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(Months)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The problem selection of applied research is broken due to master and PhD researchers lacking industry contact. This in turn trickles down to poor translation of research findings to inform industry practices.\nRnDAO functions as an R&D ecosystem for research-led venture building. Using 'dynamic equity' frameworks to encourage researchers to engage in venture-building and mentoring entrepreneurs in research. This has for example led to TogetherCrew.com (tool for community-powered growth) being born out of a research project into community health in DAO.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our venture-building approach enables the incentivisation of applied research, while also promoting deeper engagement with and appreciation of research amongst builders. This has for example led to a collaboration with RMIT, or more recently with UC Santa Barabara.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funds go directly to supporting research initiatives in RnDAO. At the moment, we're advancing funding for research into how different types of reputation can be mapped unto a governance process in DAOs, helping the ecosystem move past a \"catch all\" narrative of reputation that leads to competition. Instead, we're leveraging a deeper understanding of political and organisational theory to inform collaboration amongst different groups of builders approaching reputation through different strategies.\nWith $1k funding we'll be able to provide a public map of governance processes of a sample community.\nWith $3k, we can also provide a public ontology of reputation types.\nWith $6k, we'll be able to combine the reputation ontology with the governance mapping and run 2 workshops to map how the two intersect, also supported by a literature review.\nThe projected timeline for the project is 16 weeks.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project. ", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "no", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15/ Beta) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We haven't participated in previous deci rounds. However, we have participated in previous grant programmes and that has allowed us to complete recently a research fellowship sponsoring 6 builders to dive deep into a topic related to human collaboration and release public research. Their publication is in our blog:\nhttps://www.rndao.io/blog/category/articles", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "no conflict of interest. Please note that although our work directly facilitates research, RnDAO is a DAO. 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Our work includes ecosystem development methodologies ( fund deployment through grants and combined methods), governance, operations, identity and reputation, and community.\n    \n2. **[Venture Building:](https://www.rndao.info/our-ventures)** applying the learnings to incubate and build research-informed tools, and offering an \u201cinnovation space\u201d (community as a service, team coaching, strategy facilitation, networks and partnerships) for early stage tooling projects. \n\n \n    Our current ventures include:\n    \n      - [TogetherCrew |](https://www.togethercrew.com/) \n      - [Meet With Wallet |](https://meetwithwallet.xyz/) \n      - [Harmonica |](https://linktr.ee/harmoni.ca) \n      - [Microflow |](https://microflow.app/) \n      - [CollabBerry](https://x.com/collabberry) \n      - [Farstar](https://farstar.co/)\n      - [Cofound3r](https://www.cofound3r.com/)\n    \n3. **[Community Education](https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks/videos):** sharing our research, recording informative interviews with public goods innovators and projects, and running educational webinars and X (Twitter) spaces to support venture builders.\n    \n    Published Research on [Mirror](https://rndao.mirror.xyz/) and our [Blog](https://www.rndao.io/blog/category/articles)\n    \n    [RnDAO Talks](https://www.youtube.com/@rndaotalks/videos) on Youtube\n    \n    [Events & Webinars](https://lu.ma/u/rndao) schedule\n    \n    [![RUB23_VideoThumb_Guil-Cori (1).png](https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/652005eee7b34681ca9b88ac/654a86ff4977ea0dde4e967c_RnDAO%20Sizzle%20vid%20cover.png)`](https://youtu.be/oSFS3Yv-nW8)\n\n\nAnd we\u2019re just getting stronger.\n\n---\n\n# **What your support will help us build next**\n\nWe have bootstrapped our way to where we are, all funds go towards:\n\n- Continue to support our existing ventures as they mature\n- Onboard the next cohort of ventures creating swarm tech innovation\n- Research core challenges to produce in-depth public goods analysis\n- Develop the RnDAO community into a movement promoting humane collaboration\n- Share best practices about ecosystem development and organisation\n\n---\n\n# **What is RnDAO bringing to web3?**\n\nRnDAO is a swarm focused on the future of work.\n\nThe Ethereum ecosystem has developed very significant infrastructure, and now we can begin to focus on developing impactful applications.\n\nBut how? When a builder has identified the right problem, many lack the research skills to dive deep and the supporting community to pull them out of theoretical weeds. No wonder **75% of hackathon winners abandon their projects and 90% of accelerated startups fail.**\n\nRnDAO\u2019s Swarm model finds, funds, and fosters projects that focus on collaboration tech. This work will seed a collaboration-tech product ecosystem that:\n\n- Delivers commercially viable ventures that address societal challenges with impact in both Web3 and beyond\n- Develops operational and governance excellence as a key capability for the broader web3 ecosystem\n\nWe've cultivated an expert community focused on collaboration challenges, from Oxford to INSEAD, Google, BCG, Aragon, Gitcoin, Polygon and beyond. We connect those passionate about reinventing collaboration with those knowledgeable about the intricacies.\n\n\n*\"Improving human collaboration is perhaps the highest leverage activity we can undertake; it has a systemic impact on the major challenges we have as a species.\"* - Daniel Ospina\n\n---\n\n# **Meet the Team**\n\n[**About us**](https://www.rndao.io/about-us)\n\n\n\n\n\u26ab [Visit our Website](https://www.rndao.io/)\n\n\u26ab [Join our Discord](https://discord.com/invite/jKaYS2dkXq)\n\n\u26ab\u00a0[Follow us on Twitter](https://twitter.com/RnDAO__)", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "RnDAO", "projectTwitter": "rndao__"}, "recipient": "0x2ac0d09D97bc824FE32A467Ccb96f7c1e447CcF6"}}