The funds go directly to supporting research initiatives in RnDAO. At the moment, we're advancing funding for research into how different types of reputation can be mapped unto a governance process in DAOs, helping the ecosystem move past a "catch all" narrative of reputation that leads to competition. Instead, we're leveraging a deeper understanding of political and organisational theory to inform collaboration amongst different groups of builders approaching reputation through different strategies.
With $1k funding we'll be able to provide a public map of governance processes of a sample community.
With $3k, we can also provide a public ontology of reputation types.
With $6k, we'll be able to combine the reputation ontology with the governance mapping and run 2 workshops to map how the two intersect, also supported by a literature review.
The projected timeline for the project is 16 weeks.