Refugee DAO Meeting 2 e072ce2b6f7b459eb2587f6c62b130e5
Refugee DAO Meeting 2
Attendees: Incan denza, fmurphy, Fabs Martins Event time: February 7, 2023 Type: Brainstorm
Facilitator: Fintan
Secretary: Paolo
Participants: Fabs, Paolo, Fintan, Ricardo
Possible Funding sources:
- Germany: Local govt, Regional govt.
- Foundations
- EU (?)
- Crypto
Ricardo Communication:
- Hard to get officially involved
- Probably would not have bandwith to lead the project
What type of company:
- NGO
- DAO
They mirror each other but they will allow us to access different fund streams Governance: 1 person 1 vote
How to reward contribution:
- Be as transparent as possible with each other.
- Show each other during each meeting what’ve done. Including the hours worked in a database.
- If we get funded we pay ourselves retroactively, trying to keep a long runway for the project
Ricardo: realistically 5 hours a week at the beginning
Merging the School and Refugee project?
MVP:
- Focus on Ukraine (no visa issue, already offering funds)
- Let’s form a DAO to help them self-organize
- Forum and learning platform
What can they vote on:
- Finding their top needs
- Visa
- Work
- Accomodation
- Overall integration
- Leisure
- School
- Health
- Language
- Help small business (micro credit)
- Remittances
- Legal
Focus on what ngos are not providing: Work / Micro Credit / Leisure
- Accesso to a focus group (signaling vote)
- Profiling has to be considered: Best profile: Ukrainian women that speak relatively good English
GZA: refugee in shelter getting paid 80cent per hour to help in what the shelter need. Up to 50 refugees per shelter
What is our weakness: - We don’t have a touch point among refugees - Profiles (very different situations among men/women ; underaged/elderly etc.)
Our product:
- Education on web3
- Use web3 to thrive (self-organize)
- Services that can be uild on top of that
To do list:
- Identify someone that can act as a translator (Paolo)
- Get in touch with some people on the field (Ricardo)
- Make a list of questions that we want to validate for the MVP (Paolo, Fabs, Fintan)
- List of potential funding sources (Fintan)
- Get in touch with UkraineDAO (Paolo)
- Check in eventual streams of funds from the Netherlands (Fabs)