About the chapter

As a chapter of the GreenPill Network, GreenPill India is committed to converging regenerative digital infrastructure with grassroots efforts in India to drive local outcomes for global problems in coordination. With a population of 1.4 billion, India holds a massive opportunity to unlock the gains from combining coordination mechanisms to drive local outcomes for global problems.

Who are we

We are an assembly of ReFi founders, designers, engineers, writers, and web3 enthusiasts who were busy in our rabbit holes until most of us met each other at various points since early 2022 when the book GreenPilled launched the meme of regenerative crypto-economics into the world. While each of us has been striving in our primary role to revive public goods in our projects, in our individual and collective capacity, we have been championing the need to fund, design, develop, and market a future rooted in regeneration.

Our long term goal

In our environment, we see that the current political landscape, welfare structures, financial systems, and philanthropic initiatives have not been able to overcome the failures in coordination for challenges across climate, healthcare, social security, education, and other public goods. From our collective experience running ReFi projects on the ground, we have first-hand evidence that the local people on the spot have the strongest incentive to get the solution right. Our mission is to facilitate the convergence of the regenerative digital infrastructure with grassroots efforts in India to drive local outcomes for global problems in coordination. We will do this through highly curated in-person experiences to introduce and apply regenerative concepts to fund and thrive public goods in India.

Milestones since the previous grant in GG19 in November 2023

• December 2023: Session on Role of Crypto in Public Goods at Interfaces Unconference at the Indian Institute of Science
• February 2024: Quadratic Voting Workshop at Atlantis Sanctuary
• March 2024: 4-hour DAO workshop for faculty at Punjabi University Centre for Emerging and Innovative Technology
• March 2024: A half-day community field visit to learn about sustainable farming

Details

1. Session on Role of Crypto in Public Goods at Interfaces Unconference at the Indian Institute of Science Dec 5, 2023

​interfaces is an unconference designed to reshape the dialogue around Web3.

Our core team members, Irthu Suresh and Rohit Malekar, facilitated participant-led conversations on concepts from the GreenPill book, including the tragedy of the commons, programmable money, forms of capital, regenerative cryptoeconomics, and primitives such as quadratic funding and retroactive funding.

2. Quadratic Voting Workshop at Atlantis Sanctuary Feb 16, 2024

Our inaugural 2024 workshop focused on the role of quadratic voting (QV) in collective decision-making by addressing a fundamental limitation of traditional voting mechanisms: the inability to measure the intensity of voters' preferences. We did some hands-on exercises to see this theory in action by executing a traditional poll and a QV to plan upcoming events for GreenPill India. Notes from the workshop: https://paragraph.xyz/@greenpill-india/qv

3. 4-hour DAO workshop for faculty at Punjabi University Centre for Emerging and Innovative Technology March 8th and March 9th

Conducted a walk-through across two 2-hour sessions with the faculty, including a hands-on QV exercise, to illustrate the role of DAOs in driving participative governance for causes a community cares about. The discussion also covered a brief history of DAOs, the theoretical underpinnings, the practical challenges, and latest trends, including talks from the founders of Atlantis DAO (Irthu Suresh), Solarpunk DAO (Utkarsh Patel) and RegenBuild (Guru Vishwas).

Workshop material day 1 Workshop material day 2

4. A half-day community field visit to learn about sustainable farming March 10th

GreenPill India facilitated a group field visit to a sustainable farm, Chiguru Ecospace near Bengaluru.

It involved a journey through the heart of sustainable agriculture with an exclusive walk-and-learn farm tour focusing on the core principles of integrated farming designed to enhance biodiversity and ecological balance.

Event details: https://lu.ma/k5r1c4wr

A detailed post will be available on https://paragraph.xyz/@greenpill-india covering the highlights of the visit by March 12th.

How will we use the funds

The GG19 Web3 Community and Education and GreenPill Network Round in November 2023 were our first-ever grant applications, as the GreenPill India chapter and we raised $900. We will continue using residual and new funds raised for the following.

• Upcoming focus: Expand the core group's subject matter expertise to new community members and enable them to scale independent projects, events, and activities.
• Use of funds: Cost of logistics to host events. Incentivizing members with relevant skills to own and deliver curated bounties for delivering on chapter priorities.
• Type of events: Highly curated in-person experiences to introduce and apply regenerative concepts to fund and thrive public goods in India.
• Measuring success: Quality of engagement, type of events, and number of artifacts produced as part of our communication and outreach.