EVR is a distributed mobile application that helps you find your people and your purpose.

-Find local opportunities that pique your interest, -Build Guilds centered around that shared pursuit. -Be seen for who you are, and known for what you do. Small groups of thoughtful committed people, at scale, -En Vida Real

EVR makes your local opportunities visible and creates network connections while building your reputation, providing you with social recognition and belonging.. The EVR app connects you not only through your latent interests but through specific actionable projects within Guilds, and since they’re ‘member’-generated, they can become as fractal as need be; ensuring that you, with niche and local skills and interests, will be able to find everything you need to pursue your passion seamlessly, like a real life video-game.

.: Our Focus for this grant

dTVET (distributed Technical and Vocational Education and Training)

.: What is it?

A framework to meet the Capacity building and readiness goals set by communities of practice. It outlines the Fundamental Domain Competencies needed for a given scope of work, the performance objectives needed to demonstrate each, and whose authority is needed to verify each. This process can be adapted to meet the credentialing schema of more mature organizations with existing performance standards & rubrics; but was conceived of as a way for less-established organizations to develop & implement their own Standard-Operating-Procedures and Safe-Work-Practices from the ground up.

.:How does it happen?

Formalization begins with the clear intention to do so by a Community of Practice (mediated via our Community Governance Process). What follows is the solicitation of Procedural-knowledge from those most experienced/proficient in their field (as measured by aptitude amongst their peers via our Social Recognition Software). Then a consolidating of this collective know-how into a formal Knowledge-model and credentialing schema (another Community Governance Process), which can be disseminated to those in the field at large. (A process that can be repeated at varying intervals)

.:Why distributed?

Given that skill sets, know-how, and productive capacities are not diminished over time but improved by iteration; our approach to TVET is informed more by Biology than Epistemology. We assume a non-zero-sum, living model of Knowledge that benefits from cross-pollination between variations in problem solving tactics & heuristics. And that this essential diversity is better preserved through a distributed-heterarchy than a that monolithic-hierarchy.

.: Our Blue Paper https://evr-app.gitbook.io/evr-documentation-july23-draft/