A2T: 5th Gen Info War Simulator
Problem
5th Generation Information Warfare is being used extensively by countries and other entities but not by decentralization advocates.
Solution
A 5th Generation Information Warfare A2T module that tests decentralized strategies to spread ideas despite censorship and misinformation.
Total to date
This is the total amount allocated to A2T: 5th Gen Info War Simulator.
About this idea
[IMPACT]
The Alternative to Tyranny (A2T) 5th Generation Information Warfare Simulator is a wargame in which opposing sides engage in an information war using memes, censorship, fact checkers, misinformation and a continually expanding range of tactics as defined by the community. Outcomes of various tactics are determined by community votes which are reflected in a demographically real world modeled population.
Many scenarios can be run through the simulator however the initial scenario will be the Great Reset in which proponents will use censorship, fact checkers, legacy media, surveillance and other tools to discredit opponents as conspiracy theorists while opponents will use memes, independent media, encrypted messaging and other tools to circumvent censorship to portray advocates as globalist technocrats seeking a Neo-feudal new world order. As the model population is swayed towards either belief (determined by community voting feedback) then their beliefs become more entrenched and harder to sway.
The game will be completely decentralized with community members even able to sponsor the development of new features in the game using the A2T game development funding process.
The 5th Generation Information Warfare Simulator is a blockchain game that has the potential to achieve mass adoption if the prevalence of social media disputes are any indicator of the human desire to engage in information warfare.
The outcomes of the project will be communicated via Town Hall and the DAO-NET & A2T Marketing campaign if funded.
If this proposal is funded and the main A2T: Alternative To Tyranny proposal is not funded then the feature of having community members fund specific game enhancements is lost until eventually funded either through Project Catalyst or one of the other DAO Coders fund raising methods including:
- DAO Coders intends to launch a Mission Driven Stake Pool in May to help fund its operations
- Longer term solutions include a merchandising campaign (see the DAO-NET & A2T Merchandise Store project) and the DAO-NET: Development Funder project as additional revenue streams.
This game is likely to be highly controversial so there may be external attempts to censor or shut it down. The game is designed to be completely decentralized to make it resistant to external attempts to censor or shut it down however every attempt to do so is a learning experience so the project is relatively anti-fragile.
[FEASIBILITY]
May 2022
- Prototype global demographic modelling of the population
- Create game design documentation
June 2022
- Prototype initial action functionality
July 2022
- Prototype voting based upon demographic modelling
August 2022
- Prototype customized situational awareness reports completing the A2T: 5th Gen Info War Simulator
September 2022
- Test A2T: 5th Gen Info War Simulator on Testnet
October 2022
- Launch A2T: 5th Gen Info War Simulator on Mainnet
Plutus Developer ($4000/month): $24,000
Game designer: ($4,000/month): $24,000
Product Manager ($1,000/month): $6,000
Total: $54,000
Product Manager
- have a holistic understanding of the DAO-NET suite of proposals
- experienced in managing multidisciplinary teams in up to a dozen projects simultaneously
- ability to articulate and fluently translate between business and technical requirements
- able to manage large complex budgets
- experienced in hiring consultants and third party contract negotiations
Lead Developer
- Full stack developer experience
- Plutus development, especially algorithmic DAO smart contract primitive
- Define technical requirements
- Integrate multiple software components into a larger solution
Plutus Developers
- Full stack developer experience
- Plutus development of smart contracts, Plutus Pioneer preferred
Game Designer
- Wargame development experience
- Knowledge of 5th Generation Information Warfare strategies
Team
Product Manager: Dwayne Collard - 20 years+ IT Consultant, Solutions Analyst, IT Manager, Veteran Community Advisor https://www.linkedin.com/in/dwayne-collard/
Lead Developer: Jude Ben - 9 years+ Software Development , Plutus Smart Contract Development , Cloud and Infrastructure Engineer https://www.linkedin.com/in/judeebene/
Plutus Developers: As part of previous DAO-NET funding, DAO Coders has been building a small pool of, currently 3, contractors. This work will be done by new contractors that will be added to that pool.
Game Designer: Qualified consultant identified however negotiations are still ongoing at the time of proposal submission.
[AUDITABILITY]
Development progress will be tracked using an agile methodology and weekly team meetings. Specific quantitative indicators to be tracked will be Total Number of Pull requests in Github, Total Numbers of Github commits and the Total Number of Errors Fixed.
Success Criteria
- 5th Generation Information Warfare Simulator allows for relatively realistic modelling of human opinions based upon demographic profiles and user interactions
- Users are able to select detailed demographic profiles for communities which their actions and votes will be representative
- Users will have a sufficiently wide variety of potential actions to perform to make the game challenging and interesting with additional actions being developed based upon community funding using the core A2T platform if proposal is funded.
- User voting on action outcomes updates opinion modelling based upon demographic profiles.
- Situational reports are automatically generated but still engaging.
- Great Reset scenario is implemented.
- Documentation for community generated scenarios made publicly available.
This proposal is a member of the A2T suite of proposals that are new in Fund 8.
In Fund 8, DAO Coders Inc has submitted 2 categories of proposals Alternative to Tyranny (A2T) proposals which are decentralized wargame simulator modules for testing decentralized idea implementations against probable authoritarian responses and DAO-NET proposals which are real world implementations that can be implemented immediately.
A2T and DAO-NET share a lot of base smart contract code and are meant to be interoperable to the largest degree and conceptually share similar designs. As new features are added in either suite then the transfer to the other suite of those improvements should be straight forward however since each suite is designed to be independently community run, after launch, this easy interoperability may diverge over time.
In Fund 7, the following DAO-NET suite of proposals were funded: DAO-NET: DAO Deployment Platform, DAO-NET: Legal Defense DAO, DAO-NET: Auditor DAO and DAO-NET: Multilingual Translation.
In Fund 7, there were a total of 8 other DAO-NET proposals that were approved but not funded.
All of the DAO-NET suite of proposals are interrelated but each proposal in Fund 7 could be standalone funded. The core DAO smart contract coding was funded with the DAO-NET: DAO Deployment Platform project which means that this work no longer needs to be contingency funded in Fund 8.
DAOs are a paradigm evolution in how societies organize themselves and the DAO-NET vision is to systematically progress towards that evolution by breaking the larger vision down into small incremental steps with each proposal. As part of that vision all DAO Coder Inc intellectual property is intended to be freely shared with the world so that any insights can be duplicated in other experiments to rapidly advance decentralized governance therefore:
- All software developed as part of this proposal will be Open Source under Apache License, version 2.0
- All documentation will be licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License
In Fund 8, DAO Coders has submitted the following proposals:
Team
DAO Coders Inc is an experienced team of Blockchain developers, Plutus pioneers, Veteran Community Advisors and Solutions Analysts that was incorporated after previous round funding for several DAO-NET suite proposals.
