The Wellbeing Protocol (TWP) has been on a three year journey funded by the New Zealand Government to empower communities by giving small, hyper local groups of people the tools (governance, financial and other) to work together to help themselves. The technical design/architecture we have employed will allow this to be scaled by replication (i.e. to create thousands of community groups across a region or country) thus creating a powerful decentralised network of grassroots changemakers, creating a mechanism to democratise giving and realtime data sensing platform.
Our first step on this journey has been the release of a participatory grantmaking tool that reimagines how organisations giving grants get money out to community groups at scale. This has the potential to create a highly efficient and resilient fund allocation system that complements and/or disrupts our traditional mechanisms of social welfare, philanthropy and charity. More importantly it creates a foundation to build on to achieve our long term goal of creating micro DAO’s (Decentralised Autonomous Organisations – the modern Web 3 version of the Co-operative) that truly empower / incentivise small local communities to work together to solve problems for themselves and the planet.
We are now running trial across New Zealand, UK and Australia. We’re featured in a TV NZ documentary https://www.tvnz.co.nz/shows/wtf-is-crypto/episodes/s1-e6 and have presented at numerous international conferences. We will be sharing out journey, architecture, vision/roadmap and learnings. This short video gives an overview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KF80tPx-H1I.
