Stewardship Assistance Request

Outline a general protocol that organizations could follow to request stewardship assistance:

  1. Perform a stewardship gap analysis:

  • Map out all dimensions of stewardship required to effectively address a particular issue (e.g. biodiversity, climate change etc).

  • Analyze the organization's internal skills, resources, capacity to identify stewardship gaps.

  • Prioritize the gaps where assistance is most needed.

  1. Create a stewardship request:

  • Write up a summary of the top stewardship needs that exceed internal capabilities.

  • Provide relevant background details on the broader issue and goals.

  • Suggest specific types of collaborators likely able to fill the gaps.

  1. Publish request on blockchain:

  • Encode stewardship request as transaction metadata or store off-chain.

  • Attach to organization's steward profile smart contract.

  • Notify relevant stakeholders of new request.

  1. Evaluate responses:

  • As other groups offer assistance, assess fit and impact potential.

  • Iterate on the request details as needed.

  1. Coordinate fractalization:

  • Once good collaborators found, fractalize stewardship responsibilities between them.

  • Leverage blockchain to provide transparency and traceability in the shared efforts.

The goal is to lower barriers to effectively signaling stewardship needs and enabling complementary groups to dynamically self-organize around addressing them. Blockchain and smart contracts can facilitate this at scale.

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