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The Why and the how
We provide an applied Web3 introductory course, through which students will set up a DAO and run a proposal process with the goal of increasing their influence in the school’s governance system.
Further benefits would include:
- Ideation and creation of inter-school projects
- Implementation of high impact projects within the local community
- Involvement of other categories of stakeholders within the governance process
The WHY:
- Empowerment over process of governing their school.
- Communication of ideas
- Debating
- Proposing
- Voting
- Communicating to school leadership demands/needs
- Ownership of:
- Of the org
- Of the data produced
- Their ideas, proposals, output
- Governance process
- Opportunity
- Learning to use cutting edge tech that aims to make a difference in students lives
- Entrepreneurial opportunities for students to design and establish sub-DAOs to tackle student/community needs via student run small businesses
Differentiating features:
- Decentralisation
- Resistance to censorship and oppression (immutability)
- Privacy
- Transparent decision making (students taking a lead, showing an example to management)
- Community - Learn from this history and also from others using the system (blockchain immutability) - global library of ways to address common themes
- Leading edge governance tech - Ability to trial and choose from many different voting approaches, one man one vote, quadratic voting, etc
- Not for profit and open source
The Product:
- Ability to create a customizable modular/composable DAOs - Blockchain
- Ability to mint NFTs, may or may not be soul bound
- Ability to gate access based on NFT
- Device agnostic single app
- Interconnector hub for different schools to communicate
- Educational programs (Learning Library, in person/group training, events, support, gamification, video courses, peer learning groups, certifications)
User stories:
Who: Students (possibly teachers or even parents)
What: DAO Governance
Why: Empowerment
Students will learn how to set up a DAO, make and vote on proposals to effect change in their school/communities, thus empowering them to learn and master self-governance
Students will be able to learn about cutting edge web3 technology so that they can set up a decentralized governance system for their school and be empowered in the decision making process of the school (and eventually their community) while using a tool that guarantees full ownership of the whole process
Reasons/Goals for project:
- Educate - teach kids/teachers/parents about web 3 and DAO’s
- Ultimately to have as an elective in a class room ie. politics, economics classes
- Give students and teachers an interest in self governance through the use of DAO tech
- Self-organise
- Potential to gain agency
- Communicate as one voice with school management
- Learn how to debate proposals
- Develope error culture
- Decentralise decision-making at local level to strengthen current governance systems, by increasing participation