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On top that we specialise in accounting for impact, not just the monetary value but externalities and cobenefits, full true real cost.", "hidden": false, "question": "How is the project CollabTech?", "questionId": 3}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Targeted user group:\n1. Regen projects that want to prove their impact\n2. Impact investors who want to have confidence their money is well spent.\n\n**What's the need / problem:**\nThe free markets do not account for the full cost of the products / goods / services. Externalities often are unaccounted for, they are externalised towards:\n* nature\n* vulnerable communities\n* future generations\nOur solution is to account for the full cost of the products / goods / services.", "hidden": false, "question": "Who's the targeted user group and what's the need/problem being addressed?", "questionId": 4}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "The size of the carbon credit markets is growing. The demand for impact evaluation services is growing too. We are part of the growing industry and we have ambition to become the Schelling Point for all things related to impact evaluation.\n\nWe also have sustainable business model (marketplace fee) allowing us to continue operations as commercially viable product, beyond grant funding.", "hidden": true, "question": "How do you ensure value keeps being delivered after the round is over? (How will the project become commercially sustainable or a perennial good? )", "questionId": 5}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "From the roadmap (main body of the grant). Point 1 is an ongoing effort, always \"fresh\", there is always more content to be added to the wiki.\n\nPoint 2 (Training program for impact verifiers) is something that can be delivered in 10-12 weeks:\n\n1. Researching the technology platform to create the course\n2. Building the educational content\n3. Recording the videos (or any other suitable form factor)", "hidden": true, "question": "How long will it take after funding is received to deliver value? (share a high level timeline)", "questionId": 6}, {"type": "paragraph", "answer": "Group chat: t.me/ImpactEval\nPersonal: t.me/marsXR\nWhatsApp: +44 758 629 4279", "hidden": true, "question": "Contact info (telegram handle or whatsapp)", "questionId": 7}], "project": {"id": "0xcad1a6beaa938fe34acd0afa4193a345b5cccdab775c2246b9dd56cb6b1d7f5d", "title": "ImpactEvaluation.Foundation (IEF)", "logoImg": "bafkreiaazarh7r73jlbcojpw6a7lp5zptw5lji4qbpqved2cucwh47dolm", "metaPtr": {"pointer": "bafkreiaagq3abw7cz64xqhetfi7qow4ynd26g64gwkz75jgj3oi22wut5u", "protocol": "undefined"}, "website": "https://ImpactEvaluation.Foundation", "bannerImg": "bafybeics5m6pr2gl7rkptv7k5gx6j6dlvgps6wnyvckpsxttmbhv6junu4", "createdAt": 1722768575895, "credentials": {"twitter": {"type": ["VerifiableCredential"], "proof": {"jws": "eyJhbGciOiJFZERTQSIsImNyaXQiOlsiYjY0Il0sImI2NCI6ZmFsc2V9..z-igr6DUa0-ePbhv4T9DNnI2wOeWNVe8sUgbRybGbFyLRoezfazAsP_LyhTjALmGleL8PTF4iysfioksr8TbAA", "type": "Ed25519Signature2018", "created": "2024-08-04T10:56:23.592Z", "proofPurpose": "assertionMethod", "verificationMethod": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC#z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC"}, "issuer": "did:key:z6MkghvGHLobLEdj1bgRLhS4LPGJAvbMA1tn2zcRyqmYU5LC", "@context": ["https://www.w3.org/2018/credentials/v1"], "issuanceDate": "2024-08-04T10:56:23.592Z", "expirationDate": "2024-11-02T10:56:23.592Z", "credentialSubject": {"id": "did:pkh:eip155:1:0xB7C41cC31Ae1b2073e41D906306e1a88AD550b4b", "hash": "v0.0.0:a4nEcxX4Ccf6rMofABZjgl9WwNKjj6lABLgjvsVMwvg=", "@context": [{"hash": "https://schema.org/Text", "provider": "https://schema.org/Text"}], "provider": "ClearTextTwitter#ImpactEvalFDN"}}}, "description": "# Does exactly what says on the tin\n\nIEF (Impact Evaluation Foundation) has ambition to become the Schelling point for all things related to impact evaluation.\n\nWe exists to organise ([knowledge base wiki](https://basex.notion.site/Impact-Evaluation-Foundation-wiki-knowledge-base-baca08ae757842898421a9c5348ca776?pvs=4)), document, cross-pollinate the best practices in the theme of MRV (measurement, reporting, verification), impact, evaluation, externalities, cobenefits.\n\nEquipped with these tools and knowledge, markets can become more efficient by accounting for the full cost, without externalising it to nature, vulnerable communities, future generations.\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/laPG9Qe.jpeg[/img])\n\nStill frame from a great video about **True Cost Accounting**: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sej0w33BW2E\n\n# History / background of the project\n\nThe IEF (ImpactEvaluation.Foundation) was initiated during GG20 Let\u2019s Grow Live Twitter spaces\u2026 Many hours of conversations / research / brainstorming led to that moment.\n\nWe are all about impact evaluation in a fully transparent, collaborative, open-source, creative commons, Public Good from the start.\n\nWe also believe that getting started (however imperfect), sharing the lessons, improving along the way is much better than the existing status quo. We do not have all the answers yet but we know where we are heading.\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/FIjnMYM.png)\n\n# Detailed plan of action / milestones / roadmap\n\nThis grant application outlines a comprehensive strategy to create a robust, open-source platform that facilitates best practices in impact verification.\n\nWe aim to provide a Public Good by developing a collaborative knowledge base, training programs, and a marketplace that connects impact verifiers with organisations needing verification services.\n\n### 1. Creating a wiki knowledge base\n**Objective:** Establish an open-source knowledge base that consolidates articles, tools, frameworks, protocols, companies, best practices, involved in ecological impact verification (MRV). \n**Components:**\n* Comprehensive Database: Gather and document tools, metrics, frameworks, companies, organisations, protocols, everything in the ecological impact space.\n* Best Practices Documentation: Provide detailed guidelines for various types of ecological impact verification. For example:\n    * Tree Planting Verification: Guidelines on checking the spacing of planted trees, survival rates over time, etc.\n    * Soil Health Monitoring: Methods to assess soil composition, fertility, and health post-intervention.\n    * Water Quality Assessment: Protocols for measuring changes in water quality in ecosystems.\n    * Biodiversity Surveys: Techniques for evaluating the impact on local biodiversity.\n \n**Benefits:** Create a publicly accessible resource that supports and enhances the efforts of impact evaluators, researchers, lawmakers, and organisations, ensuring transparency and standardisation in ecological impact assessment.\n\nIn the initial stages focus is on ecology / climate / environment and collaboration with EBF (ecological benefits framework): https://ebfcommons.org/  Long term, our goal as IEF is to be comprehensive and account for all sorts of impact: healthcare, education, finance, infrastructure, everything.\n\n### 2. Training program for impact verifiers\n**Objective:** Develop a training program that equips impact verifiers with the necessary skills and knowledge.\n**Components:**\n* Accessible Learning Platform: Provide a user-friendly platform accessible from any device, featuring video content and interactive modules.\n* Curriculum Development: Cover key topics such as impact measurement methodologies, data analysis, reporting standards, and use of the platform.\n* Practical Training: Include real-life case studies and scenarios to ensure practical understanding.\n* Certification: Offer certification upon successful completion, enhancing the credibility and employability of participants.\n\n**Benefits:** Build a global pool of qualified impact verifiers capable of conducting reliable and accurate assessments, fostering a standard of excellence in the field.\n\n### 3. Marketplace for impact verification services\n**Objective:** Design, develop, test and launch a marketplace for impact verification services, connecting verifiers with organisations needing verification.\n**Stakeholders:**\n* Impact Verifiers: Individuals who have completed the training program and are certified to conduct impact verifications.\n* Organisations: Companies requiring impact verification services, such as carbon credit companies, investors, and other stakeholders.\n\n**Features:**\n* Smart Contracts: Use blockchain technology to facilitate secure and transparent transactions between verifiers and organisations.\n* Reputation System: Implement a reputation-based system and leaderboard to incentivize accuracy and reliability among verifiers.\n* Impact Verification Marketplace: Provide a platform where organisations can find and hire qualified verifiers for their projects.\n\n**Benefits:** Create an efficient, transparent marketplace that fosters trust and accountability, ensuring high standards in ecological impact verification.\n\n### 4. Initial implementation and feedback loop\n**Objective:** Start with Mars (one of the co-initiators) as the first impact verifier to pilot the process and gather feedback.\n\n**Components:**\n* Mars will conduct initial impact verifications and write detailed reports, most likely locally in the UK\n* Lessons learned will be used to improve the wiki, training program, and platform.\n\n**Benefits:** Continuous improvement of resources and processes, informed by real-world experience. Cross-pollination of best regen practices between projects.\n\n# Timing that makes it possible\n\n* Urgency and awareness of the climate change: timing\n* Data: satellites, drones, IoT sensors\n* Ability to process it: machine learning, AI\n* Trust, transparency, immutability: blockchain\n* Community, crowdsourcing, incentives: token engineering\n* Business model and availability of funding: impact investment\n\nCheck the [TED talk](https://www.ted.com/talks/bill_gross_the_single_biggest_reason_why_start_ups_succeed?subtitle=en): The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed. **TLDR:** Timing!\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/tHFewQk.png)\n\n# Existing impact\n\nThe project is relatively new so please have understanding about the current impact.\n\n* Gathering the biggest \ud83e\udde0 in the space: https://t.me/ImpactEval\n* Internal infra, becoming ready to get rolling at scale\n* Seeding the [wiki knowledge base](https://basex.notion.site/Impact-Evaluation-Foundation-wiki-knowledge-base-baca08ae757842898421a9c5348ca776?pvs=4) on Notion\n\n# Potential impact / impact metrics\n\n* Number of entries in the knowledge base wiki\n* Number of organisations using IEF\n* The % of global GDP that is being evaluated through IEF\n\nThis sounds like big hairy audacious goal / \"blue sky\" thinking but is not without merit.\n\nReasonable example: Onboard 10 organisations from Gitcoin / ReFi / Web3 ecosystem... Together they generate $100k in monetary value and $1m in cobenefits and $500k in avoided externalities. That's $1.6m in total and give 100 trillion global GDP that equals: 0.0000016%\n\nWe like this metric as it is ambitious and provides a North Star towards onboarding more and more powerful organisations. Or even entire countries \ud83d\udcab  \n\nRegulatory and voluntary carbon markets are growing and we are almost certain that impact evaluation services will grow alongside with them:\n![](https://i.imgur.com/JZFWmSj.png)\n\n\n# Use of funds\n\nBased on the roadmap.\n\n* Rewarding most active contributors to the wiki (point 1)\n* Creation of the training programme (point 2)\n* Development of the marketplace (point 3)\n* Visiting projects on the ground, gathering their insights, analysing the data (point 4)\n\n# Public Good, transparent, open-source, creative commons\n\nThe only non-public piece information is password to the email that is shared across the team members\n\nWe are Public Good from the start. At the same time, we also have robust business model in place that will enable us to achieve economic sustainability: marketplace fee. Connecting verifiers with organisations needing verification.\n\n# Team and contact \u260e\ufe0f\n\nMany years in the climate space.\n\n* Lead: https://x.com/marsXRobertson\n* Collaborator: https://x.com/DanielofAnu/\n* Message us on Telegram: https://t.me/ImpactEval\n* Follow us on Twitter: https://x.com/ImpactEvalFDN\n\n![](https://i.imgur.com/QPKcfnw.jpeg)\n\n# Threshold\n\nFor the purpose of **CollabTech Round and Thresholds Experiment**: $500\n\nExplanation: we participate in multiple Gitcoin rounds and even $500 is worth the operational overhead.\n\nOur goal is to raise at least $2000 combined across multiple rounds. For the detailed breakdown of the milestones see our roadmap *(mentioned above in this grant)* \ud83d\ude4f", "lastUpdated": 0, "projectTwitter": "ImpactEvalFDN"}, "recipient": "0xc46A721670736a7A968FE6D917Ce3e015c6740CB"}}