Hello everybody, good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are. This is Angelo from Cellophondition and I would like to welcome you all to our Twitter space on webcrean social impact, the year in review. I know it's
It's the Christmas season, it's actually holidays week, some of you might be off already, some of you are still working, but we're very thankful that you can join us for this very exciting discussion on the year that was on 2022.
have been learned as well as like what do we look forward to with regard to the intersection of Web 3 and social impact. So today I also have a very exciting panel with me joining us today. These are members of the Salo ecosystem and we
appreciate them sharing their time as well. We have Gabriela from Ethicab, Jessica from Impact Market and Ken from Mercycore Ventures and I will give them the floor to introduce themselves and they will join me in a discussion on like key topics or trends that we observe
on WebTN, social impact, what excited us, what disappointed us, and what we look forward to at least as well in the year ahead. So without further ado, I'll turn to for perhaps let's start with Gabriella just to say hi and introduce yourself.
Hi, and hello. Hi, everyone. Thank you for being here to listen what we are going to discuss with this region project. I'm Gabriella Chang, co-founder of Etihad. I'm an industrial and product designer, and I work for the Secretary of Economic Development in Chiapas, Mexico.
And I was also an organic coffee producer. So this set me the background to understand the on-field problems of the small holder farmers. That's we are focused on epiHab financial inclusion for the excluded from the traditional financial system because blockchain promise was to enable a new system
system where no one was left behind. And that's what we've been doing since 2018. I'm thrilled to be here and sharing space with the other projects that also aim to make changes in real world using this technology. Thank you very much. Thanks for being here, Jessica.
Yes, hi, hi, I'm Jelou. Thanks very much for having me here. Very excited and nice to be connecting again with Gabriella and Ken, always a pleasure to discuss together. So yeah, as a short introduction, I am
So, working on impact markets, impact markets is human empowerment protocol. So, to give it short, really we are providing financial services to un-serve and under-serve community, starting with UBI.
which we are supporting around 45,000 beneficiaries across a 33 country, mostly in Africa and Latin America. So really in an attempt to close the cycle of poverty we're working on additional