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# GaiaFest - open innovation platform launch

This document outlines how we propose to open source (ie launch) the DEIP Open Innovation Platform at an online event we organise as part of Earth Day (Thursday April 22nd 2021). The strategy involves piggy backing on two existing international events (Earth Day and COP26) and using both of these events to grow a community around using the DEIP platform. 

We can outline this strategy as consisting of the following components:
1. Earth Day Launch - April 22nd 2021 - sign-up to workshopps
2. DEIP Open Source Workshop - Friday 30th April
3. Further DEIP workshops - Earth Action Academy from May to November
4. COP26 Conference - Novemeber 2021

## PR (aims)
The purpose of this event from DEIPs perspective is to attract an international audience focussed on (environmental) science, and interested in taking part at COP26 in Glasgow in November. There are many international events taking place on this day which we can piggy back on, and the aim of the event is to invite people to a DEIP workshop a week later.

Once we have established the basics of the event as described in this document, we intend to reach out to influencers and notable individuals in popular culture and climate science to provide endorsements, and participation through providing media, or live engagement with workshops and at COP26. We have a list of people ready to contact, and some direct and direct points of contact ready to follow through on - but this is the second stage of the PR campaign. For now we need to focus on the launch.

### Partner Organsiations
To support this programme we have established a number of partner organisations, that are motivated to work with us. We have been in discussion with these organisations and they have agreed to help launch the project by providing content, and helping to run workshops. We have also a numbeer of software developers, and motivated young people that we are able to direct into helping to promote and market the workshops, and the climate action festival at COP26.

## Climate Data
Our current partners are able to provide two existing and extensive data sets on climate science and publish them on the DEIP Open Innovation Platfrom. 
- The first dataset consists of thousands of climate articles that have been analysed using social science techniques to extract a Climate Debate Graph in which the articles are linked to claims for and against climate change. 
- The second dataset consists on over 100,000 articles that have been indexed in a number of ways to create a Climate Science Graph. 

Our aim is to announce this project on Earth Day and then run a series of workshops win which we begin to add this climate data to the DEIP blockchain. We intend to run these "content workshops" together with climate scientists, students, wikipedians and activists starting in May 2021.

## DEIP Workshops
In addition to the "content workshops", we wish to invite blockchain and fornt end developers to learn the DEIP open source platform, building a developer comminity around the need to develop and enhance the software for particular knowledge domains.

On Earth Day (and at other opportunities), we will invite people to workshops that a range of people can take part in. It is this focus on interdisciplinary work, supported by a methodology that brings together developers and content creators that we believe has the potential to maximise community growth around the DEIP platform.

### Suggested focus of developer workshops
We have the interst of a number of developers that wish to join the workshops around the following topics of interest:

1. Front end development based on markdown and Federated Wiki.
1. Smart Contract developers interested in community currency
1. Lawyers and legal-tech developers interested in supply-chain contracts
1. Smart contract and mobile developers interested in impact assesment
1. Front end developers interested in visualising network value flows

We suggest these domains of interest as we have established groups that have expressed an interest in joning these workshops based around deveoping practical projects to showcase at COP26. Other workshops are possible, and the structure we ppropose allows projects to self-organise similar to how Meetups are created. 

### Opening workshop
We proppose presenting the technical details and giving a more detailed introduction to the DEIP open source platform, by postponing this until at least a week after Earth Day. This gives us the opportunity to market the launch and workshops to a wider community. 

The structure we are propposing is based on the methodology of our partner organisations. This involves:

1. Opening workshop on Friday 30th April
2. Invitation to 6 weekly Zoom events with breakouts
3. Mixed teams grouped into cohorts of 36 people (6 groups of 6).

These workshops would be supported by a fixed amount of developer / teaching time from DEIP and run by teh World Climate School and the team organising the international climate conference as part of COP26.

Workshop participants would include content authors, block chain developers, front end developers, lawyers, wikipedians, activists, students and regenerative businesses and startups. Theri otivation would be to learn, and the opportunity to present their work at COP26 to an international audience.


## International Climate Conference
The aim and end result of this project is to present the DEIP Open Innovation Platform together with an active global community of researchers and authors on the world stage at COP26 in November. All participants will in part be motivated by the opportunity to present their work on an international stage, with the focus on taking climate action. DEIPP is unique with regard to its ability to both publish, measure impact and incentivise climate action.

At COP26 we aim to generate as much publicity as possible and to use the DEIP platfrom to raise as much investment as possible around taking climate action. The event at COP26 will be part conference, and part fringe festival together with music, film and digital art works. The details with regard to the PR strategy for this "climate action festival" are presented in another document.