{"signature": "0xe0982feb7bbb6fbbe2bbcf3247443f263fcf9f6c18b66db6c76cdc07940ec6c9277a04c1c071d07c4d2f786bf0c87e7f497155de495620ec64f8592963b388561b", "application": {"round": "0x09b14fe9786afdfcbb8ad8512715e5ecb6443db4", "answers": [{"type": "email", "hidden": true, "question": "Email Address", "questionId": 0, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "/m4YYocV+FZLoHoK9izROoiiJjGTBlqRFYLqGeS/wdT5rqFCkUQowVEQczBbvJXH", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "64fa78f0e5acdcdb891472f4e5333f600904373fe17d2fc81ad1053f376029d312b3a8cb11d2e8205212eeabcc96590baf953eb54adcd454963351fc6e4b719dc2075be3c58762eb379628859618fc3e6ec4e6145fae3832c45546b0fd5bb9931aea2e5a4fe3d01d9d4b8e882ef0096d8a29a4b0e586a977fa6422d60fc845590000000000000020f41897f57e159fde3bccda118414216bbab331364ff7632e2009b9ece4615726be57d74910f687ed5a553b6a214a5a95"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Grants (government, philanthropy)", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are composed of a core team of 7 people - designers, developers and project managers - who have been working on this project for more than 2 years. We are supported by the Civic Tech Studio of Dark Matter Labs which gives product development support as well as ethics and open source compliance advice. We are also supported by the [Radicle Civics Arc](https://radiclecivics.cc/) of Dark Matter Labs which provides design and research support around decentralized governance and commoning.\n\n[Eunji Kang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eunjikangsin/) (South Korea/UK, based in Pyeongtaek)\nEunji has worked in systems change and experimental product development for over a decade. Her projects in Dark Matter Labs include a focus on urban and environmental governance, new forms of agency and intelligence, and innovating financial instruments for regenerative economies across different geographical regions and contexts. She has been co-leading the Re:Permissioning the City project since 2021.\n\n[Eunsoo Lee](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tteslee/) (South Korea, based in Seoul)\nEunsoo is a strategic designer and researcher at Dark Matter Labs with a focus on data governance/ethics, civic tech and systems analysis. She has been co-leading the Re:Permissioning the City project since 2021. Outside of her day job, she is also an active member and organizer of [Code for Korea](https://codefor.kr/), a civic tech community in Korea.\n\n[Donghun Ohn](https://www.linkedin.com/in/donghunohn/) (South Korea, based in Seoul)\nDonghun is a blockchain developer who will be joining the team from mid August. With a background in Anthropology, he has worked as a project manager as well as a developer in urban regeneration and urban ethnographic research projects in South Korea.\n\n[Fang-Jui 'Fang-Raye' Chang](https://www.linkedin.com/in/fang-jui-chang/) (Taiwan/UK, based in London)\nFang is a Responsible Innovation Lead, Co-holder of Radicle Civics, and Strategic Designer at Dark Matter Labs primarily focused on societal structural transition and new civics. They have experience in democratic innovation, public service design and prototyping, open policy-making and rule-making, and large-scale civic participation and facilitation.\n\n[Calvin Po](https://www.linkedin.com/in/pocalvin/) (Hong Kong/Canada, based in London)\nCalvin is a strategic designer at Dark Matter Labs, co-leading the Radicle Civics Arc, where he explores institutional and governance systems as sites of design. He has led projects with the Scottish Government’s Land Commission on land governance reform, the Taiwanese Government on decentralized web3 civic infrastructure, and is developing multi-actor governance approaches for river ecosystems, and in FreeHouse, a commons housing model based on ‘self-owning’ houses.\n\n[Shu Yang Lin](https://www.linkedin.com/in/shuyanglin/) (Taiwan, based in London)\nShu Yang has spent the last decade rearchitecting channels for democracy and technology to support each other. She has been a contributor of [vTaiwan](https://info.vtaiwan.tw/) since 2016, and currently works as an interaction designer at the AI Objectives Institute, alongside her involvement in Dark Matter Labs projects.\n\n[Theo Campbell](https://www.linkedin.com/in/theo-campbell/) (Australia, based in Paris)\nTheo is a social worker at heart but has always had an interest in technology and how it can be used for social change. He currently works as a frontend web developer at Dark Matter Labs and is also part of the [Circulaw](https://www.circulaw.nl/en) team.\n\nOur partnerships in this project include [Parti.coop](http://parti.coop) - a social cooperative (non-profit) that builds technologies for democracy in South Korea, and the Urban Bureau of Daegu Metropolitan City which is in the process of purchasing derelict heritage buildings and renovating them for public use. Our current and past funders include Daegu Metropolitan City, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Daegu Technopark, the National IT Industry Promotion Agency, and Partners for a New Economy.\n\n**ABOUT DARK MATTER LABS**\nDark Matter Labs is an ambitious not-for-profit working on what is needed to manifest transformations to our food, housing, land, material and nature systems towards a future of mutual thriving. In doing this, we analyze the shifts it requires in the underlying ‘dark matter’ - monetary, economic, governance, regulatory and policy systems - to make this possible, and we work with partners to demonstrate these alternatives in neighborhoods, cities and bioregions. We share these insights openly for mutual learning.\n\nDark Matter Labs Korea is one of five Dm entities spread around the world, and the only entity located in Asia. We have been working with local governments, civil society organizations and individual innovators across the Asian region since 2020, hoping to contribute to knowledge and narrative building around a new civic economy that can take on the planetary challenges we face today.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please provide a list of your major team members, including their relevant experiences and social network/professional links. Please indicate if there any Asian builders.", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "@tteslee", "hidden": true, "question": "Telegram handle of major point of contact", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Please demonstrate your financial plan here if it's not included in your project description.", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Leveraging support and engagement from the web3 community, our project will aim to introduce web3 concepts (decentralized governance, zero knowledge proof tech, tokenomics) into Korean public systems (our project is largely government funded, and we work with the local government - testing our prototype in spaces owned by the City), and by doing so, we will be building an open source software that allows citizens to flexibly book, use, manage urban spaces, including the ability to participate in the decision making (governance) of these spaces. The permissions system we envision has the potential to ‘unlock’ urban space (a highly privatized, monetized, hoarded asset) for diverse kinds of public use — thereby transforming spatial assets into public goods. We work with scalability in mind — and we will work towards introducing and further developing the platform in multiple cities in the Asian region and beyond.", "hidden": true, "question": "Please demonstrate how your project would advance Asian public goods ecosystem.", "questionId": 5}], "project": {"id": "0x74f8a639bf6fba239e124077d8392c1659977c2413a1a664b37a84e1c40c2c39", "title": "Re:Permissioning the City", "logoImg": "bafkreibs7fqa6yybgvqmerfkecqo6uquf2afvpeszaqydlklg37y6q7u54", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreig4btcoiuwjcfjmhmnnetpt2tfcq6wn32dz42yu6j2gj6fw466qbu", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://permissioning.city", "bannerImg": "bafkreihkd4actlzbkb6ypupf5iskrlrnaan6vgmmkwe2d2jgrf3hpsn5oa", "createdAt": 1723112557611, "userGithub": "tteslee", "credentials": {"github": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..X5EiOrPYfDyIQ6NjdjY9_EppRk__7zq-M2Z36kW3N6mJE5AbTHu5nmo4y31L371VWzY810zFtBJ5_eIJJjy8Dw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-08T14:26:44.669Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-08T14:26:44.669Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-06T14:26:44.669Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x45F4525708A7e2AD4DE1784859C71E338171d381", "hash": "v0.0.0:DS9N89sBeu+fQYkXwkPe/OWptdrDLbrwrbEcEm3f6o4=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextGithubOrg#Dark-Matter-Labs#84836691"}}, "twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..yWpxO0C3ESloS7dD_WfePV_bCXlP8cA11jD2N3ga0de0xSlFkerBMIRMN6JfuWC7D9uj3Vv6sEeqmFQKUP0SCw", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-08T11:44:14.425Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-08T11:44:14.425Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-06T11:44:14.425Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x45F4525708A7e2AD4DE1784859C71E338171d381", "hash": "v0.0.0:P4r4DVlcGkPD/Ku3DWXsywolhermD6WBBim5PYBQMzY=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#RePermissioning"}}}, "description": "# Re:Permissioning the City\n\n*Keywords: citizen permissioning, creating conditions for emergence, decentralised ownership, citizen-led governance, permission infrastructure and architecture*\n\n**SUMMARY**\nRe:Permissioning the City is a community-led system for governing and negotiating the use of urban spaces. Envisioned as a set of tools that integrate community designed protocols, a database of available spaces in the city, a layered permissions architecture, and a user-friendly interface to navigate the booking, using, and managing of spaces, this digital platform will radically transform the way citizens and institutions engage with urban spaces.\n\n**UNLOCKING SPATIAL ASSETS IN THE CITY**\nIn many post-industrial Asian cities, the problem of urban decline and vacancy is rising, due to significant population and economic/industrial decline. We focus on a city in South Korea called Daegu, one of the most important former industrial hubs. In Daegu, the old city center in particular is facing a critical transition, with many commercial and mixed-use properties left vacant for years. Having worked with the City administration since 2021, we found that there was a vibrant cultural scene and a community of young people actively wanting to utilize these spaces. However, due to rigid, centralized governance and restrictive regulation that do not reflect the needs and desires of local communities, many spaces were left underutilized, creating missed opportunities for community engagement and economic regeneration. Our project seeks to transform these spaces into civic assets by implementing a flexible, community-driven governance (permissions) model that encourages citizen participation and fosters a sense of collective stewardship — ultimately empowering communities to transform these spaces into valuable public goods.\n\n**PROTOTYPING PHASE**\n\nWe were fortunate enough to receive a government grant that spans 6 months in 2024. While the project concept has been in development since 2021 (first grant received through the Bloomberg Mayors Challenge - allowing us to experiment with [chatbots as an interface](https://www.permissioning.city/permission-bot)), this is the first time that we are able to fully fund the development of the digital platform. In the next 5 months, we are planning an intense prototyping and testing phase which culminates in an on-site testing in one or two spaces in Daegu, in partnership with the City administration. The final output would not be a release ready product, rather an evolved version of a prototype that helps validate our design questions and technical requirements.\n\nThrough this prototyping phase, we hope to focus on:\n\n-   Validating functional components of open permission systems: Identities/Credentials, Privileges/Rights, Prosocial responsibilities/incentives\n-   Co-creating scenarios of layered permissions: Self-permission (identifying/pledging), Social permission (vouching/commenting), State-permission (granting/stewarding)\n-   Prototyping negotiation mechanisms and their infrastructural requirements\n\t-  (data) registry e.g. relationships, spaces, and actors.\n\t- (value) tokens/credits e.g. combinations of values, such as care, presence, maintenance, contributing to the privilege/right.\n\t- (mediation) commenting and incorporating feedback e.g. dealing with conflicts and disagreements.\n\t- (feedback) feedback loops e.g. parametric, positive, and negative feedback.\n\t- other social technologies e.g. wearable sensors (NFC), IoT sensor feedback and analysis, zero-knowledge tech, p2p insurance, etc.\n\n![layered permissions](https://tricolor-icecream-97d.notion.site/image/https%3A%2F%2Fprod-files-secure.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fd706625b-a017-4a65-8507-3a6ca4d60f23%2F86301b7e-7348-42ad-86fa-fa1ff7c8aae3%2Fidentity_liability_incentives.png?table=block&id=c13f265c-e638-4046-848d-48f370dea5c3&spaceId=d706625b-a017-4a65-8507-3a6ca4d60f23&width=1420&userId=&cache=v2)\n\n**DISCOVERY QUESTIONS**\n\n-   How could we design this negotiation space to be more transparent and encourage collective benefits/common goods rather than individual interests/hoarding assets?\n-   How can we reimagine the negotiation space from a one-to-one relationship, organized around centralized decision-makers, to a many-to-many dynamic within a decentralized system, involving multiple stakeholders?\n-   What would the policy space look like when designing such a distributed permission space?\n-   How would we communicate impacts and values that require long-term evaluation?\n\n**POTENTIAL OF WEB3**\n\nWe believe that this concept of an open permissions system aligns with core ideas within the web3 community, especially the intention towards decentralized governance, transparency, and commoning practices. Recently, we have been developing small adjacent prototypes utilizing web3 technologies which can be integrated and developed further through this opportunity, these include:\n\n-   [Fiz: wearable wallets for accessing urban and rural communities](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/0xd875fa07bedce182377ee54488f08f017cb163d4/0xd875fa07bedce182377ee54488f08f017cb163d4-32): A membership wearable using web3 NFC chips which allow you to own, access and show off your member-owned neighbourhood garden, co-living community, music venue and more.\n- [Frin: a protocol for freeing infrastructure](https://explorer.gitcoin.co/#/round/10/9/33): Modular money framework for community currencies and value-sharing powered by bonding curves.\n\n**BUDGET & ACTIVITIES** \nThe government grant we have secured is worth around US$230,000, however this is a highly regulated budget that can only be used towards certain costs e.g. employee salaries of the Korean entity. Furthermore, we had to match this funding with US$58,000 in co-financing, which requires us to fundraise externally to cover this amount. The aim of this Gitcoin fundraising effort is to secure funding that can go towards engaging our international team members, from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and parts of Europe, and to create more intersections with the larger (Asian) Web3 community by hosting workshops and events in Korea. This additional support from the Gitcoin and web3 community will enable us to introduce web3 possibilities into Korean public systems, fostering collaboration between public, private, and civic tech sectors.  \n\nDepending on the amount of funding, we intend to use the budget towards:\n-   Hosting a multi-day workshop/hackathon in Daegu or Seoul, around the end of November 2024, inviting our internal international colleagues as well as members of the web3 and larger (civic) tech community in Asia. This will consist of hands-on prototyping exploring for instance, how web3 technologies can be applied in our digital identity/credential system, and the possibility of adopting web3 tokenomics in incentivizing civic activity and stewardship. In addition to hacking, there will be public facilitated discussions on topics related to open permissions architecture, decentralized urban governance, and cross-learning between different Asian urban contexts and potential for scaling/adapting this open source technology in different cities. \n- Advisory/consultation sessions with the Civic Tech Studio of Dark Matter Labs (cost that cannot be covered through the government grant), as well as other advisory support from individual experts. \n- Covering our software and hardware costs, most of which constitute the US$58,000 co-financing requirement for the project (currently this is paid fully by our organization).", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "Dark-Matter-Labs", "projectTwitter": "RePermissioning"}, "recipient": "0x533fb569aa9f442F7acb4756e4Fb69E4Da9e71A4"}}