interop

RFP: Interoperable Deliberative Tools

Purpose: To support new and existing tools for deliberation and governance, and to promote more interoperability between such tools.

Scope: Digital tools that go beyond basic voting and commenting, and provide new capabilities to the governance ecosystem—which may only be one step of a larger deliberative governance process. The processes these tools enable may be used for online community governance, AI governance and alignment, cooperative governance, citizen town halls or assemblies, or other kinds of institutional policy-making or decision-making.

Awards: We expect to give out a total of 200,000 USD in a mix of smaller and larger grants of size between 5,000 to 100,000 USD. These amounts may change.

Interoperability requirement: as a key condition of the grant, all grantees must support interoperability by incorporating a process to publish their data in a flatfile format such as JSON, JSON-LD, or CSV. This requirement is described more fully in the draft specification and rationale accompanying this RFP.

• the full RFP (includes link to application form)
• the full specification
• the application

Key dates

• April 3, 2024: Grant application opens
• April 19, 2024: FAQ session #1 RSVP here
• April 29, 2024: FAQ session #2 RSVP here
• May 15, 2024: Applications due
• June 15, 2024: Grant decisions announced
• June 30 2024, Kickoff date
  • Optional: call every two weeks for the cohort of projects to have a check-in point
• September 20, 2024: Projects report back (open source repo + blog post or paper).
• Projects may not be finished by then, but must do public sharing by then.
• While the call every 2 weeks is optional, grantees are expected to join at least two calls (3 month mark and 6 month mark) to share progress
• December 20, 2024: Projects report back

A project of Metagov. With thanks to the Mina Foundation.

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