1. Welcome ALL [image]
- Welcome to your weekly dose of public goods goodness.
2. Jam corner with the PG band aka @Sov
- Metallica - Master of Puppets
3. ICANN Engagement & Policy Advocacy project post
- Published on the forum.
- The post includes information about the work and the budget breakdown.
4. The DRC update
- ENS is signing onto a letter supporting incentivizing decentralization in blockchain legislation.
- The letter relates to market structure legislation.
- The letter was initially drafted for the House version of the bill and has 60 signatories from VCs like A16Z, Blockchain Capital, and various other foundations, teams, and labs.
- The Senate is drafting its own bill, which is not as good as the House version.
- Another draft of the bill is expected soon, incorporating recommendations.
5. Web3 x Good Conference (Urbe Village) presentation
The event in October will feature web3 projects like Nouns DAO, Giveth, Octant, Akasha, Ethereum Community Fund, and leading Italian nonprofits and social enterprises like Ashoka Italia, Intersos.org, HumanFoundation.it, and the gov-backed FondoRepubblicaDigitale.it. International orgs like the WFP Innovation Accelerator, Save the Children, Amnesty International, and UNICEF CryptoFund will also be joining.
- Urbe Village gave an update on Web3 and the Good conference.
- Confirmed 21 speakers from both Web3, non-profit space, and angel investment ecosystems in Italy.
- A Nouns meetup is planned during the conference.
- ENS is seen as a valuable addition to discussions on web3 challenges and public goods funding.
- The venue has 100 seats, with an expected attendance of 100-200 people during the day, possibly more.
- Luma announcement.
- Full presentation here.
6. dev3pack presentation
For one month, dev3pack is turning a village in Buenos Aires into a home for 70 women and student developers from underrepresented regions, experiencing Devconnect and ETHGlobal for the first time.
- Global fellowship for women and student developers coming from Web2.
- Aims to provide onboarding and continued education
- Hackathons, bootcamps, meetups, and long-term building.
- Attracted 300+ universities, 1,000+ women, and student devs worldwide.
- Superpact will host a village for 70 women and student developers at DevConnect.
- Full presentation here.
- Official website: Dev3Pack.
7. Fadhil final takeaways on Africa research presentation
- Received a grant to research how ENS can support builders across Africa.
- Collaborated with Thomas and Simon from Labs.
- Attending events in multiple African countries.
- Including: Kenya, Uganda, Zanzibar, Rwanda, Ghana…
- Each country has their own representatives working on different initiatives.
- Fadil helped people apply for grants in the ENS ecosystem.
- Fadil will put together a report on the research and share it in Notion below.
- Program overview: Notion
8. Open floor for all questions, proposals and other presentations etc.
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