Description
ReFi Cape Town - accelerating the transitions to socially inclusive and ecologically regenerative urbanisms
Younglings, ixo and RLabs are forming a ReFi Local Node in Cape Town to nurture community conversations around Web3 enabled regenerative-oriented-innovations (ROIs). Our aim is to empower youth to address some of our cities most pressing challenges through hackathons, incubation and investment. These challenges include inequality, youth unemployment, and a general lack of access to resource flows such as energy, water, sanitation, housing and education.
Kindly donate to our grant so we can start our journey of youth-led education for regeneration! With a match funding pool of over $250k thanks to the amazing Gitcoin community, every single dollar makes a big difference!
We intend to raise: 25,000USD that will be well spent to generate the following ambitious outcomes:
- Engage the local community: Host three ReFi Cape Town events over the next three months. These will include expert guest speakers in ReFi, Web3 and urban challenges in African cities. There will be 12 hackathons hosted as part of these events with bounties for winners. We hope to engage young people from from RLabs, Younglings, and YOMA. We also hope to engage the City of Cape Town, Western Cape Government, Department of Basic Education, Stellenbosch University Centre for Sustainability Transitions, University of Cape Town, African Centre for Cities, ICLEI Africa, UNICEF, and private sector organisations interested in Web3 and sustainability.
- Support Web3 and regenerative-oriented-innovations (ROIs): Incubate and invest in three social enterprises that come out of ReFi Cape Town hackathons.
- Youth Market Place for Africa (YOMA): Develop and test a decentralised funding mechanism for 120 students to recieve “Learn to Earn” pathways in the digital and green economy.
- Human resources: Support a small core team growing the ReFi Cape Town ecosystem with a humble salary.
Outline of our team
Younglings Leaders
The Younglings are a group of five leaders who have experience in training and skills development in the South African digital sector.
- Cameron Davids
- Joshua Schell
- Heinrico Barendse
- Zaakirah Abrams
- Duduzile January
- Alwyn van Wyk
Founder at RLabs, Twitter: @marlonparker
Experienced Founder with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Passion for technology and innovation has influenced his work and led to being the founder of the Reconstructed Living Lab (RLabs).
Founder at ixo, Twitter: @shaunbconway,
Inventor of the ixo protocol for identifying, verifying and valuing impact. Shaun is a clinically experienced physician, international development specialist and visionary leader at the forefront of solving complex social challenges, through systems-thinking and technological innovation.
He has a passion for designing and building ethical, data-driven technologies and systems that can positively transform human experience and improve well-being for millions of people.
Eco Development at ixo, Twitter: @0xregenshawn
Highly entrepreneurial with a passion for creativity and nature-based solutions. Shawn has a background in food and nutrition security, and has taught a module he created called regneration sciences at various schools across Cape Town. He has previously been part of two Solar Decathlon building competitions and the subsequent construction of two eco-villages in Morocco and Germany. He loves collaborating with others in designing, developing and deploying innovations for systemic transformation in Cape Town and other parts of South Africa.
Founder at Protium Protocol
As an experienced renewable energy and energy storage project developer, Pete is sleeplessly passionate and idealistically curious about the way in which renewable energy has become a major asset class for investment globally and how the business of renewables has quietly become the next Industrial Revolution. He is a status-quo challenger in active pursuit of better and more sustainable ways to ensure our species existence in this world.
Take a look at our preliminary local node application:
Thank you, Enkosi, Ngiyabonga, Dankie, Ke a leboga!