Help Build AI Internet-Meritocracy: Funding Science by Merit, Not Status

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Science is broken by gatekeepers.
World Science DAO builds AI and blockchain infrastructure to fund discoveries by merit, not prestige.

Donate if you believe:
science should be open
funding should be fair
outsiders deserve a chance
discoveries should not depend on institutions
knowledge should belong to all

Donate to build the future of science.
Today, scientific funding is dominated by committees, prestige, and institutional bias. Important discoveries are often ignored.

World Science DAO is building AI Internet-Meritocracy (AIIM): a transparent system that allocates funding continuously based on measurable scientific value.

Your donation helps build the infrastructure that could permanently improve how science is funded.

Proposed spendings. Donating just $100 can support a full month of work of a researcher or open source developer in a poor country, what will help also your (possibly rich) country. Imagine the world in which every open source author is paid, no more richness built on somebody’s free work.

The priority of usage of money is AIIM project (see proposed spendings). Next go our other projects, that are not a priority now.

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Today, many important scientific ideas never receive funding.

Not because they are wrong.
Not because they are useless.
But because the current science-funding system is slow, centralized, status-driven, and often inaccessible to independent researchers, unconventional thinkers, and people outside elite institutions.

AI Internet-Meritocracy — AIIM — is a project designed to change this.

AIIM is a proposed online platform where scientific and technological work can be evaluated, ranked, and funded according to merit, usefulness, and contribution to humanity — not merely according to academic titles, institutional prestige, personal connections, or grant bureaucracy.

The goal is simple but ambitious:

Create a fairer way to fund science, open-source software, and high-impact intellectual work.

The Problem

Traditional science funding often depends on universities, grant committees, and institutional networks. This creates several serious bottlenecks:

Independent researchers may be ignored even when their work is valuable.

Important long-term ideas may be rejected because they are too unusual, too interdisciplinary, or too difficult to evaluate quickly.

Some research (sometimes immensely important) fails to be published.

Scientists and developers may spend more time applying for money than doing the work itself.

Entire fields of progress can be delayed because promising contributors lack the right credentials, location, or social position.

Humanity loses when good ideas are blocked by bad funding systems.

The AIIM Solution

AI Internet-Meritocracy aims to use AI, open review, transparent ranking, and internet-scale participation to help identify valuable work and direct funding toward it.

Instead of relying only on traditional gatekeepers, AIIM would help donors, experts, reviewers, and the public discover which projects deserve support.

The platform is intended to support:

Scientific research
Independent researchers
Open-source software
Mathematical and theoretical work
High-impact technological projects
Post-publication review
Transparent merit-based funding

The vision is a system where contributors can be rewarded for real value — even if they are outside the usual academic hierarchy.

Why Donations Are Needed

AIIM is not just a text or an idea. It needs to become a working platform.

Donations will help support development, outreach, technical infrastructure, legal and nonprofit operations, and the public communication needed to make this system visible to donors, scientists, developers, and institutions.

Every donation helps move this project from concept to implementation.

Why This Matters

Science is one of humanity’s main engines of progress.

But if science funding is misallocated, delayed, or captured by status systems, then progress itself is delayed.

AIIM is an attempt to build a more rational, transparent, and scalable funding mechanism for the people working on ideas that may benefit everyone.

This is not only about one researcher or one project.

It is about creating a better funding system for future discoveries.

How You Can Help

Your donation helps us build and promote AI Internet-Meritocracy as a new model for funding science and intellectual work.

Please donate, share this campaign, and help make merit-based science funding a reality.

Together, we can help ensure that important ideas are judged by their value — not by the social position of the person who discovers them.

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