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Zuzalu Continuous Innovation Round (August 2023): 1,819.13 DAI, which supported the development of the SymbioDome concept.      Zuzalu Q1-Tech Round (January 2024): 1.9592 ETH, used to fund the SymbioTotem concept.      GG20 (2024): Approximately $200, used for finalizing the voice module of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar and seed-funding a dedicated web3 wallet.  These funds have been instrumental in acquiring hardware and software, paying contributors, and developing the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar.", "hidden": false, "question": "Funding Sources", "questionId": 1}, {"type": "number", "answer": "5", "hidden": false, "question": "Team Size", "questionId": 2}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Our project addresses the critical real-world problem of environmental degradation and the lack of meaningful representation for natural entities in decision-making processes. Specifically, we tackle the challenge of advocating for the rights of nature by developing AI-powered Environmental Avatars, such as the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar. These avatars serve as digital representations of natural entities like rivers and forests, enabling them to \"speak\" for themselves in legal, cultural, and policy contexts.\n\nThe Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, for example, helps to address the threats posed by environmental destruction in the Atlantic Forest region of Brazil. By integrating real-time environmental data and cultural knowledge, the AI-vatar acts as an advocate for the Rio Sagrado, raising awareness about the ecological importance of the river and the dangers posed by unplanned urbanization and infrastructure projects. This initiative has already catalyzed a community movement that seeks to recognize the river as a legal entity with inherent rights, a critical step towards protecting it from exploitation and destruction.\n\nMoreover, our project promotes the global adoption of similar AI-driven advocacy tools, empowering other communities to protect their natural environments. By providing an open-source toolkit and collaborating with international partners, we are fostering a broader movement that uses AI to give voice to the voiceless, ultimately contributing to the global effort to combat climate change and biodiversity loss.", "hidden": true, "question": "Impact statement - what real world problem do you solve and how", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Over the past two months, we have been thoroughly researching the best approach to expand the AI Avatar's tech stack into the web3 space. From the outset, Celo emerged as a standout option, not only because of its pioneering role in the ReFi movement but also due to its strong commitment to accessibility and inclusivity. These qualities align perfectly with the needs of the local communities we engage with, beginning with Rio Sagrado.\n\nOur plan is to deploy both the smart contracts for the SymbioToken and the accompanying dApp on the Celo blockchain. This dApp will allow users to interact with the SymbioToken contracts, manage their wallets, and participate in various activities supported by the AI Avatars. By using Celo\u2019s MiniPay app, we aim to make these interactions as seamless and accessible as possible, especially for non-technical users in the communities we serve.\n\nThe integration of Celo's MiniPay into our platform is a strategic first step towards the broader web3 expansion of the AI Avatars. It provides a user-friendly gateway for individuals to engage with blockchain technology, even if they are unfamiliar with the complexities of web3. By choosing Celo, we not only tap into an ecosystem designed for global accessibility but also contribute to the expansion of its use cases within real-world environmental and community-driven projects.\n\nThrough this integration, we hope to contribute to the growing adoption of Celo, bringing novel application scenarios to its community. Our ultimate goal is to increase real-world usage of Celo, reaching beyond tech-savvy users to engage everyday people who can benefit from a more inclusive and sustainable financial ecosystem.", "hidden": true, "question": "Celo leverage - how does your project contributed to the Celo ecosystem?", "questionId": 4}], "project": {"id": "0xa417f9f560f0ffe269bc92c0f98bd5464120f47b26eb00727ef93a271f7c5e11", "title": "SymbioToken - Towards Symbiocracy", "logoImg": "bafkreiaicn4culsfp6ghcufsisw7sewopmfgrlnfcagwenmfuvea6res6m", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreif73ju4md4f72uufvjuit6jclaey5frwvlchd5j5jsgxuqvksjbdy", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://kumu.io/emergir/sympoiesis#website/avatar-rio-sagrado", "bannerImg": "bafkreigczqv7gps47xz5fbvw7l2grii5jykzngdknmu6hadgxdjqrlqepy", "createdAt": 1721159255839, "userGithub": "dnllvrvz", "credentials": {}, "description": "## TL;DR\n\nSymbiocracy aims to integrate non-human voices into governance, leveraging AI and blockchain. The \"Rio Sagrado (Sacred River) AI-Avatar\", a SymbioTotem multimedia installation, represents this vision by interacting with its environment and the community. Moving into Phase 3, the project will shift from commercial LLM APIs to local LLMs and enable these systems to enter into smart contracts, rewarding sustainable actions with SymbioTokens. This initiative promotes the Rights of Nature and aims for autonomous eco-representatives.\n\n## Introduction\n\nWe at [Sympoiesis](http://sympoiesis.xyz/) understand that the more-than-human complexes that make up life on Earth have valuable contributions to governance related dynamics, even more so in the context of the ongoing climate crisis. That is, other living beings have much to say about the choices we collectively make - especially those that affect multiple lifeforms sharing the same space, even if temporarily. And they do so not just as simple cold data providers but as sentient and conscious members of their communities. The big challenge is that, with modernity, we have lost the habit of naturally perceiving, interacting with, and internalizing their voices.\n\nIn this sense, Symbiocracy represents a deep inquiry towards ways of engaging with the more-than-human pluriverse, in order to propose interfaces that enable sensory-intuitive interactions and interspecific deliberative processes. An inquiry that is ever more practically relevant in light of advances in the Rights of Nature movement, substantiated by attribution of legal personhood and rights to non-human beings in many different countries. Whanganui River and Urewera Forest in Aotearoa New Zealand, and Komi-Memen River in Brazil to name a few.\n\nThe paths for this new kind of engagement with the more-than-human pluriverse can be approached through various forms. At Sympoiesis we are currently exploring how modern science and technology can be a vehicle for such, and thus a medium for the human reconnection with their own nature.\n\n## SymbioTotem and Rio Sagrado AI-Avatar\n\n![avatar_rio-sagrado_profile](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Hkv7GHNdA.png)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar physical sculpture meshed with the River's waters)\n\n\n\nIn the official first Zuzalu Quadratic funding round we presented the [SymbioTotem](https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/symbiototem-by-sympoiesis) concept: \"a multimedia art/science installation designed to engage communities and facilitate interspecies interaction by interpreting and presenting local ecological data in a relatable manner.\" Since then, **the \"[Rio Sagrado AI-Avatar](https://kumu.io/emergir/sympoiesis#website/avatar-rio-sagrado)\" has been the primary proof-of-concept for the SymbioTotem**. Rooted in Zuzalu Montenegro, this political AI-vatar has been the test-ground for the consolidation of the technologies and community practices most appropriate to bootstrap such systems. And thanks to the financial support from the Zuzalu community we have been able to continue developing the project, which is currently on Phase 2 (Beta), featuring:\n\n- Continuous community engagement around the cultural and legal recognition of the River as an entity of right.\n- A LLM model instructed to represent the river informed by 30+ articles on the river watershed and dedicated sensors for live environmental monitoring. Accessed via:\n  - [Webpage interface](http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/)\n  - WhatsApp interface (+554196638496)\n  - Voice based in site interface via a physical sculpture (crafted by a native artist), that highlights the river's biodiversity and hosts the embedded computer system for the AI-vatar.\n\n![AI-vatar Pi copy](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/SkCoSB4dA.png)\n\nWith its modular and open-sourced codebase, the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's backbone can be easily adapted to other implementations. In fact, conversations have started towards other applications for rivers in Brazil and Aotearoa New Zealand. At the same time, we are especially eager to the moment in which we will be able to deploy such tech at a Zuzalu event, materializing our vision for the SymbioTotems to \"encourage the integration of environmental considerations in future Zuzalu events and the broader community, perhaps via the granting of citizenship status to nonhuman entities.\"\n\n## Towards Symbiocracy\n\nWith the ongoing Phase 2 (Beta) deployment of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem we are drafting next steps for Phase 3, whose intent is twofold:\n- Move away from API-based (especially commercial) LLM services towards local LLM approaches;\n- Enable such systems to enter into contracts with the community (both local and global), in benefit of the source entity(ies) they represent. These contracts would be intermediated through the \"SymbioToken\" - a name agnostic on-chain currency incentivizing ecological preservation and community engagement by rewarding participants for sustainable practices and contributions to environmental projects.\n\nOur infrastructural blueprint for this new phase is the following:\n\n![Avatar Phase 3](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/Bk4EUrNOA.jpg)\n\n\nAt a local (in-machine) level, The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem system would:\n- Store data (lists) for: 1) Community crowdsourced bounties in benefit of the River (e.g. cleanups and tree planting), with ideas gathered through the avatar interface itself; 2) Verified web3 wallet addresses of \"River Guardians\" - users who care about the River and have been onboarded into the project; 3) A history with past completed bounties. \n- Maintain a balance/accounting sheet with existing resources in Funds Basket for the Avatar\n- \nAt the Blockchain level, the system would:\n\n- Have a Smart Contract that both issues SymbioTokens (collateralized by Funds Basket) and distributes them to contributors's wallets as triggered by sensor related events. For this, our ongoing research is leading us towards the use of the Celo chain (due to value's alignment around Re-fi principles - and the existing [MiniPay](https://docs.celo.org/developer/build-on-minipay/overview) app infrastructure).\n\n- Have a Dapp interface through which \"River Guardians\" could check their balances, transact tokens to each other, withdraw to fiat, etc. For the development of both the smart contracts and the Dapp itself, we are considering the use of [Moralis](https://moralis.io/build/)' tech stack.\n\nWith all of this setup, we hope to develop a protocol for enabling on chain AI-vatars/SymbioTotems to perform autonomous information request<>action<>assessment event cycles on land, (or \u201cautonomous action-inquiry\u201d) as representations of the ecosystems' through which they are connected to.\n\n## Zuzalu Q2 Funding\n\nAny funding we receive through the Zuzalu Q2 round will be used towards R&D for Phase3, especially what concerns blockchain technologies, like the development of the SymbioToken Smart Contract and associated Dapp.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "sym-poiesis", "projectTwitter": "SymBioOrg"}, "recipient": "0x435CD42591cC503a909085c3d3d2899d17032F77"}}