The OpenCivics Collaborative Research Round is designed to foster collaboration among researchers and civic innovators to produce open source research & knowledge production that serves community organizers to access the power of web3 and civic innovation.
Projects are required to submit as a team or pod which offers an opportunity to experiment with on-chain collaboration and the co-governance of open-source civic engagement research. We’re specifically looking for research initiatives that are exploring the following areas of focus:

- Impact and contribution measurement, reporting, and valuation
- Commons governance, self-organization, and decision-making
- Collaborative knowledge management, learning, and sensemaking
- Open protocols, community templates, and coordination infrastructure
- Community currencies, cooperatives, and alternative economics
- Decentralized project management, roles, and certifications
Resource allocation, funding mechanisms, and funding sources
