Monetization Strategies

[davidgasquez]

Even though I don't have a clear goal with the project, there might be some potential monetization paths ahead.

• Grants.
  • Gitcoin. Open Data Community could help.
  • Filecoin/IPFS Grants. Datasets could be archived to IPFS/Filecoin both for resiliency and because it'll be cheap.
• Consulting. For example, creating open data portals for cooperatives and organizations.
• Selling curated datasets. Specially, win at the edge (small curated data) where big companies can't compete.
  • Selling private datasets is something that will make that company want to do more and more. E.g: data.world and opencorporates. Not sure if sustainable long term without sacrificing opennes and other values.
• Participating in data bounties.
• Have a community like Substack/Pinterest/Are.na where people contribute datasets and there is a fee.
• Selling data augmentation. Pass your data through a set of "checks" and get back a bunch of extra columns that might be relevant for you derived from all the open data.
• Create a token based incentive system where a fraction of the fees of the network usage goes to these platforms (like Optimism does). Complex, but might work well with a Data Coop or Data DAO.
• Build a business around private data, but have awesome tooling that also works fantastically for open data, which might be the smart route.

[davidgasquez]

Recently learned that Nebula (video streaming platform owned by the creators) is distributing 50% of the equity to the creators.

That might be another path forward!

[davidgasquez]

The NLnet Foundation supports organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all and might be a great entity to reach for potential funding.