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(VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "3", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "number", "answer": "27", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 7, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "PeVzHutDhncorevuB5L+60Wn0gjFTdEhVai6QarAnL8GFdOt2TjOlaQ0tkFxiwRi99FenbVRxAkFY+WN6q/42w==", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "b957851f9552215abe66d9dca3fd7ab7aa1f5cd28090eb0b543574e23ce8284b59ac99e2464bec13127692d08424b7105350fae133bedd872ec1f0fadce145db52113623e90479e99a8bae4568382106b910c18516f5a30b69d3d29468ae0fa764412d9e5e04f922221c0a818f22489113200ed59572d44821b0f8432b370a1c0000000000000020163926aa025a2291a88793a8a28bca99bbceb25dfed204fcc89963292c533b2eac5aab77836b6feee9eee47989e9048c"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Devansh Mehta  https://twitter.com/TheDevanshMehta  https://www.linkedin.com/in/devansh-mehta-670192109/  Vishnu Prasad  https://twitter.com/vishnuprasadk  https://www.linkedin.com/in/vishnu-prasad-5690a01a0/  Siddique Patel  https://twitter.com/hodler_fo_lyf  https://www.linkedin.com/in/siddique-patel/", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "checkbox", "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": "1. Our project is popularizing use of the hypercerts standard among journalists, thus onboarding new groups to web3 and building building communities\n\n2. My output from these grants is tweet threads & insights from the conferences I attend using funds received, which creates educational content", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the round-specific eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "1. I committed to using funds from the beta round to attend a public goods funding conference. I attended Funding the Commons 6th edition in Paris & wrote live tweets from the conference while I was there.\n\nhttps://twitter.com/TheDevanshMehta/status/1680130881497726976\n\n2. I got confirmations from Gram Vaani, CGNet Swara and Video Volunteers for uploading their past impact onto the blockchain as hypercerts. During EthCC I also learnt that Optimism is the right chain for our MVP with these organizations, both because it is the home to creators and also their philosophy of retroactive public goods funding which we are attempting to do in the journalism space.\n\n3. Ethereum Foundation recognized the importance of our project in pathfinding new ways to fund subjective impact like journalism retroactively. Devansh was awarded the next billion fellowship for advancing the goals of what we are setting out to do\n\nhttps://blog.ethereum.org/2023/08/07/nb-fellows-cohort-3\n", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've participated in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The educational content is posted on twitter and so its impact can be measured using its analytics. The impact of funding received in the beta round is my 26 tweet thread from Funding the Commons & EthCC which cumulatively received 20,546 views, 358 likes, 41 retweets & 11 bookmarks.\n\nOur efforts at building new communities can be measured by number of hypercerts minted for journalists, amount of funding they have raised from it, etc. These metrics will become clearer post launch.", "hidden": true, "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": "We have got shoutouts from our journalism partners Video Volunteers, CGNet Swara and OCCRP!\n\nhttps://twitter.com/jessiekmayberry/status/1471103881895682058?s=20\n\nhttps://twitter.com/DrewOCCRP/status/1531938058039328768?s=20\n\nhttps://twitter.com/CGNet_Swara/status/1529074401190514688", "hidden": true, "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": "paragraph", "answer": "A lot of my past work has been written up as research papers and media articles, I plan to eventually do the same in this project. You can read about it here:\n\n1. Designing an app that helped distribute journalism stories in media dark zones using Bluetooth\n\nMedia Article: https://ijnet.org/en/story/citizen-journalism-platform-uses-bluetooth-bring-news-media-dark-villages-india\n\nPublication: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3334480.3383032\n\n2. Deploying an interactive voice response (IVR) system to raise awareness on HIV and voting rights among marginalized communities\n\nPublication: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3378393.3402287\n\n3. Leading a volunteer driven effort to help CGNet Swara assist marginalized communities during the COVID-19 induced lockdowns (I won the 2021 UN Volunteers award for this work)\n\nMedia Article: https://idronline.org/article/programme/crisis-relief-where-we-failed-and-what-we-learnt/\n\nPublication: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3530190.3534827\n\n4. Designed and deployed a technology upgrade for CGNet Swara's interactive voice response (IVR) platform by connecting it with the WhatsApp Business API, so those with internet can WhatsApp their story while those without can call the same number.\n\nMedia Article: https://ijnet.org/en/story/guide-using-whatsapp-business-api-audience-engagement\n\nPublication: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3460112.3471981\n\n5. Collected over 50k sentences in a tribal language called Gondi to build out a machine translation system from this data\n\nPublication (under review): https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.16172\n", "hidden": true, "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": 14}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for potential opportunities for them to invest in your project? ", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 17}], "project": {"id": "1:0x03506eD3f57892C85DB20C36846e9c808aFe9ef4:801", "title": "VoiceDeck: A Marketplace for Journalism Impact Certificates", "logoImg": "bafkreiedqmkb3erwqm4wj6fa25eerfoolyc4ywreegkhsojcowix2ehr7u", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreieqd6k6dcctszcxcvwymz7zi2ppl4hjv237jqsimk7iiq7hdb3l3m", "protocol": "1"}, "website": "https://voicedeck.org", "bannerImg": "bafkreihhg6vklwk6umus3bwtbuv3o6c6wwkkzd3yyambjjavildv7pyrse", "createdAt": 1682104154322, "userGithub": "devansh76", "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..JhXi-mj2F2BUnR7Bufgyk7rUt8kC3Ssy7I6oUAEMQRM5YPfQ-noPUC1kJ1cHlICcV1V7fP2ccJggQbgBfNE3CQ", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2023-04-21T19:07:55.361Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2023-04-21T19:07:55.361Z", "expirationDate": "2023-07-20T19:07:55.361Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0x3FFD0C300fa4a021364Ae7e85a7b0d3a02133f99", "hash": "v0.0.0:T24IsOz+c0eXy7k6bNeycDPeebPuPbWCEXb3lgH5rlU=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#TheDevanshMehta"}}}, "description": "Bringing investigative reporters into web3 by funding them retroactively through hypercerts\n\n**Story**\n\nMy master's theses at the Columbia Journalism School looked at Silk Way Airlines, partly owned by the Azerbaijan President's daughter. My story found that they had taken part in $420 million in Pentagon contracts and a $400 million export-import bank loan guarantee.\n\nThe CEO resigned during the reporting of my story. Despite this huge impact, my investigation was grant funded from start to finish. It made me wonder: what if I were paid after achieving an outcome like the CEO resigning?\n\nhttps://www.occrp.org/en/investigations/8493-airline-once-linked-to-azerbaijan-s-ruling-family-got-us-loan-guarantees-military-contracts-planes\n\n**Impact Markets**\n\nFirst proposed in 2014 by Paul Christiano, impact certificates are like carbon credits but along any impact vector. They represent an alternate approach to donating, where you 'buy' impact similar to how one might buy a t-shirt.\n\nProtocol Labs has built out a web3 protocol for impact certificates (hypercerts.xyz) while Optimism has allocated millions of dollars in its retroactive public good funding (RetroPGF) rounds. However, they are mostly used by projects already in the web3 ecosystem - I am looking to leverage the same infrastructure for funding investigative reporters as and when their stories produce tangible outcomes like court cases, resignations, asset seizures or policy change.\n\nIf we succeed, newsrooms will mint hypercerts of outcomes arising from their story and effective altruist donors will purchase them. Unlike other cause areas, donors can verify the outcomes for themselves through other news reports and press releases in the aftermath of an investigation's publication.\n\n**Traction**\n\n- I have received approval from three citizen journalism media outlets (CGNet Swara, Gram Vaani and Video Volunteers) to upload their past database of 10,000 impact reports as hypercerts.\n\n- Our project was identified by the Ethereum Foundation as being significant for creating retroactive funding mechanisms of subjective impact like journalism, for which Devansh was awarded the 2023 Next Billion Fellowship from the Ethereum Foundation\n\nhttps://blog.ethereum.org/2023/08/07/nb-fellows-cohort-3\n\n**Use of Funds**\n\nThe tools are already built - what's lacking is awareness among donors & journalists of how they can be used.\n\nI will use any funds donated to raise awareness of these tools, by traveling to ;\n\n1. The Global Investigative Journalism Network conference in Gothenburg, Sweden from 19th-22nd September.  https://gijc2023.org/\n\nThe goal will be informing investigative reporters about the hypercerts standard and how they can record outcomes from their stories on OP Mainnet.\n\n2. Funding the Commons (FTC) 7th edition in Berlin on 7th and 8th September\n\nThe idea of hypercerts was born at FTC 5th edition. This conference will help refine the pitch I give to journalists at GIJC on minting their impact as hypercerts.\n\nNOTE: I regularly tweet so you don't need to worry about radio silence - you will know exactly what happens at these conferences and how journalists & donors are reacting to this funding model\n\nThe funds I raised in the beta round partially helped cover expenses to attend FTC 6th edition in Paris and EthCC. 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