A Digtial Yggdrasil - Education as a Public Good - Proposal

Last updated Aug 15, 2023

• Source: Qing Ze
• Tags: #web3 #education #publicgoods
• Notes:

We need to develop a system that onboards people to Web3 in meaningful ways enabling them to contribute as their best selves while forging their own narratives.

• Concerns
  • talent gap
  • adoption gap
  • super fast pace of innovation

Education is historically not scalable because it ultimately relies on teacher-to-student ratios and limted class sizes, limiting it to being a merit good. However, this could be changed with Web3, as activities can become publicly accessible and participatory.

• education is a merit good
  • positive externalities when consumed
  • tend to be underconsumed and underprovided
• negative examples:
  • endless advertisements on trading
  • biased education efforts where the focus is on users to become motivated to trade
• Core characteristics of public goods
  • non-rivalrous: accessible to everybody; one person’s use of the good does not impact its availability to others
  • non-excludable: it should be impossible to exclude anybbody from using the good
• Current web3 educational content does not fulfill these
  • rivalrous
  • excludable

We can carry out activities that create benefits for parties that were not directly involved by making Web3’s resources understandable, searchable, and accessible.

• Making a metaDAO to coordinate these efforts
• What can be done…
  • Make Web3 resources understandable
  • Make Web3 resources searchable
  • Create accessible Web3 resources
  • Create benefits with talent-matching

If governments have budgets for education and corporations ahve training budgets, why not DAOs?

• Improve incentives for participation
  • dKudos, mini CLR
  • participation as anti-fraud
  • encouraging curriculum and content designers to post their work as NFTs, so that they can obtain royalties when content is licensed
• Grant funding gap
• Demonstrate collective benefit of education
  • develop a framework to evaluate impact
• Make teh DAO generate reveneue for sustainability

Web3 enables us to ==tweak incentives== to make education a ==sustainable digital public good== for the first time in human history through ==decentralized credentials and coordination==