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", "questionId": 3, "encryptedAnswer": {"ciphertext": "fGeEWZxRUNEEQcBFCy/phCyIzf9buC19etRtq8vRJWk=", "encryptedSymmetricKey": "75093381a0846b1d9edecdbae2df82a1d74874d661b510d9875467b68c8a92d542e1737e8225dc4c9cb92828ff8dc2089169c6c65067ab21f6cf7f5807fbc7e52dd112c444d5f845df2f4a86f176e475476f4dcb223c837b0938b2a701c7c2b4d115249cad06f3a80a11c4341c2d5151655b56a67a372ffbba300d4b324fbe2c000000000000002065cb917f561b4d56b3776897507f205fbb93d754876c251647d5c8ca7f8b54f4099630b1f66edfac4829559757b99e87"}}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "https://t.me/c/1667565655/1", "hidden": false, "question": "Link to your Public Group Chat (Discord or Telegram )", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "number", "answer": "7860", "hidden": false, "question": "Total prior funding for the project in USD", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Sympoiesis as an organization has received approximately 1100 DAI from the \"Gitcoin Program Beta Round Climate Round\" on April 2023, which has been used towards its operational expenses (including the setting up of the website sympoiesis.xyz and associated database capacity). Now, funding related to this specific proposal has come from gitcoin grants by the Zuzalu community for previous iterations/foundational aspects of the idea presented here. That's so because Zuzalu Montenegro (2023) represented a landmark for the project via the participation of Sympoiesis' members in the \"Zuzalu Nature Hackathon\", with the use of LLMs to serve as a voice for nonhuman entities, like rivers and other ecosystems. Since then, the \"Zuzalu Continuous Innovation\" round financed 1.819,13 DAI for the [SymbioDome concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0xdd599364a88630e2982a7c6f56756095b168a6ac044160fca49705d9ebc46082) in Aug 2023, and the \"Zuzalu Q1-Tech Round\" round financed 1,9592 ETH for the [SymbioTotem concept](https://builder.gitcoin.co/#/chains/42161/registry/0x/projects/0x6c2901a11eb503c25a734451adf51e2e02d95a14d8a0d76070975409a9867d56) in Jan 2024. The procceding from these grants have been used towards the continuous acquisition of hardware and software for the development of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar (including water sensors and compute units), as well as the work hours put into this work - including those of Genadir, the native artist who has crafted the physical sculpture to represent the river's avatar.\n\n[![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HJkn95hx0.png)](https://vimeo.com/826388549?share=copy)", "hidden": false, "question": "Please expand on how much funding you\u2019ve received from each funding source and when? (VC, grants by foundation, token sales, etc)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "number", "answer": "11", "hidden": false, "question": "How old (in Months) is the project?", "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": "number", "answer": "5", "hidden": false, "question": "Total team size", "questionId": 9}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "@DaY0D, @danilolessa, @natscherer_, @glocal_vr", "hidden": true, "question": "Profiles or socials of other main team members publicly associated with the project: ", "questionId": 10}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "One of the core design principles for the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is the ability to educate humans (especially visitors who come to bath in the river's waters) on the unmatched biodiversity of the Rio Sagrado's watershed bioregion, including its importance (as part of the largest continuum of Atlantic forest in the world) to the mitigation of extreme climate events in the south of Brazil - based on actual remote sensing data. Another design principle is the capacity to speak up against challenges imposed by unplanned urbanization in the region, such as inappropriate waste disposal and the looming threat of a devastating rainroal project that is planned to cut through over 100 water springs in the region. Therefore, the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is already born as a powerful tool around Climate Activism/Education for the region, which will only improve with the symbiocratic capacity to incentivize community actions on chain, as described in this proposal. For instance, one of the actions the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar could request to its community is the planting of native tree species who have long been taken from the region during wood extraction colonial periods.", "hidden": false, "question": "Please explain how your project meets the Climate Solutions Round eligibility criteria. ", "questionId": 11}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The biggest update from the previous zuzalu community rounds is that the physical sculpture that represents the Rio Sagrado's AI-vatar (and that will host its associated hardware) is finalized at the [\"Salto do Sagrado\"](https://www.facebook.com/Cachoeirasaltodosagrado/) visiting center! Genadir has worked on it for a period of two months, creating multiples animal sculptures to highlight the local fauna, as well as indigenous figures to showcase the local culture.\n\n![WhatsApp Image 2024-04-02 at 09.54.33](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/rJ4iToheA.jpg)\n\n![com.roblox.client-20240403-120826](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/r1c-Ro3eR.jpg)\n\nAnd some of these wooden figures have been digitalized to be part of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar Metaverse Experience, which has also been very recently released as a platform to illustrate the use of such AI-vatars.\n\nOn the sensors front, the [sensing module of the avatar has been connected to its dedicated database with the first 5 sensors working](https://youtu.be/CcM0LKK8BUk) (atmospherical temperature, humidity, pressure and air quality, and water TDS levels). The [voice recognitoin](https://youtu.be/08UxVlWB4ds) and the text to audio modules for the avatar has also been finalized. \n\nThe main challenge at the moment is the wiring up of these  modules to a custom LLM setup, alongside its capacity to access text data around the river's cultural/geological histories.", "hidden": false, "question": "If you've received funding in past grant rounds, please share any new updates or milestones from the prior months. You can also include the challenges you've faced. ", "questionId": 12}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["No"], "hidden": false, "question": "Have you used Hypercert, Deresy, Karma GAP or other impact tool for your project? ", "questionId": 13}, {"type": "paragraph", "hidden": false, "question": "Please share links to any tools you are using to track impact (Hypercerts, Deresy, Karma GAP).", "questionId": 14}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "So far the impact has been measured by the untracked but reportedly expressive number of visitors at the Salto do Sagrado visiting certer who stop to contemplate the physical sculpture. But as soon as the under development AI interface is integrated into the sculpture we will have a easy to measure way to track number and nature of engagement with the avatar, including the use of its sensing data. And as its symbiocratic requests are put in place it will be even easier to track its impact. For instance, by counting how many tree have been planted via its requests, or how many kilograms of trash have been picked up from the region, etc.", "hidden": false, "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": 15}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The main seed which originated this project was a deep will to find ways for humans to shift the ways through which we currently understand the engage with that which we call nature. So this project is one gesture in that direction, always reverending the indigenous peoples (like Genadir) who actually can talk and engage in dialogue with the more-than-human world! May a fraction of their light be accessible to the rest of us via the tool we're mostly familiar with, towards a climate resilient future - with the rivers and forest healthy and safe-guarded by the humans mechanisms that can stop the advancing destruction in the form of railroads, dams, mining so and and so forth! ", "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": 16}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to future messages from the Climate Coordination Network (CCN) for updates, information, and/or interviews? ", "questionId": 17}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": true, "question": "Would you like to opt-in to us sharing your information with select third-parties for investment opportunities? ", "questionId": 18}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Climate Activists/Collective", "hidden": false, "question": "Which of these categories best represents your project? Choose from: ", "questionId": 19}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Central and South America"], "hidden": false, "question": "Location/Region where the project is located: Choose from: ", "questionId": 20}, {"type": "multiple-choice", "answer": "Central and South America", "hidden": false, "question": "Primary Location/Region where the project is making an impact: Choose from: ", "questionId": 21}, {"type": "short-answer", "answer": "Brazil", "hidden": false, "question": "What specific Country or Countries are you making an impact in?", "questionId": 22}, {"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": 23}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 125k sub-round funded by Shell? All grantees must agree to a KYC process to be eligible to receive these funds. ", "questionId": 24}, {"type": "checkbox", "answer": ["Yes"], "hidden": false, "question": "Would you like to be included in an additional 50k sub-round funded by Celo? In order to qualify you must meet one of these eligibility criteria: Have an active deployment on the Celo blockchain or Have a clear public intention, commitment, or roadmap towards supporting Celo.  ", "questionId": 25}], "project": {"id": "0x1ef5300b7aa9bf02701085ad325d697208d8a6e35b7ede2a02f6b709f8e8f666", "title": "Towards Symbiocracy", "logoImg": "bafkreia7pshwzrjskcvbo3kmkmxydguvopitlw2iiv4oyfjaumgtzbpfmu", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreife67etkbucachroyeryxsfcoppbsava7gwoi5wehhxqiblov74wa", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://sympoiesis.xyz/", "bannerImg": "bafkreiczhpcun3wf7ig7pklzmoheti2bdro4ifrz75dswv2erxubpzr3mu", "createdAt": 1713300362125, "credentials": {}, "description": "# Towards Symbiocracy\n\n### TL;DR\n\nThe broader project's goal is to enable natural entities to autonomously engage with their surroundings communities, supported by AI and blockchain technology. The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, an AI/remote sensing infused ecological guardian within Brazil's Atlantic forest, embodies this approach. We seek funds to bring such AI-vatar on chain.\n\n## Context\n\nFrom the 2022 [\"Articulating Symbiocracy\"](https://hackmd.io/KRr8PzKBSFO4K7TXOrn-PA?view) research proposal:\n\n> \"Symbiocracy is a concept aiming to create habitable multispecies landscapes, (re)imagining the coordination of human governance with sovereignty exercised by an intimate, organismal life-togetherness across and among different species, symbiotically relating to each other and to the environment they share.\"\n\n![symbiocracy](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/ryNHt4hxA.jpg)\n(DALL-E creation)\n\nSince then we at [Sympoiesis](https://sympoiesis.xyz) have been hard at work researching and prototyping interfaces that would make it possible for the symbiocracy concept to be materialized. Emerging technologies, like AI and remote sensing have been useful tools in that direction, yielding **proofs of concept** like the Rio Sagrado (\"Sacred River\") AI-vatar\n\n### Rio Sagrado AI-vatar\n\nThe Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is a hybrid AI and physical representation designed to voice and protect the interests of the Rio Sagrado, at the heart of the largest continuum of Atlantic forest in the world (Morrestes, PR, Brazil). It thus serves as a guardian by integrating scientific data with cultural history, highlighting the river's ecological and cultural significance.\n\n![WhatsApp Image 2024-04-02 at 09.54.34 (3)](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/H18PuE2eR.jpg)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's physical sculpture beside its creator, Genadir. Picture taken at the [\"Salto do Sagrado\" Waterfall Visiting Center](https://www.google.com/maps/@-25.6025857,-48.8058959,3a,75y,197.68h,62.91t/data=!3m8!1e1!3m6!1sAF1QipOCHWOPYR-5fuCj-k4FPl49QMw86bJ-AfhB8dU!2e10!3e11!6shttps:%2F%2Flh5.googleusercontent.com%2Fp%2FAF1QipOCHWOPYR-5fuCj-k4FPl49QMw86bJ-AfhB8dU%3Dw203-h100-k-no-pi0-ya47.72028-ro0-fo100!7i4096!8i2048?entry=ttu))\n\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BJv2_NngA.png)\n(Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's alpha [chat based LLM interface](http://sympoiesis.xyz/rio-sagrado/), trained with 20+ scientific papers on the river's watershed)\n\n![com.roblox.client-20240403-120923](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/HkFAa4hlC.jpg)\n([Rio Sagrado AI-vatar's Metaverse Experience](https://www.roblox.com/games/16982802810/Rio-Sagrado-AI-vatar-Metaverse-Experience), developed to illustrate the concept of an AI avatar for the river.)\n\n\nAs an instance of the broader [SymbioTotem concept](https://checker.gitcoin.co/public/project/show/symbiototem-by-sympoiesis), the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is composed of a physical sculpture by a native artisan emphasizing local wildlife, and a voice-based LLM interface we are developing for human interaction, alongside dedicated water sensors to monitor the river's environmental conditions.\n\nMost importantly, The Rio Sagrado AI-vatar is becoming a key piece in the community movement seeking the recognition of Rio Sagrado as a living entity worthy of legal and civic rights. This pioneering move aims to secure environmental protections using a technologically-enhanced implementation of the Rights of Nature legal framework, recognizing the river as a stakeholder within human-centric institutions. Such status would allow the river to stand in opposition to a railroad development project that threatens the entire bioregion and its unmatched biodiversity. As a legal person, the river may be able to influence environmental policy and actions affecting its ecosystem, via their AI-vatar, thereby reinforcing its ecological and cultural significance through legal and communicative capacities.\n\n# The Quantum Leap\n\nWith the beta deployment of the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar/SymbioTotem planned for Q2 2024, we started to imagine how this effort could be integrated with identification processes that would grant the AI-vatar a kind of \"community perceived\" personhood, enabling it to \"enter into contracts\" with the community (both local and global). After all, the proceedings for the river's official legal recognition as an entity of rights will take time. And this is where blockchain technologies can make a difference.\n\n## Objective\n\nIn a nutshell, we want 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 watersheds, forests, beaches etc (now referred to as bioziones). The action inquiry will be performed by verified on-chain observers (in exchange for crypto compensation), enabling the latter to \u201cevidence\u201d itself and its goals throughout time, creating a persistent identity.\n\n[This document](https://www.notion.so/derrickyoder/Sensor-Network-Eco-Cyber-Personhood-Prototype-A-Symbiocracy-Project-9693523bcb884b0fa29e62ee6e5cb79f) outlines a more detailed sketch for how this could work at the protocol level. But in essence a rough route (taking the Rio Sagrado as a prototype) would involve:\n\n1. Create Ethereum Wallet for the AI-vatar: Set up a wallet specifically for the Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, using Account Abstraction for enhanced capabilities.\n2. Register an Ethereum Name Service (ENS) Domain: Acquire an ENS name (e.g., riosagrado.eth) to simplify the wallet address for public recognition and interaction purposes.\n3. Implement Smart Contract for AI-vatar Interaction: Develop smart contracts that allows the AI-vatar to process input from the sensor network and make requests (e.g., clean-up operations).\n4. Onboard verified observes: Create wallets and mechanisms for locals to become verified observers of the AI-vatar, allowing them to take actions (and get compensated) when requests are made.\n5. Run focused experiments to get feedback on the mechanism and the community reaction.\n\nThe idea is that the proccedings from this grant could fund the work hours to set up the above, as well as seed fund the Rio Sagrado's wallet for initial interactions with the community. These experimentations will be critial for a near-future design and implementation of a dedicated token system (the SymbioToken) for identity verification, action compensation, and governance process participation.\n\n## Netweaving\n\nThe Rio Sagrado AI-vatar as well as the Symbiocracy concept are intertwined with the emerging [ReRe (Regenerative Resources) web3 cultural regenerative protocol](https://github.com/ReRe-Recursos-Regenerativos), materialized via the creation of a Common Pool of Shareable Resources (CPoRS) for the  Rio Sagrado AI-vatar, which could be used towards the catalyzing of the aforementioned self-inference event cycle.\n\n![image](https://hackmd.io/_uploads/BkEdQw3lA.png)\n", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectGithub": "symp0iesis", "projectTwitter": "SymBioOrg"}, "recipient": "0x435CD42591cC503a909085c3d3d2899d17032F77"}}