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 expanda 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:
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Weekly moderated Zoom events with diverse content and diverse assistance
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Well known community moderators who facilitate and guarantee high quality conversations
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A place for the reunion of as many LATAM communities as possible, being able to speak their own language and express their own culture
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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:
<https://www.youtube.com/embed/c?start=/LATAMCardanoCommunity/videos>After more than 22 TownHalls produced, with more than 16 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 two LATAM Ideafest (F7 and F8) with more than 63 proposals being presented in Spanish and Portuguese and recorded for their promotion. We are also going to hold the F9 LATAM Ideafest on July 7th.
We have more than 15 outstanding speakers from the Catalyst community, such as Dor Gabash (IOG), Victor Corcino (Loxe), Yoram Benzvi (C4C), Rodo Miranda (RootsID), Seba Pereira (NFT Dao), Nadia Hopkins (CA Rep), Diego Torres (Rats Dao), Adirano Fiorenza (GameChanger), Thiago Nunes (Cardano Ambassador), Maria Carmo (LoveLace Academy), Mercedes Etchegoyen (CryptoGirls), Jose Iadiccico (Ada Pool one) and James Dunsheit (Gimbalabs) among others.
We have also produced the first FUNdFest event, to celebrate and promote the Catalyst F9 fund, aiming to reach new people outside Cardano, teaching how to become a proposer and what is Cardano and Catalyst and offering an NFT as a prize of attendance, minting 49 NFTs and facilitating the creation of nearly 30 new Cardano Wallets.
<u>THE IMPACT</u>
Latin America is a fertile region for mass adoption and create value based on Cardano. It has talented and passionate people that with the proper tools and opportunities will create its own path and ways to succeed; failure is an option but not a surrender.
By providing a meeting point where people can express in its own languages and cultures we expect:
- to to onboard a large population of people that otherwise are lost in translation
- to retain people by localized means of engagement
- to listen to the community and gather data and opinions from an unbiased perspective
- to welcome participants from other blockchain communities by providing openness and gratitude
- to create a center of gravity that would take an important role in the whole Cardano and Catalyst Community
- to reach out to underrepresented groups,, exploring ways to lower entry barriers and offer continuous support and advice
- to make Cardano community the best choice for Latin Americans looking to participate in decentralized projects
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
The Challenge objective claims:
There are no better ways to manage your DAO than to use Cardano DAOs. From Small Business to Global Communities.. Cardano DAOs deliver.
So we align 100% with that objective by nurturing, promoting and create DAOs and decentralization out of what we do by engaging LATAM people, producing impact not only at regional level, but rather at global scale by our collaboration and coordination with Swarm, East Asia TownHall, Africa TownHall, Wada and Pacific TownHall.
How Key Metrics to measure as expressed by the challenge
- Number of Communities engaged in collaboration using Cardano DAO creation tools.
This metric is aligned with the grow of our diverse and unique community
- Number of DAOs that use Cardano as governance/management chain in 6 months.
This metric is aligned with our reach out strategy to bring new people from outside the Cardano community and from other Blockchains.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
RISK1: Community not growing at the pace we want
MITIGATION:
At the LATAM TH we don't just simply repeat recipes, we innovate and disrupt, seeking news and better ways to engage new people, while maintaining our current member base. This has proven very successful in the 6 month of operations we already have.
RISK2: Centralization of decision making
MITIGATION:
We have created several autonomous groups and support several DAOs and SPOs, so the community can keep growing in a decentralized fashion. In order to secure the purpose, we have co-created and voted a LATAM MANIFESTO, which holds our Purpose, Values and Principles, so anyone that joins the community adheres to those and is able to produce whatever they want, whilst going in the same direction as the whole. All the decisions we take are transparent and published in our gitbook, as well as our spending. We are also starting to adopt DEWORK so we can decentralize tasks and incentives among the community.