Gov/en/Portal:Onboarding/Contribute-Researcher

💡 In simple words: Researchers study how people share and cooperate. They can join WikiDeal to test ideas and learn what works. This page explains how to take part.

🎯 In 20 seconds (expert summary): Entry page for researchers: the Living Labs and observatories through which WikiDeal is being developed (social economics, tech fairness and transparency, incubation for decentralized governance, legal automation) and the current way to get involved. There is no selection filter: open participation currently takes place in the Markets space, while contributing to governance, policies and institutions goes through a simple contact step (info@wikideal.net) to request administration rights, granted case by case. Participation is open to grant holders, thesis students and independent volunteers alike.

Contribute as a Researcher

Help validate the cooperative model. WikiDeal is being developed through Living Labs and observatories in sociology, economics, and tech fairness and transparency. Researchers are invited to analyze usage data, test governance models, and document systemic impacts.

Living Labs

• Ecopol Living Lab (social economics)
• Tech Fairness and Transparency Lab
• Incubation for Decentralized Governance Lab
• Legal and Contracts Automation Lab
• Or propose a new Living Lab

The Living Labs work hand in hand with the observatories: contributing to a Living Lab and contributing to an observatory are more or less the same gesture, observing real usage and feeding shared knowledge. Case by case, they can also carry development projects. One example envisaged is the Ecopol transition programme, which would help people leave the city, settle in the countryside and sell their housing. Researchers would document such a programme, and beyond documentation they would formalize, as much as possible, proposals for how the different contracts interact within the Living Lab, as well as clear policies and a clear vision in terms of technological fairness and transparency.

How to get involved

There is no filter and no selection process: you can start right away.

At this stage, open participation takes place in the Markets space, where anyone can propose use cases, contract templates and complete structures. The rest of the platform (governance, policies, institutions, everything outside the Markets) can currently be edited only by people holding administration rights. If you would like to take part in that work, the first step proposed is to identify yourself and contact us at info@wikideal.net, so that these rights can be granted by an administrator, after analysis and case by case (see the criteria envisaged). This arrangement reflects the current stage of the project and is offered as a working basis, open to discussion.

When you write to us, tell us your academic institution or organization, which Living Lab interests you, and describe your proposed research contribution. You can take part whether you hold an independent grant, are seeking a WikiDeal research grant, are working on a student thesis, or are contributing as an independent volunteer researcher.

For the broader picture, including the planned integration webinars, see Get started: how to contribute.

See also

• Research questions
• Get started: how to contribute
• Contribute as a developer
• Contribute as a legal professional
• Contribute as a marketer
• Contribute as a policy maker
• Integration Webinar