Episode 005 - Building and Funding the Digital Commons Together with Kevin Owocki of Gitcoin

In this episode, Martin & Jahed sit down with Kevin Owocki, co-founder and CEO of Gitcoin, a community developing digital public goods that has put $52 million in the open source ecosystem's hands since its founding. In the conversation, Kevin covers how Gitcoin's mission came to be, why its important to fund public goods, and the bleeding edge of democratic governance innovations Gitcoin is spurring on with quadratic funding and quadratic voting with Gitcoin Grants. This episode provides a unique view behind the scenes of a thriving, well-funded community experimenting with new democratic methods that politicians, technologists, and founders seeking to expand the agency of their community can borrow from.

Here are the show notes:

• Elastic and AWS open source battle
• The crusade against Open Source abuse
• Grounding decentralised technologies in cooperative principles: What can “Decentralised Autonomous Organisations” (DAOs) and platform cooperatives learn from each other?
• A comparative analysis of the platforms for decentralized autonomous organizations in the Ethereum blockchain
• Gitcoin Grants Case Study