About the Digital Aotearoa Collective RaC project
The Digital Aotearoa Collective (DAC for short) is a grassroots civil society initiative in New Zealand Aotearoa, created to bring people together who want to help people and solve problems through open collaboration. The DAC has three projects underway for 2022, including a Rules as Code (RaC) project to codify NZ’s Social Security Act. The new entitlements service will let users anonymously enter information about themselves to check their eligibility for NZ social security benefits.
As part of our commitment to RaC, Salsa donated $20K and significant resources to help the DAC project deliver its new entitlements service.
F8: Nation Building Dapps grant
The DAC team applied for a Cardano Project Catalyst F8 Nation Building Dapps in March, and in April we found out it was successful!
The total value of the grant was US$111,100 for a six-month project (May-November). This figure will allow the broader team to dedicate more resources to build the new entitlements service.
This funding represents a big win for DAC and will help ensure the success of the RaC project.
The Project Catalyst F8 Nation Building Dapps grant aims to provide building blocks through decentralised apps (Dapps). These are particularly important for poorer nations.
The deliverables
The project deliverables are broken into one-month, three-month and six-month intervals. Deliverables include:
- Cardano community outreach
- Blog posts
- User testing
- Rules coding
- Alpha launch of service
- A whitepaper
About Cardano Project Catalyst
Cardano’s Project aims to bring new, experiential initiatives to life. Proposals for projects are put forward for different funding rounds, and the Cardano community members then vote for the projects they want to see move forward.
Cardano is a public blockchain platform that ultimately aims to bring about positive global change.
Salsa’s ongoing contribution
In addition to NZ$20K, Salsa has contributed three team members to work on the Rules as Code (RaC) project. In total, this people contribution is for 24 hours per week, from February to the end of the year.