Join us for the second virtual occurrence of Funding the Commons as we advance the thinking, design, conversations and awareness of how to fund public goods.
Speakers
Jaan
Tallinn
Founder, Future of Life Institute & CSER
Tom
Kalil
CIO,
Schmidt Futures
Allison
Duettmann
President,
Foresight Institute
Adam
Marblestone
CEO, Convergent Research
Alex
Tabarrok
Professor of Economics & Mercatus Center Chair, George Mason
Juan
Benet
Founder,
Protocol Labs
Lada
Nuzhna
Impetus Grants
Scott
Moore
Founder,
Gitcoin
Andrew
Critch
Research Scientist, CHAI; Founder, BERI
Glen
Weyl
Founder,
RadicalxChange
Pooja
Shah
Founder,
RadicalxChange
Danny
O'Brien
Senior Fellow, Filecoin Foundation
David
Dalrymple
Research Scientist, Protocol Labs
Jessy Kate
Schingler
Director, Open Lunar Foundation
Daniel
Pike
Project Director,
The Climate Map
Evan
Miyazono
Protocol Labs
Leon
Erichsen
Evangelist, RadicalxChange
Denis
Drescher
Impactcerts.com
Matt
Brooks
Impactcerts.com
Schedule
March 3, 2022
March 4, 2022
Welcome
Introduction and overview of Funding the Commons Day 1
Reimagining Public Goods: Building a Solarpunk Future
The narratives we choose and the tools we build deeply shape the world around us. In this talk, Scott Moore makes the case that we must collectively chose more regenerative, positive-sum ideals that align more with a Solarpunk future. In turn he argues, we can solve many of the problems we face around how we manage our global commons
Glen Weyl introduces the Plurality paradigm for funding network goods and will briefly illustrate applications to a range of network goods funding approaches. Leon will detail the application to Quadratic Funding and Gitcoin
Adam Marblestone will describe how Focused Research Organizations (FROs) promise to unblock research bottlenecks by applying systems engineering to some types of research problem
In this talk, Pooja Shah explores different models and experiments to support the ongoing incentivization of open-source and public goods maintenance, as well as new models we may consider as we enter a more open, protocol-native future
Avenues for interoperability between R&D roadmapping, retrospective impact evaluation, impact certificates, project tokens, and prospective funding schemes as part of an ecosystem for provisioning public goods
Catalyzing innovation and public goods funding in the Carbon Removal ecosystem
11:00 PST / 19:00 UTC
Daniel Pike will highlight public goods efforts by the Climate Map, a nonprofit developing open-access methods, data sets, and decision-making tools that shed new light and spur action on climate change response opportunities and priorities
Tech trees & DAOs to advance ambitious science & tech
1:30 PST / 21:30 UTC
Bio, nano, neuro, computing and space tech goals could benefit from support that’s invisible to external talent and funders. Tech trees can help map undervalued opportunities for progress and DAOs can help incentivize it
Funding the Commons and Earth Commons are two independent conferences held on April 13-14th, 2024 at a single iconic venue: the David Brower Center in Berkeley, California.
Steeped in natural beauty and a history of strong activism, technological innovation, and environmental stewardship, the San Francisco Bay area boasts rich natural, cultural, academic and technological ecosystems.The Bay Area is uniquely positioned to host productive and catalytic discussions to address pressing challenges for the benefit of humanity and the planet's ecosystems with academics, builders, funders, philanthropists & institutional investors, and much more.
In partnerships with various research labs at UC Berkeley, the event will be hosted at the David Brower Center, a LEED certified “green model” building.
We will iterate on our signature format, bringing together builders, funders, and researchers to spotlight the latest research in open source technology across many disciplines focused on creating new public goods funding infrastructure for real world implementation.
Both conferences are focused on underscoring the systemic, interdependent changes necessary for progress in both public goods and ecological regeneration.
Expect a mix of inspirational talks, workshops, networking corners, as well as office-hours with thought-leaders all held in a single venue to encourage interdisciplinary encounters.
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