Humberto Besso Oberto Huerta

<h2>Description</h2> We are producing an immersive video course guide where students will learn how to use and apply decentralized coordination tools and techniques, for the purpose of creating regenerative cities &amp; initiatives. We believe that urban commons combined with the power of cyber-physical organizations such as DAOs and the proper token engineering will efficiently run cities. A very early empiric experiment about this was run in 2018-2019 in the city of Chetumal. The result was getting 23 people from across the government, universities, NGOs, business chambers, and citizens coming up with projects to regenerate their city. However, coordination failed due to starting from a city perspective when neighborhoods had different interests, tech interfaces were difficult to use, and the team didn't have the proper knowledge, just the will.The lesson was learned and these people have gathered again, now with greater understanding of urban commons, human coordination technologies, and matured networks of public good and crypto-commoning activists. We have come up with a storyline (check it in <a href="https://www.notion.so/5ebd6cbdc0854b7baca6af3ffea015b0" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Spanish</a> and <a href="https://www.notion.so/f74543b23a92432fac69b2dcaa04b533" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">English</a>) and a plan to engage again citizens in regenerating their city. The aim is to film the training and support given to a cohort of activists and turn these videos into a film-series that facilitates others to do the same. The whole content will be opened as produced to enable the wider community to enrich it and fork it to their context. Read to the end to know our plans after finishing season 1. <h2>How?</h2> We will set up an extraordinary environment that facilitates learning through virtually immersive experiences that are fun, engaging, and easy to digest. This will be done in 3 ways:<ol><li>Producing a narrative-driven, engaging video course*. Using hyper-realistic avatars, in a simulation-based learning environment, where real-life challenges are given to those watching, designing, and built-in Unreal Engine.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Narrative: <a href="https://www.notion.so/f74543b23a92432fac69b2dcaa04b533" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.notion.so/f74543b23a92432fac69b2dcaa04b533</a></li><li class="ql-indent-1">Example of the environment: <a href="https://youtu.be/wSx472esQps" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://youtu.be/wSx472esQps</a></li><li>These episodes/lessons will be tested** before publishing them for free in both English and Spanish.</li><li>Setting up a <a href="https://chat.collective.tools/signup_user_complete/?id=e8swg7ksrp85txp9ckie795jzh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">digital community center</a> and a web page where students, subject-matter experts, and city-makers can:</li><li class="ql-indent-1">access all the resources, such as the episodes, the curricula, the mini-games, media used as educational support, and other derivatives***.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">interact with each other to work on regenerative city initiatives and experiment with new organizational/collaborative structures that facilitate the transition to post-capitalism****.</li></ol>Notes:*The training's content is a set of <a href="https://www.notion.so/20-session-course-018ae582b360419f803df85cb6b0b3b7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">20-sessions (delivered in 10 episodes)</a> that introduces the use of cyber-physical coordination. The challenges are related to claiming, regenerating, and maintaining local public spaces as well as on achieving a decentralized and self-sovereign identity with self-financial management, and personal cyber hygiene.**Testing the episodes on a local audience is crucial in making sure that the narrative is compelling, the content is clear, and the challenges are able to be solved without further intervention. This kind of testing will be done by releasing the content to a focus group that will watch the episodes and carries on the challenges. From the testing, we will improve what is needed to then release the videos globally.***The episode’s resources are open to being forked and modified by other activists to fit their local contexts.****The idea is that the OurVerse story and challenges naturally call people to form up a fandom. Social movements based on shared interests and fun have the power to quickly adopt new trends, which in this case is adopting regenerative and post-capitalistic lifestyles. <h2>When?</h2> April, 2022: Recruitment of subject-matter experts through a video-message from the Galactic Federation.<ul><li>In April, value-aligned communities will get notified about the film-series through a call to action video-message for recruiting subject-matter experts into co-creating the course’ content.</li></ul>May 22: Recruitment of local focus group to test the clarity and engagement of the content, as well as the complexity on completing the in-episode challenges.End of May, 2022: First two test episodes delivered.Early June, 2022: Episode testing with focus group.<ul><li>The first two episodes will showcase our ability to turn communications into immersive experiences that drive people into action. These will be tested on the focus group and improved upon before public launch.</li></ul>Mid June, 2022: Third episode production.July, 2022: Public launch of the series’ first episode.<ul><li>Every month afterwards a new episode will be released in English and Spanish.</li></ul>July, 2022: Tenth episode and end of the first season. Greater detail in: <a href="https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jlkNueBhqyfKwMef3kkQ3Vij3l1brKUS0tr7YGgCKDY/edit?usp=sharing" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jlkNueBhqyfKwMef3kkQ3Vij3l1brKUS0tr7YGgCKDY/edit?usp=sharing</a> <h2>Team</h2>The team members are passionate activists from Mexico and Europe, with a digital and physical reputation track that has enabled them to have leading roles in innovative communities globally. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCOnUc-tv5mGXzQ23UE1X3xQ" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Carlos Chablé</a>: Photographer and film director. He is a social change activist who pioneered in bringing non-commercial films to the Mexican South through <a href="https://www.facebook.com/arbolrojochetumal" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Árbol Rojo</a>. He also works independently, his last piece is <a href="https://afropunk.com/2020/01/preserving-the-culture-and-sounds-of-the-garifuna/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Garífuna</a>. <a href="https://my.metagame.wtf/player/annak" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Anna Kaic</a>: Creative, storyteller, and marketeer. She designed and created Proof of Humanity’s walkthrough <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrhdbC1tJmU" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">videos</a> gathering thousands of subscribers in a few weeks as well as thousands of views per video. She has managed and strategized social media accounts of web 3 projects such as PoH, MetaGame, and the Crypto-Commons Association, as well as from traditional organizations such as Istria Wine, Faculty of Economics at Rijeka University, Airfood OÜ. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rodolucero/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Rodolfo Ramos</a>: Instructional Designer at two top 10 universities in Mexico. He holds a broad experience in working with telecommunications companies and crafting immersive audio-visual productions (including virtual reality) in both Mexico and Japan. <a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernardo_Fern%C3%A1ndez" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bernardo Fernandez</a> aka BEF: <a href="https://twitter.com/monorama" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Bef</a>, is a Mexican writer, cartoonist and graphic designer that has been awarded several prizes, including the Mexican Novelist Prize “Otra vuelta de tuerca”, the Grijalbo Prize, the Silverio Cañada Memorial Prize of “the Semana Negra de Gijón”, the Ignotus Prize of the Spanish Association of Fantasy, Science Fiction and Horror. His works have been translated into English, French, German, Dutch, and Mandarin. <a href="https://www.crypto-commons.org/crypto-commons-association#team" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">HBesso31.eth</a>: Social entrepreneur leading this solarpunk and post-capitalistic training program. He has been experimenting social participatory approaches since 2014 through founding and orchestrating <a href="https://www.facebook.com/Agua.Basic/photos/1479757898991835" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">P2P-based services</a>. In Chetumal, he led a <a href="https://www.facebook.com/FaroChetumal/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">first iteration of regenerative city-making</a>. Magna cum laude in both MSc and MA of eGovernance and public sector innovation from KU Leuven. Alumni of the <a href="https://fundacionbotin.org/programas/fortalecimiento-funcion-publica-america-latina/red-alumni/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Programa para el Fortalecimiento de la Función Pública en América Latina</a>, <a href="https://member.commonsstack.foundation/members" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Trusted Seed of The Commons Stack</a>, <a href="https://hatch.tecommons.org" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Hatcher of the Token Engineering Commons</a>, <a href="https://my.metagame.wtf/player/hbesso31" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Recruiter Champ in MetaGame</a>, and Summoner of the <a href="https://ubi.opendoor.studio/teams/coordination-team/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UBI Blockchain Collective</a>. <a href="https://irb0gie.vercel.app/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">B0gie</a>: 3D designer and producer with more than 4 years playing and researching 3D design. He is creating all the scenarios and avatars to display within the film-series. Advisors: <a href="https://www.amberbrandner.com" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Amber Brandner</a>: Embodied Leadership facilitator advocating and co-creating the new economy. Amber opens spaces for inclusive culture to develop and collaborative innovations to emerge. As a consultant and mentor, she has helped countless founders find and tell their stories, connect to their "why", build community and take the next step on the path of creation. <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniel-haboush/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Daniel Haboush</a>: Founder, business analyst, and investor on post-capitalist projects. Daniel helps organizations align on scaling and transparency practices. He is passionate about immersive technology, global cultures and well-being. <h2>Budget</h2>One time thing:Equipment: $4,696 (mocap suit with face recognition mount and software + iPhone X for face recognition + holographic 3D projector).VR-settings: $500 (packs of VR artifacts).Landing page creation: $1000Subtotal: $6,196 Monthly:Salaries: $8,650 (7 people) x 10 episodes = $77,850Training expenses: $225 x 10 = $2,025Facilities: $350 (Studio rent + Utilities + Insurance of equipment + Security) x 10 = $3,150YouTube, Twitch, and Brave ads for the video: $180 x 10 = $1,620Total: $100,246<h2> </h2><h2>Monitoring and Metrics:</h2> Ask Me Anything (AMA). Once a month after the first episode goes out we will have AMA as a direct channel of communication with the community and the interested stakeholders. At this monthly event three things are to be shared: KPIs (below detailed), FAQ that the community has dropped in contact channels, updates from the projects participating in the episodes’s challenges. After these three sections, the community will have the space for asking anything. Each episode holds specific <a href="https://www.notion.so/20-session-course-018ae582b360419f803df85cb6b0b3b7" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">challenges</a> to be carried by its active participants. These challenges range from creating a wallet in to pushing a local policy proposal. Participants will send evidence of solving the challenge through a link within the episode’s channel in regard (at <a href="https://chat.collective.tools/signup_user_complete/?id=e8swg7ksrp85txp9ckie795jzh" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Mattermost</a>). The addresses sending a valid evidence will receive an NFT-badge with the episode’s name and challenge. Finally, the three KPIs to quantify impact of our activity are:<ol><li>Ten immersive video-episodes published in Spanish and English.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Number of views divided in consistent views, dropping rate, and new views across the entire video-series.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Number of reactions (likes) and shares in each video.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Assessment of the audience’ commentaries regarding the involvement into the story, the quality of the production, as well as the overall content’s quality.</li><li>Digital community center and web page.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Number of students registered, dropped, and graduated.</li><li>Impact achieved locally.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Number of urban commons emerged as DAOs.</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Before and after of regenerated public spaces (community’s update on their projects).</li><li class="ql-indent-1">Choice of web3 tools and techniques (survey at graduation).</li></ol> <h2> </h2><h2>Regenerative Business and Financial plan</h2> The above budget will enable us to produce the whole first season (10 episodes). However, the subsequent year of support to the graduated students and the planning of subsequent seasons is not included in the budget. We believe that commons and public goods should aim to be financially self-sustainable by offering alternative services that others enjoy without sacrificing free access to the main public good. It is our goal to proof that is possible and be the example of others to transition into a fruitful commons-based society. We are focusing on creating open, free and engaging educational content that accelerates societal’s transition to post-Capitalism through the eyes of diverse regenerative and cool perspectives such as SolarPunk, MoonPunk, and others. Thus, "The Solarpunk Awakening" will be the first of many immersive education seasons we will launch. To sustain our efforts we will offer immersive experience design services to other mission-oriented organizations, as well as embedded advertisements of other post-capitalist and regenerative allies (a degree of TEC on the wall, or the main character using a bridge to transfer funds from Near to Toucan protocol, etc). And most importantly, our income's surplus will be used to sustain a post-capitalist transition too, by streaming:<ul><li>5% to support the crypto universal basic income through the <a href="https://app.democracy.earth/#/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UBI Vaults</a> and funding initiatives coming from the <a href="https://ubi.opendoor.studio/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">UBI Blockchain Collective</a>.</li><li>15% to city regeneration initiatives happening within the local communities of graduated SolarPunks. These initiatives must be registered through Giveth.</li><li>The remaining will be put in the DAO's treasury to support the our purpose of reaching out billions with the knowledge and tools to become a regenerative interplanetary specie.</li></ul> <h2>Legal setup &amp; considerations for the project</h2>The equipment owned and content generated will be governed by its workers aka The Team through a legally recognized cyber physical org (Production Cooperative legally constituted in Chetumal, México with a digital twin as a guild in Near. The guild will be the main operator of the funds).The content will be created through <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Creative Commons 4.0</a>. <h2>Support us with three quick things:</h2>A heart ♥ on the project,Donating to it,and sharing it* wherever you can. These things will already be doing world-impact.*Si deseas compartir el proyecto con hispano hablantes, <a href="https://www.notion.so/b280416525a04b6e950fc3aa992b0a5c" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">aquí</a> está la traducción completa de esta propuesta, incluyendo la currícula académica en castellano :)

OurVerse and the SolarPunk awakening