Global Research Decentralized Autonomous Organization (GR-DAO) : A DAO of Global Researchers

The latest trend in Blockchain formation is to utilize decentralized autonomous organizations (DAO) in many verticals. To date, little attention has been given to addressing the global research domain due to the difficulty in creating a comprehensive framework that can marry the cutting edge of academic-grade scientific research with a decentralized governance body of researchers. A global research decentralized autonomous organization (GR-DAO) would have a profound impact on the research community academically, commercially, and the public good. In this paper, we propose the GR-DAO as a global community of researchers committed to collectively creating knowledge and sharing it with the world. Scientific research is the means for knowledge creation and learning. The GR-DAO provides the guidance, community, and technological solutions for the evolution of a global research infrastructure and environment. Through its design, the GR-DAO embraces, enhances, and extends the model of research, research on decentralization, and DAO as a model for decentralized and autonomous organizing. This design, in turn, improves most of the uses for and applications of research for the greater good of society. The paper examines the core motivation, purpose, and design of the GR-DAO, its strategy to embrace, enhance and extend the research ecosystem, and the GR-DAO design uses across the DAO ecosystem