🌍 64/This Week in Web3forGood
Is AI part of Web3?
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Is AI a part of Web3? TBH, it depends on who you ask. Admittedly, first we were sketpical of this lumping together, but the more we think about the abstract, messy, undefined concept that is Web3, the more it starts to make sense to include AI. Web3, after all, if anything is about emerging tech and the next iteration of the internet. AI might not necessarily be blockchain based, but it certainly seems like it will be a part of the next internet.
What are your thoughts? We’d love to know. In the meantime, we’ve included some thought-provoking news & links specifici to AI below.
WAGMI (we are going to make an impact)
xx Abeera & Sam
P.S. Thank you to everyone who supported us in Gitcoin Beta! Results are now posted (linked below). We appreciate your support 💛💛.
What’s Inside
📣 Latest News
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🚀 Opportunities & Events
📡 On Our Radar
📣 Latest News
Plastiks partners with FC Barcelona for digital cards that recover plastic from the environment
Celo starts on chain offsets of the Celo blockchain via Toucan, alongside offchain offsets via Wren
Georgetown, Knight Foundation Commit $30M to New Institute on Tech Policy for the Common Good
Policy Updates
Beijing releases white paper for web3 innovation and development
EU Securities Watchdog Warns Firms to Register Crypto Products Ahead of MiCA
Hong Kong Police Launch CyberDefender: Empowering Citizens to Tackle Web3 Risks
Hong Kong and UAE central banks collab on crypto rules, fintech development
European Banking Authority Wants to Include Crypto in Money Laundering, Terrorism Guidelines
📚 What We’re Thinking About
🏞 How carbon markets fit into the Paris Agreement: corresponding adjustments, Voluntary Carbon Markets, REDD+, the new 6.4 Mechanism, & more. (The Nature Conservancy)
👐 7 ways crypto donors can support charities. (The Giving Block)
🧠 Case Study: UNICEF Alpha Round - A partnership driving fairness, collaboration and impact. (Gitcoin)
📑 Topl's reworked whitepaper emphasizes building a sustainable and inclusive economic reality for all. (Topl)
📰 ImpactMarket Bulletin#24: Microcredit pilot in Uganda, products and event updates. (impactMarket)
👩🏫 Blockchain for Impact Workshop Recap: Perspectives on International Development, Public Goods, and Regenerative Economy. (Harvard Kennedy School)
💻 B_WC Hackathon winners are reinventing climate action. (Toucan)
🌲 Exploring biodiversity credits as a path to environmental restoration. (ReFi DAO)
🪙 What Is ERC721-C, and could it solve Web3’s royalty issues? (NFT Now)
⚒️ The Bitcoin mining debate Is ignoring the people most affected. Misinformation has painted an inaccurate and incomplete portrait of a complicated industry, and that’s having a real impact on policy. (CoinDesk)
🎥 Filmmaker Jordan Bayne believes Web3 can help marginalized communities share their stories. (Decrypt)
🏛 How best to regulate something that’s borderless, open-source, decentralized and constantly evolving? Pathways to the Regulation of Crypto-Assets: A Global Approach. (World Economic Forum)
🤖 As it’s currently imagined, AI tech promises to concentrate wealth and disempower workers. Is an alternative possible? (The New Yorker)
🤚 The most and least promising efforts to govern AI around the world. (MIT Technology Review)
🌐 The Evolution of Impact DAOs. (BanklessDAO)
🔮 A Crypto Future. (Compound Crypto)
🚀 Opportunities & Events:
Apply: Chainalysis is hiring a Policy Lead, MEA
Apply: Mercy Corps Ventures is seeking a research partner to work on their annual insights initiative.
Attend: Celo x Crypto for Good Happy Hour is happening on June 6 in Seoul.
Attend: Celo Camp Batch 7 Demo Day is happening on June 13.
Attend: The “How Can Your Nonprofit Prepare for the Future of Philanthropy?” hosted by The Giving Block Is happening June 13.
Hack: The second edition of the Build With Celo Hackathon Series is happening now through June 16. This edition invites participants to build social sign-in dApps with CELO, Masa, and SocialConnect.
Learn: ReFi Talents is an 18-week FREE online education program for the Regenerative Finance space.
Contribute: Create a local regen guide which will be distributed under the greenpill brand and to the greenpill network.
Share: If you’re building on Polygon, share your insights, ideas, and feedback to drive positive change in Web3 and international development as part of the PolygonImpact survey.
📡 On Our Radar
The Biodiversity Credit Alliance mobilizes financial flows towards biodiversity custodians while recognising local knowledge and context.
Blockchain x Climate (BxC) is an activist-to-industry network of global stakeholders working together to define and author principles that govern climate-related blockchain efforts, develop shared understanding and narratives across sectors, and design tangible and meaningful cross-chain and cross-industry climate initiatives and projects.
The Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity (C2PA) is an open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.
Ogallala Life uses web3 technologies to design, develop, and implement sustainable water utilization and farming practices that optimize the value and productivity of America’s breadbasket.
Credit Collective is a collective of Builders, Investors, LPs, and dreamers working together to help build the next generation of credit solutions.
Odisea is a 10-part series where pioneers in the crypto ecosystem explore how crypto is already and will continue to serve as a key to unlock flourishing futures for all.