As a worldwide public useful resource, know-how should stay open, accessible, and devoted to selling the higher good. The Next Billion Fellowship Program is a testomony to this imaginative and prescient, in search of to seize tales of communities whose lives are altering for the higher. As we speak, we’re proud to introduce seven people with outstanding tales to share. Their narratives provide a glimpse into their numerous contexts and potential futures — ones we can not totally foresee however the place humanity is uplifted. By drawing inspiration from the Next Billion Fellows’ tales, we hope to think about a future the place this open protocol of human coordination serves as a public good for billions of folks.
The Next Billion Fellows Cohort 4
David Uzochukwu is main an initiative targeted on enhancing Ethereum’s decentralization by educating the neighborhood in Africa on run an Ethereum node. Exploring limitations like the lack of steady web entry and energy outages in addition to the potential options, this undertaking seeks to make seen the concerns that have to be in place for decentralization and inclusivity.
Guo Liu works for freedom of info as a co-founder of Matters Town, a digital area and censorship-resilient publication platform. His undertaking goals to help high-quality open-access content material by merging commercial protocols with the Harberger tax and quadratic funding.
Lefteris Arapakis was raised in a household of fishermen and shortly understood that fishermen collected lots of plastic from the ocean. He constructed a social enterprise referred to as Enaleia, targeted on lowering marine plastic air pollution beginning first in Greece after which increasing to the relaxation of the Mediterranean. As half of his Fellowship, Lefteris will implement a system that permits the traceability of recycled marine plastic on Ethereum.
(*4*) is conducting sensible analysis on utilizing web3 options to help human rights organizations in Venezuela. As a devoted human rights activist and a key member of Ethereum Venezuela, Meche goals to convey her data to deal with Venezuela’s political and humanitarian crises.
Rebecca Mqamelo explores integrating EVM-based native currencies with conventional financial practices in Africa. Her analysis, with Grassroots Economics, will examine two completely different fashions of neighborhood currencies: conventional digital vouchers backed by authorities our bodies and a mannequin the place the neighborhood swimming pools their future manufacturing capability as dedication.
Tomislav ”Tomo” Mamić is engaged on the Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative (MUQA), a undertaking designed to help cities in utilizing Quadratic Voting (QV) and Quadratic Funding (QF) mechanisms to allocate funding for public initiatives. His pilot in the metropolis of Break up in Croatia will experiment with QF in the areas of tradition and inexperienced areas, aiming to introduce transparency, effectivity, and citizen participation in managing public sources.
A Fellow that needs to stay nameless for now is engaged on a platform that digitizes manufacturing data and farm metadata to create on-chain popularity scores. It goals to supply reasonably priced working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives by standardizing farmer information for interoperability.
What’s Next?
Over the subsequent six months, every Fellow will drive ahead a small undertaking that works towards bigger goals of their story. Fellows will share their progress throughout Devcon 7 in Southeast Asia, November 12-Fifteenth. Observe @EFNextBillion for updates. Want monetary help to attend Devcon? Try the Devcon SEA Students Program and apply by July seventh, 2024!
