The City/Sync Project is dedicated to implementing a decentralized public administration framework for Cities. We envision a future where decentralized technology is utilized for integrating citizens into the realm of civic-labor and upgrading our technology for collective action from local governments to local networks.

We are starting off conservatively, with the implementation of a Volunteer Network App that implements a Civic-Credit system. Public-sector organizations share a common substrate to issue tasks and recognize completed tasks with civic-credits that can be redeemed for local value.

Once the underlying mechanisms have been validated and we have proven that we can incentivize greater participation in public-sector functions, we will begin testing our coordination events where mulitple organizations can collaborate on highly visible public initiatives utilizing the civic-credit incentive structure.

The coordination events are designed to surface successful coordination patterns where mobilizing residents around collective outcomes is more efficient and cost effective than local government execution. Successful coordination patterns will serve as the foundation for modular applications that can be utilized again and again by local communities.

Eventually, we want every city to have their own local chain with their own civic models and applications built on top of it utilizing this Civic-Credit system as the incentive structure. As an open-source stack, we believe that having sovereign local chains will open up a new world for civic experimentation. Eventually, interoperability between local jursidictions can be developed. Our goal is to allow for local governments to integrate directly into what will eventually become permanent digital public infrastructure and change the face of public administration and local governance.

The City/Sync organizations is responsible for developing, educating, and researching the effective implementation of decentralized public administration frameworks in different cities around the world. We believe that decentralized public administration is the key to bringing power back to the hands of citizens by giving them the tools to become self-reliant.

Local Governements are dealing with both workforce and financial contstraints that are too challenging to overcome. Especially as AI is set to connect citizens with services more effectively, and the effective routing of information will only increase the frequency and magnitude of demands placed on local governments. We believe that this will become a major problem for cities if not addressed quickly, and will result in widespread mistrust and a breakdown of community life if not remedied.

We seek to build digital public infrastructure for cities by integrating and incentivizing resident participation in the realm of civic-labor. Local governments are a technology, and an outdated one. We believe that we can standardize a coordination framework for local citizens and organizations to effectively act within their communities far more effectively than our current reliance on public agencies and organizations can in isolation.

We are not looking to sustain a large business from this project. Eventually, we are seeking to have the cost of operations paid by local municipal budgets which would be a fraction of what local governments pay for their existing commercial software platforms. City/Sync will take a small % of the costs each year to study and standardize the implementation across cities and fund further interoperability developments and local government integration pathways.

Want to grow through just grant funding

Global (Proposed initial Pilots in Berkeley, and Mexico City)

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