TL;DR: Ayllu has a vision of becoming a pop-up city and coexistence experiment network for Latin America, focused on decentralized governance, network societies, and public goods, emphasizing systemic change and social impact, in partnership with diverse regional and local stakeholders and co-hosted by native Ethereum communities with the support of Ashoka.
<aside> 🌿 Ayllu is a word in both the Quechua and Aymara languages referring to a network of families and to community in harmony with nature. This is at the core of our compromise with the Latin diaspora and its local roots in the Americas.
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There was once a fabled crypto nation, a land of faux democracy and hyperinflation, where once conquistadores got lost seeking El Dorado, and where the turn of the century saw every possible aspect of the human condition slowly collapse but the ability to dream (we call this “realismo mágico”), paving the way for every use case cypherpunks could ever imagine to be tested, from governance to finance, digital identity to privacy, where folks dreamt of transparency from illegally extracted commodities to humanitarian help, where the crypto mining lungs of the Americas were once filled, and where an appetite for risk is still part of our diet.
⁉️ What can we learn from the Venezuelan story? You are invited to find an answer to this question alongside us.
We plan to host a pop-up city and coexistence experiment in Caracas, with its focus on governance/network societies, and an emphasis on wellbeing, systemic change, and social impact, in partnership with local and international NGOs and grassroots organizations, private sector groups of the entrepreneurial ecosystem, and the Ethereum Venezuela community. The program’s focus will have a hands-on approach at the core with co-designed tracks alongside attendees matched with local leaders for guidance in maximizing impact. We believe a deep dive into these topics will greatly benefit Zuzalu’s network.
The Q1 QF grant’s funds are being used to set up operations, develop our brand, launch our online presence, and continue to expand on the ideas presented here in an open way, allowing the community to take part in the design and have a say from day one in the programming, and choosing the specific location and dates of the gathering.