Decentralization at Societal Level.

Understand SPO diversity/representation
Staking decision prototype
Work with communities and SPO information services to drive African SPO

Eng/Product at FAANG involved in product inclusion efforts
Creators of pool.vet, helping 200+ SPOs improve operations

Problem
Mass participation mission of Cardano requires proportional representation in the SPO community at the societal level. Successful SPO are foundational to core infrastructure and are also incentivized to drive adoption of Cardano in their respective communities. Today, SPOs are centralized in the USA and Europe, with little representation in Africa, South American and South East Asia, limiting decentralization and adoption. The Cardano community needs to actively promote and invest in societal diversity and equity in these regions to succeed.

Solution
- Build a steering group from relevant Cardano and blockchain communities (e.g. ABCD, WADA foundation, regional groups)
- Quantify diversity among the Cardano community and stake pool operators (initially self-identified)
- Build a SPO evaluation, ranking system and prototype tool to enable stake delegation that benefits representational goals for Africa and the overall decentralization of Cardano
- Collaborate with staking information services (eg AdaPools, Adafolio) to support Cardano's decentralization objectives in Africa.

What would success look like?
- Continuous measurement and reporting on Global and African level societal decentralisation
- Transparent, principled, objective based SPO recommendations
- Increase African and Societal level decentralisation through adoption by staking information services (has dependencies)

Funding
- $3000 Setting up a charity
- $6000 Prototype of system to collect and describe diversity information of stake pool operators
- $1000 Production/operation of prototype, API and website

Future work
- Expand focus to more regions and other dimensions of societal diversity (e.g., gender, ethnicity, regional, other groups) and collaborate with more communities
- Bring representational information on-chain
- Secure funding to help growing underrepresented operations for stake pools, dapp developers, and other Cardano participants (through staking, with advertising budget, …)