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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc) ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "10", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "72", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project? ", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "dropdown", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? https://gitcoin.notion.site/GG18-Eligibility-cb4a5754c56043d4b3ed34eddbac261c?pvs=4", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Khepera DIO's project bio-converts human wastes [BioRegeneratives] into marketable commodities thus eliminating their contributions to ecological hazards. While mitigating GHG's methane and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "What previous Gitcoin grant rounds has this project been a part of? Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months.", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The sensors inside the D-LAV will weigh and test the BioRegenerative materials they come in contact with as well as determine the type of biological material.  The data collected by the sensors will be instantly uploaded to the blockchain for safe keeping. Our data computation system based on the Nillion platform will then calculate the amount of methane, as well as c02 mitigated.  These unalterable calculations will then be stored and shared via blockchain. This would make the Khepera D-LAV GHG mitigation method a top level system for sure verification in this space.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. This might be used in future impact reports ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "This is just the first phase of a series of revolutionary innovations Khepera DIO is endeavoring to produce to impact Climate Change. Such as a device that will speed-up Re-wilding efforts on land and the Earth's oceans. Along with a project that will reverse desertification within the Sahel region of the African continent. The Gitcoin grant could help to make this happen.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? Anything you'd like to add that may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "dropdown", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? 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We formally were known as a DAO until our recent exposure to the Gitcoin DIO essay from August 29, 2022 revealed our activities fit better under the DIO banner. \n\n\n\nThe problem: \n\nThe hidden connection between outmoded sanitation \n\nsystems, climate warming green house gasses and neglected tropical diseases.  200 year old methods of landfill based garbage accumulation and sewer system/pit latrine usage unleashes huge amounts of methane gas into the atmosphere. This super potent green house gas has been largely neglected in the quest to mitigate climate change, though methane is over 80 times more destructive than c02. Even though, according to the United Nations Environment Programme, curbing this GHG is our best bet for reaching our climate protection goals:\n\n\n\n\u201cCutting methane is the strongest lever we have to slow climate change over the next 25 years and complements necessary efforts to reduce carbon dioxide. The benefits to society, economies, and the environment are numerous and far outweigh the cost. We need international cooperation to urgently reduce methane emissions as much as possible this decade\u201d said Inger Andersen, Executive Director of UNEP.\u201d\n\n\n\nAnother largely unknown connection between outdated sanitation methods and intestinal parasites is leaching from pit latrines in the developing world. Millions suffer and die yearly due to this phenomena, which is being tackled via treatment and not by cutting off the source of the problem: outdated methods of dealing with human waste.\n\n\n\nOur solution:\n\nOur patent pending invention is expected to significantly enhance the well being of people worldwide. While also making a big contribution to the mitigation of greenhouse gases. This invention is called the Detritivore Lavatory Bioregenerative Hygiene System - D-LAV for short. For the past several years we have been developing a device that utilizes biological agents called detritivores to consume human bioregeneratives (wrongly labeled toilet \"waste\" ) and food scrap leftovers that would otherwise go into toxic landfills. \n\nThe primary detritivore insect we have chosen are called black soldier fly larvae - the most effective consumers of decaying biological material known.  Utilizing these insects inside the D-LAV replaces out-dated and highly problematic sanitation systems that leave decaying biological materials to emit greenhouse gases. The main GHG we are targeting is methane, which is more than 80 times more damaging than C02 to our atmosphere over the first couple of decades after release. According to United Nations climate experts mitigation of methane gas is the most effective thing we can do to stop global warming.\n\n\nTechnological innovation to produce a transportable prototype:\n\n We have created basic prototypes with results similar to the research of many others, on the capacity of black soldier fly larvae to consume human bioregeneratives. With a goal of protecting the operations of the D-LAV and detritivores, while making it transferable for others to observe. Khepera DIO will be utilizing a portion of the Gitcoin grant procedes, towards an artificial intelligence driven 3-d animation to create our D-LAV prototype. Once this has been completed and distributed to the appropriate persons and institutions of interest, Khepera will then proceed to the 3-D printing of D-LAV prototypes.\n\nFor those seeking direct and actual video proof of the capacities of these insects to devour biological materials see various YouTube videos. Here's a sample; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyZflghuzFI\n\n\n\nWhere this will be deployed:\n\nKhepera's D-LAV and associated projects will be introduced first in the Global South as a means to compensate for widespread lack of hygiene and sanitation facilities. We have chosen The Gambia west Africa because they reached out to us after our United Nations presentation.\n\n\n\nBrief Logistics:\n\nOur plan calls for perfecting the prototype and tech stack, then the rolling out of a test pilot in West Africa in The Gambia. We will eventually be incorporating sensor technology into the D-LAV. As well as utilizing blockchain and a tradable NFT economy, very similar to the model outlined in last year\u2019s Gitcoin essay. This inspiring article called for a DIO project to galvanize forces effectively in the climate change battle, which is precisely what Khepera DIO has been developing over the past 6 years. But our economic model is even more innovative because Khepera DIO has discovered the value (now wasted) in bioregenerative matter. We have devised a means to mine this value via the D-LAV and will use blockchain tech to share and distribute it.\n\n\n\nDetailed logistics:\n\nKhepera is seeking $1 million dollars for a year of activity via this proposal.\n\nGoals: D-LAV finalization, blockchain tech stack development, staff payments and rollout of 1 BIOREGENATIVE HYGIENE COMMUNITY BUNDLE (BHCB) in The GAMBIA, West Africa. A local BHCB involved a local school, a number of local households and a number of public facilities utilizing the D-LAV, along with associated facilities and local workers.\n\nThe funding goals breakdown:\n\nD-LAV prototyping via artificial intelligence and 3D printing - $75,000\n\nBlockchain tech stack developing- $150,000\n\nKhepera\u2019s staff and business overhead - $150,000\n\nD-LAV's for 1000 families - $200,000 (BHCB)\n\nLocal Gambian BIOREGENATIVE essentials processing facility- $150000 (BHCB)\n\nLocal Gambian workers - $100,000 (BHCB) \n\n Travel - $75,000\n\nPromotion - $50,000\n\nBlockchain Education Curriculum - $25,000\n\n$25,000 miscellaneous\n\n\n\nDetails on the Khepera BIOREGENATIVE HYGIENE COMMUNITY BUNDLE. This bundle will include:\n\nSCHOOL FACILITIES:\n\n6-10  DLAV BIOREGENATIVE HYGIENE STATIONS PER SCHOOL\n\nBHB PUBLIC BLOCKS:\n\n25 local BIOREGENATIVE HYGIENE BLOCKs consisting 50 private male and female DLAV stations. All stations would produce bioregenative essentials that would feed a ring of flowers surrounding the stations. The ring of flowers and DLAVS would surround a combination food crop and fish farming facility fed by the BIOREGENATIVE essentials created by the community. This food would be provided as cost to the local community and provide plants for supplement production to the local community BIOREGENATIVE essentials logistics and processing facility.\n\n\n\nIntroduction of anew economic paradigm:\n\nThis shared value, along with carbon credits generated from GHG emission mitigation, will be the basis for what we call a \"blockchained bioregenerative income\" (BBI) model. Derived from the good health of people instead of a basic income scheme handed down from government derived fiat currencies, the BBI will at last align the well being of people with the economic well being of nations. \n\nThis income generated by the schools would go toward paying educational costs. The income generated by the families would go toward them as BBI and for growing the system into new communities.\n\n\n\nKhepera's strong allies:\n\nTaking advantage of alliances we have formed with the United Nations and several Hollywood celebrities - like award winning director Bill Duke and actor & former UN Goodwill ambassador Danny Glover - Khepera DIO is optimistic that we can generate the attention needed to get the word out. \n\nWe have already formed a relationship with The Gambia where we have been invited to bring our tech.  We plan to pilot in schools, medical care facilities and carefully chosen Gambian communities as a proving ground for later national, then worldwide deployment. \n\n\n\nKhepera's media promotional plan:\n\nMr. Bill Duke, one of Hollywood\u2019s most respected acting and directing talents, has offered to do a documentary about this proposed pilot that we hope will generate interest to further fund the worldwide rollout. As a blockchain/tech enthusiast himself, we feel this award winning director would properly showcase this project as the ultimate utility for crypto and REFI in a professional, far reaching manner.\n\n\n\nThe team:\n\n We are blockchain enthusiasts, scientists, artists and inventors.  \n\n\nThe Khepera team:\n\nGregory Walker - founder and inventor of the DLAV. Formally New York representative of the  Internet Of People blockchain platform.\n\nRichard Nelson - Multiple Patent holding inventor of Solaroof technology.. Former NASA scientist with a focus on closed loop waste regeneration for outer space survival.\n\nAubrey Zang, design and chemical consultant  with PhD in electrochemistry.\n\nDaud GeAzan - blockchain enthusiast and Khepera marketing director.\n\nJohn L Gray - design, visual artist and co marketing director.\n\nShai Hankins - Khepera business management \n\n\n\nWe have included our presentation from a United Nations event where several representatives from African nation states stated their eagerness to work with us to roll out our \"Bioregeneration For Education\" efforts. They were especially excited by the prospect of educational institutions funding themselves via value(s) derived from student and faculty bioregeneratives.  All schools where we deploy our \"Bioregeneration For Education\" program will receive curriculum packages  about blockchain and our Bioregenerative  Hygiene Micro-Farming methods. While both students and teachers will receive bioregenerative rev shares in crypto. \n\nThis will further enhance this project as a springboard for mass adoption in the Global South. We have included a video \"white paper\" outlining the tech and our longer term climate mitigation goals. This video also shows that the basic technology for the D-LAV has been successfully vetted by the United States patent office and a U.S. science agency.  \n\nKhepera DIO's Bioregenerative technologies have also been given the nod by former NASA scientist Mr. Richard Nelson, a multiple patent holder himself who is on the Khepera DIO team.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "kheperascadao8"}, "recipient": "0x05c43c5FE8f1FF499aC2F16DC593e65C78f57a52"}}