🌍 This Week in Web3ForGood
Our new brand reveal + reflections on RightsCon
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It’s here and we can hardly contain our excitement! After months of thoughtful iterations, directed by the wonderful visual designer Petar Pirizovic, we are ready to reveal the next iteration of the Web3ForGood brand.
Why rebranding and why now? As we continue to grow and focus on expanding our reach so that we can share more positive stories, we’ve come to realize how important it is for Web3ForGood to have a recognizable presence. Part of being a trusted, welcoming media community means that people need to know and feel good about who Web3ForGood is -- whether that’s interacting with Web3ForGood on Substack, listening to us present at a conference, reading our content, or communing in any other forum in which we meet in the future as we grow.
We love our new brand because it’s vibrant, fresh, forward-looking, and still classic all at the same time. We hope it inspires newcomers to Web3 tech to create, explore, and learn together, with us, as a Web3ForGood community.
You can learn more about the Web3ForGood visual brand by reviewing the complete brand guidelines here.
Starting today, we’re going to look different everywhere we appear (including Twitter and LinkedIn, two channels that we plan to activate soon). What do you think? Send a note to web3forgood@gmail.com and let us know!
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact!)
P.S. An extra warm welcome to our first guest writer, Tayyab Hussain, who has shared his reflections on Web3 and Digital Rights, after attending RightsCon in Costa Rica last week!
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
✨ And one more thing
🌊Digital Rights and Web3: RightsCon Reflections
Web3ForGood contributor Tayyab Hussain recently attended RightsCon in Costa Rica. Here, he shares his reflections from the conference, including an overview of what digital rights are and how Web3 tech can be used to help achieve them.
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Last week I attended RightsCon, a conference intended to bring people together around advancing human rights particularly in the digital space. As much of our current life is online, we as a society have an obligation to ensure that human rights are updated to encompass the existing and future challenges ahead of us. It was an interesting perspective for me, as I come from the gunslinging world of tech startups, but someone who has always cared deeply about how technology can improve our lives and not become dystopian tools.
What are Digital Rights?
There are several elements to consider for digital human rights such as privacy, freedom of expression, data protection, internet access, digital security, and online harassment. The same way that it is important for someone to have the right to private property in the physical world, or the ability to practice a religion of their choice, the above listed elements allow us to have an unencumbered ability to navigate our digital experiences in a protected way. But, let’s touch on a few of these from above.
Read on for more about his experience in his words.
📣 Latest News
Product & Project Updates
Kenyan nonprofit Grassroots Economics successfully launches on the Celo Mainnet
Filecoin Virtual Machine (FVM) Builder Cohort Launches to Mainnet
Global Regulation/Policy Updates
Chinese bank BOCI issues country’s first tokenized security on Ethereum
U.S. Judge Rebuffs SEC request for Binance.US asset freeze for now
EU moves closer to passing one of world’s first laws governing AI
📚 What We’re Thinking About
💾 Filecoin founder Juan Benet on decentralization and human rights in the digital age. (HackerNoon)
💰 Kyle from Gikwui on the race to the bottom in public goods funding and trying to find sustainable sources of income. (StreamEth)
👩🏫 impactMarket collaborates with Celo on “Blockchain for Impact '' guest lecture at Paris Dauphine University. (impactMarket)
📑 Unveiling the Uniswap Foundation's Bridge Report, a major community undertaking that saw the biggest decentralized exchange formally examine some of the core infrastructure powering its governance process. (CoinDesk)
🔬 DeSci Landscape Analysis: Exploring Crowdfunding Effects On Project Development. (erinmagennis.eth)
🔗 Onchain is likely the next iteration of the internet. (lght.eth)
⏳ Governing in Nonlinear Time: DAOs are renaming units and flows of time. The turn to fresh language invites us to rethink the flows of time altogether in how we self-govern. What if we take the renaming seriously? (Zora Zine)
💊 Report: Darknet markets continue to facilitate global distribution of fentanyl and related substances. On-chain activity may provide useful information about crypto-related opioid trafficking. (Chainalysis)
👐 5 steps that can be taken to build a Web3 ecosystem that is truly accessible to nonprofits. (Crypto Altruism)
🌳 Solid World’s CRISP-scored pools explained. (Solid World)
🤖 AI will not destroy the world, and in fact may save it. (a16z)
📚 Insights from Other Internet’s literature review on DAOs and labor. (Other Internet)
🌈 Blockchain doesn’t discriminate: With transgender people 4x more likely to face violent attack, the metaverse can offer some reprieve. (DeCential)
🏞 Camila Rioja of the Celo Foundation talks hacking public goods in Brazil in a refreshing take on what’s possible when a government is open to explore new tech with its constituents. (Boys Club Podcast)
🏛 We need a cultural and philosophical movement to meet the rise of artificial superintelligence. (The Atlantic)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Goldfinch is hiring a Content Marketing Manager.
Attend: Public Goods Pizza Party meetup is happeing in Waterloo on 22nd June.
Attend: ETHGlobal Waterloo is taking place from June 23-25.
Attend: The State of Crypto Philanthropy Digital Summit, a live digital event hosted by Endaoment, is happening on June 28.
Attend: ReFi Lisboa’s fifth monthly meetup is happening June 29.
Attend: Protocol Labs Launchpad Summit is happening from July 16-21 in Paris.
Attend: Celo & Chainlink present Co-OPERATE, a three day event in Paris to turn Web3 into a reality, from July 17-19.
Donate: The Gitcoin Citizen’s Round supports people and grassroots projects that have contributed to Gitcoin’s success.
Accelerate: The Alliance Web3 accelerator & founder community is accepting applications.
📡 On Our Radar
ValueProp: An open database showcasing amazing use cases for blockchain technology.
Agartha curates and documents the global landscape for Solarpunk Protopian communities — sustainable, cooperative and vibrant.
8 blockchain donation projects improving humanitarian aid.
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