[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.
Our PURPOSE
LATAM Cardano Community is a decentralized alliance that inspire and empowers individuals, organizations, initiatives and governments with interest in Latin América, to foster collaboration and to expand the adoption of Cardano to facilitate its impact in and from the region to the world.
LATAM TownHall
The LATAM TownHall is a central activity of recurring sessions, performed in our own languages, Spanish and Portuguese, where people can collaborate, present, share and discuss ideas and projects. Every week we present different topics, and foster people's own choice for discussion or activities, facilitating the grow and expansion of the community.
Some characteristics of our TownHalls are:
- Bi-Weekly moderated Zoom events with diverse content and diverse assistance
- Bi-Weekly Twitter spaces to reach a different type of audience
- Well known community moderators who facilitate and guarantee high quality conversations
- A place for the reunion of as many LATAM communities as possible, being able to speak their own language and express their own culture
- A different experience, a learning environment with an innovative mindset and decentralization in Cardano as its core
All these events are documented and recorded, to maximize reach and to build trust and transparency. You can have access to the previous ones in our youtube channel.
After more than 70 TownHalls produced, with more than 60 speakers, a Top audience on a single event of 77 people the LATAM TH has proven that it can deliver on its promises. We also held three LATAM Ideafest (F7, F8 and F9) almost 100 proposals being presented in Spanish and Portuguese and recorded for their promotion. We have started also alternating the TownHall in zoom with Twitter Spaces, having held more than 20.
We have also produced the FUNdFest events, to celebrate and promote the Catalyst F9 and F10 funds, aiming to reach new people outside Cardano, teaching how to become a proposer and what is Cardano and Catalyst and even offering an NFT as a prize for attendance, minting 49 NFTs and facilitating the creation of nearly 30 new Cardano Wallets.
Cardano Voltaire era - CIP1694 Workshops
As we collectively embarked on the dawn of the Voltaire era, announced in November 2022, our vibrant community of Cardano stands at the threshold of an era-defining initiative.
Latam Cardano Community, hold a steadfast resolve to be an integral part of this pioneering venture – the establishment of the world's first Decentralized Government on a Blockchain.
In a decentralized government, success lies inherently in inclusion, diversity, and the harmonious symphony of a myriad of voices, minds, and cultures. Recognizing this, we took it upon ourselves to bridge this gap, sparking an initiative to engage as many voices as possible from Latin America.
We sent out a call to the entire region, and the response was an inspiring affirmation of the Latam spirit, when pioneers from eleven vibrant cities in our region responded: from BuenosAires' bustling avenues to Mexico City's ancient charm, Caracas' tropical fervor to Bogota's highland allure, La Cumbre's tranquility and Manizales' verdant beauty to Tlaxcala's cultural heritage, Puerto Madryn's coastal charm to Santiago's historic majesty, La Plata's eclectic appeal to Sao Paulo's metropolitan dynamism.
137 people participated into those workshops, from beginners to the Blockchain and the Cardano Ecosystem, to long time veterans, from teachers to engineers. All willing to contribute, collaborate and be protagonists of these historical times.
In June 2023, we brought together a remarkable delegation: one representative from each city, culminating in a Pan Latam workshop in the enchanting setting of Punta del Este,Uruguay.
The goal was to draft our collective wisdom, our unique perspectives, and our shared aspirations into a comprehensive document, penned in English, and ready to contribute to the global conversation, representing the region.
The fruits of our labor, were captured in a document that was sent to the CIP1694 Github and also presented to the CIP Workshop global organizers.
PAN-LATAM CIP-1649 WORKSHOP-FinalV07042023.pdf
After that, 7 of us have attended the Edinburgh CIP1694 Workshops, were we have received a lot of appraisal by the other participants for the process we have followed and the contributions that we made.
[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.
With the approval and support of the global community, we plan to continue this community building, by incorporating DAO tools to it, such as Clarity, so members can have some better onboarding processes, get more engaged to decide on specific matters, and gets easier to follow and audit the treasury spending and keep growing our reach to new heights. This will help us maintain our regular spaces (zoom and twitter spaces, as well as workshops and events organization and participation) and continue to look for improved and more ways to help to articulate LATAM talent into the global ecosystem and bring more opportunities to our people in the region.
[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?
The core team of the Latam Cardano Community, has now more than two years of demonstrated valuable contributions both to the wider global cardano community and to the latin american ecosystem. Our capabilities range from event organization to community engagement, from decentralized governance to translation to local languages, from helping people to create and present their projects to actively promoting them in order for the world to learn about the LATAM opportunity. Our members are deeply conected to Cardano playing key roles such as ambassadors, Intersect Committes and work groups , core development, Defi and NFT projects and cardano specific news media outlets.
[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?
Milestone 1: 2 Townhalls and 2 Twitter spaces each month, for 6 months.
>Milestone 2: 1 F11 Ideafest, created, promoted, hosted and recorded before F11 voting starts.
>Milestone 3: Translation and publication of Catalyst materials to Spanish and Portuguese, hosting onboarding sessions for Community reviewers, before Review stage begins.
>Milestone 4: Continue with the contributions to the Voltaire Era milestones, participating and organizing as many workshops as possible and explaining/inviting the community to join the different institutions being built, such as the Intersect MBO, the dREPS and foster more SPOs in LATAM
>Milestone 5: Adopt the Clarity DAO portal, set up the community, create the proper credentials, create our multisig wallet and linked it to our financial reports and hold at least 3 voting event in the 6 months periods
>We will produce and publish a closure report that will account for all that has been achieved in the first half of 2024. It will be distributed via Latam Cardano Community social media.
[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?
LATAM Cardano Community core team will help to set up the operations program.
Which will be coordinated by a full time dedicated team member:
Ezequiel Marclé Montenegro - https://www.linkedin.com/in/emarcle/
Other functional areas such as Marketing and Community managers of the organization will provide support.
[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.
The impact the LATAM Cardano Community is bringing to the Cardano ecosystem is very difficult to measure in hard metrics, as we are creating impact at many levels and areas.
As per our previous experience, and the demonstrated outcomes, we have validated, prorrated and determined that the cost for each event we do has an average of ADA 3879, covering following activities:
- Payment of different tools: Discord, Zoom, Office 365 accounts (4)
- Creation, publication and maintenance of the LATAM website
- Content generation for promotions, paying as a service for Illustrators & Designers.
- Hosting and Organization of each event
- Marketing and communication of each event topic and activity
- Document every single activity of the Community for transparency
- Social Channels management and moderation
- CIP1694 follow up and engagement
- Intersect MBO startup participation to make it start as inclusive and diverse as possible.
- Minimum Viable Constitution work to generate a process to start discussing it
So in 6 months we will be hosting 24 events, for a total of ADA 93.105
We will need this budget to be spent in 6 payments of ADA 15.517,5 so we can keep up with the costs.
We opted to use this form of costing, that our range of activities are very diverse and it is very difficult to get a detailed cost for each one, as we have a lot of volunteering work, a very changing agenda and a growing and needy community. So we need to focus our efforts on keeping the community spaces we have generated open and engaging, while we continue working with new activities and challenges to articulate the LATAM talent at the global level while also bringing the Cardano opportunity to the region.
Again, with the trust and support from the community, our contributions will keep growing and innovating to bring more people and brains into the Cardano fam, driving more inclusion and diversity which is a key cornerstone to generate the next stage in humans organization and sustainability
[VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?
IT is very hard to measure the impact of a community such as the LATAM Cardano Community, specially in hard metrics, but if we take a look about the amount of people and projects we interact, both at he regional level, as well as with the rest of the global community, we will be able to understand the type and quality of impact this community has brought to Cardano.
The level of feedbacks and insights we have generated. The growing number of projects in LATAM that are generating impact on their specific purpose and niche.
We can certainly conclude that the community is creating a very high impact for the value for money we have received and are requesting, if we can look at the numbers from the TownHalls, The Twitter Spaces, the amount of projects that were able to emerge from the community, and all this in a Bear Market and without funding.
The opportunity is here and we have the passion and the resiliency to go for it, if the global community support us we will deliver, as we have been doing from the last year and a half.
