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Gitcoin Beta Projects from Africa
Recorded: April 28, 2023 Duration: 1:40:01Space Recording
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hey hey is this gloria yes sir hey gloria are you are you super short on time
no no i i have a bunch of times so yeah can i make you co-host oh of course of course
i am so honored to be sharing this stage with you
ah sucky sucky yeah i'm excited i have to say too i loved the session that you had with latab
because for a multiple reason and i love any type of web 3 discussion that's happening in spanish
because i think language helps diversify the space a lot more but selfishly for me i could
follow along the whole day and so i was like all right my spanish okay that's that's very impressive
i've tried to to listen into the uh german language web 3 things and i'm not there yet i go back and
forth between uh well spanish not as often unless i'm going to a spanish-speaking country in the
future but uh french a lot i'm trying to pick up on like how do we talk about web 3 from like a
french perspective and then of course like all the other languages that i love to speak uh just
hanging around so it's always dutch and polish and spanish and french yeah you know i i love how you
said that language helps diversify the the space and this is i i did a little experiment so we have
an afro-honduran community the garifuna in honduras and i played with the idea of translating certain
terms to garifuna because they it's a it's a it's not a written language right so it's uh it's passed
down generation to generation through storytelling and uh it was really interesting even they thought
they were they were just you know words that we don't even have spanish translations for they were
that we were really stumped on a few things yeah it makes you have to break down the concepts from
like actual concepts and so like i've been thinking very heavily on like how do i explain like quadratic
funding without using math or numbers like can i make it into a game that's tangible for people to
understand and i think i have a method on how i would probably do that i'm going to try to see if i can
put it together in a talk hopefully for dev connect but yeah i think it really helps when you're
explaining it to people and then you don't you have to like actually convey the concept without having
the like word of it to to utilize uh so i think that that's just something that's really interesting
and i feel like you know we all know that adoption is much faster in the global south and has a greater
impact so the sooner we can get the global south to be um you know creating be the creators and not
just the consumers then the better off the whole ecosystem is going to be so yeah yeah amazing okay
i want to take a little before we get really started with this conversation with the spaces to help
promote all the projects that are participating from africa creating impact there i'm really stoked to
learn more about it i would like to ask everyone to please retweet this so we can try to get as many
people in here as possible i am just going to share this i'm going to take one minute to share this in
different telegram groups as well and just uh just try to spread it out as as quickly as i can so
we'll take a one minute pause and then uh everyone that's in here please just just retweet it and we can
try to amplify everyone's voices i'll be back in one minute
okay
okay so i got that shared and uh we we have a couple of speakers also who haven't made a
couple of speakers also who haven't made it in yet web3 africa
our friend tony who works for
polygon as well uh he's involved with web3 africa so i'm hoping they get in here
uh pretty soon but
i guess while we wait i'll just i'll just share a few thoughts
uh the very first thing is i i wanna
just share that i have a lot of admiration for web3 projects
collaboration for web3 projects
in africa
and i
here's a little a little secret is i copycat a lot of the stuff that i see in
africa and i try to figure out how we can
how we can implement that
in latin america i think we have a lot to learn from from africa and
we might even have some some similar challenges
so i i have a lot of
uh a lot of love
for the projects that are building in africa and
i i you know i don't want to
seem like i know
exactly what the challenges are or
what's going on i would definitely like to be
more aware and
maybe that's part of the reason why i
push to get this space going
because i do want to know what's happening
i think just recent just earlier i heard someone on a from from
ioweka say that their strategy for planting trees
for example was
uh making sure that they planted them
somewhere
that people could take care of them
and i thought that makes sense because there's a lot of people that
just do tree planting and then you don't really
circle back to take care of them
so it's it's it's part of that is
the beautification of schools and then ensuring
that those schools are going to be able to be there
and and uh help
those trees those trees thrive
i i really love the way that was worded
so uh then
the other thing i want to share is that
if there's any projects in here
that would
like a little bit of guidance
on how to
raise funding
uh through either
specific uses of
of tools that are there and platforms
for example optimism
i can give you a little bit of guidance on
how to get building on optimism
so that you become eligible for
the retroactive public goods funding
that they do seasonally
and that's something that
web3beach benefited from and i was surprised
because someone nominated us for that
and i i heard about it
and i just didn't think we qualified
i i didn't really see the fit
someone nominated us for that
uh we we received i think 10 000 tokens
of op a little over 10 000 tokens
which is 25 grand
so it surpasses the amount of
money that i invested into this project
now and it makes me feel like
wow web3 is really here for us
web3 is really here the industry is really
here to empower us to build
and use the tools for good in every day
and improve our communities
and it's not just about speculating
right like the industry from within
is really showing up for us
and and i'm really bullish on
that part of it
so now that i've benefited from it
i've i've kind of taken some time
to think about what
how i can help other projects
right so some low-hanging fruit
is just start minting nfts
for participation in anything
that you have going on
for context i'll give you an example
of what we actually do on optimism
and i thought we wouldn't even
qualify for anything
because it's it seems so minuscule
so we onboard
we onboard community members
to web3 by
getting them involved in beach cleanups
or different types of activities
some of them are just learning activities
like a family reading night for example
with a crypto for kids book
and then we have snacks and drinks
and then we onboard tuk-tuk drivers
and little street food vendors
and cafes to be able to accept the crypto
we give the participants of these activities
right so you you you participate
in the beach cleanup you earn crypto rewards
it's like two or three die
it's not much and a little bit of eat
so you can make transactions
and then we practice sending
and receiving funds
and i think the total volume
that we've done on optimism
is probably a couple thousand dollars
worth of crypto
so when i was on the calls
and they were discussing
what qualifies you for
for adding value to optimism
some of the questions they asked were
so if your project
ceases to exist to date
does that have an impact on optimism
and i kind of laughed because i thought
well okay a couple thousand
a couple hundred or a thousand dollars
worth of tuk-tuk transactions
and coffees like that doesn't mean anything
right but apparently people thought
it is valuable right so
i would love to play around
with different tools with you on optimism
and see if that's something that we can
we can incorporate to your strategy
or to your efforts
and hopefully position you in a way
that by the time the next
retroactive public goods funding
round comes i can nominate you
or you can even nominate yourself i found out
and then you can benefit from some of the
some of some of this funding
because that's what they want to see
they want to see people using this
in the real world in real life
another another route is applying for
for you know direct grants from the
ethereum foundation right so
i think a lot of people feel like they
don't have the proximity to them
like you need to have some some know
someone on the inside you really don't
you just need to take that first step
and apply and you know
provide some some transparency
as to what you want to do with it
and how you want to use it and then
provide updates and then you could get
you know refunded again with another
grant as long as you're showing
traction uh so those are just the
first things i want to start with and
i'm very open my dms are open you can
contact me anytime and say hey that
sounded interesting and this is what
we're doing and how can we position
ourselves for that i would love to
guide you from you know zero to a
hundred for accomplishing that so
and this is just because we've we've
been able to benefit from it so i
i feel that's kind of my
that's a great thing to do now to
to payeth forward someone someone
gave me that hashtag so payeth
forward so payeth forward i really
love that so um i know this is an
africa space but i do have someone
here from the ethereum ecuador
ecosystem that i i just want to give a
quick second to to say hello
thank you thank you very much uh yeah i
just want to i'm glad to see this
space for africa i want to learn about
the african communities which
communities are have been activated
and started what projects do they
have so really eager to to listen to
that and and i share the view that
carlos has that you guys with even
less possibly resources than latin
america do even greater stuff and and
innovate with the resources that you
have so it's really impressive not
only in web3 but just in general i've
seen i don't remember the name of the
project with the drones that we're
sending in medical in in supplies
by the drones and now that's expanded
to japan in different places which is
amazing so really glad to hear about
you guys and how we can collab between
latin america and africa so super
thank you very much amazing thank you
thank you thank you for popping in
with that so now before we get the
shilling started and you know promoting
each other's projects i do want to
throw out a suggestion is that uh as
we hear all of all of the the valley
propositions or for all the projects i
would love for everyone that's here
either representing a project or just on
on your own to think about how you can
incorporate like how you can collab i
would love this space to not only
result in some some more donations on
the get coin grants but i would love
to see some of these entities start
working together and figuring out you
know what where where those where
those opportunities are so uh
Gloria has her hand up i'll let her
go yeah you know this is Gloria hi
y'all um and i was previously at
get coin now at super modular so i've
been in the space for a long time and
i think that there's a lot of ways that
we can have impact for each other and
it can be as simple as sharing like of
course contributing to each other's
grants if you can do that great if you
can't that's totally fine one of the
things that you can definitely do is
also just amplify and retweet the
shares of other people's grants that
are out there and like utilizing your
network would be also great as you
great as you continue to listen to what
everybody is doing in this space even
collaborating on either like papers or
documents or press or even just having
a community call from your local area and
amplifying it is all something that's
super super helpful and then sharing
resources so for those of y'all who
think that you could come to this
gloria i don't know if you're speaking
i can't hear anything can you can if
you're in the crowd can you do hearts
if you can hear me
you can hear me could you hear gloria
before okay gloria can you try to
can you hear me now i think gloria and i
can't hear each other or i can't hear
gloria uh gloria i'm just gonna sit
back and let you host it now because i
can't hear anything i am so sorry about
that so if you can hear me can you give
me like a thumbs up and then that will
at least let me know that we're all
good okay perfect um so basically what i
was saying was just like if you want
to help amplify each other's um what
each other's grants are go ahead and
share that or retweet it so that we can
use the power of everyone else's
network network uh to help the
conversation go further and beyond this
grant round um i would suggest like
even having calls or working in public
so people can learn from your
successes or your your roadblocks and
just kind of utilizing each other as a
way to kind of move forward as a whole
so uh that's my perspective if i can
ever be of any help to you feel free
to reach out to me um i'm a pretty
public person but you can always reach
me at gcombola um pretty much anywhere
or gloria at supermodule.xyz uh and
with that i'm not going to hold too
much of the space but we'll go ahead
and let the shilling begin um but
before we get started i i wanted to
touch base real quick because carlos
talked about um retroactive funding and
of course grants grants is quadratic
funding and i don't know if people know
people know the difference but quadratic
funding in general is like where the power
is the people and you can use your
community in order to raise more funds
and your funds are matched based on the
amount of contributions and not just the
overall contributions um so that's just
one perspective and then retroactive
funding is like when you've made impact
and then you want to get funded um
retroactively for an impact that you've
already made so a lot of times uh i really
really believe in like using these
funding mechanisms to fund your projects
rather than pulling out of your own
pocket to do it and one way to do that is
to use the quadratic funding to fund
something that you're going to have in
the future and then using retroactive
funding uh to cover you know costs that
had occurred from events that you had in
the past so um just that's just a
perspective if you need more help with
that um feel free to reach out but i
just wanted to make sure that some grand
understanding was done um okay so let's
get started with the shilling of
projects uh i will always get the stage
up for those uh who are here um please
first and foremost make sure you do a
tweet or pin your tweet of your project
in your twitter handle so that as we
talk like we can at least go and find
your your grant and retweet it for you
it would make our lives a little bit
easier um if you do want to shill a
project just feel free to raise your
hand and me and carlos will go ahead
and bring you up uh as speakers um i
know there's a couple speakers here so
when you start if you want to like say
who you are or if you want to be
anonymous that's fine but what your
project is what your grant is and which
round it is in that would be really
helpful for us as well so uh carlos uh
do you want to get started or do you
want to help bring people up or are
there anyone else that you want to
want to start with although i do see
blue three africa here and i just
wanted to give you space to uh speak and
chill too hi so i i'm listening on my
computer as carlos and i can you not
hear me can no one oh i can hear myself
now i'm so sorry i can hear myself
through my computer but i can't hear the
space on my phone so i will do all of
the background stuff
yeah okay i'll do the background stuff
and pin posts and uh bring people up
that works for me perfect all right so
i'm going to start with the blue three
africa if you want to show your project
and then i'll probably go to refi lagos
to show theirs next um if you want to
request being a speaker and then if you
also want to show a project and you're
currently a speaker if you'll just raise
your hand so i know to call on you that
would be helpful for me all right
perfect hi good afternoon everyone i'm
just wondering if you can hear me okay
amazing i looked like we're all having
um technical difficulties today but
that's fine i'm really happy to be here
today i'm very very nice thank you
kalos for um setting up this african
web space um web three space for our
get coin grants it's really really needed
and uh very very important for us to be
able to get our voices heard out there
so happy to be here um just a little
bit about myself i know you see the blue
africa icon and by the way it's
pronounced um blue like the color blue
and three of course represents uh web three
so my name is julie and i'm the head of
marketing at blue global and i'm also
the founder of blue africa and blue
africa is the african arm of a blue
global that onboards and educates african
women into web three and we do that by
um doing live solidity uh classes or i've
studied solidity workshops and we educate
women about web three and technical and
non-technical paths into web three as you
all know african women um face disproportionate
uh obstacles and barriers uh that really
result in lower compensation and lower
opportunities so it's very very important
for us to get in there and do the work
that's necessary um we all know web three
is the new front frontier blockchain is a
new frontier and the world the whole
entire world the whole planet will be
headed in that direction we want to make
sure that our african women don't get
left behind as they so often do because
because of so many of these systemic barriers
that um somehow um take a very very long
time to to to get over so how are we doing
this a little bit about blue global blue
global is a mission driven organization
that strives for justice and equity for
women in technology and blockchain and um
some of you may know about us and those
of you who don't know about us we sponsor
other um developers or from all over the
world to hackathon events all over the
world and we've been so successful in
this that we have a 97 percent win rate
for the hackathon teams that we send we
really promote women and non-binary
individuals to these hackathons and we
support them through hackathon workshops
sponsorships and so on and so forth we've
been so successful in europe and north
america that i was given the sort of the
sort of the directive and sort of that the
task as being someone originally from the
continent to make sure that we can
replicate what we've been able to
achieve in the west in the global south
so we do solidity workshops we do digital
wallet workshops sometimes it's just as
basic as training people how to transact
and and um and and do those many many steps
to be able to transact in their digital
wallets training them about the basic
concepts of look blockchain the different
protocols the necessity for blockchain and
the necessity to get involved and try to
become the next leaders leading the
frontier in africa so um that's what blue
africa does and we're very excited to be
in this get going uh beta round as part of
blue global and blue latam as well so um i
may not have mentioned but um carlos i'm
sure you know about blue latam so um
we're three regions blue blue global blue
africa and blue latam so um yeah we have
a lot of events that we do in nairobi as
well we partner with local tech communities
that support women and mainly web 2
communities and we're trying to bridge them
to get from web 2 into web 3 so really that's
what we are starting to do but we want to
do bigger things we want to get women to
build to be able to have financial freedom to
be able to develop their skills in coding
and to be able to um have careers that can
help them sustain themselves and their
families and kind of elevate their their
standard of living so that's who we are and
i'm happy to answer any questions and i
really do hope you can hear me um if
there's any issues please let me know
thank you okay i am back thank you so
much gloria you are a lifesaver my phone
just randomly started working again so i
so i want to follow up on on what on blue
a little bit so first of all i've i
discovered something really interesting
today is that the funding that blue
gets is going to be equally distributed
between north america latin america and
africa and i thought that was just so
spectacular because being from latin
america i know that we with ten dollars
we can do ten times as much in latin
america than you can in in north america
and i assume it's the same for africa so
can you just tell us a little bit about
that yeah sure for sure um i i really
love the way uh blue global is supporting
us blue global has supported latam
latam started a little bit earlier than
we did and we've got a tremendous amount
of support from our quote unquote big
sisters at latam and blue global so as
you know obviously with the differences
in currency and exchange rates um a
little few dollars go a long way in
africa and we can get so much done with
our events with our sponsorships maybe
um five hundred dollars might here might
not be able to spot might be not enough
to sponsor one one hacker with five
hundred dollars we could maybe do two
three perhaps four hackers we could do an
event uh that will cover a lot of the
bases we could do a couple of workshops
over a weekend we could maybe do many
small events so um it's really we're
really really excited and grateful that
um we've been able to be part of this
alliance and um been able to benefit from
from the goodwill and the traction that
blue global has um has been able to
accomplish in this short amount of time
and we're very very happy about that
that's amazing so i'll have one more
kind of follow-up here i i want to say
that i i've had the pleasure of
interacting with blue at different
places and i'm really appreciative of
everything that you're doing as a girl
dad but also as as just the male and
like an ally i i've been invited to um
minority founders dinner in bogota by blue
which sat me at a table with a bunch of
vcs i didn't have anything for them to
invest in but it was just like if i did
that would have been so so amazing and
just great context to make so i guess
where i'm going with is can you can you
speak a little bit to male participation
in the ecosystem and and having allies
contribute oh yeah absolutely um obviously
um obviously we focus more on uh on
women and uh non-binary people because
we want to really promote the diversity
concept we all know that we all deserve
a seat at the tech table at the table so
to speak so we really really want to
focus on the underserved but we are
very very happy as well to welcome and
and under our broad umbrella our allies
and we have a ton of allies who have
been helping us we have a lot of
sponsors you know i would mention
maybe like tech stars um a lot of allies
who are you know male who who are quite
happy to to support and who have um
brought a lot of value to to what blue
global has been doing and like you
mentioned um at the vc dinner that you
did i think we had um tech stars
sponsoring may have been sponsoring that
and they've been extremely supportive
our sponsors really are from a broad
array of of of people a lot of allies
included so we're we're very very happy
and we welcome everyone um allies
included so carlos you're very very
welcome under the umbrella carlos i just
so i speaking on from like about women
in the ecosystem specifically women
developers and how ally can stand up is
like uh my platform that i've done for
the last like 10 to 15 years in web 2 and
in web 3 and i will say this about this
if you're a strong ally for women
spaces like the best thing you can do is
fund women projects and amplify the work
that they're doing because so much of
the weight of the work falls back on
them so just creating space for women
funding their projects uh referring a
woman every time you get a chance to
speak and referring a colleague who's
equally able is great because most of
the time women are underfunded uh they're
under represented and under resourced so a
a lot of the times they are doing three
times the work just to get in the same
network space as uh everyone else's so
just being able to like know their work
amplify their work refer them for
opportunities uh fund their work and just
being able to like i had one person the
other day like fund a day of rest for me
and that was like massive so yeah just
having allies in the space show up and
learning how to be a better ally to be
one of the greatest things that any man
and well any man can do general but uh
any man in web 3 could do for women in
web 3 as well
yeah yeah yeah totally agree and and and
for instance what you're doing now
carlos that's totally what we what we
love and want from allies you know
reaching out reaching out to people
setting up a space helping promote you
know showing us telling us about the
grants i really didn't even know about
the retroactive grants from optimism i'm
familiar with the protocol of course but
i didn't know about their grants
program and um i'll be reaching out to
you so that's one way you could be you
are being a great ally and we really
really love it when you know most if not
all other allies would do stuff like
that and we really i really would say
that we we really appreciate um the
support and value that we've got from
our friends and allies amazing well thank
you thank you so much for joining can you
please drop the link in the in the
comments and we can pin it up to the
conversation for your grant so that uh
people have an easy access to it so
everyone else that's up as a speaker i
would recommend you raise your hand that
way we know you're ready to come up and
and share a little bit um hey so gloria
actually you're so much more
knowledgeable and experienced in this
space than me uh you can take it away
if you want yeah um so let's go ahead
and move to the ibrahim yeah ibrahim go
would you like to go ahead and share uh
the grant that you currently have and
then from there we will continue to move
forward
thank you thank you very much hello
everybody
peace and blessings on everybody in the
room friends old and new it's good to
be here i uh i'm currently uh joining
y'all from seoul uh south korea and i'll
be sharing a little bit more about about
why in a second as it relates to my
grant um and because this has come up a
couple of times i just wanted to be clear
that i am not currently uh raising for my
personal grant that i've met a lot of
you through which is the tapestry and my
work on cultural preservation um but i am i
am fundraising for a grant so i'm happy to
share with you all about it but before i do
how's how's everybody doing
i made a mistake and i and i wasn't
looking at at the screen for a second and
so i didn't see your your your emoji
reactions i was like wow nobody nobody
wants to let me know how they're doing but
then i saw y'all were being really responsive
actually with the emojis so good to see or
hear that y'all are doing good um but
yeah so i'm coming to y'all today um with
a project by the name of xbound i am going
to pin it right now it's the pinned tweet
on my profile um boop and the reason i'm
in seoul south korea is because i was in a
dao call um with afropolitan one of the
daos that i'm a part of and i was invited
to come to seoul south korea to participate
in a dao event this dao event is called
seoul bound and the purpose of this dao
event was to really decentralize the focus
as we build in the crypto space from just a
western perspective which is what we're very
typically used to and instead uh explore the
technology but through the lens of asian
philosophies um through the lens of people
who are building in the space but not in
america not in the in europe but rather in
asian specifically korea so it was really a
really cool experience because we were able
to connect on a very deep and personal
level there wasn't as many people very
intentionally it was like a curated gathering
of builders um and really do some deep work
around understanding each other and what
we're working on and again really bringing
ourselves into the work so learning about
people's cultural backgrounds people's
spiritual backgrounds and how that informs
what they're doing so it's a really wholesome
event and um coming out of that we want to
we want to continue to recreate that space
uh and have that impact the crypto space
more broadly so we want to recreate that
experience in kenya uh this upcoming um
september and so that's what this grant
will be funding this grant will be funding
the recreation of this experience in kenya
you know some co-creation co-collaboration
um with folks on the ground over there
uh for another dao a dao centered event
and um what else is worth sharing
um just it's a it's a really powerful
group of people and team of people
um people who already who are here in
seoul um are planning to come to kenya
but the way that we're designing is that
it'll be at least 50 percent people who
are working locally and then 50 percent
um people who are invited from the
global community um i'll i'll i'll
stop here um and and i'll open up for
any questions y'all might have um but
what i wanted to share is something that
yosef aely one of the organizers um for
the conference says pretty frequently um
is that the the survival of the space the
crypto the blockchain space uh is actually
dependent on the adoption of folks in
africa folks in asia folks in latin
america um so it's not just uh you know
we need to onboard people in these in
these regions because they can benefit
from crypto but it's also it's people
from these regions that can benefit the
ecosystem that we're partaking in so um i'm
really excited to be a part of the
community that's that's manifesting that
and really coming to these these
regions and these spaces into these
communities to learn um to learn and
benefit from so yeah that was a bit of a
bit of a mouthful but i'm happy happy
that y'all provided a space to share
thank you
i absolutely love this whole i i want to
follow up with the with a quick
question or even a call to action can
you can you share a little bit about the
quadratic friends and what that mission is
there really quickly i heard somebody
also uh was speaking i think you might
be experiencing some technical
difficulties um somebody was speaking
right before you um so yeah i'm
definitely i'll definitely speak to
that in a second but somebody could could
the person who spoke up just now um
share it was just me it was gloria and
i was saying that i absolutely like the
community aspect of this because i i was
in montenegro experiencing zuzalu and i
realized that when we all came together
and brought our own perspectives and we
can like come with our problems and
solutions and kind of co-learn together
um we were able to advance as like as a
group of web three people we were able
to advance our projects much faster and
actually co-create much faster and like
see um applications like in the real
world much faster than we can when then
when we're in our silos or even when
we're working in our just our orgs so i
think like when we come together
especially across the globe and we can
just come on you know sharing a shared
value or principle uh and then we can
come with our perspectives and solve
our problems our solutions tend to be
much stronger and so having the space
in kenya i'm super excited for i'm
super excited for people to experience
that but i also want to a hundred
percent say that yeah this this uh
ecosystem not only the ecosystem but
the technology itself is going to
really really rely on the global south
for a multitude of reasons especially
when you're starting about refi and
define all the financial aspects is like
you're talking about bankless people
and a lot at least where i am from from
the democratic republic of congo
70 75 percent of people are bankless
out of the 40 million people that
establish the globe uh that are
populate the country there and so you
think of like how did these people
actually um people have survived for
centuries without these banks and what
are the mechanisms that they have in
place in order to do so and then can
those mechanisms be replicated in a
bankless society and the only way that
we will know if that can actually
happen is if they are the the creators
and the co-creators of the solutions
that we're trying to provide so kudos to
you all for creating that ecosystem and
bringing it back to the people you are
spitting i yeah i i feel you a hundred
percent and i know you feel me um
especially with the drc like within that
context and i'm seeing so many examples
like within that context and i'm seeing
so many examples of how you know like
if you're coming from a solely western
perspective you can't even anticipate
the problems let alone the solutions
that this technology um has to offer so
i'm with you a hundred percent and i
think it actually leads into what carlos
was bringing up which is the quadratic
friends um you know the reason that i
know carlos and a lot of folks within
the gitcoin um ecosystem is through
quadratic friends which is a group of of
individuals that came together during
the last uh round gr15 um to just
support each other and amplify each
other and see what it looks like when
we were not necessarily fighting for
scraps but rather just fighting to make
sure everybody eats um so it's really
interesting um experiment because you
know literally you know the the effort
that we put into helping other people
get onboarded and be supported in some
ways would like decrease the overall
amount that individuals were getting
but i think the the the intention and
amplifying others and working more
collaboratively instead of like in
these individualistic silos really in
the long term created a huge impact in
all of our individual work so um this
isn't this is this is like an outcome
of that for me and um this is why i
think like efforts like this are super
important and i'm so like i was supposed
to go to zuzalo i was invited there um
you know as a member of afropolitan i
have a lot of people there um but when
i was invited here to soul this is where
i felt like i needed to be and i was
immediately affirmed when i pulled up
here that this was the right decision
so yeah we'll be reconnecting with
folks i look forward to connecting with
you um but yeah this is just one of the
ways that i feel like we can do it in a
really um intentional and collaborative
way with the communities that we should
be connecting with
thank you so much for sharing ibrahim um
so i think from here we're going to go to
the next project and i know switch has had
their hand up for a while so switch can
you unmute and speak about your project
hello good evening um i think real world
should go before me you had your hands
up before i did i'm loving the love and
respect in this space okay r3 wild would
you like to go next and then switch if
you will just put your hand back up so i
know um not to skip you that would be
helpful yeah switch um thank you for
setting the the example here i mean
respecting each other is something i
i i feel that we should do much more i
really um i'm very glad and excited to be
here so this is victor i am i'm
representing real world as a community
manager right i want to say thank you to
carlos um carlos thank you so much for
making this space possible for every one of
the african projects that is involved in
this grant um like you mentioned earlier in
the space i we too strongly believe that we
as a community um being able to connect with
each other on a different level understanding
where our our projects can be complementary and
building and establishing that relationship is
something that is very functional if we really
want to make the impact um as as a continent or as a
people with um collective interest so um i want to say um
much love um greetings to everyone also in the house
um refi down ibrahim and um blue africa really i was
listening to all the things you are saying honestly i
couldn't um agree um there's just a lot of
a lot of things um when it comes to the aspect of
and bringing more inclusion of women you know in the tech
space i think it's part of the things i also have to do
some research on right so i i really love your project and
what you're working on so um thanks again for having me um
i just want to quickly delve into exactly what we do at free
wild um without wasting so much of our time um first of all i
um first of all i want to say that uh we are creating a global
community of community owned wildlife reserve um that should
enable anyone anywhere in the world to protect a piece of
african wilderness um we want to make sure that people
and will be able to have access to um at least um blocks of
land from one square meter to several acres on our
marketplace which we are yet to build right um part of the
the things why one of the problems we discovered at free wild
that made it that we started to go this with this approach is we
noticed that um some of the lands and some of the lands in
africa there are lots of areas which were once natural habitats
and um have been over farmed and poorly farmed um this resulted in
the encroaching of these of of um having a situation where you have
the lands being over farmed so the natural the the endangered species
had issues um the endangered species we find them that they are leaving
the the agricultural habitats and we had to come in by rewilding the
african uh africa and um so now these are the basic problems we found
very well we have over farmed and poorly managed lands we have a situation of
negative impact on the local communities that is when people begin to use very
bad practice in farming um the the local communities are impacted by um climate change
um climate change and then another issue one of the reasons why we decided to use
the web 3 technology in as a way to gain access to more um funding is because we
discovered that there is difficulty in actually getting people um investors to
purchase and restore these lands so we came up with an approach of
fractionalizing our nft um so that everybody wherever you are in the world you'll be
able to gain access to our african wilderness and be part of the solution
um for climate change so um talking about our team um in terms of the wild team
one of the things i think um that makes us to be very confident in what we are doing
is that um some of our founding members are people from renown rewilding and
conservation background um ground folds um dr williams with over um 25 years of
experience each so um uh they are i probably would send a post of like some of their um content some
of their internationally recognized um um works so we were able to see but primarily the project is
being led by jess harris all right um because um she had experience growing um up in the amakala game reserve
right and during the period of being um there she was able to come up with this solution so currently
um jess is like the head of the overall initiative for rewild so um our current projects in terms of the
current projects we are using and we've we've got um no shortage of projects on the go but our team
has secured access to about 15 million of land access across africa so um but currently we are
beginning with the loziba wildlife reserve um in south africa and for our initial for our initial
um project we want to use um the we want to be able to give people access to about 100 000 acres
you know um so that we're able to protect over 20 and 2 000 species of the loziba wildlife reserve so um
um um our our current activity on site is um making sure that the communities within the loziba wildlife
we're able to empower them about sustainable agriculture educate them about some practices
you know that has been affecting the community in terms of bringing in uh encroaching the wildlife
natural habitat and making sure that people don't use those practices that would encourage um um climate change
um to be able to do so um to be able to do so um in a i know i've been um there's been a lot of
things i've said but basically what's rewild what we're working on we want to give people access to
be part of um restoring and protecting the the the the planet one one step at a time through our um
decentralized web tree nfts um if there are any questions i'd be very happy to respond to these
questions as much as i can um jess is not present but i believe she'll be able to respond also when
she gets to see um the the the comments on the comment section thank you so i love this project um
it's no uh i don't know it's not lost on me that there's a lot of people doing conservation work in
in in africa as well and like kudos to everyone doing that but i know the drc is also trying
like us at refi drc are trying to also do a project very similar um so my only ask would be
maybe a after this like let's connect and then anyone else who's doing conservation with the web 3
aspect in africa i would love to be on a call and just like amplify our our projects a little further
and see how people can be of help and maybe brainstorm a little further on how we can take
this um up a level past like get coin breed around so but yeah kudos to you at r3 wild um i think the
next person up was switch yeah thank you thank you for giving me the stage so um i i will try to be
i will try to be very quick with the discussion about our project so switch is a hardware company
that is based here in africa and we've been developing iot devices for monitoring renewable
energy systems so our first application of these iot devices was for tokenization of solar rooftop assets
on the blockchain which actually enabled projects that projects and dows that wanted to end revenue
streams from assets that they owned in the global south to make use of our devices to earn revenue
directly on chain so after you know trying to expand the market with this smartphone train device
we began to find out that some of these projects would actually like to be able to earn subsidies for
creating these renewable energy assets in the form of energy certificates and there was
doing it right now that you know provides the necessary solar projects if you were like a utility or a
microgrid project
for rooftop solar projects that was basically a non-existence so we began to develop a protocol
based on our smartly trained devices that will enable the data that is being collected from
to be used in computing zero knowledge proofs for the maintenance of renewable energy certificates on chain
thereby bypassing and therefore allowing these smaller projects to begin to benefit from the subsidies renewable
energy certificates to provide so we are currently in the of the
round and i just posted our a link to our project on the space for anyone that is interested in
and thank you for giving me the space
i appreciate your insights thank you so much for pinning it i just retweeted it as well
carlos if possible carlos if possible can you um either retweet or pin some of the
or pin some of the grantees so that we have grantee switch can you do you mind mute in i think when
there's two people with their mics on um there's a reverb thank you thank you um yeah so uh carlos if
you don't mind if you could like either pin some of these grantees so that we can find them um later or
for those who are listening like later that they will be able to see the pins that would be helpful
and hopefully we can continue to help them get some funding um next will be uh ibn i'm gonna
butcher this one i'm i apologize so much ebn reen and then after that it will be proxify and then refry lagos
okay hi guys can you guys hear me emojis if you can hear me great great great all right so um my name
is evie edmund uh i'm a software engineer with direct head and i'm going to be talking about um direct
straight away so yeah i don't know is that i have some books to do after now so um uh director development
is a uk based charity organization on a mission to deliver free coding programs to high potential
under resource students in africa starting in kenya and ethiopia this is designed for inclusivity
scalability and economic sustainability actually um the goal of our program is to prepare students for
remote employment by keeping them with the most sort of digital and soft keys on the market
thereby fostering the next generation of african tech leadership um actually we are pioneering
the use of stable coins smart contracts and decentralized identifiers to facilitate milestones
based pair-to-pair scholarship this is because we believe that the combination of these technologies
enables meaningful transparency and trustability and also accountability at scale donors uh learn their
impact in the short run through our student progress dashboard which is on our site uh the dark currently
and in the long run through rigorous impact reports based on randomized control trials um so directed
basically is focusing on these youth uh children me basically i'm from nigeria and there's so many
challenges we had i had personally coming up as a developer um this is a first time experience and
getting laptops or getting an opportunity to get data uh is kind of like an issue and is not common
to all africans um so um you may be wondering what set us apart from all the charity organizations
actually we are pioneering uh um we're looking at the uh section where uh we get the whole of africa
uh the young african uh youths ready in the tech industry and get them up into uh companies that can
even get them employed uh we're made up of a lot of theme and our multinational team of contributors
and volunteers spans over seven countries and three continents and has well over 15 years of
ngo leadership we have also five oxford oxbridge master's degree phd's from universities in oxford
and addis ababa to young african leadership initiative fellows and our advisors are sourced from
coding boot camps investors and impact organizations from all over the world within our first year we
have already run two coding courses uh one we just ended not long ago um with more than 100 students
from four partner institutions across kenya and ethiopia and signed agreements with two tech
internship partners because the plan is and our goal is to get the students after they have gone through
the coding boot camp they're going to get internships and from internships they'll move up to getting paid
um jobs so yeah uh let me just cut it here so we have um questions if there are thanks
wow thank you so much uh and i don't know i haven't checked so but just make sure that you have uh your
uh grant pinned so that we can uh take a look at it too and find it and chill it as well within our
personal networks so thank you so much uh let's go to proxify and then uh refi legos if you still
want to chill and then we'll go to blue three um blue africa again
yo so good day everyone um just mic check so if you can hear me let me just see your emojis
all right so yeah i am amzat and i am from the um campaign team over at proxify dao so um i have a
bit of about a year plus um experience of my under my belt in the web3 space and i am here to share um
our grants and proxify dao's grant so yeah i'll just go ahead to give like a brief intro about proxify dao
all right so yeah proxify dao is an education and service dao that is focused on building
a truly decentralized work model so to do this um how we go about this is by actively teaching and
training um web3 newbies and entry-level contributors and about how to like take advantage of web3
and decentralization in providing their technical and creative services
so for instance when i mean like i'm taking advantage of web3 because as actually as africans
we know um the the pay gap or or the wage gap between like working the same job um in web2 and
working in web3 it's there's quite a margin so we will be to be taking advantage of web3 taking
advantage of decentralization in helping like our contributors um offer their services and so since
we are a service dao and um a global community of technical and creative service providers that
collectively offer their services to clients we are starting and we believe that a great way to
start this journey is by building um a web3 education and training program and that is what this grant that
we applied for over at gitcoin is is looking to fund so yeah this program indicates um train and mentor
individuals empower them to become skilled web3 technical service providers and ultimately connect
them to clients who like require the services so these newly trained contributors will also get to
immediately experience hands-on um industrial experience to our service dao aspect by contributing
their skills in a decentralized work environment so now i'll i'll go on i had quickly to give um give
a brief run through of um the web3 education program that we are looking to build and we are funding
through these grants so the the web3 education program um is was was um accepted because we believe
that web3 technology is like good immense potential for creating
a more decentralized future and so this program is is being built to um teach um my web3 newbies about
how to get started with web3 how to take advantage of it in um taking about advantage of web3 to
to deliver their services so this will just teach them about how to get started to web3 teach them about
how to get started to um contributing their skills in web3 so um if you check our our page we have our grant um
pinned i think i'll just share it up here right now so that we can all like go ahead to to contribute if
you resonate with it and share with with all our friends so yeah if you have any questions i'm also here to answer
to answer beautiful uh thank you again for um pinning your tweet and sharing it uh and y'all like
the the grants are there um fun fact about grants brian so the average contribution for a grant is a
dollar so um if you do want to give each grant a dollar that's great i think we're at less than
ten dollars right now so if you have that to give that's great if not no worries too um but please uh be
aware that their grants are there for you to utilize and you can always again amplify donate um get
connected later or just even referring these type of projects for like speaker opportunities is always
great too so whatever we can do to amplify your grant the organization and what you're doing uh please
let us know uh the next up is going to be refi legos and then we'll be blue africa and then i'll show
my project oh and d science hello hello hello good evening from uh my name is simon eze uh gloria many
times for setting up this place i sincerely appreciate uh a bit about me uh i'm a farmer i'm a third
generation farmer from the niger delta region of nigeria and uh in the space for us uh here
so i recently uh the climate space uh due to the recent uh climate event and what is happening in
africa and i think they need to uh get into the reef as well to see how this could be more regenerative
so uh a bit of our project uh we are working on ubi so ubi is a b2b uh marketplace like a digital
from connecting us i mean emerging food producers to distribute us in africa so why this is is uh
due to the we have uh been studying the recent uh challenges facing farmers and emerging food
producers in nigeria and we found out that that i mean it's a very big issue right so uh the issue
with uh climate change uh the issue with uh uh fair trade most of them they farm they harvest
they process food and they get very little from their from from their sales so we are building a platform
where we will hand help them with marketing uh distributions supply chain payment
of uh of course packaging their their food product and getting it to uh to distributors that we are that we
make upfront payment and uh this has been successful so far so far we have onboarded over 100 distributors
we are also interested in palm oil we are also looking for coconut oil a whole lot of uh food
uh in the north nigeria we're also looking at uh rice uh parboil rice so uh the plan is to have
uh to bring as much producers as possible and to also connect them to uh possible uh distributors and we
are trying to integrate carbon removal in the near future let's say six months from now we are for
every ton of food sold on our platform we planted three uh so we think this would be a way to help
farmers uh increase uh revenue for themselves where they'll plant it through and tokenize uh for every
store for every produce and so using only so this is what we are working on
uh thank you very much for the opportunity
again the the phone they apply for is farmers to help them buy their products through media marketing
or the whole food products and in the future we hope to connect with all the african countries
where we can connect with their farmers food producers and also uh distribute our food across
africa so that is what we are working on uh thank you very much for the opportunity
absolutely beautiful thank you so much
uh okay so blue fire down to hook their hand down uh let's go to d science africa
hey jim jim can you hear me
oh yeah so you can so um good evening everyone um my name is daniel i'm the founder of um this
i africa so this i africa is a community um based organization in decentralized science so there are a
couple of regional communities in decentralized science we have this i latam we have this i iberon
we have this i youth we have this i tokyo this i london and a couple of different like locations
just the same way where we have refi lagos we have refi narubi and a couple of local nodes which are
helping them share the mission of refi but we are focused in the decentralized science space
um so basically what's decentralized science because for some people this could be the first
time they're hearing about it it's the web 3 application of open science whereby we're trying to
make science more equitable more collaborative and more open access so people could share knowledge
more and problems about ip ownership which is plagued with traditional science could not be a
problem because everybody knows who this belongs to this account this belongs to this on the blockchain
it's not something someone could come tomorrow and erase that kind of thing and also different
methods of working against funding in the sense of now funding can be done in a crowd-based way so
a coming group of people could come and form a DAO to tackle a particular disease so it could be cancer
it could be HIV you could be have an HIV DAO like different kind of things so they could pull funds together
and get people to network and focus on their knowledge to help build this so we are based in
africa because we're trying to spread the awareness of decentralized science in africa i've been a part
of vitadao for more than a year and a half going to two years and something i've noticed in the
design space because i'm i know a couple of projects i sort of cross paths with a couple of people in the
ecosystem since it's like a small place so everybody like almost knows everybody and i find it difficult
to come across people who are based in africa and also i feel most times it's due to they are not
aware of what's going on so it was like a good idea so okay let's start this and see how we can spread
that awareness for people to be aware see how they can contribute because there's a saying that goes
that talents are equally distributed but opportunities aren't so we're trying to make the opportunity
for people to be aware of this and to leverage their talents to join in the global conversation
around decentralized science so please support us if you can and also support other design communities and
we hope to use the money from this grant round to launch our website and attend we have two
conferences in mind this year we have eth safari and eth ghana so we hope to be there to spread the
word so thank you very much i absolutely love that saying uh dsai uh i always i had always amplified it
though and said that a genius is equally distributed but opportunity is not and i think that so many times
people measure people uh just by the opportunities that they got and not their true geniusness and
what's available to them so i appreciate you giving uh the chance for people on the african continent to
have their genius exposed to everybody else and just creating space there so uh beautiful
uh from there we'll go to let's see rightfully share
hi good evening everyone uh my name is karen uh i'm the founder of rightful share and i'm also in
south africa in a rural in a very rural area in a rural town uh thank you very much for having this
space and it's it's so nice to see so many people participating it's really it's really encouraging um
we sort of new to get coin uh but um yes it's a it's a really interesting interesting space um so
what we're doing we also a community-based project we building a complementary economy
in the small rural town called groglish whip using a token and we distribute a basic income
and we're doing this on a on an open platform we use the good dollar currency so that everyone in the
community can can participate if they want to and those people that sort of take an interest we then
provide sort of training and mentorship um but you don't necessarily have to participate in training
and mentorship sort of with the digital stuff you can actually just take your basic income
and cash it out in local currency and then you know use your money to do your entrepreneurship or
your business in local currency so for example we have a girl now that started selling perfume
in the informal settlement here and we have another one that started selling sort of secondhand clothes
so what we've recently also done is to sort of create a space in the in the metaverse and the
idea behind that is to really focus on play and earn and and learn and earn and new ways of of
generating income in places like these rural areas where there really is no work anymore um i mean in a
country like south africa we're very unequal and because we are so unequal most the majority of people
are just completely locked out of the locked out of the economy most people can't find a job almost
half of south africans don't really have a job and if you look at young people i mean that is as high as
70 percent and even if you have a job i mean you're still struggling to make ends meet and then you know
the sort of welfare system doesn't really cater cater for this new situation because the expectation is that
you will get a job and the job will pay well and that is no longer the case but uh you know we believe
that this project of creating this showing how this complementary economy can work and how a basic
income can form part of this will work because despite all of this we have a really booming informal
economy um from sort of backroom rentals to uh spaza shops there's so many creative ideas and people
wanting to do stuff and people needing stuff there's just no no medium effects of exchange
so the project actually has a quite a long history but we really only started um building the
complementary economy from from about january and it's been it's been more difficult than i actually
anticipated we spoke previously about it i mean like simple things you know many people have a phone but the
the processing power of the phone is very low so we had a number of participants that wanted to play
sort of this uh um play an earned game but then the phone can't create a avatar or the game kicks
keeps on kicking them out and simple things like just having access to the internet um phones are expensive
data is expensive uh we have sort of electricity cuts so if you have wi-fi then you don't have access
to the wi-fi then you have to get a battery but um this is what i really like you know despite all of
these sort of issues there's this resilience and creativity and really people that are really trying to
do their best and to make something despite sort of conditions that are really you know sort of harsh
sometimes so our target market really is sort of young people that have finished high school uh but you
know can't find a job and there's no work opportunities here and they're sort of you know wanting to try
to try something new it's about to support um one uh participant for about a year for a basic income
is a 960 dollars so yeah i think it's a really is the first of its kind project in south africa
it wouldn't have been possible a couple of years ago um yeah i'm really proud of what we've we've
achieved so far and i'm really excited to see all these projects in africa popping up you know using new
technologies to create new opportunities and addressing some of the um you know big issues in
africa awesome thank you for sharing uh for those of you who are actually if we could have you mute that
would be helpful for those of you who have already spoke and no longer do you have the desire to speak
if you could uh remove your or remove your speaker's post post so that those who are requesting to
speak can still speak that would be great um and i have a little bit of like uh like tricks tips or
tricks for you uh so again i'm gloria i was at get coin for two and a half years um i would work on
the hackathon side but i also helped out on the round side and one of the best things that i've seen
currently right now and people marketing their grants uh so our three wild has it in his name
on twitter that uh he's in the get coin beta round and that is just helpful for other people as you're
continuing to be in their feed to know that you're accepting in the grants round it's just a little
marketing piece so uh you know for those of y'all who are participating in the round feel free to do
that and then the other tip i would have is also to keep your pin your grant uh your grant link
pinned as your pin tweet during grants round um so that people can easily find your grant and uh be
able to donate to it uh one of the things you can do if you haven't already is to take the link that
you get inside get coin builder and make a tiny url link with your project name as the ending and so
that way it sticks with people and it's a little bit easier to fit within the character limits that
you'll uh come across as you continue to shill your project so um just a tip of the trade on that
um i wanted to take a moment to to at least still refry drc since that's where i am speaking of right
now um and right now currently we are refry drc uh is doing a really cool project so carlos you had
mentioned before like latem kind of feels like a sister continent to uh africa and in a way i always think
of like the amazon rainforest and the congo basin being like the sister lungs to the global earth
and like the projects that they do uh they're like healing both of it and so at refry drc we are
focused on uh really um protecting the congo basin and empowering the local grassroots efforts there
the democratic republic of congo also known as the drc the governments have actually opened up
blocks of the rainforest to be sold um and these blocks originally were opened up to be sold solely
to uh miners and the oil industry and then web3 came with their impact and encouraged the government
to open it up to more than just those two uh industries so as you know those industries uses use
the rainforest for degenerative purposes and web3 was able to come in and show that we could use it for
regenerative purposes and currently there is a bid or there will be the bids are going currently but
there is a bid from the crypto community to join a greater um bid that's going to be using it for
regenerative purposes and refi drc wants to lead the crypto front on that bid and make sure that uh the
technology of blockchain is used uh when we are utilizing those carbon credits and bringing transparency
to the offsetting of those carbon credits and making sure that the local farmers and the local
residents there are also part of the economy that's being created by then offsetting these
carbon credits from the carbon market so that is our goal at refi drc a lot of us came from redemption
dow and i decided to continue the project with close ties to the drc my whole family comes from the drc and i
i do have a small farm in the democratic republic of congo near kikuit um but that is our background so
uh if you do want more information you can always reach out to me gloria or g can wallow or just follow
the refi drc twitter and we'll be more than happy to connect there um but a dollar goes a long way and
your donations go a long way um this is going to probably be like my last ask from gloria but it would be for
all of y'all as we do have like 11 or 10 days left um to start to get funds i would love to maybe
create a twitter thread i was to uh where how far a dollar goes in your grant per se like as a dollar
multiplied what would that look like so you know a dollar multiplied would be you know around ten dollars
five dollars multiplied would be around fifty dollars and like ten dollars multiplied would be like
a hundred and or actually like a hundred a hundred and fifty dollars so if you sat there and thought
of like where would a dollar multiplied go how would the a dollar multiplied have impact how would five
dollar multiplied have impact and how would ten dollars multiplied have impact i just think it would
be an interesting tweet so if you want to at g can follow me and i will retweet your uh your grant and the
grant link and the how far it would go um i'm more than happy to do that during the next couple of days
so that's just some insight for me let's go back to our speakers let's see we have hopeful a helpful
social development fund uh we'll go there next and then i guess after that we'll go to christine
yeah hi everyone uh i'm the co-founder of her password foundation so i'm happy to be here i'm excited
to listen to everyone initiative i think uh the so far if it's been implemented successfully
the challenge we have in africa will be in a taste of past so i'm looking forward to collaborating with
any one of you so that because our goal as a past foundation is to see a better africa
you know so and so far a password foundation is a non-profit organization already started in nigeria
our mission is to working towards children education uh to ensure a healthy development among them
and other initiative when we started in 2016 we started because of the challenges we have in our
communities in our in society we are what belong to 200 million people it's just a few individual
techniques and this affects both women and children from uh such assessing the social amenities in
relation to good health care education and economic empowerment right now nigeria is facing a lot of
challenges we believe what we have the challenge we have in nigeria is a man-made it's not a how god wants it
so but we want to uh put an end to it by raising the children that will come up in future to bring bring
a change in our and uh in the country so when we started we started with the school supplies which in public
schools when we go to school they invite some children that have an issue with their educational needs
because when uh some school some children are not uh when other people are learning most of them in
public schools have no tables uh their uh clothes are are not clean some of them coming with a
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They are not supposed to be, the facilities that are supposed to be in school, which is
toilet, which is not, most of the schools we visited have no conducive learning environment.
The school, the children there and teachers are using open edification.
When we look at it, and based on our vision, where children can learn in a conducive environment,
we make sure that we implement those things.
We constructed a scientific facility in various public schools, and our initiative helped
to increase the number of enrollment rates and reduce the rate of disease children and
teachers contact in school.
We also, currently we establish a school that offers free education to underprivilege children,
people from single mothers, widows, widower children, and so on.
This school is currently imparting the life of children, and it has given them hope, because
when the parents are thinking, how can I take care of my children?
But now we have taken their challenges away from them.
Now they have the confidence that the future of their children are guaranteed under our care.
And they also have the confidence that there is the need to help others, and that's what we stand for.
We want to raise a generation that can give, restore hope and dignity, the hope to others who have no hope.
So now they are giving those children under our care hope, and we believe that when they grow up, they will continue imparting,
replicating what we have taught them, what the impact we have achieved in their life to other people in the future.
So, and our current program now, our goal is to construct a classroom block so that we'll be able to enroll more children in school.
Why do we need to construct a classroom?
We need to construct a classroom block so that we'll take the ownership of the building for life.
Unlike you renting an apartment, which may expire, where you don't have the money, the owner of the property will reject you.
Now we already have a land.
What we need now is to construct a classroom block, and the work is ongoing now.
The compound has been fenced.
We have put the gates.
What is going on now is the water, so that we'll be able to have enough water when the construction work is going on.
So we believe that working together can make a development happen in the people that need it.
So if you have the resource to support our initiative, we welcome our Gitcom link is on our bio graph.
We also share it on this platform.
So if you have a means to spread the good news of what you are doing, you can do that.
And most of our impact is on our website.
If you go to our social media and we'll see what you have done so far.
So I'm really happy to see the upcoming mindset of people who want development to happen in Africa.
And you welcome such an initiative.
We're looking forward to knowing more about you.
Absolutely beautiful.
Thank you so much.
Christine, let's go ahead and go with you.
And I think that's our last speaker.
Okay.
Hi, everyone.
I'm Christine.
I'm a software engineer and tech educator.
I'm based in Nairobi, Kenya.
I'm here to represent directed.
One of my colleagues already spoke.
So I just wanted to add something very small on our student tutor marketplace and how we hope to achieve this.
So the traditional method of teaching would rely on a supervisor hiring a tutor and then continuously monitoring them to ensure that teaching retains high quality.
So the problem with this is that it's very difficult for a manager to appropriately assess the quality of a tutor since only students would have the right information to actually assess this.
So this would pose a major challenge as their program skills.
And sometimes the manager could hire tutors based on personal relationships, which would then impact the quality.
So we hope to take a different approach when training the students.
We first make an initial selection of potential students.
After then, we then let the tutor set up offerings to students, specifying the location, when and the price that they are offering the tutorials.
Some students might prefer online tutorials.
Others might prefer to actually have in-person sessions.
Others may prefer an hour long.
Others just a few minutes.
So as long as the students are given the freedom to flexibly switch between tutors,
then the marketplace should reward tutors who put in more effort to deliver quality to the students.
So each tutorial session is priced in the tutorial token.
Before each session starts, students pay the tutor using the tutorial token, which could be a voucher.
Tutors can then exchange these tutorial tokens with a general tradable, fungible token, such as ADA or any other U.S.-based cryptocurrency.
So I just thought I should mention that real quick.
Otherwise, one of my colleagues had already spoken about directed.
In case you forgot, we aim to provide free coding programs to underprivileged students in Africa.
Thank you for your time.
Thank you for your time.
We'd appreciate any support given to us.
And so I'll just say one more reminder.
If you did, Shil, if you want to create a pinned tweet so that we can add it to our pinned tweets, that's great.
And if for some reason you're hearing this past the opportunity and you'd still like a retreat,
you can always at me at G.Cambuala and I will always retweet it for sure.
I'm sure Carlos will do the same.
I'm not going to speak for Carlos, but I know he's avid on retreating and supporting people as well.
So if you'd like to shill it, post this, feel free to at me and I'll make sure to at least retweet it and amplify it within my network as well.
It looks like there's no more speakers.
Carlos, do you want to come back and join us and say some closing words?
Yes.
Amazing.
I'm so excited to hear all these amazing projects.
And sorry I had technical difficulties this whole time.
And thanks for bearing with me with that.
And thank you for saving the day, Gloria.
I don't know what I would have done without you.
I want to kind of announce that I'm going to be having a workshop with the Web3 Africa team.
It's going to be a live stream.
And the goal is to walk everyone step by step through the passport creation and the donation process.
And we will be giving away enough ETH to be able to do a couple of donations and cover gas fees for 10 people.
So please just show up and, you know, try to go through the process.
I understand that the gas fees are really crazy right now.
So I would love for you to take part in that.
And just to make it clear, we'll be giving away this ETH and you cannot give that to Web3 Beach.
So the idea is that you can figure out which projects you want to empower within, you know, it could be one of the projects that was featured here.
It could be something else that resonates with you, right?
So it's like a little bit of a reward for going through that process of learning, learn to earn, if you will.
So I think we have Desai Youth that popped up last and Blue Africa wanted to ask a question.
So you can unmute and go for it.
Yeah, thank you very much for this opportunity.
I have been also having some technical difficulties.
So I was the last to jump on stage, but I've not heard Bruno under the Climb Check talk.
So maybe he can go first.
Oh, thanks Desai Youth.
All right, so thanks for bringing me on Desai Youth.
So I'll just give a quick rundown of Climb Check.
So Climb Check is a global, decentralized and distributed climate sensing network.
So what does that basically mean?
So it means we build climate monitoring hardwares, our first practice on air pollution monitor.
Down the line, we build water pollution, land pollution, and some more complex sensors.
And we're putting it in the hands of the community to measure the climate data around the area,
contribute it to the ecosystem, and end some Climb Check tokens.
So why did we decide to build this?
Like traditionally, the weather data, climate data has always been provided by big governments,
big corporations, and government-appelated enterprises.
And one thing we've noticed is that there is like no third voice, which is the community voice,
to sort of like step in and provide that same service.
And given what happened with COVID and the financial crisis and how governments in different jurisdictions have been handling things,
we've seen, just as Bitcoin provided like a third rail for financial payments,
like critical infrastructure, like understanding what's going on in the climate,
it's important to have a third voice, which is the community voice.
And that's what we're building.
So right now, we've basically built a couple of sensors, we're testing them on chain.
The reason for our GeekCoin grant is to start of our incentivized testnet program.
So all the funds we're getting from GeekCoin grant, we're using it to build sensors,
and we're distributing it to the community, so everybody can contribute and earn some future tokens.
So I'll leave it at that. Thank you, Disai Youth.
Yeah, welcome.
So this is Victor behind Disai Youth account.
And I'm happy and very, very excited to hear that most of the project are focusing on the younger generations.
So that means that the future of Africa is very, very bright.
So Disai Africa was here and I elaborated more on what is Disai or decentralized science.
So I'll quickly dive into what Disai Youth is the aim.
And here at Disai Youth, we are on a mission to nurture the upcoming generation of scientists
throughout the movement of change in the next iteration of the web.
So this movement includes Disai, Li-Fi, and Li-Sai.
Li-Sai is the intersection between Disai and Li-Fi.
I've already heard that we have some of Li-Fi projects here, Li-Fi local nodes, and that's amazing.
So the problems that we aim to address as Disai Youth is the scientific brain drain in Africa.
This is many that have been affecting our institutions, having learners to study these science courses,
and they end up changing their careers or joining other fields due to our inefficiencies in our institution.
So, for example, in my case, I graduated about two years ago.
And I happened to graduate one year later after my colleagues who we were in class with.
And at the time I was graduating, a class of 50, 90% of them, that means 45 of my colleagues,
had already changed their careers.
Some of them are joining business, some of them joining the army.
And this generally shows that our institutions have a problem.
So Disai have the potential to solve this solution by allowing students to work on these projects that are coming up.
Though on the early stages, but the potential for this in the future will be available.
So at Disai Youth, we aim to be sharing Disai in student clubs, which are well established here in Africa,
and more so the tech-related clubs like Google Developers Club.
We also have the Web3 student clubs that are also sprouting in our institutions here in Africa.
So we shall be now joining these clubs and introducing a new vibe that science is dating technology
so that we can have more science students coming, joining into this club so that students can build together.
So we shall also be providing students with educational resources and also communities.
We have already some of these communities such as Public Good Student Association.
Also, we have DreamDAO and very, very many other communities that are focused on training young students
and the Gen Z specifically on the impact project or on how to build on this space.
So another problem and the last one that we are addressing is the harm posed by the digital exposure to the younger generation.
So we all know that the Web2 platforms have a really big issue when it comes to the young people.
Having that screen addiction for now is the most perversive addiction.
People are not talking about it, but it's a little addiction that is affecting young people.
And the Web3 prioritizes on user privacy, decentralization, and also community ownership,
thus having a healthier and more equitable online environment.
So for the next digital well-being paradigm in this Web3 space,
it lies for all these projects arising from the roots of science and regeneration.
So what are we aiming to do here as DSA youth in collaboration with Happily Ever After?
Happily Ever After is a network of health and well-being spaces to nurture our mind, body, and soul.
So we aim to outsource our well-being spaces, specifically digital well-being spaces,
whereby we shall be connecting individuals to impact projects that are aimed at healing and nurturing our Mother Earth.
So, so far we have over 70 projects, and we aim to add more as we go on with this Bitcoin,
healing more of this project that are aimed at healing and nurturing our Mother Earth.
So that is a space we are building, and we shall be connecting individuals to not only the project,
but the podcast or the Twitter spaces that will be happening in those specific projects.
So another space we are building is for teenagers that this one will be a digital well-being space that will be more of learning,
so that we can prepare the younger generation in the next iteration of the Web on issues of digital well-being.
So DSA youth is featured under the DSA loud, and I'd be happy to get your support and also working in collaboration with all of the projects I've had
that are focusing on the younger generation so that we can build a bright future for Africa.
Amazing. So I think we have one last speaker, and I'm sorry to cut you short, but let's,
can you please try to get it under three minutes, because I have to jump onto a call right after that.
And I will say, if you can follow me to this space that I'm going to now, it's with the nouns people,
follow everyone with the nouns, because I'm sure they will support you.
I think rightful share, you can jump on.
Oh, sorry. I didn't want to say anything. I'm fine. Thanks.
Ah, okay. Well, I think that's everyone. I'm so, so glad I was able to have everyone on here.
And I want to, towards the end of the round, I want to, just like Gloria said, you know,
Africa and Latin America, it's like sister continents. I want to have a huge wrap up on the
8th, where I can get all the projects that participated here and all the projects that
participated in the Latin America and Caribbean space to come together for one huge mega space.
And hopefully, and I'll work on my end to try to get more donors present as well. So it's not just
our own communities. And yeah, I'll try to draw as many donors as I can from within the Gitcoin
ecosystem and other ecosystems I'm active in. And I want them to just be aware of all the amazing work
that all of you are doing. And if you want to be, if you want to participate in that, please DM me
either here or on Telegram, Carlos J. Malgar. And again, any projects that would like help in
fundraising, like tapping into grants that are available in the ecosystem, I'm more than happy
to guide you through that. So thanks, everyone. I hope you have a very fruitful rest of the Gitcoin
beta beta round. Laura, do you want to say bye?
No, just much gratitude for all y'all who stayed for like the whole hour and 40 minutes or who joined
for one second. Like I appreciate all of it. Go chill, like tag us if you need to. I'm more than happy
to promote this during the next couple of days. And thank you so much for joining us.
Thank you, everyone. If you want to follow me to this space, again, this is the nouns ecosystem.
They're very giving, I would say just pop into the audience and follow everyone that has one of
these nouns cartoons. Okay, bye bye.
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