Hi Nico, thank you for putting this initial exploration on the expenses and focus areas of regional DAOs together.
It would be great to reap more of the learnings on the actual use of funds, explore the challenges and pushbacks some of these initiatives faced when creating and having their proposals approved, and the big picture impact this had on the Ecosystem.
- Accountability and transparency is not dependent on having a uniform set of impact metrics.
It might help compare efforts across regions but I’d look at it with a grain of salt, otherwise we should be expecting Celo Europe to have the same Developer Acquisition cost as Celo Africa, which is not sensible.
- Could you please expand what do you refer to as “DAOs operating independently”? Independently from whom?
Cross-regional collaboration should be something explored, but at the end of the day, each DAO/Group is working in a very particular context targeting particular audiences that behave differently from one region to another. So while organizations might have similar goals the strategies they need to follow and that work best for their audiences will diverge.
I support increasing communication, but the independent nature does not seem to be the things to avoid or correct for.
While Onchain data points are desired and definitely a good addition, I agree with some of the previous comments that each region and community have different barriers they face when conducting their work. I think a good starting point though would be to create a set of best practices for some of these environments and approaches that reduce the case for “minimal documentation” or “trust-based” evaluations.
Once again, thank you for creating this initial retrospective that sheds light into the work all of the Regional DAOs have developed over this past year, and opens opportunities to collaboration not only among them but also with other members of the Ecosystem.