# The GainForest Framework

**How do we coordinate together to solve the climate crisis?** 

GainForest proposes to design sociotechnical intelligent systems that preserve or enhance social capital, trust and agency while scaling governance capabilities.

* *“Sociotechnical”* acknowledges that pure technological or social solutions alone are insufficient
* *“Intelligent systems”* emphasizes the focus on data-driven intelligent infrastructure
* *“Preserve or enhance social capital”* ensures we don’t sacrifice community bonds for efficiency
* *“Trust and agency”* maintains Ostrom’s emphasis on local autonomy and self-governance
* *“Scaling governance capabilities”* targets our core challenge of extending effective governance beyond local contexts

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The SISL framework consists of five key stages that work together in a continuous cycle:

1. **Gather, collaborate & govern**: Communities engage in direct digital governance and collaboration
2. **Improve data**: These interactions and local data collection help improve our infrastructure and understanding
3. **Improve tools**: Better data enables the development of more effective tools and systems
4. **Capacity-building**: Enhanced tools support capacity building
5. **Utility feedback**: Throughout each cycle, provide rapid feedback on measured utility to all stakeholders

Throughout this cycle, there’s a constant process of reflection, alignment, and improvement that feeds back into each stage. The ultimate goal is to generate increasing utility - making governance more effective and scalable while preserving human agency and social capital.

Learn more: [Governing the Commons in the Intelligent Age](https://www.daviddao.org/posts/regenerative-intelligence/)