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This decentralized infrastructure enables communities to build and share knowledge commons, cultivate collective intelligence, and coordinate impactful ground activities for deep social change.", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Summary (1-3 sentences for social media)", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Jan 1, 2023", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Inception Date", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Darren Zal, https://twitter.com/zaldarren\nShawn Anderson, https://twitter.com/ygg_anderson\nBK, https://twitter.com/bgkakadiya\nDholariya Dharmik, https://twitter.com/Dharmik79\nMonty Merlin Bryant, https://twitter.com/MontyMerlin\nScott Morris, https://twitter.com/thetokenjedi ", "hidden": false, "question": "Project Team Members (plus social links)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Darren Zal, Scott Morris", "hidden": true, "question": "Which project steward is a member of OpenCivics?", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "No", "hidden": false, "question": "Have you received a grant from OpenCivics previously?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "$10,000", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project has received to date?", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "0", "hidden": false, "question": "What is the total amount of funding your project received in 2023?", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "No public documentation on finances.  We won some prizes at a hackathon at ETH Denver and received $10,000.  ", "hidden": false, "question": "If your project has any public reports or documentation on its budgeting and finances, please share links here:", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The long-term vision of the Mycelial Civic Knowledge Network is to enable a paradigm shift towards bottom-up collaboration and the emergence of a planetary network of bioregional communities. We aim to provide communities with the tools to build and steward their own knowledge commons, democratizing access to evolving knowledge ecosystems and facilitating collaboration at both local and global scales.\n\nThis cosmo-local approach empowers place-based social groups to cultivate local economies and governance while simultaneously connecting with other bioregional communities through digital tools such as knowledge networks, the internet, and web3. By fostering this interplay between local autonomy and global collaboration, we seek to create a third way between dystopian government control and market failures.\n\nCommunities will be equipped to coordinate impactful ground activities, propagate regenerative culture, and cultivate the collective intelligence necessary to address interconnected global challenges. Ultimately, we envision a world where a planetary network of resilient, equitable, and regenerative bioregional communities emerges, each with the knowledge, tools, and coordination capacity to directly govern and steward their commons.", "hidden": false, "question": "What is your project\u2019s long term vision for civic impact?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Identity and attestation", "hidden": false, "question": "Which areas of collaborative infrastructure does your project address, if any? ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The grant will fund activities related to the development of critical collaborative protocols, prototypes, and infrastructures that enable civic engagement and interoperable civic utilities. Specifically, the grant will support:\n\n- Research and development of attestation-based solutions for various civic engagement use cases, such as local community trust networks, reputation systems, skill attestations, funding, and evaluations.\n\n- Enhancement of decentralized knowledge graph databases, AI-driven interfaces, and additional features to support community collaboration and collective intelligence within the Community Knowledge Networks.\n\n- Integration of the Civic Attestation Network and Community Knowledge Networks to create a comprehensive stack of technologies that support regenerative civic engagement.\n\n- Prototyping and testing of the Mycelial Civic Knowledge Network with diverse communities to validate its potential for enabling multi-agent coordination and deep social change.\n\nThese activities align with the OpenCivics Consortium's focus on funding projects that address the diverse stack of collaborative protocols needed for successful multi-agent coordination, such as identity and attestation, decentralized project management, systems-aware strategic alignment processes, and participatory governance and learning.", "hidden": false, "question": "How would you classify the types of activities this grant will fund?", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Develop our existing attestation network for impact, which uses the Ecological Benefits Framework (EBF), and combine with the ReFi knowledge graph, which includes projects making real world impact, and allow people to attest to the impact of these projects.\nThis will demonstrate how attestations can be used democratically to account for impact, be combined with other networked data in the knowledge graph.  ", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the first milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The existance of impact attestations for real world projects, integrated in a knowledge network. \n\nOpen source tooling and documentation for how to do this.", "hidden": false, "question": "How can this first milestone be verified?", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Other useful attestation schemas for foundational civic engagement processes.  These could be focused on local plase-based mapping. ", "hidden": false, "question": "(Optional) Please describe the second milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Existance and useage of alternative attesation schemas.", "hidden": false, "question": "(Optional) How can this second milestone be verified?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Development of knowledge network tooling, including analytics for attestation networks.   For example, algorithms for predicting missing knowledge or weighting attestations.", "hidden": false, "question": "(Optional) Please describe the third milestone within your project which you hope to achieve with the funding from this grant round?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Existance of useful software that build on and makes use of the knowledge networks, especially the attestations.  This could include working examples.  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This cosmo-local approach enables communities to build and share knowledge commons, cultivate collective intelligence, and coordinate impactful ground activities. By providing tools for community mapping, onboarding, coordination, and innovation, we seek to create a decentralized infrastructure for multi-agent collaboration and deep social change.\n\nIn the face of interconnected global challenges, we find ourselves stuck between dystopian government control and markets blind to energy, resources, and pollution. We believe that a third way, centered around bottom-up civic participation in cultivating commons as an alternative institution, is crucial. A foundational component of such commons is shared knowledge. We aim to build tools to aid community knowledge building and sharing.\n\n![DIKW](https://github.com/DarrenZal/Myseelia/blob/9c92f38eaa55ef536ef298b6f1b42b1b87fad332/Solution%20-%203.png?raw=true)\n\n\nOne piece of this is community knowledge graphs, which are living, AI-infused databases designed to:\n\n- Foster collective intelligence\n- Propagate regenerative culture and insights\n- Coordinate impactful ground activities\n- Educate and integrate local communities globally\n\nThe combination of AI tools with community knowledge graphs will democratize access to an evolving knowledge ecosystem.\n\n![F-MyF_4XYAACA7q](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1F4mTcma.jpg)\n[https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302](https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302)\n\n**Work Done So Far:**\n\n1. **Knowledge Networks**\u00a0We have been working on tools for building decentralized knowledge graphs (using OriginTrail) with AI integrations. For example, we built a chatbot for ReFi ([https://twitter.com/refichat](https://twitter.com/refichat)) that allows users to ask questions informed by the knowledge graph, with answers that can be explained using data and knowledge sources. Our goal is to enable any community (local on-the-ground or global virtual) to easily cultivate their own knowledge graphs with fully integrated AI features.\n2. **Attestations**\u00a0Our team worked on an attestation network at the ETH Denver hackathon. We built a p2p network for ecological impact by combining attestations with the Ecological Benefits Framework ([https://github.com/bhargavkakadiya/eth-denver-ebf](https://github.com/bhargavkakadiya/eth-denver-ebf)). This allows people to attest to the reputation of projects, their impact, and the credibility of those attesting, creating a web of attestations that can be used to assess impact and contributions. We plan to continue building for the Ecological Benefits Framework and explore other applications such as local community trust networks, reputation systems, skill attestations, funding, and evaluations. Our top 15 finish at the hackathon demonstrates our ability to deliver useful applications.\n\n**Project Components:**\n\n1. **Civic Attestation Network**\u00a0Expanding on our hackathon work, we plan to explore applications such as local community trust networks, reputation systems, skill attestations, funding, and evaluations. Attestation networks have the potential to revolutionize grassroots civic participation, and we are equipped to deliver useful applications.\n2. **Community Knowledge Networks**\u00a0Building on our proof of concept, we want to offer tools for communities to build their own sovereign knowledge networks, fostering collective intelligence. Additional features beyond chatbots, such as recommendations, community collaboration, analytics, and insights, will be explored. A specific domain of interest is local community knowledge networks that map resources and cultivate practical knowledge.\n\n### Project Goals\n\n- **Build tools for mapping:**\u00a0Help communities map resources, people, organizations, goals, needs, etc.\n- **Onboard:**\u00a0Assist individuals in finding their niche within their community.\n- **Facilitate Coordination:**\u00a0Enable bottom-up collaboration through a standardized global system interoperable with local bioregional economies.\n- **Innovate:**\u00a0Harness AI to optimize the Knowledge Graph's functionality and user experience.\n\n---\n\n### Outcome of Grant\n\nThe Mycelial Civic Knowledge Network will provide communities with the tools to build and share knowledge commons, cultivate collective intelligence, and coordinate impactful ground activities. By combining attestation networks and AI-powered community knowledge graphs, we aim to create a decentralized infrastructure for multi-agent collaboration and deep social change.\n\n## Budget Allocation\n\n- 50% for the development of the Civic Attestation Network, including research, protocol development, and implementation of attestation-based solutions for various civic engagement use cases.\n- 50% for the development of Community Knowledge Networks, including the enhancement of the knowledge graph database, AI-driven interfaces, and additional features to support community collaboration and collective intelligence.\n\n## Contributors\n\nDarren Zal\nShawn Anderson\nBK\nDharmik Dholariya\nMonty Merlin\nScott Morris\n\n## Conclusion\n\nThe Mycelial Civic Knowledge Network represents a significant step towards empowering grassroots civic participation and cultivating knowledge commons. By leveraging attestation networks and AI-powered community knowledge graphs, we aim to create a cosmo-local infrastructure that enables communities to build and share knowledge, coordinate action, and foster deep social change. This project aligns with the OpenCivics Consortium's goal of funding critical collaborative protocols, prototypes, and infrastructures that enable civic engagement and interoperable civic utilities for direct governance and stewardship of our communities and commons.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Myseelia", "projectTwitter": "zaldarren"}, "recipient": "0x16d46098e455A04Cf7F3e43c3b2706614fDbEC85"}}