About

MetroDAO was founded in 2022, by Dyshaun Hines following his experiences working as Director of a public-private partnership called, The Philadelphia Global Identity Partnership, whose mission was to elevate Philadelphia’s global brand narrative to position the city and region as a top-tier global destination for business, talent, and investment attraction and retention. Experiencing difficulties in gathering partner consensus, and limited opportunities to intentionally engage residents in decision-making processes, Dyshaun identified an opportunity to create a more efficient and inclusive process of engaging large stakeholder groups to accomplish goals utilizing emerging technologies.

MetroDAO was developed to present solutions for more efficient and sustainable civic engagement, far-reaching collaborative decision-making processes, and public resource allocation through the utilization of future-forward technologies. Combining research and proven methodologies by the Brookings Institute, the Participatory Budgeting Project, and the U.S. News & World Review “Best Countries Ranking” framework – in regard to efficient social impact investing, MetroDAO isn’t reinventing the wheel; we’re creating a more efficient, sustainable, and accessible one.

“Many governments are turning to public-private partnerships (PPPs) in the hope that the private sector will finance public infrastructure and public services which have been savagely hit by the financial crisis… Why such a resurgence when the past 30 years’ experience shows that privatization is fundamentally flawed? In the context of the economic crisis, governments are under increased pressure to find quick answers to hard questions about maintaining public services and funding infrastructure. The longer the crisis extends the more pressure mounts to find answers, but so do the risks of forgetting the root causes: greed, deregulation, and excessive faith in private corporations.” - DAVID HALL, PSIRU 

Using blockchain, gamification, and incentive-based models, MetroDAO creates a platform that rewards informed civic engagement and fills the feedback gap that often exists between public leaders and community members.

MetroDAO’s platform allows Governments, Private CSR’s, and Large Non-Profit Institutions to more easily gain real-time quantitative and qualitative insight from their community – and to capture lived insight on how to solve problems that impact a community’s quality of life.

With this feedback, solution-based impact initiatives can be developed allowing targeted resource allocations, measurable KPIs to determine the effectiveness of programming, and higher returns on impact investments.