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", "questionId": 7}, {"type": "address", "hidden": true, "question": "If you participated in past grant rounds using a different project payout wallet address, please share it here:", "questionId": 8}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "PalestineDAO\u2019s website is: PalestineDAO.com, however since PalestineDAO is still in its early stages, we don\u2019t yet have a real-time key metric tracking on our platforms.\n\nSome of the early stage relevant metrics about  our project are:\n* The number of donations and payments processed through our platform, which will indicate our fundraising and financial management capacity.\n* The number of humanitarian, development, and legal projects funded and implemented in Palestine, which will indicate our impact and relevance to the needs and aspirations of the Palestinian people.\n* The number of actions and campaigns organized and participated in by our DAO, which will indicate our advocacy and mobilization capacity.\n* The number of members and supporters of our DAO, which will indicate our outreach and engagement capacity.\n\nIn addition, since PalestineDAO is a composite DAO inspired by a combination of other aligned projects including UkraineDAO, TechStart, and BDS Movement, here are some ways to consider the impact of PalestineDAO:\n\n* UkraineDAO: A DAO raising funds to help Ukraine defend itself from the Russian aggression. Using the power of web3 tech and community to support Ukraine and help Ukrainian people. UkraineDAO raised over $8 million in five days through a partybid auction for a one-of-a-kind NFT depicting the Ukrainian flag, and direct donations to its ETH address. Ukrainedao also developed an app/website to log Russian warcrimes.\n    * TechStart Project (Palestine\u2014Technology for Youth and Jobs):\n    * Description: The TechStart program focuses on upgrading firm capabilities and stimulating employment growth in the Palestinian IT ecosystem.\n        * Impact Areas:\n        * Firm Capacity Building: Strengthening the capabilities of Palestinian firms and their workforce.\n        * Market Linkages: Facilitating international market connections and encouraging foreign direct investment.\n        * COVID-19 Response: Assisting firms during the pandemic through wage support, advisory services, and grants.\n        * Results:\n        * Upskill Program: 177 grant applications, with 50 companies awarded a total of\u00a0$1,790,382\u00a0stipend grants.\n        * Pioneer Program: 66 grant applications, with 16 companies awarded a total of\u00a0$1,185,923.\n        * Training Beneficiaries: 376 individuals, including 175 females (47%).\n        * Firms Benefited: 78 distinct firms.\n    * BDS Movement (Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions):\n    * Description: A Palestinian-led movement advocating for freedom, justice, and equality by applying pressure on states and corporations to end complicity in Israel\u2019s war crimes.\n        * Impact Indicators\u00a0(Q4 2023 & Q1 2024):\n        * States & Local Governments: Bolivia suspended diplomatic relations with Israel, and other countries downgraded relations.\n        * International Recognition: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) ruling that Israel is plausibly perpetrating genocide in Gaza.\n        * UN Human Rights Experts\u2019 Statement: Urging all states to stop arms exports to Israel and impose sanctions.\nAdditional Notes:\n* We will establish clear milestones based on the specific needs of each project.\n* We are committed to transparency and will provide regular updates to the Gitcoin community on our progress.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "Where should we look to see the impact of your project? Please provide links to public websites and/or the latest values for key metrics you track privately. This might be used in future impact reports", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "0", "hidden": false, "question": "Total Prior Funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Token Launch"], "hidden": false, "question": "Which of the following funding sources do you have? Check all that apply", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "number", "answer": "1", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?  ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Somewhere in the Metaverse", "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is based ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Have you read and confirmed your grant abides by the Program General Eligibility Policy? ", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "PalestineDAO has applied for GG20 OSS PROGRAM dApps & Apps, but PalestineDAO is flexible and respects the decision of Gitcoin on whichever program PalestinDAO is eligible for.", "hidden": true, "question": "Are you applying for any other OSS rounds in GG20? (Reminder: you can only be accepted into one) ", "questionId": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "PalestineDAO's comprehensive suite of web3 solutions aimed at preserving economic and civic rights during humanitarian crises makes pioneering contributions to Ethereum's infrastructure in multiple ways:\n1. Foundational DeFi Infrastructure Our PalFi protocol establishes novel decentralized financing rails optimized for global philanthropic and aid funding flows into crisis regions like Palestine. This makes secure, transparency borderless capital transfer possible - a foundational DeFi infrastructure need.\n2. Decentralized Governance at Scale The PalGov platform allows large, geographically dispersed stakeholder communities to coordinate and participate in self-governance through scalable DAO frameworks. This decentralized governance infrastructure is critical when traditional institutions are disrupted.\n3. Proof of Human Rights via LegalNodes Our PalJustice system leverages NFTs, oracles and blockchains as an immutable \"Proof of Human Rights\" layer - creating censorship-resistant digital evidence infrastructure for justice and accountability efforts.\n4. Digital Identity Solutions:\n    * We create secure digital identity solutions on the Ethereum blockchain.\n    * These solutions enable Palestinians to access essential services, even in crisis situations.\n5. Emergency Communication Channels:\n    * PalestineDAO establishes resilient communication channels on Ethereum.\n    * These channels facilitate information sharing, coordination, and emergency response during war/crisis times.\n6. Community Engagemeent and Resilience: ur project fosters a\u00a0strong community\u00a0around these tools, encouraging\u00a0collaboration\u00a0and\u00a0open-source development\u00a0to continuously improve and adapt our offerings. In addition: \n    * We contribute to the Ethereum ecosystem by building tools that enhance community resilience.\n    * Education, health, and economic support are crucial aspects of our infrastructure development\n7. Combating Misinformation at Web3 Scale The PalMedia information marketplace, powered by token curated registries and digital credibility scoring, establishes truth and content dissemination infrastructure resilient to manipulation during conflict.\n\nFundamentally, palestinedao is contributing critical new economic, political, legal and information infrastructure primitives by creatively composing and extending foundational Ethereum building blocks like tokens, smart contracts, oracles and consensus mechanisms.\nMoreover, our overall focus is on preserving core civilizational fabric like financial systems, governance, rights and journalism during the most extreme \"edge cases\" of warfare and crisis. Building out this resilient public infrastructure will only bolster Ethereum's value proposition.\nFrom privacy-preserving aid financing to decentralized civic participation to preventing human rights obfuscation - palestinedao's technology stack tackles key deficiencies in legacy infrastructure through an innovative web3 native lens.\nThis pioneering application of decentralized technologies directly elevates and augments Ethereum's utility as a neutral, immutable and scalable foundation for essential services even amidst geopolitical turmoil.\n", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project significantly contribute to the Ethereum network\u2019s infrastructure, addressing foundational needs and innovative solutions to current challenges?", "questionId": 16}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "PalestineDAO's comprehensive suite of solutions aimed at preserving economic and civic rights during humanitarian crises promises to elevate the Ethereum ecosystem across key areas like privacy, interoperability, and user experience:\n\nPrivacy Enhancement:\n- PalFi leverages privacy-preserving DeFi primitives like zk-rollups, private payment channels, and anonymous credentials to enable untraceable aid financing into conflict zones while preventing fund misuse\n- PalJustice employs confidential computing and data sharding to allow secure sharing of sensitive evidence/testimony related to human rights violations\n- PalMedia's credibility scoring mechanisms protect user privacy while combating misinformation\n\nInteroperability:\n- PalestineDAO embraces a multi-chain, layer-2 approach with inter-blockchain communication between Ethereum's base layer and scalable execution layers like Polygon PoS\n- Our solutions integrate cross-chain bridges and messaging protocols to facilitate seamless interoperability of assets, data and participation across our platforms\n- We utilize open standards like ERC tokens, Ethereum Name Service, and The Graph to ensure our infrastructure works as composable \"money legos\"\n\nElevating User Experience:\n- PalGov empowers inclusive and easy-to-use on-chain governance participation, lowering barriers to civic engagement for marginalized groups\n- The PalMedia ecosystem incentivizes high-quality user-generated content around humanitarian issues via social tokens and earning mechanics\n- Our crisis management tools like maps, donation portals, and credibly scoring provide clean UX tailored for crisis situations\n- Overall, palestinedao focuses on accessible, gamified interfaces and experiential learning to onboard non-technical users into Web3\n\nBy tackling privacy via cutting-edge cryptography, serving as an interoperability case study with composable standards, and delivering intuitive user experiences - palestinedao acts as a driving force uplifting Ethereum's core value propositions.\n\nOur intersectional approach applies the full spectrum of Web3 lego bricks in service of the unique needs stemming from extreme conflict and crisis contexts. This ensures Ethereum's infrastructure evolves to accommodate all potential use cases - earning maximal credibility as an empowering humanitarian platform.", "hidden": false, "question": "How does your project promise to elevate the Ethereum ecosystem, particularly in enhancing privacy, interoperability, and/or user experience?", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Co-Founder Chad Khorasani is a Los Angeles based international human rights attorney.\n\nPalestineDAO is a UkraineDAO inspired Social Impact Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) start up leveraging Web3 to channel a wide range of humanitarian, impact investments, and financial support for the struggling people of Palestine who are facing famine, statelessness, and absence of a sovereign government due to ongoing conflict.\n\nPalestineDAO strives to introduce for the first time in the world a comprehensive suite of essential universal war/crisis time web 3 tech-based solutions that can be utilized by Palestinians during the ongoing urgent humanitarian crisis,\n\nPalestineDAO simultaneously strives to serve as a Unicorn community-run NGO to mobilize impact investments in Palestine\u2019s future. Built on the successful UkraineDAO model, PalestineDAO utilizes Web3 tech including Smart Contracts, DAO, DeFi, DeGov, SocialFi, Law 3.0, AI, GameFi, Crypto, NFTs, and DApps to create a suite of humanitarian war/crisis time solutions serve as a trustless bridge between donors, investors, and the ultimate beneficiaries.\n\nWe are confident PalestineDAO will be the next leading Social Impact initiative and an asset to any portfolio. ", "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 may help in determining project eligibility?", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from Gitcoin for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Yes", "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? 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