General Updates

Fundraising

• Introduction to USAID and Mastercard Foundation
• Applications to Y-Combinator, Emergent Ventures, Dell Foundation

Partnerships

New members

• Raghav Prasad - trustee. 20+ years in payments. Formerly at Mastercard Africa
• Stanisław Malinowski - Software developer and a recent computer science graduate. Developing web apps, mobile platform apps. Explores blockchain and AI technologies. Passionate about knowledge sharing, the semantic web, and advances in NLP.

Team updates

Programme

• Further development of the internship programme

Marketing

• Nominated in the Cardano Summit 2023 “Blockchain for Good” category

Tech

• Donation portal user friendliness updates

Next Up

• Ethiopia Intro Course #2 and Ethiopia Bootcamp launch
• CEO Simon Sällström Masterclass at the Cardano Foundation Summit 2023
• Atala PRISM SSI workshop in Ethiopia