OpenCivics Consortium Round 02 Eligibility

This OpenCivics Consortium Round seeks to fund critical collaborative protocols, prototypes, and infrastructures that enable civic engagement and interoperable civic utilities for direct governance and stewardship of our communities and commons. We see these collaborative methods and prototypes as critically underfunded force multipliers for multi-agent coordination on key systemic leverage points that create deep social change. Ideal applicants will be engaged in developing technology, applied research, and social processes related to collaboration and coordination for collective action. Projects may address the diverse stack of collaborative protocols needed for successful multi-agent coordination such as: identity and attestation, on-chain delegation and roles, decentralized project management, fundraising and allocation, systems-aware strategic alignment processes, measurement and evaluation, and participatory governance and learning. These efforts may be theoretical and research-based or may be applied contexts of collaboration whose successful actualization could lead to protocolization of key activities and collaborative functions. For additional definitions and application details, please visit https://go.opencivics.co/wiki

Requirements

• Project is creating impact through public goods, civic service, civic works, civic innovations or civic utilities.
• Project exhibits clear relevance to the broad framing of civic innovation.
• At least one project steward is a member of OpenCivics consortium.
• Project team size and skills correlates to use of funds and desired impact.
• Project demonstrates a clear track record of previous work.
• Project must agree to participate in co-development of collaborative and grantee accountability protocols as part of their impact reporting process.
• Project adheres to OpenCivics Ethical Standards and Pledge.
• Project stewards pass OFAC screening process.
• Optional: Project is encouraged to include focus on collaboration between projects or on tools and infrastructures for collaboration.