Enrique Badaracco Kolektivo

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And... the Kolektivo Festival tickets are on sale! 🎟️

Be sure not to miss out on Curaçao’s first Innovation Festival devoted to Social Impact, Entrepreneurship, and Technology at the historic Landhuis Chobolobo.

Grab your Ticket for 25 Guilders and become part of the Kolektivo Festival here 👉 https://bit.ly/3drgG2M

Signed, Sealed, Delivered ✍️

We just started working on another amazing project, but it's still hush-hush. The only thing we can reveal for now… it’s Kolektivo related and has something to do with Kura Hulanda in Otrobanda.

Here is a sneak peek of our beloved colleague Kyara Wanga closing the deal in front of an under-constructed building 👀

Recently Kolektivo attended the Ethereum Community Conference (#EthCC) in Paris. This is the largest European Ethereum event focused on technology and community. We had the chance to network, give presentations and participate in different workshops regarding ReFi and the next generation of the blockchain revolution.

It was refreshing to see the work and excitement regarding what’s being built at this moment in time. We hope to continue these conversations online while pushing #ReFiSummer ahead, one building block at a time! If by any chance we missed you in Paris please feel free to reach out to us and let’s continue building ⚒️

The first topic we will cover for our ‘What is Kolektivo’ series is ReFi. Also known as Regenerative Finance, this approach has experienced a recent uptick in adoption, especially in the web3 scene to make our economy account for the state of our environment.

In short: ReFi is an economic/financial tool that regenerates or maintains our nature in the best possible state of health 💚

To encourage regeneration and maintain healthy ecological states, Kolektivo combines the physical world (food systems, coral reefs, and other ecological assets) with the digital world (web3 technology and blockchain technology).

Where it all started 📜

Kolektivo got its start through CuraDAO. CuraDAO started in 2019 as a pilot program to use blockchain technologies to organize communities around a common goal. After winning the CITI Kickstart Innovathon in 2020 with the pitch for Kolektivo, the real work started.

At the start of 2021 a lot of groundwork took place; the publication of the Kolektivo Framework whitepaper, finding of strategic partnerships with Celo that support R&D and Fuse to launch the CuraDAI app, to make the local digital stablecoin more accessible through a user-friendly wallet.

All of this had to happen so we could officially kickstart the Kolektivo project in September 2021 through the first round of grants. The growth since then has been unimaginable. Our team alone counts over 14 members working from Curaçao and the Netherlands with over 12 international partners.

There are great things ahead, so make sure you follow along! 🌱

Curacao, are you ready? 🤩

On October 21st and 22nd, the Caribbean island of Curaçao will be the stage for the first Kolektivo Festival; a two-day Innovation Festival devoted to Impact, Technology and Culture 🎪

Leading innovators from around the globe will gather at Landhuis Chobolobo to explore and celebrate Web 3.0, Entrepreneurship, Self-development, Regeneration, and more. During the Festival, we will pilot the Kolektivo technology, a first-of-its-kind framework for local regenerative economies.

Find out more or become part of the Kolektivo Festival 👇
http://ow.ly/Nms450JKzNS

The Kolektivo team recently attended The Next Web, a tech/innovation festival that drew over 10,000 people.

Four of our Curaçao-based team members, two Ban Topa give-away winners, and the Ngrane team joined us for this epic experience and team bonding.

All the connections and experiences we gained will be important because we're planning something big in Curaçao! More information on this will be available very soon 🤩

We're starting a new series called 'What is Kolektivo?' It is a question we get quite often and because Kolektivo is so expansive, you'll always get a different answer depending on who you are talking to. So to kick off this series we thought we'd create a puzzle for you to find the relevant words when describing Kolektivo.

Can you find all of them? Let us know in the comments, and there's a chance you might win a super cool prize! 👀

Grant approved 🤝

When it comes to sports, we are all aware of the benefits that soccer and baseball can provide to our community, but what about other sports?

Game On wishes to raise awareness about the opportunities to compete professionally in various sports. Furthermore, sports provide far more job opportunities than just what they can do for athletes. Non-athletes can pursue sports-related careers like sports management, physical therapy, sports event planning, coaching, or sports data analysis.

With the Kolektivo grant, they will be able to professionalize their production and reach a wider audience 🏆

At Kolektivo we are all about incorporating technology wherever it makes sense. Hence the setup of weather stations around the island of Curaçao since March. These personal weather stations collect data such as humidity, air pressure, wind speed, etc. This data can then be used to measure the optimal environmental conditions for certain plant species and ecosystems, as well as to monitor climate conditions in the areas where food forests are currently located.

It’s great when technology supports our natural assets! 🧑‍💻🍃