>“I think ultimately very small-scale experiments have its place because for the government that is not much to lose anyway. And so if you start many such smaller experiments and get people into a mood of experimenting, most governments should be okay. As I said, we only started with, like, 10K USD with the Ethereum Foundation’s help.

>... Then each government agency or department also has their relative priorities compared to other departments, or other cities. So, in a sense, if trying out a new mechanism is an effective way to uplift their relative priority compared to others, that by itself increases the legitimacy of the decision maker of that department or that jurisdiction.

>So I don’t think it’s necessarily just because it’s a good mechanism for decision making, it’s also a popularity and legitimacy mechanism. So it’s important to frame it this way: ‘You can let these many people know about your priority, these many people now know about the digital public infrastructure, these many people now know the importance of this SDG,’ and then you can uplift that voice. Compared to the money they might spend on an advertisement agency, these small experiments are nothing, right? And so it’s always easier to frame it in this way.”