Meet Cohort 4 of the Next Billion Fellows!

As a worldwide public useful resource, know-how should stay open, accessible, and devoted to selling the higher good. The Subsequent Billion Fellowship Program is a testomony to this imaginative and prescient, looking for to seize tales of communities whose lives are altering for the higher. At present, we’re proud to introduce seven people with exceptional tales to share. Their narratives provide a glimpse into their numerous contexts and doable futures — ones we can not 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 group in Africa on the right way to run an Ethereum node. Exploring obstacles like the dearth of steady web entry and energy outages in addition to the doable options, this venture seeks to make seen the concerns that have to be in place for decentralization and inclusivity.

Eddie Kago is engaged on Antugrow, a platform that digitizes manufacturing data and farm metadata to create on-chain popularity scores. It goals to offer reasonably priced working capital for smallholder farmers and cooperatives in Kenya by standardizing farmer knowledge for interoperability. Eddie seeks to unlock low-cost credit score and scalable agricultural insurance coverage.

Guo Liu works for freedom of knowledge as a co-founder of Matters Town, a digital house and censorship-resilient publication platform. His venture 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 loads 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 allows 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 deliver her data to handle 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 totally different fashions of group currencies: conventional digital vouchers backed by authorities our bodies and a mannequin the place the group swimming pools their future manufacturing capability as dedication.

Tomislav ”Tomo” Mamić is engaged on the Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative (MUQA), a venture designed to help cities in utilizing Quadratic Voting (QV) and Quadratic Funding (QF) mechanisms to allocate funding for public initiatives. 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.

What’s Subsequent?

Over the following six months, every Fellow will drive ahead a small venture 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? Take a look at the Devcon SEA Students Program and apply by July 7th, 2024!