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In its current state, Upe innovates by putting together, in the same place, the local information, collected and curated by locals, and spaces (like digital Agoras) for the community to make decisions. It\u2019s an App that we aim to turn into a DApp.\n\n\nAs it addresses reputation, governance, community and contributor tooling.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is the project CollabTech?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "While DAOs of high-skilled tech people struggle to coordinate resources and information, the framework we built for our community has already been tested and validated by a diverse audience of citizens, community organizations, small businesses, and public authorities, which together counts 80k+ annual unique users and 100 local contributors.\n\nThe exceptionality relates to the fact that it is a verified, exhaustively tested framework for local data management that, once comes to mainnet, can radically empower local communities and global DAOs to manage (and why not monetize?) their data outside the servers of big corp. \n\nWe make coordination easy and rewardable for local communities. ", "hidden": false, "question": "Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "While we want to keep Upe free for final users, we understand that reliable local data has financial value, so we intend to let each community decide how to monetize its data.\n\nWe envision becoming a global network of local communities that manage and monetize their data on-chain and escape the predatory practices of big corporations.\nCompanies (of any size) and global organizations willing to establish themselves or improve their operations in new communities that use Upe\u2019s framework would access high-quality local data through fair contracts with the communities.\nApart from the monetization of the network we already have, we can also provide Community Data Syndication as a Service as our framework can be applied to any community in the world.\n", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you ensure value keeps being delivered after the round is over? (How will the project become commercially sustainable or a perennial good? )", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "A couple of months ago our team started the process of bringing Upe onchain. Right now, we\u2019re on phase 2 of the roadmap below. So, after the end of the round, the CollabTech community will need to wait only 2 months before being able to check our Authentication system, then, 2 weeks for each milestone.\n\nMilestone 1: Authentication\nMilestone 2: Deployment of v1 User Interface\nMilestone 3: Attestations\nMilestone 4: Web3 Authentication/Wallet Connect\nMilestone 5: Launch Leaderboard\nMilestone 6: Organizer Interface for Onchain Submissions\nMilestone 7: Community Activations\nMilestone 8: Recap Article With Learnings\n", "hidden": true, "question": "How long will it take after funding is received to deliver value? 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Our model can be duplicated or forked for any local community to replicate. \n[![Image](https://i.imgur.com/N7DYH7a.png)](https://vimeo.com/995389688)\nUpe empowers communities in Costa Rica to crowdsource and syndicate local information, developing real-world use cases that harness blockchain technology to scale a public good. Community information is often only shared in gated chats and private groups. Upe serves as a hub for anyone to post information, such as community events, water consumption reports, and beach cleanup collection results, making this data publicly available to everyone.\n![All About Upe](https://i.imgur.com/CVTKN2Y.png)\n\n### We\u2019ve been making progress since April 2024: \nUpe Impact is a revolutionary web application designed to facilitate coordinating community betterment projects for non-crypto \u201cnatives\u201d. \nIn essence, Upe Impact puts the heart of their communities on the blockchain by providing tools that enhance efficiency in community projects and ensuring that the efforts of contributors and organizers are accurately recorded, verified, and celebrated.\nUpe Impact is a companion dApp for Upe. In its current state, Upe innovates by putting together, in the same place, the local information, collected and curated by locals, and spaces (like digital Agoras) for the community to make decisions. It\u2019s an App that we aim to turn into a DApp.\n## How it Works\n![Upe](https://i.imgur.com/inwLZM9.png)\n\nWith an integrated authentication system powered by thirdweb, the application generates user wallets upon login, ensuring secure access for all users, regardless of their technical expertise, from web3 natives to novices. This design ensures that any web user can utilize this tool with zero web3 knowledge.\n\nBy bringing all the data on-chain, we aim to be able to experiment with ways to monetize it so the communities can also gain from their work, and coordinate globally.\n\n## Who uses it\nUpe is a civic-bottom-up data initiative verified and tested (by communities, individuals, small businesses, tourists, and even the government of Costa Rica), and it already has traction, as our stats show. Our community framework can be forked for any other local community.\n\nBy the time we collected data for our last report, we had:\n\n- 3,902,370 Search Impressions (From April to August )\n- 80,000+ Unique annual users \n- 1,000+ Weekly subscribers\n- 2 successful contracts with local authorities\n- 100 Local Contributors\n\n## Major updates\n\nAs we blaze into H2 of 2024, we are delighted to announce some significant updates and future plans.\n\n### Major milestones achieved last quarter\n\n- Secured funding from Public Nouns for contributor bounties.\n- Hosted our first IRL community fundraiser event for 600 local attendees, with 12 NGOs as beneficiaries.\n- Built and launched Upe Impact on Base as proof of concept for Onchain Summer.\n- Organized and hosted the first Upe community retreat with 30 attendees to plan the upcoming year - for local communities.\n- Procured funding for a matching pool from Arbitrum Foundation and Oasis Onchain for onboarding NGOs participating in our next community event.\n- Conducted weekly off-chain voting for our members to introduce non-crypto users to basic governance exercises.\n- Website received 3.5 million impressions from search engines (971% increase from last year).\n\n\n\n## Upcoming Goals\n- Build Upe Impact to make it chain-agnostic\n- Bring Upe Vote onchain\n- Relaunch community pages based on data from voting and feedback loop\n\n![Upe Vote](https://i.imgur.com/iNGlh9O.png)\n\n\n## In Progress\n- Feedback loop for locals to uncover information such as important topics, preferred channels, etc., to continue developing the Upe community stack.\n- Developing an annual plan with contributors and local community members based on the Upe community framework.\n- Decentralizing the curation and syndication of community information by organizing guilds, quests, and bounties for contributors to execute. \n- Weekly community voting on important events and topics.\n- Fostering an environment to encourage local impact makers and contributors to connect and collaborate\n## In the Pipeline & Under Research\n- Onboarding local community leaders and their organizations to web3 to foster a collaborative network leveraging blockchain for community coordination.\n- Expanding Upe Impact and Upe Vote for more local use cases.\n- Forking Upe for other nearby communities.\n- Experimenting with various sources of income potential to position Upe as a \u201cnaturally\u2019 public but monetizable goods that can be funded through commercial channels by tweaking them a bit\u201d (Vitalik, The Revenue-Evil Curve)\n![Imgur](https://i.imgur.com/h00Ynjs.png)\nOur sources of funding are predominantly public goods funding mechanisms like Gitcoin QF rounds, direct donations & grants. Please help sustain our community by adding us to your cart & donating!\n\n### Learn More\n- Check out our [site](https://u.pe) \n- See [Upe Impact](https://i.u.pe)\n- Explore our [Newsletter](https://m.u.pe/d/)\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "0xUpe", "projectTwitter": "upelocal"}, "recipient": "0x18b6Dd99607E3b8203C4a0135A216defb98455DE"}}