**Panel Discussion Topic: Through the lens of Communities: An introduction to Public Goods and web3 technologies unlocking collaboration,resource flow and creativity.**

# 22nd Sept Public Library session

### **Question of the week: Is it possible to unlock collaboration,creativity,and resource flow in purpose oriented communities that have very little access to traditional financial resources?How the communities tap into web3 resources available? How we may reduce the barrier to entry?**

## Context:
1. **The Redwood Tree Family and the interconnectedness “When one tugs at a single thing in nature, one finds it attached to the rest of the world.” – John Muir.**

**Observation:**

“You would think that a 350-foot-tall tree would need deep roots, but that’s not the case at all with the Sequoia sempervirens. Redwood tree roots are very shallow, often only five or six feet deep. But they make up for it in width, sometimes extending up to 100 feet from the trunk. They thrive in thick groves, where the roots can intertwine and even fuse together. This gives them tremendous strength against the forces of nature. This way they can withstand high winds and raging floods.”
SO the very basic fact is redwoods do not survive alone…ever. They form “tribes” or communities. Sometimes they grow so close to each other they merge at the base into one tree. The first thing they provide each other is strength and support: intertwining roots. Not deep, but wide, living in an embrace of others.”
EVERYTHING IS INTERCONNECTED .Everything and everyone is interconnected, interdependent and interrelated.
We are part of A NATURAL AND SOCIAL WEB OF LIFE that supports and sustains us. We are connected to nature and dependent on it for the things we need to keep us alive.

#1.**“According to integral meta theory of education, children establish their identities in specific socio-cultural contexts and relationships that embody specific preferences and values. Development is a dynamic process of individuation through socialization”**

## 2. Problem Statements:

1. Research and observations all these years as a parent made me realize, parents are in desperate need of a community that they can trust. We need a community for everyday logistics, yes. But it goes beyond that. We need meaningful conversations and good advice and company. Humans are social animals. We need each other just to stay sane and be the best possible parents to our children.
2. Families need open-ended childcare and accessible resources that are an integrated part of their community. We need environments where our kids can flourish. When these resources are unavailable, parents default to the best options that they can find… and more often than not, these options fall short of what families need to thrive.Parents are struggling to balance work and parenting. Basic human needs -- connection, security, community -- are going unmet.
4. Decline of open ended Play in the life of children and its consequences.Play is essential for children. More and more research confirms the importance of play and why it should be an integral part of a child’s life. Why is play so important and what does it do for children?Humans are biologically wired to play. Play serves as a way for people to practice skills they will need in the future. According to The Importance of Play in Promoting Healthy Child Development and Maintaining Strong Parent-Child Bonds (2007), free play allows children to practice decision-making skills, learn to work in groups, share, resolve conflicts and advocate for themselves. It also allows them to discover what they enjoy at their own pace.Free play “is critical for becoming socially adept, coping with stress and building cognitive skills such as problem solving” (The Serious Need for Play, 2009).
5. As much as we are all participating together in cyberspace, we are often physically and emotionally isolated in physical space.This radical dislocation of identity is another lamentable postmodern moment in our culture” As Zachary Stein says in the book, Education in a time between worlds.

## As we continue working on the project Parents’ Nook we ponder on the below questions. Sharing with you all so that we brainstorm and learn more.
* **Is it possible to co-create conditions which support the very existence of purpose aligned community?**
* **What it means to be a purpose aligned community**?
* **Is Decline of unstructured Play directly related to conditions we created?**
* **How do we bring back the natural flow of childhood?**
**Can conditions be made for purpose-aligned communities to come together and support themselves?**
**How technology might step in to support this Phenomenon?**
* **Why has technology not been able to take up this problem? What was missing then? How can we address this now with the help of web3?**

# **Conclusion:**

We think this is a utopian possibility but very well achievable in today’s date with web 3 technology. In the later part of the discussion we will share how we think web3 technology might step in to make it a reality and how we at Parents’ Nook are working to make it a reality.
> As the popular Quote Sarah Hrdy “ We began raising our young ones in large groups,co-operating with one another to shoulder the task of vulnerable infants into thriving adults. She draws from wide-ranging sources of evidences from the genetic to the endocrine to the archaeological, to argue that the origins of human sociality and our incredibly sophisticated theory of mind may be tied to the human practice of turning to multiple caregivers for support”
It has been observed that early human cultures who were able to accomplish this fantastical fine tuning might have been better able to interact with others and had more stable social systems,which may have given them an evolutionary advantage.
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# Related Readings:
**Readings on parent care community and play, we recommend to have a look on the links so that we are aware how and why we believe community, an openended childhood are inter related and how web 3 may very well solve the problem.**
* [http://www.zakstein.org/education-in-a-time-between-worlds-book-release/](https://)
* [https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-Well-Balanced-Child%3A-Movement-And-Early-Blythe/3a75b8eb7c67ee333a48be7458274db42ed902e3](https://)
* [https://parents-nook.ghost.io/childhood-is-a-verb/](https://)
* [https://psycnet.apa.org/record/2012-32884-000](https://)

**Readings on how ancient cultures were able to fine tune this very need of community and had more stable social systems.**

Books recommendations:
* Mothers and others, The Evolutionary Approach of Mutual Understanding. Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.
* Island , Aldous Huxley
* Hive Mind, Sarah Rose Cavanagh.

**Readings on openended Play and its benefits and why we are vouching for openended Play Nooks:**

* https://www.encourageplay.com/open-ended-play
* https://parents-nook.com/newsletters/october.pdf
* https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5690405/

# Conclusion:

**We are slowly realizing that early childhood care and parent care needs to be repurposed and redesigned transformed into unprecedented institutions that are a combination of public libraries, art studios, museums, coworking centers,backyards, coffeeshops with gardens,computer labs and thus co-creating a co-operative way of caring for children thus supporting local community and making neighborhood local businesses,parenting and childhood normal.**

Panel discussion to be contd:

In our next panel discussion we would interconnect the above defined problems with web 3 technology

* How Web3 technology may support the collaborative movement and how we may take technology to the grassroot level where its much needed.
* We see endless possibilities in the web3 world Public Goods and DAOs , creating coordination scenarios between DAO’s, what might prompt those coordination scenarios.
* Can those scenarios be organic, how all these Dao’s are part of Public Goods, and how collective intelligence of the community might be something coming out from such scenarios?
* Community driven Incentives and coownership. Can it still be a public goods if we create a high signal environment and there is some barrier to entry?Community revenue ownership model.
* How Open Sourcing the technology aspect might work?

Notes from call:
How do you define community?
- Coordination
- Mission oriented and purpose aligned
- Can be like family
- virtually and physically, the most meaningful ones are mission shared and are working toward creating something together (mutually beneficial system)
- form around community

How do you coordinate better in a community?
- make it simple, especially when you scale the community
- having a goal is not enough, but need to align expectation on how to approach our goal we can get better coordination
- Have a commune where you own specific assets together (have shared lanaguage and understand each other)

how to build friendship?
- proximity, showing up repeatedly

How are gaming communities so strong?
- getting involved in something
- specifically designed
- members are larping together (playing roles and spending hundreds of hours together)
- Having fun together: type 1: have fun by feeling good doing it. you feel miserable doing it but still a lot of fun (like preparing the proposal together). type 3: miserable when you're doing and also in retrospect but at the end it feels good.