Intro to DAOs: Metaverse for Education Newsletter Issue #3

This newsletter serves as your bridge from the real world to the advancements of web3 & the metaverse, specifically contextualized for education.

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Vriti Saraf 🌐 3.0 @VritiSaraf

Could DAOs be the new: -schools where students, educators, parents vote on allocation of resources? -charities where ‘transparent fundraising’ on chain allows contributors to see how their $ is spent? -worker unions where members vote on prgrams & resources to support their work?

Hello Educators & Friends!

This issue is an introduction to DAOs, or decentralized autonomous organizations. In their simplest form, they are much a like a co-op that uses blockchain to optimize operations.

DAOs have the potential to change the way private & public institutions operate. The power of the DAO is held with its members, if it's done right. However, as with all things in Web3, this is a new frontier with many areas for growth.

Below, you'll learn about what DAOs are, use cases especially in education, things that could go wrong, and if you're into it, how you can join or even start a DAO.

We're also elated to announce that k20 Educators is working on a DAO for innovation in education! The goal is "to be a catalyst for innovative solutions & practices toward reimagining education, at scale" and, in support of our larger vision, to dismantle global silos in education. We'll send more information soon.

I'm personally excited about the potential of DAOs for education - imagine more efficient, transparent, & relevant allocation of resources toward grants, scholarships, projects, school programs, extra-curriculars, scheduling, staffing, &... everything that is holding our education infrastructures back!

Happy ideating.

Yours,

Vriti & k20 Educators

Learn about the Metaverse for Education

• What is a DAO?

• Difference between a traditional organization & a DAO

• Wyoming passed a bill to support DAOs

• Can DAOs replace universities?

• 🎥 Decentralized university model (start at 9:08)

• How DAOs represent communities of practice

• How a student-led club launched a DAO

• DAOs are the next step forward in the labor movement

• Have you heard of the first DAO hack?

• A DAO bid on the US Constitution & lost, but modeled rapid community building

• 🎥 Interview with a major DAO founder

• This is the most comprehensive landscape of DAOs

• 🔊 DAOn the Rabbit Hole

• 🔊 Can DAOs be a 10x improvement for fundraising?

Do Something in The Metaverse

Join a DAO

• Want to join a DAO but you're not sure where to start?

• How to tell if a DAO is legit

• Participating in a DAO

• An open board for DAO tasks in exchange for $tokens & membership

Education-related DAOs

• This DAO is empowering high schoolers to make a change in their communities as part of this civic leadership program

• A learning DAO for web3-curious builders & creators

• A learning DAO exploring the impact of crypto on culture and society

• A DAO for educators, by educators. Floodgates open Jan 2022.

Start a DAO

• Get advice in this general DAO forum

• Get a grant to start a DAO

• Build your DAO on open-source infrastructure with governance plugins

• An open-source software stack for DAOs that includes a library of governance protocols for creating and managing DAOs

• The DAO to DAO community

• Manage DAO treasury, categorize income and expenses, and access a real-time treasury dashboard

• Manage proposals for voting by token holders with this tool

• This tool lists ranks and analyzes top DAOs across multiple metrics

• Too long to read but if you're really starting a DAO, these are the legalities

🗓️ Events

• We missed the DAO conference but all the talks are available (free)

• DAOs, NFTs, & Metaverse for Education Innovation on Clubhouse (Dec 14, 2021, free)

• A discussion on NFTs and DAOs on Twitter Spaces (Dec 16, 2021, free)

This week’s Metaverse for Education newsletter was an intro to DAOs. More to come on NFTs, DAOs, Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, & more. We’re excited to bring education into the Metaverse & help you leverage the opportunities in the new world.

Join our community of innovative educators in the Eduverse.