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Ethereum is simply a surviving thing. Yes, astatine its halfway determination is simply a virtual machine (the EVM) that runs and faithfully calculates a caller authorities from artifact to block, but the magic of Ethereum is that 1 small authorities instrumentality tin beryllium shared by millions of radical who mightiness not person thing successful communal too an net transportation and their ain concealed key. The developers, designers, artists, farmers, bankers, students, politicians, entertainers and adjacent lawyers who usage and beryllium connected Ethereum make a surviving ecosystem coordinating astir a halfway protocol, evolving and re-wiring relationships of trust, hopefully successful the involvement of nationalist good.
Currently, the Ethereum expanded universe™ comprises millions of people, but determination are billions of america present connected earth, and it’s our ambitious imaginativeness for Ethereum to person a affirmative interaction connected each of them. To scope the adjacent billion, we indispensable flooded galore gaps successful practice crossed cultures, nationalities, and economical classes.
This is wherefore we launched the Fellowship Program past year.
Application Call for Cohort #2!
Today, we are acceptable to commencement our hunt for the 2nd cohort of Fellows! If you are a person committed to a task that helps Ethereum go a instrumentality of and for the adjacent cardinal - whether it is simply a decentralized application, a community-building initiative, oregon a portion of probe - We’re seeking a fistful of changemakers that tin assistance recognize this dream, and animate others on the way.
The 6-month, self-driven programme is astir uncovering and supporting unsocial and talented individuals who assistance to alteration Ethereum’s relevance and interruption down barriers to introduction for those underrepresented radical and communities that volition go the aboriginal of web3.
Find much astir the Fellowship Program here and use by July 24, 2022.
Roundup for Cohort #1
As applications unfastened for the 2nd cohort, we would similar to instrumentality a infinitesimal to observe the achievements of our 4 astonishing alumni.
Benson Njuguna (ACRE Africa) helped instrumentality Ethereum-based solutions to harvest security for smallholder farmers successful Kenya. Benson and his squad were capable to drastically shorten the processing clip for security payout from months to days. More than 17,000 farmers were onboarded past year, and galore of them received payouts soon aft a atrocious upwind event. Read much of his enactment here.
Chuy Cepeda (OS City) created a spanish-language Ethereum wallet app that citizens tin usage to clasp and amusement government-issued IDs and documents. To instrumentality this app, Chuy and his squad are moving with municipal and nationalist governments successful Latin America, successful the process educating galore nationalist assemblage leaders who privation to combat wide-spread corruption and reddish portion successful the portion with blockchain technology. He precocious wrote this update connected our blog.
Naroa Zurutuza (Giga) explored roles Ethereum tin play successful the UN’s effort to link each schoolhouse to the Internet. Naroa and her squad launched an NFT fundraising campaign and are besides moving with governments successful Africa to concern schoolhouse connectivity done Ethereum staking. In addition, Giga is starting to physique an accounting level wherever astute contracts are utilized to monitor/manage connectivity and to make incentives for providing connectivity.
Kuldeep Aryal (BRAC) sought to physique a blockchain strategy for BRAC, 1 of the largest NGOs successful the world. Kuldeep educated the enactment connected blockchain and visited antithetic programs and state offices to measure the needs blockchain tin assistance address. Kuldeep has started conceptualizing a blockchain-based beneficiary ID strategy that works crossed each BRAC services.
Look retired for blog posts by these Fellows successful the coming weeks.
And if you deliberation that your enactment tin make interaction successful the existent satellite too, please beryllium definite to use for the 2nd cohort of the Fellowship Program by July 24, 2022.
Thank you!
Finally, we would similar to convey each those who made the Program imaginable truthful far! Thanks to the Fellows, everyone who helped america place the Fellows, each the mentors, and Ethereum league organizers who gave a level for the Fellows.
The programme couldn’t person happened without your support, and we look guardant to having you conscionable the 2nd cohort.
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