As a world public useful resource, know-how should stay open, accessible, and devoted to selling the larger good. The Subsequent 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. Right this moment, we’re proud to introduce seven people with exceptional tales to share. Their narratives supply a glimpse into their various contexts and doable futures — ones we can’t totally foresee however the place humanity is uplifted. By drawing inspiration from the Subsequent 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 individuals.
The Subsequent Billion Fellows Cohort 4
David Uzochukwu is main an initiative centered on enhancing Ethereum’s decentralization by educating the neighborhood in Africa on learn how to run an Ethereum node. Exploring limitations like the dearth of steady web entry and energy outages in addition to the doable options, this undertaking seeks to make seen the issues that have to be in place for decentralization and inclusivity.
Guo Liu works for freedom of data as a co-founder of Issues City, a digital area and censorship-resilient publication platform. His undertaking goals to assist 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 a whole lot of plastic from the ocean. He constructed a social enterprise known as Enaleia, centered on lowering marine plastic air pollution beginning first in Greece after which increasing to the remainder of the Mediterranean. As a part of his Fellowship, Lefteris will implement a system that permits the traceability of recycled marine plastic on Ethereum.
Mercedes “Meche” Rodriguez Simon is conducting sensible analysis on utilizing web3 options to assist human rights organizations in Venezuela. As a devoted human rights activist and a key member of Ethereum Venezuela, Meche goals to carry 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 evaluate 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 tasks. His pilot within the metropolis of Break up in Croatia will experiment with QF within 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’s engaged on a platform that digitizes manufacturing data and farm metadata to create on-chain popularity scores. It goals to supply inexpensive working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives by standardizing farmer information for interoperability.
What’s Subsequent?
Over the subsequent six months, every Fellow will drive ahead a small undertaking that works towards bigger aims of their story. Fellows will share their progress throughout Devcon 7 in Southeast Asia, November 12-Fifteenth. Observe @EFNextBillion for updates. Want monetary assist to attend Devcon? Try the Devcon SEA Students Program and apply by July seventh, 2024!
