The primary initiative Education DAO is seeking funding for is Words of Web3, a dynamic glossary for technical terminology used in the web3 industry.

Being a multilingual glossary that aims to provide a uniform understanding of the language used in and about web3. Being multilingual, it seeks to provide critical context in a culturally and linguistically appropriate way to learners and builders around the globe, thereby promoting linguistic equity in this space.

As an open source project, it seeks the input about and addition of terms from anyone in the community, and employs a strict content quality process to ensure consistency and accuracy, while respecting dialectical variation.

It is a tool that can be added to and used by organizations seeking clarity around language choices. It can be added to docs sites for any number of projects, and it can be a common source of truth for the words and terms we all use. Additionally, these glossary entries will be able to cross-reference each other, enabling a sufficient degree of contextual definition.

In tangible terms, Words of Web3 will be a “smart glossary” which developers can query to supplement their own documentation, to include a rigorously refined set of definitions for terms relevant within the context of their projects. By instituting this option for a universal lexicon of technical terminology, we hope to abridge the knowledge gaps and asymmetries across web3 projects and their user bases.

We will also provide a lightweight frontend for the glossary, so that non-technical users can access the knowledge base. We also hope to eventually develop a community-driven method for maintaining and expanding the glossary, enabling subject matter experts to contribute to the glossary, but in the short term we plan on developing this glossary as a centralized team.