Overall goal
Create a success story for using quadratic funding and web3 technology to fund municipal public goods.
Specific goals
- Identify the best opportunities to introduce quadratic funding in city of Split
- Identify and solve the key obstacles of implementing quadratic funding in cities
- Design best practices for running municipal public goods funding initiatives
- Create and reuse tools built on open-source, decentralised technology
- Run multiple successful quadratic funding rounds
- Make QF the default funding mechanism in Split
- Demonstrate efficiency and applicability of QF in municipal public goods
Expected results
- Identify the municipal public goods that represent best opportunities
- Analysis of municipal public goods funded by the City of Split
- Proposal of eligibility criteria for the initial rounds
- Proposal of thematic priorities in the initial rounds
- Identify and solve the key legal, administrative, social and economic obstacles
- Analysis of legal requirements
- Created required legal documents
- Analysis of administrative requirements
- Created a plan and documents for administrative processes
- Analysis of social and economic circumstances
- Created a tenable plan for executing the project
- Design the best practices for running municipal public goods funding initiatives
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing visibility
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing user engagement
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing public contributions
- Create and reuse tools built on open-source, decentralised technology
- Used existing public goods funding infrastructure (Gitcoin, Giveth, Ethereum)
- Enabled easy on- and off- ramp
- Ensured easy integrations (eg. with existing Smart City App)
- Run multiple successful quadratic funding rounds in one year in Split
- Significant % of city’s non-committed budget is distributed
- Significant number of activists, NGOs and businesses participated
- Significant number of public goods was funded
- Make QF the default funding mechanism in Split
- New grants programs are using QF
- Existing grant programs are switched to use QF
- Demonstrate efficiency and applicability of QF in municipal public goods
- Impact measuring report created
- Created a report for business development purposes
KPIs
- Analysis of municipal public goods funded by the City of Split
- Created a list of all public goods funded in 2023 from the city budget
- Created a categorisation of municipal public goods from perspective of funding and execution
- Proposal of eligibility criteria for the initial rounds
- Proposal of thematic priorities in the initial rounds
- Analysis of legal requirements
- Collected and analysed all relevant EU and national laws, bylaws and rules
- Created required legal documents
- Created rulebook for usage of smart contracts and quadratic funding
- Created grant programme plan
- Created general rulebook for grants
- Created template contracts
- Created other required legal documents
- Analysis of administrative requirements
- Created a list of administrative processes
- Created a plan and documents for administrative processes
- Arranged partnership between participating parties
- Created all decision proposals
- All decisions made by relevant administrative bodies
- Analysis of social and economic circumstances
- Created a tenable plan for executing the project
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing visibility
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing user engagement
- Created Dos and don’ts for increasing public contributions
- Used existing public goods funding infrastructure (Gitcoin, Giveth, Ethereum)
- Enabled easy on- and off- ramp
- Ensured easy integrations (eg. with existing Smart City App)
- 5 different apps integrated
- Significant % of city’s non-committed budget is distributed
- Distributed 5% of city’s non-committed budget
- Significant number of activists, NGOs and businesses participated
- 5000 people onboarded
- 200 organisations onboarded
- Significant number of public goods was funded
- Funded 500 public goods
- New grants programs are using QF
- 5 new programs are created
- Existing grant programs are switched to use QF
- 20 programs are switched
- Impact measuring report created
- Created a report for business development purposes