Panel: Web3 for Gender Equity
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In the so-called developed world, the blockchain ecosystem is, in general terms, fixated on the speculative nature of the crypto economy. But other societies are starting to explore ways in which blockchain technology may solve fundamental societal problems. At the same time, the emergence of DAOs as a new coordination paradigm matches with the atomized structure of the emerging services economy. Blockchain can facilitate digital identities, better value-chains and environmental traceability, reduce the possibility of fraudulent elections, tackle corruption and provide better documentation to safekeeping land titles or medical records. However, the number of proven use cases is still embryonic as the public generally perceives blockchain technology as overly complex. For it to go mainstream, blockchain technology needs to solve real problems through strategic, concrete and measurable initiatives. For example, while Harmony provides millions of dollars in grants to scale thousands of developers, the vast majority do not come from Africa. Harmony’s Africa DAO seeks to put a remedy to this. Harmony’s Africa DAO mandate is to organically reinforce the Harmony African ecosystem, making it a key player on the African continent. Over time, the Harmony Africa DAO could even become redundant, having given way to multiple self-sustainable DAOs over Africa. In other words, Harmony’s Africa DAO will boost Harmony’s African ecosystem as it reaches cruising altitude. To accomplish our mandate, Harmony Africa will conduct a series of intertwined activities, all geared at accomplishing its following mission.
For the Africa DAO hackathon I was a judge, moderator and mentor. The hackathon participants created teams among themselves and developed a web3 solution to support gender equity. I mentored teams with respect to web3 solution implementation and ideation. I spoke on and moderated the panel held for the hackathon, and judged the solutions from the teams.