2023-cohort-3
art-and-culture
africa-southern
africa
Mulenga
Zambia
Mulenga Kapwepwe is co-founder of the Women’s History Museum of Zambia. There are many African artifacts in museums around the world, but rarely do those items have a tangible connection to the people and communities who created them. For her Fellowship, Mulenga is working with the Zambian web3 community to create a tokenized artifact registry, experimenting with museum revenue sharing for community documentation of art, customs, and crafting methodologies still practiced by the descendants of those items on display in museums around the world. Even if the items won’t return to their places of origin in the near future, it’s a small step toward bridging a gap of ownership that spans centuries.
Japan
asia
education
2023-cohort-3
Ongaeshi is exploring retroactive solidarity payments in education and employment.
Ukraine
research
europe
2023-cohort-3
Studying and documenting grassroots adoption of blockchain and other decentralized applications within the Ukrainian community