LATAM TownHall

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

Our PURPOSE

LATAM Cardano Community is a decentralized alliance that inspire and empowers individuals, organizations, initiatives and governments with interest in Latin América, to foster collaboration and to expanda adoption of Cardano to facilitate its impact in and from the region to the world.

LATAM TownHall

The LATAM TownHall is a central activity of recurring sessions, performed in our own languages, Spanish and Portuguese, where people can collaborate, present, share and discuss ideas and projects. Every week we present different topics, and foster people's own choice for discussion or activities, facilitating the grow and expansion of the community.

Some characteristics of our TownHalls are:

• Weekly moderated Zoom events with diverse content and diverse assistance

• Well known community moderators who facilitate and guarantee high quality conversations

• A place for the reunion of as many LATAM communities as possible, being able to speak their own language and express their own culture

• A different experience, a learning environment with an innovative mindset and decentralization in Cardano as its core

All these events are documented and recorded, to maximize reach and to build trust and transparency. You can have access to the previous ones in our youtube channel: 

After more than 22 TownHalls produced, with more than 16 speakers, a Top audience on a single event of 77 people the LATAM TH has proven that it can deliver on its promises. We also held two LATAM Ideafest (F7 and F8) with more than 63 proposals being presented in Spanish and Portuguese and recorded for their promotion. We are also going to hold the F9 LATAM Ideafest on July 7th.

We have more than 15 outstanding speakers from the Catalyst community, such as Dor Gabash (IOG), Victor Corcino (Loxe), Yoram Benzvi (C4C), Rodo Miranda (RootsID), Seba Pereira (NFT Dao), Nadia Hopkins (CA Rep), Diego Torres (Rats Dao), Adirano Fiorenza (GameChanger), Thiago Nunes (Cardano Ambassador), Maria Carmo (LoveLace Academy), Mercedes Etchegoyen (CryptoGirls), Jose Iadiccico (Ada Pool one) and James Dunsheit (Gimbalabs) among others.

We have also produced the first FUNdFest event, to celebrate and promote the Catalyst F9 fund, aiming to reach new people outside Cardano, teaching how to become a proposer and what is Cardano and Catalyst and offering an NFT as a prize of attendance, minting 49 NFTs and facilitating the creation of nearly 30 new Cardano Wallets.

THE IMPACT

Latin America is a fertile region for mass adoption and create value based on Cardano. It has talented and passionate people that with the proper tools and opportunities will create its own path and ways to succeed; failure is an option but not a surrender.

By providing a meeting point where people can express in its own languages and cultures we expect:

• to to onboard a large population of people that otherwise are lost in translation
• to retain people by localized means of engagement
• to listen to the community and gather data and opinions from an unbiased perspective
• to welcome participants from other blockchain communities by providing openness and gratitude
• to create a center of gravity that would take an important role in the whole Cardano and Catalyst Community
• to reach out to underrepresented groups,, exploring ways to lower entry barriers and offer continuous support and advice
• to make Cardano community the best choice for Latin Americans looking to participate in decentralized projects

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The Challenge objective claims:

There are no better ways to manage your DAO than to use Cardano DAOs. From Small Business to Global Communities.. Cardano DAOs deliver.

So we align 100% with that objective by nurturing, promoting and create DAOs and decentralization out of what we do by engaging LATAM people, producing impact not only at regional level, but rather at global scale by our collaboration and coordination with Swarm, East Asia TownHall, Africa TownHall, Wada and Pacific TownHall.

How Key Metrics to measure as expressed by the challenge

• Number of Communities engaged in collaboration using Cardano DAO creation tools.

This metric is aligned with the grow of our diverse and unique community

• Number of DAOs that use Cardano as governance/management chain in 6 months.

This metric is aligned with our reach out strategy to bring new people from outside the Cardano community and from other Blockchains.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

RISK1: Community not growing at the pace we want

MITIGATION:

At the LATAM TH we don't just simply repeat recipes, we innovate and disrupt, seeking news and better ways to engage new people, while maintaining our current member base. This has proven very successful in the 6 month of operations we already have.

RISK2: Centralization of decision making

MITIGATION:

We have created several autonomous groups and support several DAOs and SPOs, so the community can keep growing in a decentralized fashion. In order to secure the purpose, we have co-created and voted a LATAM MANIFESTO, which holds our Purpose, Values and Principles, so anyone that joins the community adheres to those and is able to produce whatever they want, whilst going in the same direction as the whole. All the decisions we take are transparent and published in our gitbook, as well as our spending. We are also starting to adopt DEWORK so we can decentralize tasks and incentives among the community.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The LATAM Cardano Community ecosystem provides:

• Discord server with many channels, with new ones added as per community requirement

ttps://discord.gg/qX32RZMFsv

• An autonomous translator team to translate contents, testimonies or speeches of guests in English from and to Portuguese and Spanish

F9 Spanish Translated materials

F9 Portuguese Translated materials

Incentivized Voting Survey translated into Portuguese

Incentivized Voting Survey translated into Spanish

• An autonomous Educational group, that formed a Techademia, where we educate and make technical courses

• High quality events every week. With special guest that are well known members of the Catalyst community and the Cardano ecosystem, that come to talk about their experiences and purpose.

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnlIbxRc5mo

• Mentoring about the process of each founding round and spreading the news about the steps, roles and opportunities within Catalyst.

• Producing presentations on different highly needed topics, such as: how to write a great proposal, how to be a good Proposal Assessor, and how to do the marketing of your own project.

• A Youtube channel where everyone can look at this material in their own lenguaje.

https://tinyurl.com/latamtownhall-yt

• A twitter account that is gaining more and more traction in the space.

https://twitter.com/LatamCardano

• A gitbook to publish and promote all the information about how and what we do.

https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/latam-cardano-community/

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

THE BUDGET

This proposal includes a budget for the second SIX MONTHS of operations that will cover LATAM Town Halls each week from July 2022 to December 2022 and all the related activities.

As per our previous experience, and the demonstrated outcomes, we have validated, prorrated and determined that the cost for each event is USD 1,125, covering following activities:

• Payment of different tools: Discord, Zoom, Office 365 accounts (4)
• Creation, publication and maintenance of the LATAM website
• Rewards to the community for Dework tasks/bounties 
• Content generation for promotions, paying as a service for Illustrators & Designers.
• Organize each event
• Reaching out to ideas and hosts, onboard hosts
• Marketing and communication of each event topic and activity
• Document every single activity for transparency
• Moderate and host the event
• Social Channels management and moderation

Total requested funds in USD: $27,000 (24 TH x $1,125)

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

LATAM Cardano Community core team will help to set up the program and appoint the 3 staffs, as we have the experience and contacts to be able to do it on time and with high quality results

Among our core team we can cite:

Alex Pestchanker (Mentor, Host and Speaker, Funded Proposer and CA in F6, 7 and 8, vCA in F7 and F8, Challenge Team member for F7 Grow Latam, Grow Cardano, Funded Proposer subcircle member, Swarm Veteran)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/apestchanker/

Rodolfo Miranda (Funded Proposer and CA in F6, 7 and 8, vCA in F7 and F8, Challenge Team member for F7 Grow Latam, Grow Cardano and F8 Self Sovereign Identity)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodolfomiranda/

Lucas Macchiavelli (Funded Proposer in F7 and 8, CA in F8, Cardano Ambassador, Swarm contributor)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/lucasmacchiavelli/

Jaime Martinez: (Funded Proposer in F7 and F8, CA in F6 and F7, member of the Catalyst community since F4, Advocate and builder of educational initiatives for LatAm Cardano Communities)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jnmrtnz/

Mauro Andreoli

https://www.linkedin.com/in/mauro-agust%C3%ADn-andreoli-7b58621a0/

Juanita Jaramillo R

https://www.linkedin.com/in/juanita-jaramillo-rivillas-6009534b/

Victor Corcino

https://www.linkedin.com/in/victorcorcino/

Juan Sierra

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sierrajuan/

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes we are planning to continue our operations as per the success the LATAM Community is bringing to Catalyst and the Cardano ecosystem.

The idea is present proposals like this every 6 months, as the TH is a service to the LATAM Cardano Community, does not have any other source of income to make it happen.

This is being constantly evaluated, as per seeking innovative ways to not depend only on Catalyst.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

THE METRICS (measured over 6 months operations)

• The number of participants that join the weekly sessions, average above 30 attendees per TH.
• The number visits the youtube channel receive, +200 subscriptions.
• The amount of participation and engagement in dedicated social media, +600 members in our Discord, +1000 followers on Twitter and + 200 members in our Telegram channel
• The number of break-out rooms and diversity of topics presented, +15 Speakers, +2 Ideafest events, an average of 2 breakout rooms per TH.

AUDITABILITY

We are committed to transparency internally and with the community. We will document and keep track of all activities and expenses in a github/gitbook repository.

https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/latam-cardano-community/

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

After our 1st year of operations, keep building and growing a diverse, inclusive and vibrant community from people in LATAM and abroad.

Fostering more projects presented by Latinian people in Catalyst.

Nurture more Cardano users in LATAM.

Be up to the challenge with the focus and traction other Blockchains are having in LATAM, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum and Polkadot.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

Yes this proposal is a continuation of our F7 funded proposal, LATAM Town Hall by Catalyst Swarm

https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/380974

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 17. Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development

SDG subgoals:

17.16 Enhance the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development, complemented by multi-stakeholder partnerships that mobilize and share knowledge, expertise, technology, and financial resources, to support the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals in all countries, in particular developing countries

17.9 Enhance international support for implementing effective and targeted capacity-building in developing countries to support national plans to implement all the Sustainable Development Goals, including through North-South, South-South, and triangular cooperation

9.a Facilitate sustainable and resilient infrastructure development in developing countries through enhanced financial, technological, and technical support to African countries, least developed countries, landlocked developing countries, and small island developing States

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