David Dao
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Co-Founder at @gainforest.earth; XPRIZE winner; WEF davos 50; prev: PhD ETH, MIT, Berkeley daviddao.org
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🌍 What if data could be worth more than deforestation?

GainForest turns local environmental knowledge into income, using web3 to incentivize protection rather than exploitation.
What if we could prevent deforestation with data?
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Yay, restor.eco now officially supports @gainforest.earth certified projects / communities 🌱
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At @gainforest.earth, we explore how emerging tech can enable local communities to govern the commons at scale in the intelligent age. Read the vision here: www.daviddao.org/posts/regene...
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Sometimes I think that Richard Brautigan’s "All Watched Over By Machines Of Loving Grace" should be the unofficial poem of
@gainforest.earth — a cybernetic meadow where deep tech & nature's communities live in harmony, not in conflict 🌱
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Yes we can (follow) 🌱
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Starting @gainforest.earth remains one of my proudest journeys. The need for a tech-savvy, community-first non-profit to back nature’s stewards feels more urgent than ever. 🌱

This testimony on GainForest from my friend Pure of the Sateré-Mawé still gives me chills: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoF...
Aldeia Inhaã-bé and GainForest: Towards Equitable Artificial Intelligence with Indigenous Co-Design
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In the last decade, web3 has sparked a renaissance in public goods mechanism design little known in academia. I’m excited to share a (still evolving) short history of mechanism design for public goods across academia and web3 to help bridge both fields. Explore the timeline: recerts.org/history 🌱