As a world public useful resource, expertise should stay open, accessible, and devoted to selling the higher 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. In the present day, we’re proud to introduce seven people with exceptional tales to share. Their narratives provide a glimpse into their various contexts and potential futures — ones we can’t absolutely 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 targeted on enhancing Ethereum’s decentralization by educating the neighborhood in Africa on the way to run an Ethereum node. Exploring obstacles like the dearth of steady web entry and energy outages in addition to the potential 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 knowledge as a co-founder of Issues City, a digital house 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 a variety of plastic from the ocean. He constructed a social enterprise known as Enaleia, targeted on decreasing 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 allows the traceability of recycled marine plastic on Ethereum.
Mercedes “Meche” Rodriguez Simon 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 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 assets.
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 repute scores. It goals to offer inexpensive working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives by standardizing farmer knowledge for interoperability.
What’s Subsequent?
Over the following six months, every Fellow will drive ahead a small undertaking that works towards bigger targets 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? Take a look at the Devcon SEA Students Program and apply by July seventh, 2024!
