SEA Community Hub Proposal : GM (Global Majority) Hub

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GM (Global Majority) Hub Proposal for Devcon

Summary of Proposal

The GM Community Hub, led by a diverse team of Asia, African, and LatAm builders, fosters Global Majority imagination at Devcon. Through dedicated regional days and collaborative spaces, it sparks necessary dialogues on Web3’s future. This hub empowers underrepresented voices, facilitating cross-cultural exchange and envisioning Real World Ethereum solutions tailored to GM contexts.

Motivation and Rationale

How would this community hub enhance attendee experience?

The GM Community Hub is proposed by Pagoda, an alliance of 15+ major Asian community builders. Hosting Devcon in South East Asia is a unique opportunity, and we are organizing the GM Community Hub to do the main groundwork for African, LatAm, and Asian builders to have an easy platform to plug in and have the spaces to have the types of conversations and dialogues we can only do IRL.

Practically, GM Community Hub will provide Devcon attendees a space to learn about Web3 developments in often overlooked regions - where we are seeing accelerating real world adoption. It offers:

  1. Direct interaction with founders, builders, and community leaders from Africa, LatAm, and Asia (or what we call the Global Majority)
  2. Exposure to diverse approaches on Ethereum and Web3 applications
  3. Opportunities to explore region-specific challenges and solutions
  4. Cultural exchanges that broaden understanding of global Web3 ecosystems
  5. Weaving African, Asian, and LatAm builders and ecosystem leaders together

In addition, for builders coming from these regions, the GM community hub offers:

  • 1 day dedicated physical and organizational support for each region (Africa, LatAm, and Asia)
  • Event hosting & coordination, physical space, and experience design.
  • Outreach to the Pagoda communities and Devcon participants to highlight activities happening to drive more attention so there is maximal exposure.

How would this complement the main programme happening at Devcon?

While the main Devcon program focuses on broad technical and ecosystem developments, the GM Community Hub will:

  1. Offer deep dives into region-specific blockchain initiatives
  2. Provide a dedicated space for GM voices that might be underrepresented in the main program, including many who wouldn’t get a chance to speak on the main stage to engage hands on
  3. Facilitate more intimate, interactive sessions on GM-focused topics
  4. Showcase practical applications of Ethereum technology in diverse global contexts
  5. Bridge the gap between global technical advancements and local implementation challenges
  6. Offer event and physical infrastructure to builders and communities to easily plug in.

Why is this topic significant, and why is a community hub the best format to address it?

The GM perspective is crucial for several reasons:

  • True global adoption of Web3 requires understanding and addressing diverse needs
  • GM regions represent the majority of the world’s population and future user base
  • Unique challenges and opportunities in these regions drive innovative blockchain applications
  • Cross-cultural collaboration is essential for a decentralized, resilient, equitable future

A community hub is ideal because it:

  • It allows GM builders to easily plug in and join as a community of communities. A community hub allows regional communities to shine, and also weave more connectivity amongst one another.
  • A physical space where we can have different formats of activities, from speakers / panels, round table discussions, one on ones. The community hub structure allows a wide range of experimentation.
  • Facilitates organic connections and collaborations among participants joining. IRL events are ideal for this, so a hub allows us to achieve these goals.
  • Offers a physical manifestation of Global Majority inclusion and representation

Implementation

Production requirements and equipment

In addition to the provided equipment, we plan to source:

  1. Whiteboards, post it notes, and tools that can be used to create interactive spaces
  2. Cultural representations of different regions, art, and other representations of cultures from different GM regions
  3. Space decorations to create inviting and warm spaces

Sample programme (9 AM - 5 PM daily)

November 11: GM Imagination Day (Bringing GM builders together)

  • In depth introductions of different communities, builders, and projects. Mapping exercises (open throughout the 4 days).
  • What is GM? Reframing Global South to Global Majority. Who makes up GM? (interactive sessions)
  • GM Imagination: collective envisioning of Web3 futures in the Global Majority. What would the world look like in 10 years if GM regions drove global crypto adoption in region specific ways? What are the possible directions for real world applications if we build bottom up?
  • Roundtables / small group discussions: Challenges and Opportunities for GM Builders in Web3
  • Connection, relationship building, and mixing talents + viewpoints.

November 12-14: Region deep dives - a day dedicated to Asia, Latin America, Africa

  • Panels, dialogues, and breakouts dedicated to highlighting how crypto is used in different parts of each region. Hearing from builders, community leaders, and founders.
  • Education sessions to bring the rest of the world up to speed on regional dynamics and crypto use contexts
  • Interactive workshops
  • Office hours with builders (where relevant)
  • Connection exercises, mapping, and mingling spaces throughout the day.

Team

Communities that are involved :

Asia : ETH Vietnam, ETHKL, Web3Together, APAC DAO, Code for Japan, ETH63, Web3PH, 4SEAS and more
LatAm : ETH Kipu, La Antorcha ETH ( The eth torch initiative )
Africa : Borderless Africa, ETH Safari, ETH Accra, Web3Bridge, Onboard.

Team expertise and suitability

Our team comprises individuals with deep roots in their respective GM regions and extensive experience in the Ethereum ecosystem. Each regional representative has a proven track record of community building and Ethereum advocacy in their area. The Pagoda Network will help with the main coordination of space and other co-hosts will bring their experience in fostering the Ethereum ecosystem in each region. Our diversity and inclusivity ensure that all activities are culturally sensitive and truly representative.

Ensuring marketing-free content

We are committed to keeping the GM Community Hub free from marketing and token promotion by:

  1. Prioritizing community-driven content over company or project-specific presentations, and using company / project content to highlight examples of use cases.
  2. Focusing discussions on technology, culture, and social impact rather than specific projects.
  3. Having a dedicated team member monitor all activities to ensure compliance with Devcon guidelines

Community representation

The GM Community Hub team represents a diverse coalition of builders, educators, and community leaders from across the Global Majority. With the goal of promoting greater diversity and inclusion, we aim to simplify the process for various communities to engage with a pre-existing space, rather than requiring them to create something from the ground up.

We have:

  1. Active involvement in grassroots blockchain initiatives in our respective regions
  2. Strong connections with local developer communities and educational institutions
  3. Experience in organizing region-specific blockchain events and workshops
  4. A shared commitment to amplifying underrepresented voices in the Web3 space
  5. A track record of fostering cross-cultural collaboration and knowledge sharing

By bringing together this diverse team, we ensure that the GM Community Hub truly represents and serves the Global Majority community within the Ethereum ecosystem.

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Really excited about the idea of a GM hub - what an amazing opportunity to surface the work of underrepresented communities!

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Hey Songyi!

Thank you so much for your proposal - it is nice to see African and Asian ETH communities coming together to execute this community hub. Since the theme of your proposed Community Hub overlaps with the Community Gardeners Hub , and the SEA Community Hub Proposal:African Eth Community Hub - it would be great if both teams could collaborate to create a larger hub that features ETH communities from all around the world!

General Update on the Process

  • The RFP is open until the end of August.
  • Shortly after that (early September), we’ll announce which Community Hub proposals have been accepted and will work with those teams to fine-tune their proposals and ensure their production needs are met.

We’ll keep you updated if we have any further questions.

Thanks again!

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Excited to see the collaboration between Asia, Latam and Africa ethereum communities in creating a space for Devcon attendees to learn about what’s happening in the Global Majority (GM) across the world

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Definitely supporting this!

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Hi, we would like to build as a team

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Very excited and strongly support this proposal

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supportive of this! let us know if there’s anything that our community in the Philippines can help with :slight_smile:

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Such a great initiative!
As a member of the LatAM community (Brazil), I’m super stoked about this, would love to see this come to fruition and to have a space to connect/cross-polinate with our global majority regions :heart_hands:

This also has a lot of potential for collaboration with the Regen Hub concept - connecting GM builders with local regen projects. :seedling:

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Hi @2thefinalfrontier2 That would be amazing! I will add the ETH Colombia as a part of team and mark that you guys are joining GM hub! :slight_smile: Let’s chat on TG? @iamsonge is my id.

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This is an interesting proposal, the Global Majority needs more collaboration and spotlight

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Thanks for support the initiative of a community hub for everything we’re building from Latam!

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As a member of the Road to Devcon supported community program operator in Asia, I would love to support the proposal and add value if possible

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Hi! It is fantastic to see this post get so much engagement :slight_smile:

Thank you so much for your patience as we review all the community hub proposals. A quick update: We have extended the deadline to submit a community hub application by one week, to the 7th of September 2024 (AoE time). You can now expect to hear from us about the outcome of your proposal by mid-September.

Thank you again! In the meantime, if you have any questions, please feel free to reach out to me.

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Chiming in here as one of the core contributors at SG Builders – we support this proposal, @songyi has put together an excellent plan & this feels very aligned with the ethos of DevCon.

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GM in the general context is relatable to the new wave of the industry/market movers (degens) this could be a whole lot beyond the current proposed ideas and its implementations! Excited to see what more is to come fr fr🚀

Plus the names I’m seeing on this team? Yele, Ayodeji, Yoseph, Songyi, and etc? Based af🔥

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It is time for crypto to revolve around GM!
Would love to contribute to this initiative for the Global Majority

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This is really a great way of collaboration.

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Would love to see this happen.
Devcon is the place to spend more time on the importance and impact of local community building.

We are building all of this for the people, so initiatives like these should be front and center.

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I enthusiastically support this proposal since the topic of including all stakeholders came up for us while hosting the Regen Hub at Devcon Bogota. Foregrounding the global majority would help us take a step in a prosocial direction together as a community.

If anything I would also recommend doubling the amount of passes available for contributors. Given the topic a transportation fund would be amazing.

This squad is also a extra solid in terms of having great track records of doing dope shit.

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