Why Retroactive Public Goods Funding
Retroactive Public Goods Funding (Retro Funding) provides an effective framework for addressing a challenge faced by communities, organizations, and networks that hope to build and maintain public goods: how do we sustainably reward those who create value for the public interest, especially when traditional funding models fall short?The Problem with Traditional Funding Models for Public GoodsPublic goods—resources that are non-excludable and non-rivalrous, such as open-source software, shared...
