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Our work is generously supported by the Henry Luce Foundation, One Project, the Grant for the Web, these Gitcoin grants, the Filecoin Foundation, the Ethereum Foundation, the EPSRC / University of Oxford, GnosisDAO, Aragon, Radicle, Metacartel Ventures, NEAR, Commonwealth, the Stanford Digital Civil Society Lab, and many Metagovernors through our membership program. Our finances are hosted publicly on Open Collective.", "hidden": false, "question": "Previous project funding sources (VC, grants, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "number", "answer": "500000", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for project in USD", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "11", "hidden": false, "question": "Number of team members", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Joshua Tan (https://joshuatan.com/research), Primavera De Filippi (https://twitter.com/yaoeo), Nathan Schneider (https://nathanschneider.info/), Michael Zargham (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mczargham), Lawrence Lessig (https://lessig.org/), Ellie Rennie (https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/r/rennie-professor-ellie), and many others at https://metagov.org", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with project", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "36", "hidden": false, "question": "How old is the project? (Months)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The Metagovernance Project is an interdisciplinary research collective. We build standards and infrastructure for digital self-governance.", "hidden": true, "question": "Describe your project in a few paragraphs (ideally including a problem statement, solution, roadmap, and timeline for implementation)", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Metagov not only does research on decentralized governance but is also an example of a decentralized research group, with research directors hailing from over 10 different institutions (including universities, companies, and nonprofits) and a lively community of 700+ community members. We also organize many online seminars and in-person academic events (DAO Harvard, Stanford DAO Workshop, the Redwood Parliament @ DWeb Camp). Our COO, Eugene Leventhal, has been a longtime contributor to DeSci as part of the Smart Contract Research Forum.", "hidden": true, "question": "How does your project support the mission or goals of DeSci?", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The funds from the grants program will be used to support the Constitutions of Web3 project (https://constitutions.metagov.org), the \"new economy\" projects of To Community (https://to.community), and some of our budding work on decentralized AI, among other research projects and general expenses.", "hidden": false, "question": "Describe how funds from the grants program will be used for your project.", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds (i.e. DeSci GR15) using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here.", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "uiIMW5Ae6/hc5G0hBpuIJrUR8/eD1R0HLzy/gBVucQlmXFh8kDSkkQopa55Y2rOuYs6nj7M35NWoVaF/Am242Q==", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "f5ac5ca42dc445be7e1362ec6149475f4414133b0217d0b946f9176d389f6dbdba448f820f6a5c32cee30f75c0a1b00e5e87d9d4a467578b4df1ccda7a4aba224c95545e052deedb4f905c7d610449070a8bc6a5c7e237ee2bce008544c2de81d3c39edafb486233e0006b7e1ae0229e2b76a732f9e0a5a42c7c7844f55139c70000000000000020d70c29c14b639c344636ecb2973f9beff371f2c6db7f874c7cbddbb3aaa47ffb73964cb870bb2fa7bee4e34104c81ca7"}}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Take a look at https://metagov.org for our most recent project releases. For example, we just released the documentary coming out of the Redwood Parliament, a governance conference embedded within DWeb Camp 2023: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79EeSt8L7cw", "hidden": false, "question": "If this project participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones since the last round.", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Is there any other information you would like to share about your project, previous work, other project affiliations, or potential conflicts of interest? 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