Empower

• The school experience is sub-optimal for students because decision-makers are not hearing all voices impacted by their decisions
Lack of inclusion and transparency in decision making processes
Limited say/power in decision making for majority of school students
School politics are a “popularity contest”
Decision making is centralized
Administrations don’t include students in decisions
Student body as core stake holders are frequently not consulted

• Schools don’t have web3 learning programs

• Empower student groups to have their voices heard
Organize
Design and build a DAO (Decentralized Autonomous Organization) platform to allow student groups to organize and make proposals
Educate
Educate these groups on how to organize, govern their community, use this platform to achieve the changes they desire and how to best interact with decision makers.
Connect
Create an ecosystem of schools around the world who can share learnings, collaborate on projects and support each other’s development

• Notes
Education
Consult with student bodies of schools to understand local context and needs
Learning program to educate students about decentralized technologies that can enable student empowerment, inclusion, and transparency
Technology solutions
A platform that enables students to organize as a unified body where they can collectively make decisions and work together to achieve common goals
This technology has the potential to revolutionize the way schools are run by enabling a more democratic and decentralized decision making process
Learning platform where students can join cohorts of students across the world to learn together about decentralized governance using web3 technology

• Empowering:
A student group sets up their school on our platform (creating a DAO)
A user opens a QR code, joining the platform with their school’s email. He/She is automatically associated with the correct organisation and all permissions to be able to join the discussions, create proposals, vote and engage the community.
From there they have options: they can enter the learning hub and learn, in a gamified way, more about the technology behind our platform, the governance systems and much more. They can enter their SchoolDAO hub and create proposals, add to the discussion and vote. Finally, they can also enter the Connect Hub where they can reach out to all other organisations on our platform to join or connect with other student groups around the world.

• Voices Heard:
The members of the SchoolDAO have a choice about how they want to engage the different stakeholder groups. By Default, all proposals are forwarded to the email of the school principal, but SchoolDAO members may chose to nominate representatives or adopt any other system they wish.

• Ownership of their voices:
Students own their DAO. Therefore, it is their responsibility to chose the parameters of the organisation as well as having the benefits of ownership. Fundamental choices, such as type of voting, will be decided by them with support from the learning program.

• Learn about web3 and decentralized organization (DAOs)

• Join cohorts of students to learn with and from other students across the world

• Library of on-demand courses

• Live courses

• Setup your school DAO

• Invite the student body create a wallet (or use their school or personal email) and join the DAO

• Discuss and debate issues on the forum

• Create proposals to drive change

• Execute a vote on the proposals

• Share the results with the student body and school administration

• ***Should contain learnings/validation from POC****

• a POC was run with students at a Charter school in LA.

• We are in contact with some other schools in Ireland and the USA

• How have we validated the market? Granada Hills High School

• Are there other solutions out there that compare to? Not that we know of

• Are there similar things that schools are trying to do already? Nothing mainstream or that has gained traction

• And we have talked to X of people at Y schools

• Action item: research - find data, anecdotes, etc.

• How do we define the market?
Starting with English Speak countries with a focus on US, Canada, the UK and Ireland. Later to be expanded to other markets.
Want no. of highschools and number of students aged between 15-18

In the USA there are 26,727 High schools


Students at High Schools (15 to 18)
USA (2021 data) and 15.1 million students in public and 1.54 million in private High School in the 19/20 academic year.

Canada 3,419 High Schools and 1.6 million high school students (92% are in public schools)



UK 4,190 Secondary Schools and 4.1 million students



Ireland 723 Secondary Schools and 200,000 students


Market size is:
Number of Schools - 34,000
Student Population - 22 million
Parents of the above students
Theoretically there would be 26,727 parent associations
All teachers of these schools
Theoretically there would be 26.727 teacher associations

587,684 high school teachers currently employed in the USA


All administration members of the schools

• Total addressable market - how many school globally? Europe + US?

• Student population size:

• Parent population size (2nd potential user group):

• Teacher population size:

• Administrator population size:

• Serviceable addressable market - how much of that target market can we actually service?

• Serviceable obtainable market - what we are going after.

• What is our product
A single interface WebApp for users to interact with all our offers
Leveraging the best of web2 and web3 technologies to provide censorship resistance, ease of use, privacy, decentralization, user agency and ownership
User customized
Web3 onboarding made easy and later customizable
email sign on: wallet creation and permissions setup automatically, experiencing web3 without the drawbacks of Wild West web3
later users are able to make their DAO require secure, self-custodial wallets opening the entire spectrum of Web3
Limited web3 knowledge onboarding: users are able to start participating in web3 on day one if they know how to create a username and password, then build their knowledge over time.
Comprehensive, gamified learning platform
users will chose what they want to learn from:
Web3
Governance
DeFi
NFTs
Political History
Latest developments in web3 such as DIDs, AI, etc.
This will empower users to make the best educated choices to have their voices heard

• Technical Specifications
Specifically we are looking to adopt open source and proprietary code for:
System integration
Sign on and user management
Custodied Web3 wallets and noncustodial wallet connection
Discussion
Learning platform
Blockchain voting and interaction
Servers
Final product

• What is the product and why is it awesome
Learn how to navigate web3
Limited web3 knowledge onboarding: users are able to start participating in web3 on day one if they know how to create a username and password, then build their knowledge over time.
Create Student owned DAOs
Create your project/proposal, debate, vote and enact
Create art, science, and music NFTs and sell them on the marketplace to fund your proposal

• How do we break into this non-existing market?
Early stage growth:
Direct outreach to schools by core team members until Product Market Fit is achieved
Job/career day fairs
To scale:
Partnerships with:
School districts
3rd party tech providers
NGO’s and foundations that promote democracy initiatives ( https://code.org , https://eudec.org/about-us/who-we-are/, https://www.youthactivismproject.org/ https://www.stuvoice.org/ )
Student - Ambassador program
Internships - word of mouth student to student spreading to other schools

• Other notes - not sure if they belong here:

• Our solution pulls on emotions of users and community
Fears - my (my kids) school is not well funded and I have no way to fix that or change schools
Competition/pride - We can sell our schools creative and innovative assets on the market
Compassion - I can buy NFTs and the money goes to supporting education

• What else is already out there?
Capterra.com
votesforschools.com
Google educate, apply classroom
List of solutions in the education space (voting apps, proposal apps, web3 education solutions)

• Why us?
1st to market - we will be the first org to launch a web3 governance app designed for school students, with an eye on opening this up to all school stakeholders, should the demand present itself
Again: Limited web3 knowledge onboarding: users are able to start participating in web3 on day one if they know how to create a username and password, then build their knowledge over time.
One platform solution, integrating:
Learning
Governing
Connecting
Benefits of web3 and their appeal to the student body, including:
Decentralization
Ownership
Transparancy
Best of Web2: a more mature technology which will provide further:
Ease of use
Accessibility
Familiarity
Students are part of the team allowing us to best deliver to their needs
Understanding of student needs, with student body partnerships to advise in the design process

• Who are we?

• Quotes from schools / teachers / students that want this.

• Email and web3 wallet onboarding/whitelisting

• Gameified onboarding experience

• Forum to enable:
Posting and debating proposals
Bullying and abuse safety features

• Proposal voting

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:43 PM



We can expand this to teachers unions also… its like peas and carrots with student DAOs. Maybe here is where we mention that

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:39 PM



Lets think about seeing if we can add some more people to our team. Not as founders but as advisors… maybe some teachers, maybe a heavy hitter name in web3. How to compensate if any is needed is another topic but it would be nice to have some names that help push this.

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:39 PM



Do we only have Granda Hills?

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:40 PM



Does not make sense for grant money. We are not going to get 500k from a VC in angel round, the ROI is not there .

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:42 PM



I am sure we can rope in Nigeria with Blockchainlore and NZ with Renee

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:08 PM



I want to make sure there is no confusion between technologies we are going to adopt (already made software) and things we are going to build

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:33 PM



As I added this above, I think this is a huge value add to any network. It is a way to bring web2 to web3 that is not being done. Most platforms require you to know it all on day one

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:37 PM



Added this as a Competitive Advantage over other web3 voting solutions

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:13 PM



The user is not going to customize our product… They can customize the visibility or use of features maybe which makes it a customized user experience. Are we saying we will custom create options for DAOs? Like program in features for them?

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:11 PM



We need to specify “gamified”. This term is used a lot but really what is gamification? Flying through stars in a spaceship while learning… or answer questions and when you get it right you hear a “Hooray” sound?

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:29 PM



Added

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:30 PM



moved voting to here from its own bulletpoint

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:31 PM



I guess an OS can be open source but we are not going to allow people to connect to our servers to look around so the fact it is open source is a mute point

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:08 PM



Isn’t this everything above?

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:17 PM



Added this

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:34 PM



Added this

• Brent Jul 21, 2023, 6:28 PM



Great… I can’t wait to see an entire section on the Kingdom of Luang Prabang as I can not find much information about it prior to the creation of the French consulate in 1885…. amongst all other unrelated political history we are going to shove down their throats to deter them away from the platform.