Blockchain for Organizing Effective Grass-Roots Actions on a Global Commons: Saving the Planet

Abstract

An overwhelming majority of experts has been flagging for decades that "Saving the Planet" requires immediate, persistent and drastic action to curb a variety of catastrophic risks over the 21st century. However, despite compelling evidence and a range of suggested solutions, transnational coordination of effective measures to protect our biosphere continues to fall short. To remedy, we propose a novel platform for addressing the central issue of affording trust, transparency and truth while minimizing administrative overheads. This will empower an even loosely organized, global grassroots community to coordinate a large-scale project on a shared goal ("Commons") spanning the digital and real world. The Web3 concept is based on the swiftly emerging "Blockchain" and related cryptographic, distributed and permissionless technologies. "Wisdom of the crowds" mechanisms involving competitive parallelization and prediction markets are enabled by formalized reputation and staking to incentivize high-quality work, fair validation and best management practice. While these mechanisms have been (mostly separately) applied to science, business, governance, web, sensor, information and communication technologies (ICT), our integrative approach around Blockchainenabled 'operating principles and protocols' sets the basis for designing novel forms of potentially crowdfunded Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs).

Systematic Review of Centrifugal Valving Based on Digital Twin Modelling towards Highly Integrated Lab-on-a-Disc Systems

“…Follow-up work is already planned on computer-aided, possibly automated optimization of integration density, robustness and manufacturability. As an open platform concept [123], the work is meant to encourage further honing of design, modelling, simulation and experimental verification, for instance, within a blockchain-incentivized participatory research model involving crowdsourcing by means of hackathons, citizen science, fab / maker labs [124][125][126]. Such community-based organization of research, which are already well-established in the thriving field of blockchain, are particularly attractive for centrifugal microfluidic technologies as key intellectual property (IP), that was mainly filed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, has now entered the public domain.…”

Secure Air Traffic Control at the Hub of Multiplexing on the Centrifugo-Pneumatic Lab-on-a-Disc Platform

“…In view of the vanguard of strong, often disruptive socio-economic and technological trends in its technological environment, such as Maker / Fab Labs, hackathons, science as a service (SaaS), cloud computing, Machine Learning (ML) / Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, Internet of Things (IoT) and decentralization, as well as the continuing expiry of all foundational patents on centrifugal microfluidics that were primarily filed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, which creates sufficient wiggle room in intellectual property (IP) space, open platform models for heralding a new era of blockchain-backed participatory research models and crowdsourcing of ideas, expertise, skills, work force, infrastructure and equipment may be established [64][65][66][67].…”

Design Optimization of Centrifugal Microfluidic "Lab-on-a-Disc" Systems towards Fluidic Larger-Scale Integration

“…Eventually, professional layout software may be provided, which would, for instance, enable foundry services as a landmark of mature supply chains. Regarding the bigger picture, the publication of the digital twin sets the stage for open platform models that have been discussed in the context of crowdsourcing through, e.g., blockchain-backed, participatory research models [64][65][66][67].…”