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", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Since the prior season, we deployed some of the tools we had built for smallholders, launched ReFi pilot projects in Kenya, began the collection of baseline data, and developed new tools for visualizing on-chain carbon data on IPFS. We have also started validating carbon projects for Open Forest Protocol using some of the technology we built last year.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share any new updates or milestones from the prior season.", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "We are currently working on smart contracts to power our decentralized MRV network. At the same time, we are building AI models for automated carbon monitoring.", "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 has not been covered?", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "hidden": true, "question": "Does 50% of your team reflect the diversity of the community your project serves with a particular emphasis on including women, Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPoC), individuals with disabilities, and members of the LGBTQ+ community?", "questionId": 11, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "mbIFxQALf7akOXOa920GW2h46odHDU1H0n0cZ0nrv3I=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "04879f49dd98a1b0937a8800a1e6683fb9f2712fdbda62359609b1b0a17a43c97df0a069e76bb22a99cca3a17562d5102001a6adaeb0f2f8cc2b3d4aaf07e555a5eec05f2dd6e727181ee73eb1f54991b23236115a5acfca02f06a84528c08b2405c6968114f810fcaf50cfcb31494f563f6502e2fde3e8c3b1237948495123b0000000000000020753cecd77127956dbbe181865b8df9d037505269fbe4db932798c81c3e492d6f0dbce2d7624e97a5c9778a593f934f86"}}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:158", "title": "Shamba DMRV and Ecological Data Oracle.", "logoImg": "bafkreih6jg7hvrrgme7jnsuaaonyxeioroqnm7wldmqxg7hl4ra6qjjqja", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreidlzkjksgmr2myxksvpgmw5hufl2xuijz4ynsjujzydisgtomqsyq", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://shamba.network", "bannerImg": "bafybeicrnxnuoqqv6ic7jd22lhleskapej2jxrtkpn6hgcqm2jvhcmxv6a", "createdAt": 1673525126583, "userGithub": "kenGIS", "credentials": {}, "description": "## About Shamba\n\nAt Shamba we build systems to on-chain climate data and provide digital MRV for the carbon market. \n\nThe DMRV solutions we build are designed to be cost-effective and accessible to small carbon projects.\n\nOur goal is to mobilize millions of smallholders in the Global South into climate action while also helping them with climate adaptation.\n\nWe also provide high-quality ecological data to the web3 ecosystem to drive climate innovation.\n\n## The tools we build\n\nWe build solutions that leverage satellite data, ground truthing data, machine learning, and AI to monitor and verify ecological impact.\n\nWe also build tools that connect to this DMRV backend and enable smallholders to create carbon credits through small projects.\n\nThe solutions we are building not only drive accessibility of the voluntary carbon market but also unlock new climate innovations.\n\n\n## Updates since the last round\n\n1. Funds from previous rounds have supported us to kickstart real-world testing of the DMRV solutions we have developed. \n\n1. We successfully rolled out a ReFi tool we were developing for smallholders. \n\n1. Work on the collection of datasets needed for carbon project baselines is also ongoing.\n\n1. We also advanced our work on decentralized MRV and developed a solution for how on-chain carbon data can be easily verified by non-technical audiences.\n\n1. We began validating carbon projects for one of our partners, Open Forest Protocol.\n\n## Pilots in Kenya\n\nWe have several ReFi pilots launched across Kenya and smallholders are currently being onboarded.\n\nThrough these pilots we are deploying and testing the various tools we have developed.\n\n[An example tree nursery pilot in Central Kenya] (https://twitter.com/KennedyWNganga/status/1645702619476766720?s=20)\n\nWe are also working on DMRV baselines through the acquisition of remote sensing and ground-truthing data.\n\nThe pilots in Kenya are needed for the refinement of our DMRV technology to meet local needs while also being useful in other bioregions.\n\n## Current focus area\n\nWe are working on our AI-based tools for the automated monitoring of carbon stocks from satellite data.\n\nOur work over the last couple of months has shown us the major role that AI has to play in DMRV systems.\n\nWe are working on testing new AI models to process satellite data and monitor carbon stocks cheaply and at scale.\n\nFunds raised through this grant round will help us continue building our solution (particularly AI-based carbon monitoring agents).\n\n> Support us to continue building DMRV and especially to develop open AI-based tools for the job. Back our grant today.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "shambadynamic", "projectTwitter": "shambanetwork"}, "recipient": "0x86579EBcE57605929Da73d8cE17f40960c3b052a"}}