Four For Friday | March 3, 2023

LF27 | Five types of Impact DAOs, tech for lonely seniors, Japan's meta metaverse push, and fixing US healthcare by removing doctors.

Welcome to a Looking Forward’s Four For Friday. Four links that have piqued my interest this week relating to Web3, healthy longevity and / or impact. Enjoy.

Five types of Impact DAOs

Here are five types of ‘impact DAOs’ - decentralized autonomous organizations ‘whose core purpose is to do good for people and the planet’. It categorizes them into: Enablers, Climate, Social Impact, DeSci and NetworkState.

Earth4All - a new environmental collaborative

Earth4All aims save the planet. A stellar cast of advisors sits on the ‘The 21st Century Transformational Economics Commission’ to advise about a new set of scenarios for the world, building on the Club of Rome’s initial 1972 report, Limits to Growth.

Japanese giants creating a ‘metaverse economic zone’

Mitsubishi, Fujitsu, Misuho Bank, SOMPO and others are teaming up to create a new ecobnomic zome to support infrastructure for a Web3 / metaverse push by Japan. Fascinating, gutsy move here by those execs, that shows a level of commitment and also collaboration.

Fixing US healthcare requires doctors taking a back seat

This thoughtful piece in STAT makes a convincing case that there are too many doctors in population health - an area that needs less diagnostic skill and bedside manner, and more systems change leadership and policy expertise.

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That’s all for this week. As always, feedback welcome. Feel free to share insights or links of interest.

- Stephen