Please describe your proposed solution.
Cardano4Climate’s team of professional and volunteer event staff organized and hosted 5 Project Catalyst Sustainability Goals events.
These events bring external sustainability experts and projects together with Catalyst projects and groups working towards building a sustainable future.
This proposal is to continue monthly events, drive value, onboard newcomers, connect the community, and provide an environment and space where we solve the wicked problems of Climate Change using Cardano blockchain technology to accelerate our impact.
- Cardano & Climate Change November 2021
- Cardano & Trees January 2022
- Regenerative Agriculture and Blockchain February 2022
- Plastics & Cardano April 2022
- Onchain your Impact June 2022
All Cardano4Climate events have planning agendas, shareable slide decks, event feedback records, and public recordings on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/embed/playlist?start=?list=PLNLinFqV_MKgGYTGeF5t1V1TSW0sCb-wV
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
The C4C events team has created an event model that follows the Project Catalyst Funding rounds.
The first event focuses on ideation, connection, and collaboration by supporting impact proposals and attracting new developers and stakeholders from outside the Project Catalyst ecosystem. The second event focuses on an important topic and potential use cases for the developer ecosystem. By collecting resources, aligning with individual and collective values, and facilitating collaborations, thematic events attract new members passionate about the subject and facilitate engagement with existing community members.
The third event showcases both previously funded, impact-related projects and new proposals in the current Project Catalyst funding round.
For Fund 10, in collaboration with Gimbalabs and the developer community, Cardano4Climate will host a new series, “Developer Impact.”
Each event includes both external and community speakers to bring awareness to communities not yet on Catalyst. For example, our guest speaker at the last event was Koen van Seijen from investinginregenerativeagriculture.com the founder of one of the most important podcasts promoting regenerative agriculture.
Each event brings together a planning team of community members passionate about various subjects creating engagement, participation, and ownership of community activities.
It is this passionate, caring community of over 270 members who welcome newcomers to Catalyst and help them navigate the space through referrals to other projects, support, and communities like Gimbalabs, Eastern Townhall, Catalyst School, WADA, Swarm, Climate Neutral Cardano SPO group, DLT360, SustainableADA and more.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
Risk: Blockchain is a complicated topic and a complex space. Not all blockchains are created equal and the negative environmental impact of bitcoin mining, crypto scams, and general fear of new systems and technology, in general, can cause caring, passionate people to overlook the potential we recognize in Cardano.
Mitigation: Information and Education. Each event shares both researched information and an educational component geared towards languages of the heart. We care about the planet; we speak the same language.
Risk: Technology has not been developed on Cardano: There are complex issues to solve for people with “boots on the ground” while blockchain and Cardano tech is still evolving and not proven
Mitigation: Continue to support Impact related projects whether or not the technology is ready. Connect projects to existing Cardano solutions. Encourage joint research and proof of concept opportunities through Catalyst.
Risk: Ineffective onboarding and missed opportunities to connect newcomers to the right community channels
Mitigation: Continue to promote coordination and sync within the community, Cardano projects IOG and CF, and work closely with the emerging Cardano Impact Collective.
Risk: The growth of the community can outstrip our ability to facilitate events effectively
Mitigation: Continue to create templates, resources, and roadmaps and incentivize, train, and onboard members in community management and meeting facilitation.