DALE

A powerful decentralized alliance of organizations, projects, people and governments to drive Cardano adoption and its real impact.

Our team is very diverse, formed by Cardano stakeholders, Proposers, SPO, Developers, CAs, Challenge Team & Holders from countries in LATAM

Our Purpose

DALE (Spanish word for LETS GO). 

Acronym that stands for Decentralized Alliance for LatinAmerican Empowerment

This proposal is also a CALL for purpose driven people in LATAM to join the MOVEMENT and is part of a 4 pillars CLUSTER impulsed by the LATAM Catalyst Community, that includes:

LATAM TownHall: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/LATAM-Town-Hall-by-Catalyst-Swarm/380974-48088

LATAM Catalyst School: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/The-Catalyst-School-LATAM/383090-48088

LATAM Cardano Ambassadors: https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/Cardano-Ambassadors-Latin-America/380977-48088

The idea is to build upon Catalyst, Swarm and Wada experiences, to drive LatinAmerica inclusion and adoption of Cardano and Catalyst.

Main Activities

DALE will provide general governance to the Catalyst LATAM Community, content and relevant topics and agenda for the LATAM TownHall, help to articulate bonds and relationships with the different relevant stakeholders (Government, Companies, NGOs, Key People) in LATAM by engaging with the Cardano Ambassadors, and facilitate the onboarding of new members to the Cardano community by a smooth experience together with the LATAM Catalyst School.

Coordinate with other LATAM Catalyst groups, Daos and People on Governance and co-creation to empower LATAM.

Other key activities are to articulate relationships among Key officials, Influencers and Companies in LATAM to promote Cardano and seek to generate valued cooperation efforts to drive Impact in LATAM.

Track Record

DALE was announced 11/19/2021 and since we had been involved in promoting and coordinating efforts to generate collaboration within existing Catalyst members that are from LATAM or have their harts with LATAM.

We have produced a main Architecture on the four pillars mentioned above, distilling our purpose and our way of work as a Cluster to promote Cardano and Catalyst Adoption in LATAM. We have secured an agreement with SWARM and Eastern TownHall to support LATAM TownHall and DALE.

With that support we were able to create our Latam Catalyst Community Discord Server (https://discord.gg/3MTSdK6D )

We also Launched our Telegram Channel (https://t.me/+IaTgra7usK8zOWQ6)

We have agreed on the Date for the first LATAM TownHall and we have attached the First LATAM Ideafest in collaboration with Catalyst SWARM

Our Team

We are a growing team of diverse Latin Americans from many countries that are involved in Project Catalyst. The following is a list of people that are contributing in this initiative, and as mentioned before, the list is growing every day:

Alex Pestchanker: 20+ years profesional Building Products and Companies. Within Cardano, Alex is an active community member, helping now to build the LATAM ecosystem, performed as Community Advisor in F6, with high ratings on his assessments, Atala Prism Pioneers Program - 1st cohort and won a fund for his co-proposal Proposals Mentors Marketplace ( https://cardano.ideascale.com/a/dtd/369749-48088 ). Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/apestchanker/

Victor Corcino: Is an active Catalyst Member, Community Advisor and Proposal Mentor, member of the 1st Catalyst Circle, leader of the Catalyst School, core member of the Catalyst Swarm, and has a strong professional and academic background in Engineering, Mathematics, Data Science and Machine Learning.

Lucas Macchiavelli: Lucas started his journey in the traditional stock markets, and quickly made his road into a passion at 19 years old. After advising several clients to traditional investments he turned his sight into Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology, where he recognized it's life changing potential. Thanks to blockchain technology many doors that were previously closed opened, crowdfunding was one of them. After seeing the difficulties with traditional funding methods he came up with Token Allies, which he funded and now manages.

Jose Ladicicco: Is a seasoned communications Engineer, Cardano Enthusiast and Creator of the largest Argentinian SPO, ADAONE1, which is also the first and only 100% physical SPO in LATAM. He also Co-Organized the Cardano Summit 2021.

Ke Hua Yang: She is a Community Manager, Business enabler facilitating relationships between east asia and LATAM. She is the cofounder of the ADAONE1 Pool and Co-Organizer of the Cardano Summit 2021 Buenos Aires.

Felix Weber: Active Catalyst Member and Core Member of the Catalyst Swarm. He supports the vision to Grow LATAM since day 1. He is giving us guidance and support.

KPIs

Coordinate and produce content for the 24 LATAM TownHalls in 2022

Organize and produce the 4 LATAM Ideafests in 2022

Seek to have all Catalyst School contents available in Spanish and Portuguese in 2022

Articulate key IOG and Catalyst people presence in LATAM Events, such as Charles, Dor and Kriss, as well as key Latinan referents of the Catalyst community

Add at least 100 Latam active members to the Catalyst community in 2022

Support the continuation of the Grow Latam, Grow Cardano Challenge for at least 3 more funds

Collaborate and coordinate efforts with other relevant Cardano commnunities such as WADA and SWARM and create at least 1 common agenda on priorities for the year

Produce and organize the Cardano Summitt @LATAM 2022 (In conjunction with Cardano Foundation)

Generate a general Decentralized Governance Framework for DALE in Q1 2022

Aspirational

Organize a Roadshow in LATAM to bring Charles Hoskinson to visit, with specific agenda with key government officials and key influencers in at least 3 countries in LATAM.

Budget

We would like to have at least 2 full time members equivalent, dedicated to this initiative, so our budget will be split in FUNDS.

In Fund7 we need 3 months operating funds

2 Full time members x $5.000 x 3 months + $30.000

Tools, Infrastructure and expenses = $5.000

If the initiative goes well we will be requesting for continuation funds in F8, and possible F9. As part of our commitment to the Catalyst purpose, the idea is to find ways to make this initiative sustainable on its own, so it won't depend on the treasury, but that will be build and decided within the community's first steps. 

Auditability

All activities will be recorded in our GitHub Server

https://github.com/apestchanker/latam-catalyst-community/tree/main

DALE SUMATE!!