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Digitalia is seeking many sources of funding from other crowdfunding campaigns and web3 grants, influential private investors in network states/startup Cities, corporate partners and local brands who see direct value in sponsoring the project, public grants from the local administrations, the Italian govt, and finally raising money from the ticket sales. Also, during Digitalia, an incubator for projects will be set up as a source of economic sustainability for Digitalia\u2019s future with a clear ROI strategy.  Digitalia tracks are focused on:  1. Revaluation and Regeneration of Italian Culture and Territory (Surrounded by a Holistic Healthy Lifestyle Approach). 2. Innovative Environments for Entrepreneurs, Businesses and Schools.  3. Public Goods in the Era of New Smart Cities & Network States. 4. Crypto and Web3 Tools for Digital Innovation, AI, and STEM R&D.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "![alt text](https://i.imgur.com/YQ62VSn.png)\nDigitalia has a 'build-first' approach and is forming a community of talented builders aligned by different work groups and topics. We prioritize the quality of participants over the quantity and establish clear and defined outcomes upfront. \nWe want to use Digitalia as an opportunity to gain insight into Italian culture by connecting an international community of digital nomads and local digital innovators with local businesses and communities by sharing different experiences together, and positively impacting each other's development, incubating and accelerating startups and projects.\nWe see potential outputs in services and products such as digital consulting and apps for national usage (citizens and communities) in one or many of the following categories: digital identity, payments, education, events, smart city initiatives, and AI.\nHere are some KPIs we will look at for Digitalia.\n1. N. of Users of Zuzalu.city Infrastructure and Software, ZK Apps, or Similar.\n2. General Economic Impact and Number of Jobs Positions and Projects Created (Direct and Indirect) and their Metrics of Success.\n3. N. of Apps Created, Tested, and Adopted during and after Digitalia.\n4. N. of Projects Incubated.\n5. Capital Reinvested and Capital of Digitalia Internal Circulating Economy\n6. N. of Local and International Businesses Involved, Consulted and N. of Partnerships formed.\n7. N. of Overall Attendees and Cities/Countries of origin.\n8. N. of Workshops, Experiences, and Activities during Digitalia.\n9. N. of Community Members (Telegram and other Groups) and its Continuity & Vitality.\n10. Produce a Documentary and a Playbook to share best practices and inspire similar efforts in Italy and track the Social Media and overall Media Engagement from these and more Digitalia Contents.\n11. Individual and Community Wellbeing: Tracking the overall Impact of the experience on Happiness, Intellectual Curiosity, Social Engagement with Meaningful Connections, and willingness to have a more Positive Impact on the world.\n12. N. of Digitalia Spin-Off Activities Inspired in Italy.", "hidden": false, "question": "How do you measure the impact of your project? Please provide examples and/or standard metrics. ", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Firstly, we acknowledge Zuzalu 2023 as the main inspiration to turn an event into a longer-term builders village. As a Zuzalu spin-off, Digitalia aims to use the village-event format to create value for a local community and the socio-economic landscape of the country of Italy by bringing digital public goods to life.\nWe see Digitalia as a contribution and continuation to Zuzalu by leveraging the software Zuzalu.city and Zupass. Digitalia will be listed on Zuzalu.city and the ticketing and ZK check-ins will be powered by Zupass. We see great value in having the opportunity to keep testing the tools and experimenting with new use cases that can emphasize the Zuzalu principles through his digital infrastructure, and consequently create new value for Zuzalians to benefit from them after us. \nWe hope that Digitalia's learnings will add overall value and a diverse perspective on experiences gained during the 2024 archipelago of Zu-Villages worldwide, and can contaminate other Zuzalians. We want Digitalia to become a model for future similar spin-offs, aiming not only to establish Italy as an attractive business hub for Zuzalians but also to welcome more digital nomad communities.\nIn an era of economic uncertainty in Italy, Digitalia can act as another example to gain experience by testing Zuzalu as a new operating system for future civilization models to thrive, providing a model for encouraging solutions, decentralized leadership, and optimism for a more sustainable future.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is this valuable to the Zuzalu community?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "N/A", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD (N/A in case of no funding)", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "None", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "![alt text](https://i.imgur.com/HbveIF5.jpeg)\n- Francesco Vincenti started developing Digitalia after attending ZuConnect in Istanbul and then inviting Zuzalu community members to speak at web3 events in Italy.\n- Digitalia's core team, which has direct experience in more than 50 web3 events in Italy with a total of 7000+ participants, is not completed yet and is progressively expanding and welcoming onboard more members. We also have many advisors. The funding will help pay for the team\u2019s time and efforts.\n- The location scouting process has already started and the funding will provide a further boost to cover travel expenses and accelerate conversations to partner with local stakeholders.\n- A first total budget estimation is done, with even inputs from many core Zuzalians. The team is also aware of the main challenges such as logistics, location scouting, security, bureaucracy, and budget prediction. Strategies and consultant teams are being developed to solve these issues successfully.\n- A large network has been already informed about the possibility of Digitalia, and there has been favorable interest. On Jan 13th, the project was announced publicly at our preparative \u201cNetwork State Meetup\u201d in Milan to 200+ people. [link](https://twitter.com/fravincenti1/status/1747250304033177805)\n- Marketing materials and campaigns are under development, with a roadmap that goes from outreach to media outlets to IRL meetups.\n- The scopes and themed tracks development is underway, with a focus on meeting local wants and needs. The agenda, speakers, and daily activities are still in the brainstorming stage and will require further refinement.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please describe the progress of your project? (note: new projects are also welcome)", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "link", "hidden": true, "question": "If you have any onchain attestations/impact certificates, please share them share(drop the link)", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Francesco Vincenti, Digitalia founder, spent two weeks volunteering at the ZuConnect event in Istanbul.", "hidden": false, "question": "Which Zuzalu events have you attended for at least a week?", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "1. Francesco Vincenti [link](https://twitter.com/fravincenti1) 2. Matteo Tambussi [link](https://twitter.com/SpaghettETH) 3. Luca Martinelli [link](https://twitter.com/vandaloruins) 4. Francesca Martina [link](https://twitter.com/thefranceway) 5. Fabrizio Genovese [link](https://twitter.com/fabgenovese) 6. Alessandro Raboni [link](https://twitter.com/Ale_Raboni) 7. Alessandro De Angelis [link](https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessandro-de-angelis-106054251/)", "hidden": false, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project (N/A for solo founders): ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Francesco Vincenti is the driving force behind Digitalia, with a solid background in different fields of tech, web3, and co-founding the Dao \u201cSewer\u201d and \u201cNFTcc\u201d in 2021. With more than 50 events organized in 4 main cities, from small meetups to 300+ people conferences, Francesco and his team nurtured and shaped web3 culture in Italy, and expanding into creating more events\u2019 formats like \u201cAI Factory\u201d, XR, and human-machine interaction. In January 2024, with the first Network State Meetup in Italy, Francesco expanded the relationship with Italy's top web3 communities which run the biggest local Ethereum conferences and hackathons: ETHMilan, ETHRome, NapulETH and SpaghettETH. Together we decided to promote Digitalia as the country's first web3 hub, which might even serve as a central housing location and facilitate traveling for selected attendees coming for those Ethereum events this year, all planned to happen during the same month.", "hidden": false, "question": "Anything else you'd like to share about your project, previous work, or other project affiliations? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "We're currently running location scouting in Tuscany and Umbria regions, but we still need to do more vetting in Q1-Q2. We aim to bring Digitalia into a natural or rural area that is demanding more development. We\u2019re also looking at rural/maritime zones around Rome, Emilia-Romagna, and rural areas near Milan or Venice.  Hosting The Digitalia Village in a natural area (cd.\"Borghi\") represents the first step toward setting up a sustainable ecosystem of local synergies that can tackle depopulation and degradation in Italian real estate and areas away from the main cities.  The Digitalia Village will be located in a gorgeous setting and will provide participants with a high standard of living. Access to local healthy cuisine, Mediterranean weather, millenary hospitality culture, local artisans, and art and culture activities all will contribute to a well-rounded lifestyle. Participants can attend local activities, and actively participate in the local communities\u2019 experiences development, and might even learn the Italian language and take cooking classes!", "hidden": false, "question": "Where will the \u201cZuzalu event\u201d: roughly, a long-duration in-person gathering whose goal is to experiment with open frontier digital and social technologies", "questionId": 14}], "project": {"id": "10:0x8e1bD5Da87C14dd8e08F7ecc2aBf9D1d558ea174:1748", "title": "Digitalia: a Zu-Village in Italy", "logoImg": "bafkreiftz5ovbth5gjij5xd4fkb4gtla4fe2nruxas6d4fw63impagd67y", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreia2u2bqwjbuew6dtsq4yqa2ayuray4gwgcbnbmsoz7e74hlknvbta", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://digitaliavillage.my.canva.site/home", "bannerImg": "bafkreihwt7vzectrlcdypqc3mgiwsfdyptb5qw353dpjdr4dzaey7a3bxi", "createdAt": 1706020546251, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9.._jRmLmu0SUk4waUHROK68tJ6bx0o3EXFkD4iub1vtlqfbg0BA9MEZMjAEK-vYFOpEPn0plI9sWzv_cpF-qlnBg", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-01-23T14:34:09.895Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-01-23T14:34:09.895Z", "expirationDate": "2024-04-22T14:34:09.895Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xC9C5721986c923C601c3b625d1107D470df0b123", "hash": "v0.0.0:gSKtb9+EWptKHOfgJpqyWPh9EpH4RxtsXyz2b8C95bU=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#fravincenti1"}}}, "description": "Digitalia: A Zu-Village, is a pop-up village in Italy, launching in September 2024.\nThe primary goal of Digitalia is to lay the foundation stone for a permanent digital innovation hub in Italy and make it a landmark for digital and web3 talents, local and international, where they can travel to connect, collaborate, and live together. Digitalia\u2019s mission is to unite the crypto community with the iconic Italian territory, culture, and local businesses. \nAs an example of synergy between innovation and tradition, Digitalia will play a role in driving the country\u2019s digitization while preserving the historic \u201cMade in Italy\u201d label. \nDigitalia is inspired by Balaji\u2019s \"The Network State\" and by Zuzalu, physically connecting highly aligned online communities to address real-world challenges. We want to use emerging digital tools like cryptocurrency and AI to develop Minimum Viable Products (MVPs) as solutions for digital illiteracy in Italy.\nThe builder's experience is designed to last one month, immersed in the Italian beauty and traditions. Digitalia is intended for anyone passionate about contributing to Italy's digital future. While the village is open to both Italians and non-Italians, the primary goal is to develop collaboration among individuals committed to improving Italy's digital public goods and the business ecosystem in Italy. \nDigitalia is born to address a critical challenge within Italy's business environment: fostering entrepreneurship by providing easy access to a supportive ecosystem of resources for mentoring, incubating, and funding innovative projects. Digitalia will create a fund to accelerate projects and startups with Italian leaders within the pop-up village, harvest Italian talent, and digitally innovate the local high-quality and celebrated skills in design, manufacturing, engineering, art and culture, education, agriculture and food, fashion, and more.\nAn incubator is a baseline to create a sustainable business model and measure the economic and social impact of Digitalia, with the long-term goal of establishing a local alternative for providing public goods and influencing policy decisions in the country.", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "fravincenti1"}, "recipient": "0xC9C5721986c923C601c3b625d1107D470df0b123"}}