Citizen Assemblies for DAOs

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Introduction

Voxiberate solves one of the hardest problems in participatory governance, namely how to meaningfully engage a community made of members with a range of views, beliefs and experiences so that these members can rationally deliberate on proposals and arrive at consensus decisions without coercion. Currently, most DAOs are opting for centralized forms of governance, which defeats the utility of decentralized peer-to-peer networks running on blockchains. The reason for this “web3 governance paradox” is lack of tools that could be used by DAO members to discuss and deliberate. Current tools such as Discord, Telegram, Twitter, GitHub, etc. are not built for the purpose that DAOs need. Voxiberate is a tool based on a well-tested approach from applied political science called Citizen Assemblies. We have currently completed and tested our MVP. We believe DAOs will find our tool very useful in implementing decentralized forms of governance. Our tool can be used across a range of governance frameworks, from representational models (where members elect a governing council to deliberate and take decisions on their behalf), liquid democracy (where members can use Voxiberate to delegate deliberation - not just voting - to other members), and all the way to direct democracy (where all decisions are taken by plenary deliberation and voting). Voxiberate will thus enable innovators on Neo to experiment with new ways of governance that are not possible to implement on web 2.0, and thus demonstrate the true value, significance, and historical importance of the decentralized web.

Description of the Tool

For a full description of Voxiberate MVP and how it can be used by DAO communities please see this video where the product is demoed.

Goals

What are the main goals, and why?

We have developed our MVP and we now wish to add specific decentralized features (i.e. develop a “dApp MVP 1.0”) so that Voxiberate can be used by DAOs. More specifically we would like to:

Ensure citizen anonymity and security via Wallet login;
Deliver transparency and auditability of deliberations and votes by recording votes on a blockchain or on a permaweb/decentralized storage;
Leverage a native utility token to incentivise "good civic behavior", encourage citizens towards consensus and away from polarization, and provide opportunities for civic and community leadership to those who deserve it;
Integrate a middleware for DAOs to release funds via deliberations on Voxiberate ("voxiberations");

Deliverables & Roadmap

The total project will last two months.

Month 1

Tasks

Solution design based on Neo for:
- Rewards: Vox token;
- Evaluate membership representation in communities through wallets or tokens’ ownership (NFT or not);
- Auditable votes on-chain (including storage);
- Integration with DAOs;
Implement a rough PoC for the following items:
- dApp integrating with wallets such as NeoLine, Neon, and WalletConnect (possibly using https://github.com/rentfuse-labs/neo-wallet-adapter);
- Vox token;
Improve the deliberation method by increasing the accuracy of the AI engine, as necessitated by the decentralized features listed above;
Necessary UX design improvements to accommodate decentralized features (facilitator dashboard; citizen UI; Analytics dashboard) and front-end development;

Team Responsibilities

G Zarkadakis (overall management responsibility; AI development; communications and community engagement);
D Lazarou (further development of AI Engine);
A Alm (software development and integrations);
M Ilie (UX design);
L Romero (Product Lead)

Key Deliverables

Document with the overall architecture of smart contracts and how they interact with the system;
PoC implementation:
- dApp (frontend), where users can connect wallets (NeoLine, Neon, WalletConnect) and perform actions in a smart contract;
- Vox token;
Iteration of developed AI Engine;
UX Design;

Man-days: 30 Cost (USD): 10,486 Cost (NEO/USD $8.7): 1,205

Month 2

Tasks

Further development of AI Engine, as necessitated by the decentralized features;
Software implementation of improved and new UX features and functionality;
Implementation of:
- dApp features;
- Smart contracts — based on the designed solution outcome in Month 1;
Continuous testing of software development and integrations (automated testing of integrations and manual testing of the platform in combination with the integrations);

Team Responsibilities

G Zarkadakis (overall management responsibility; AI development; communications and community engagement);
D Lazarou (further development of AI Engine);
A Alm (software development and integrations);
M Ilie (UX design);
L Romero (Product Lead)

Key Deliverables

dApp MVP 1.0. We are targeting to integrate as many of the following features as possible, in a mature way: Wallet integration; auditing votes; DAO Middleware for releasing funds via voxiberations. (smart contract code to integrate the Voxiberate platform with Neo will be open-source).
Iteration of improved AI Engine and deliberation method.

Man-days: 30 Cost (USD): 10,486 Cost (NEO/USD $8.7): 1,205

Deliverables Verifiability

How would the community be able to verify that the promised deliverables (or milestones) were successfully achieved?

Our Key Metrics per month of the project are as follows:

For Month 1: Criteria for solution design and PoC: reliability; acceptability; auditability; user base; availability of clear documentation and community support

For Month 2: Criteria for MVP 1.0: end-to-end solution working for the use cases proposed in the Solution Design phase (Month 1); and integrability to DAOs.

We will be reporting on the above metrics at the end of each month with a Monthly Progress Report. This Report will be published on our Twitter channel mentioning @grantshares, and on the Neo Discord channel #projects. Further commenting and dialogue may take place on GitHub.

Budget Plan

What are the overall required resources (i.e., budget)?

We are requesting a total budget of USD 20,960 (2,410 NEO)

How will the budget be used to achieve the project goal?

It will be used to pay for labor costs only. We have not included technology and computing costs, or other overheads, which we will absorb. For a detailed breakdown of rates and budget allocation for each member of the Voxiberate team see:

Name	H Rate ($)	Max Hours/month	Availability	1. Month Hrs	1. Month Fees	2. Month Hrs	2. Month Fees	Total Fees
George Zarkadakis	45	160	10%	16	720	16	720	1,440
Anders Alm	45	160	100%	160	7,200	160	7,200	14,400
Dimitris Lazarou	45	160	20%	32	1,440	32	1,440	2,880
Luiza Romero	45	160	10%	16	720	16	720	1,440
Maria Ilie	25	160	10%	16	400	16	400	800

Total hours				240		240
Total mandays				30		30

Fees/month (USD)					10,480		10,480
Total Fees (USD)								20,960

About You / Your Organization

Individual/Entity Name: Feline Quanta Ltd (Voxiberate)
Website: https://www.voxiberate.com
GitHub Organization (if applicable): N/A

Dr George Zarkadakis is Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council’s GeoTech Centre and the CEO of Voxiberate. He has >25 years’ experience in business consulting, media, marketing and communications; as well as in technology innovation as a founder, advisor, and investor in startups. He has held leadership positions at Accenture, Silicon Graphics, the European Bioinformatics Institute, and Willis Towers Watson. He holds a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from City University, and is the author of "In Our Own Image: will Artificial Intelligence Save Us or Destroy Us?” (Penguin 2015), and "Cyber Republic: reinventing democracy in the age of intelligent machines" (MIT Press 2020, with an introduction by Don Tapscott, author of “Blockchain Revolution”). He has been awarded a knighthood by France for his international work on the public understanding of science; is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; and a global thought leader on the future of work and democracy. He speaks English, French, and Greek.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/gzarkadakis/

Anders Alm has >20 years of experience as a software developer and entrepreneur, and is the CTO of Voxiberate. He is the founder of WAU I/O, a technology company that delivers customized web 3.0 and business software solutions to the international market, and an investor and Board member of e-sakafo, the leading food delivery service in Madagascar. Prior to that Anders has worked in various project management and product development roles with the Government of Norway, McAfee and Dell. He studied engineering at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, and is fluent in English, Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/almanders/

Luiza Romero has a degree in Law. She has worked at EY for 11 years, in its global tax practice. In 2014 she became the driving force behind the design and implementation of six uniquely positioned tax data analytics solutions with a global scale, and worked with global innovation leaders on a variety of technology projects, mobile/web applications (TaxChat), AI and crypto (EY CryptoPrep). In 2018 she joined a blockchain startup as a product manager to help lead the financial audit and reporting industry transformation into its decentralized and real-time future. She is a lecturer on blockchain at NYU. She speaks English and Portuguese.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/luiza-romero/

Dimitris Lazarou has an MSc in High Energy Physics from Florida State University, and a BSc in Software Engineering from Athens University. He has 8+ years of experience as head of data science in successful startups such as Seez (second hand car marketplace in Middle East) and Careem (acquired by Uber for $3.1B in 2020). Prior to that he worked as quantitative analyst at Golden Water Capital (a hedge fund) and Signal Maritime. He is an expert in Machine Learning, Data Engineering and Data Warehousing. He speaks English and Greek.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-lazarou-msc-378a0799/

Maria-Adriana Ilie is graduating in 2022 with a BSc in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Bucharest, and she's an experienced UX/UI designer across a diverse portfolio of projects. She has worked with Voxiberate in the design of the first iteration of our MVP. She speaks English and Romanian.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/maria-adriana-ilie/

Proposal Info :clipboard:

Proposal Type: request-for-funding
Amount Requested: 2410
Token: 0xef4073a0f2b305a38ec4050e4d3d28bc40ea63f5 (NEO)
Receiver Address: NLzBMnat3WwPyYsUwoR8HmFKCUUePQ5srq (0x0567d50f5afec7e8455583996d38dddd7af3c30b)
Created by: @zarkadakis :rocket:
Linked Proposal: https://grantshares.io/app/details/f7caed33595f1a3a84cd81c7261ccf50
Raw Intents: :eyes:

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gsmachado commented 2 years ago

@zarkadakis thanks for re-submitting based on the feedback the community gave in the past proposal.

@AxLabs would endorse it, as is, after you put it on-chain.

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csmuller commented 2 years ago

We from AxLabs approve of this proposal and, thus, endorsed it now that it is on-chain. I'm calling forth all GrantShares members to cast their vote in the next 7 days 🗳

ioannistsil commented 2 years ago

in my opinion NEO at current point doesn't need a DAO , which project will even use it?

gsmachado commented 2 years ago

in my opinion NEO at current point doesn't need a DAO , which project will even use it?

GrantShares is a DAO, by the way.........

ioannistsil commented 2 years ago

GrantShares is a DAO, by the way.........

how is that a DAO when community members has no vote power

csmuller commented 2 years ago

how is that a DAO when community members has no vote power

@ioannistsil You're right, this is not a DAO based on NEO holdings. But, the distribution of decision power will likely change in the future. You can already influence the course of actions by participating in the proposal discussions, which i'd highly appreciate.

ioannistsil commented 2 years ago

@ioannistsil You're right, this is not a DAO based on NEO holdings. But, the distribution of decision power will likely change in the future. You can already influence the course of actions by participating in the proposal discussions, which i'd highly appreciate.

i find this is a huge mistake to fund a so called DAO solution on this stage of neo ecosystem and for more they stated they created it for ethereum so im against of this proposal

zarkadakis commented 2 years ago

DAOs are key to web3 adoption (and that includes Neo). For a explanation of the problem that we solve for see this paper https://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_Decentralized_Autonomous_Organizations_Beyond_the_Hype_2022.pdf

zarkadakis commented 2 years ago

And for a more technical explanation of what is at stake (if the problem that Voxiberate aims to solve is not solved) see https://www.arxiv-vanity.com/papers/2204.01176/

gsmachado commented 2 years ago

i find this is a huge mistake to fund a so called DAO solution on this stage of neo ecosystem and for more they stated they created it for ethereum so im against of this proposal

@ioannistsil Why are you against this proposal? Can you further explain to us in plain structured English?

Because Voxiberate will be multi-chain? Because Neo is not at a stage that DAOs are required? Which stage, in your point of view, DAOs are required? Other reasons?

Thanks!

ioannistsil commented 2 years ago

NEO has only 2 working project's for now , flamingo and Ghostmarket(flamingo stated DAO will make the project slower in terms of building the platform) .
The team stated that they will build the platform on ethereum.
There are already a free Dao solution like https://snapshot.org/#/ and many more.
Why to fund something we as NEO community won't use.
This is my personal opinion and i can be totaly wrong.

lock9 commented 2 years ago

Hi @ioannistsil , They are caring about their use cases, and not the technology. We could benefit from having a better product on our chain. The end user won't know about Neo, probably, but will pay for the fees on our network like anybody else. This project will also put our tools to a 'real world test', this can help us to improve. For example, they worked with a DID solution that is W3C compliant. We just found out that Neo ID is not. This kind of discovery is very relevant, and many of these blockers are not informed to our community (projects will just do their work elsewhere).

We won't benefit from this project if we leave them to their own luck, and don't absorb the feedback given (tools to update, limitations on our docs etc.). This may not be a successful product, but will definitely be something to help us to improve. If we listen to them :)

gsmachado commented 2 years ago

There are already a free Dao solution like https://snapshot.org/#/ and many more.

@ioannistsil can you show me how Snapshot works for Neo smart contracts? Or what do you mean by "there are already a free Dao solution like Snapshot"?! Thanks!

gsmachado commented 2 years ago

@ioannistsil by the way, we invite you (and everyone that is interested!) to the next GrantShares Twitter Spaces to discuss some of your concerns.

https://twitter.com/GrantShares/status/1567145512150745090

ediopia commented 2 years ago

@ioannistsil only two working projects on NEO? This is the NEO's no 1 problem these days.

grantshares-dapp[bot] commented 2 years ago

🎉 Outcome: this proposal was accepted! 🚀

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Reject: 0
Abstain: 1
Required quorum: 50%
Acceptance ratio: 50%

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EdgeDLT commented 1 year ago

Hello @zarkadakis! Hope you and the team are well.

It's been a couple months since this grant was distributed. How goes the progress on your deliverables? Can we expect the first Monthly Progress Report in the near future?