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Upcoming Residency
Are you a builder, researcher, academic, student, funder, philanthropist or public official deeply interested in the future of public goods funding?
In a program curated by our partners from DeSci Tokyo and Plurality Tokyo, we’ll explore organizations and research projects revitalizing communities and civic infrastructures by defining new forms of support for public goods.
Amidst Japan's environmental and demographic shifts, this conference emerges as a crucial platform for inspiring new strategies in public goods support and presenting a regenerative vision from the cosmopolitan city of Tokyo. Over two days, engage, share, and collaborate to forge paths toward effectively funding and sustaining public goods in our dynamic world.
This event is held in close partnership with DeSci Tokyo at the United Nations University Center in Shibuya, Tokyo. Ethereum EDCON Tokyo begins the day following our conference, allowing for cross-pollination of ideas within a larger international blockchain conversation, as well as the attendance of influential speakers, sponsors, and guests in a hyper-relevant context.
Register now to secure your spot at Funding the Commons Tokyo 2024, and stay tuned as we announce the speaker lineup!
Funding the Commons Tokyo 2024 brings together presentations, panel discussions, and collaborative sessions, welcoming both in-person and virtual participants. It's a chance for builders, protocol developers, academics, and funders to talk, create, and share new ways to fund public goods. Whether you're looking to add your knowledge, learn from the experts, or meet others in the field, this event is where you can help shape the future of public goods funding.
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Innovation in Support for Public Goods in Japan
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Mechanisms for Design of Public Goods
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AI Alignment
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Learning from Population Decline & Urgency of Public Goods Reinvention
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Regional Development Cases for Global Replicability
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Open Source Culture
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Areas of Focus
We supported teams working on projects in areas including (but not limited to) the areas described below. See links for examples of projects our grantee community has worked on.
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Coordination and Funding infrastructure
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Stealth Donations & Meta-Addresses
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Aggregation indexer for civic and public data
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Sybil Attack Detection AI/ML Tool
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Trustless apps
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Quantitative and qualitative Impact Evaluators
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Hypercerts: Impact Certification
Projects & Achievements from Berlin Residency
Residents contributed to the public goods funding ecosystem through their projects. The outputs included an open-source software tool, library, or system, along with a well-documented repository. We also encouraged participants to share their knowledge through blog posts or presentations at future Funding the Commons events
Past Residency
Berlin 2023
From 1-30 September 2023, Funding the Commons hosted its first-ever Builder Residency — a transformative, month-long, immersive experience that took place in Berlin, Germany.
Attendees experienced the power of collaboration and innovation as builders and hackers came together to focus on the advancement of public goods funding infrastructure, impact evaluators, impact certification systems, and other elements of the public goods funding stack in both Web2 and Web3 applications.
We value open-source and the outputs of the residency are accessible and usable by the wider community, which is why we invited and accepted highly collaboration-minded individuals into our first (but certainly not last) residency program.