Meet Cohort 4 of the Next Billion Fellows!

As a planetary nationalist resource, exertion indispensable stay open, accessible, and dedicated to promoting the greater good. The Next Billion Fellowship Program is simply a testament to this vision, seeking to seizure stories of communities whose lives are changing for the better. Today, we are arrogant to present 7 individuals with singular stories to share. Their narratives connection a glimpse into their divers contexts and imaginable futures — ones we cannot afloat foresee but wherever humanity is uplifted. By drafting inspiration from the Next Billion Fellows’ stories, we anticipation to ideate a aboriginal wherever this unfastened protocol of quality coordination serves arsenic a nationalist bully for billions of people.

The Next Billion Fellows Cohort 4

David Uzochukwu is starring an inaugural focused connected enhancing Ethereum’s decentralization by educating the assemblage successful Africa connected however to tally an Ethereum node. Exploring barriers similar the deficiency of unchangeable net entree and powerfulness outages arsenic good arsenic the imaginable solutions, this task seeks to marque disposable the considerations that request to beryllium successful spot for decentralization and inclusivity.

Eddie Kago is moving connected Antugrow, a level that digitizes accumulation records and workplace metadata to make on-chain estimation scores. It aims to supply affordable moving superior for smallholder farmers and cooperatives successful Kenya by standardizing husbandman information for interoperability. Eddie seeks to unlock low-cost recognition and scalable cultivation insurance.

Guo Liu works for state of accusation arsenic a co-founder of Matters Town, a integer abstraction and censorship-resilient work platform. His task aims to enactment high-quality open-access contented by merging advertisement protocols with the Harberger taxation and quadratic funding.

Lefteris Arapakis was raised successful a household of fishermen and soon understood that fishermen collected a batch of integrative from the ocean. He built a societal endeavor called Enaleia, focused connected reducing marine integrative contamination starting archetypal successful Greece and past expanding to the remainder of the Mediterranean. As portion of his Fellowship, Lefteris volition instrumentality a strategy that enables the traceability of recycled marine integrative connected Ethereum.

Mercedes “Meche” Rodriguez Simon is conducting applicable probe connected utilizing web3 solutions to enactment quality rights organizations successful Venezuela. As a dedicated quality rights activistic and a cardinal subordinate of Ethereum Venezuela, Meche aims to bring her cognition to code Venezuela's governmental and humanitarian crises.

Rebecca Mqamelo explores integrating EVM-based section currencies with accepted economical practices successful Africa. Her research, with Grassroots Economics, volition comparison 2 antithetic models of assemblage currencies: accepted integer vouchers backed by authorities bodies and a exemplary wherever the assemblage pools their aboriginal accumulation capableness arsenic commitment.

Tomislav ”Tomo” Mamić is moving connected the Municipal Quadratic Funding Initiative (MUQA), a task designed to assistance cities successful utilizing Quadratic Voting (QV) and Quadratic Funding (QF) mechanisms to allocate backing for nationalist projects. His aviator successful the metropolis of Split successful Croatia volition experimentation with QF successful the areas of civilization and greenish spaces, aiming to present transparency, efficiency, and national information successful managing nationalist resources.

What’s Next?

Over the adjacent six months, each Fellow volition thrust guardant a tiny task that works toward larger objectives successful their story. Fellows volition stock their advancement during Devcon 7 successful Southeast Asia, November 12-15th. Follow @EFNextBillion for updates. Need fiscal enactment to be Devcon? Check retired the Devcon SEA Scholars Program and apply by July 7th, 2024!