially builders.
The report will be formatted as a PDF and will be disseminated through Singularity Net's Discord, Forum, relevant TG channels, and Townhall.
Workshops will be recorded, and published on Youtube, and links to them shared through community channels.
Our Project Milestones and Cost Breakdown
Milestone title: Research
Deliverables: Interview with different participant groups, Gather publicly available data, Review documents, Send information inquiries to various stakeholders
Outputs: Gather the experiences of key participant groups, estimate the ecosystem's current size, and collect existing governance models, incentives, and decision processes.
Documentation: Raw interview transcriptions, data, and documents.
Time: 1 month
Budget: $16,416
Milestone title: Analysis
Deliverables: Summarize insights from interviews, analyze publicly gathered data, summarize information gathered from documents and inquiries, and provide recommendations.
Outputs: All data is processed into our assessment framework in a succinct format. Review of outcomes and writing of recommendations.
Documentation: Report formatted in a Google doc and a bunch of governance and ecosystem models visualizations.
Time: 1 month
Budget: $16,416
Milestone title: Report publishing
Deliverables: Organizing all information in PDF, disseminating PDF, and sending out invites to public workshops.
Outputs: The community can read the report in a friendly format.
Documentation: A PDF, a slide deck summarizing key findings for each section.
Time: 2 weeks
Budget: $8,083 + $1000 for design.
Milestone title: Workshops
Deliverables: Organizing 2 workshops, gathering feedback on the report and workshop, and disseminating workshop recordings.
Outputs: The report is being discussed, and conclusions and next steps get decided on.
Documentation: Recording and meeting summary. Time: 2 weeks
Budget: $8,083
Risk and Mitigation
The Key risk is that our recommendations would not get implemented.
Our mitigation approach is the following:
(1) Engage and involve key stakeholders throughout this process.
(2) We have greatly influenced the Cardano and Mina ecosystems in the past and we know the appropriate approach to achieve success here as well:
We use thoughtfully articulated and actionable recommendations, taking feedback from stakeholders into account and achieving alignment.
(3) Specifically our workshops will include an explicit discussion and articulation of who's responsible for implementing the recommendation
so they can be tracked over time.
(4) If for some reason a high-impact recommendation will not be followed, we will create a follow-up proposal to accelerate the implementation of key recommendations.
(5) If our proposal is accepted we will submit a follow-up proposal for tracking the impact of following the recommendation over time. (Pool budget doesn't allow to include that in scope unfortunately)
Voluntary Revenue
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Open Source
All outputs will be published with a CC0 license (https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/)
Our Team
Dor Garbash has worked as Head of Governance in IOHK and Head of Ecosystem in Mina’s blockchain. He initiated and led the Creation and growth of Catalyst as well as the early formation of Cardano’s governance and Drep structure. In Mina, he has led the creation of Onchain governance and their Radical Innovation Fund zkIgnite. Dor also led the development of the first decentralized proposal system in Ethereum as part of his role of product manager in DAOstack.
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Johnny Nguyen was a Director at IOHK and initially responsible for the Decentralized Consortium Fund and then subsequently the Cardano Member-Based Organization. Johnny laid much of the groundwork that resulted in what is now known as the Intersect MBO. Johnny has a career in enterprise technology that spans nearly three decades with emphasis on software engineering, application development, and enterprise architecture. In addition to his role and contributions at IOG, Johnny has always been a voice in the Cardano Community and is an advisor to several ecosystem projects including Charli3 and Indigo Protocol. Johnny is an advocate for Open Source Software and Open Collaboration and has moderated panels on Open Source Development in Cardano at the Cardano Summit.
Relevant Links:
Additional Links:
Related Links
https://radicalecosystems.com/
https://projectcatalyst.io/
https://zkignite.minaprotocol.com/
https://www.intersectmbo.org/
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