GLOA x NEAR - A.I. Dragon (Thailand, May 2024)
A.I. Dragon is an experimental Knowledge & Arts series, bridging the divide of arts & tech, to brainstorm social impact. The prototype is presently underway in Goa (April 4-20), while preparing for our Thailand tour in May (Bangkok May 12, Koh Phangan May 16-20)
Section 0 - Specific Application Introduction
GLOA is a global organisation, based in Goa and NZ. Through occasional arts-tech series and tours, GLOA is rapidly growing our reach across Asia-Pacific (Nepal, South East Asia, Australia/ New Zealand), with plans to return to Africa in 2025.
We are specifically seeking support towards several live/hybrid events in Thailand, during our forthcoming âA.I. Dragonâ regional tour in May.
GLOA has an extensive track record in onboarding, educating and inspiring diverse new participants, many of whom are newcomers to the blockchain and web3 spaces. Furthermore, our events have been wonderfully gender balanced.
Our objectives further align with NEAR and GlobeDAO:
- Brainstorming and trialling safe, simplified onboarding and referral systems, particularly for non-techies
- Trialling gamification, rewards and opportunities to further incentivise attendance & participation
- Regular demonstration of NEAR to non-blockchain communities, and to a worldwide audience
- Regular educational events and workshops, from beginner through intermediate levels
- Comprehensive and transparent reporting, from which we can all learn for insights & future improvements
- Increasing awareness and viability of the NEAR platform to developers
Deliverables
- 50+ new wallets. We expect the majority of these will come from incentivising NFT tickets for our Bangkok (May 12), Koh Phangan (May 16-20) and prospective Chiang Mai / Phuket / VR Showcase events (TBC)
- Avg. transactions TBD - Experimenting with means of authentic transactions that elevate event experiences for guests (e.g. in-event, post-event interactions) without becoming cumbersome
- 1+ Partnership (Multiple prospective partnership possibilities, including Magickal Life Akademy, Bambu Huts, Mother.Domains)
- 2+ online events: May 16 and 19 in Koh Phangan
- 3+ IRL events: May 12 (Bangkok), May 16-20 in Koh Phangan, 1-2 potential additional events in Chiang Mai and/or Phuket. Total attendance: 100+ (% of NFT-based tickets to be evaluated)
- 3+ videos - Thailand tour preview, individual event previews, Tour recap / documentary, individual recorded events (likely KPG May 16), recorded live performances (BKK May 12, KPG May 18 & 19)
- 50+ active Telegram group users
- Research & development towards a prospective NFT ticketing system based on real-world data/outcomes from the AI Dragon prototype series
Section 1 - DAO/Project Information
Proposal Title: GLOA x NEAR - A.I. Dragon (Thailand, May 2024)
Organization Name: GLOA
Goa Music Lab founded in April 2021, while the DAO was initiated in July 2023
DAOâs Category: Social
Projectâs Category: Regional, Events, Community Led, NFT, Content
Section 2. Previous Funding
Have you received funding for this project from any source? Yes
Source of funding
CreativesDAO Creatives Constellation Partnership, July 2023 - [Approved] - GLOA x CreativesDAO | July 2023
MDAO supporting the AI Dragon Goa prototype, April 2024 - https://near.org/ndcdev.near/widget/MDAO.App?page=proposals&id=1710083237277
Section 3. DAO URLs
DAO / Project Website - https://gloa.live
Is Your DAO/Project Targeting a Specific Country? No
Which region will your DAO/ Project support? International, with an IRL emphasis on Asia, Asia-Pacific and Africa in the next 12-18 months
Social Media Distribution Channels
https://twitter.com/goamusiclab
Section 4. Applicant Information
Name of Point of Contact: SEA (KYC / I-Am-Human established)
Link to Governance Forum/near.social Profile GLOA - Goa Global Arts (gloa.near) | Near Social
NEAR Wallet ID seansley.near (KYC-approved)
Wallet ID that will be receiving funds gloa.sputnik-dao.near
Country of Residence - India & New Zealand
Telegram & Instagram: planseabook
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gashe/ (1446+ followers)
Post-event Reports from GLOA x DAO in 2023 (including photos, video, budgets, achievements):
Report 1 - Monsoon Sessions 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 2: South East Asia Web3 Roadshow
Report 2 - South East Asia Roadshow (with Vandal @ DAO Records) - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 2: South East Asia Web3 Roadshow
Report 3 - Nepal Tour November 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 3: Nepal Tour
Report 4 - India Blockchain Week @ Hard Rock Cafe Bangalore 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 4: India Blockchain Week @ Hard Rock Cafe
Section 5. Team Members
Sea, NZ/Goa - seansley.near - Music and tech industries veteran. One early success was popular early-2000s UMFM Radio station (âOne of the pioneers of Internet Radioâ - Knowledge Magazine, 2006). Four decades of working experience in music concerts / festivals. Senior web developer & strategist of 20+ years, with 7 years in the blockchain space, becoming a Certified Holochain Developer in 2019. Has recently focused work-life efforts towards fusing arts & technology, such as through Goa Music Lab (est. 2021). Presently organising innovative tech meetups as a FIL Orbit global ambassador. Author of two books, including the recent Plan Sea (December 2020).
Jarred Taylor (BPhil, BIR), NZ - captainjay.near - Jarred facilitates immersive experiences through an orchestration of analog and digital mediums. Jarred coordinates workshops and events for the Quarry Arts Centre, WhangÄrei Night Lights and Northland Burners (a local chapter of Burning Man held annually in the Nevada desert). Jarredâs passion is outdoor immersive art installations and virtual reality in the metaverse (working with Afterspace & Memtell GmbH, Germany). He recently concluded an extended career in Risk Management, working for major banks in Australia.
Samarth Jairaman, India - sammy-j.near - Samarthâs professional journey has had him write code/design apps for tech giants like Verizon, host immersive cultural tours through storytelling, design experiential learning workshops for schools, discover hidden away homes and hosts for Airbnb, and more. Today, Samarth leads a creative team at a boutique advertising agency where they execute campaigns for top Indian brands. For GLOA, Sammy J oversees broadcasting, while leading a hand with promotions and artist relations.
Valencia Selestina, Indonesia - valenciaselestina.near - Valencia bears a unique passion for admin, spreadsheets & paperwork, translating her technological proficiency into managing the backend of creative events. She holds a particular interest in live/online hybrid events, where participants perform from multiple international locations. Valencia is also a dancer and writer.
**Noble Luke, India - nobleluke.near **- A long-time music industry veteran, Luke is a professional voiceover artist, featuring on many of Indiaâs biggest radio commercials. His role for GLOA helps ensure the setup of live events and A/V production.
Sara Sush, India - sarasush.near - Sara is our primary drone operator, broadcast assistant manager, video camera operator and one of our photographers. Sara enjoyed a long career in tech admin while based in the USA, while more recently focusing on health & nutrition.
Section 6. Experience
Short Summary of Your and Teamâs Professional Experience
GLOA features a diverse, international blend of creatives, developers, events/festival producers, marketers and artists. They feature over a half-century in both combined festival production experience and development/business careers, excelling in A/V production, web programming, risk management, digital marketing, design and the arts. Several members are frequent speakers and practitioners at tech conferences, workshops and festivals.
The team has worked together extensively over the years. Together, Sea & Jarred have worked on tech projects & festivals - including Burning Man events - since 2014. Sea & Samarth founded Goa Music Lab in April 2021, leading to the inception of GLOA (originally Goa Global Arts Festival, October 2022). Beyond frequent live/hybrid events across Asia, the team successfully produced 2023âs Nepal tour, supported by NEAR, including Atma Taal (November 8-12), and Robots & Animals Kathmandu (November 22-26), with the support of NEAR. They produced an afterparty at India Blockchain Week, December 9th 2023 at Hard Rock Cafe Whitefield (Bangalore).
List Web3 Projects You Have Completed
Co-founder of LEGACY (Preserving Memoirs Forever) - https://legacy.page
Invitational participant in Filecoinâs FVM F1 Early Builders Cohort, September 2022 through April 2023.
Member of FIL Orbit global community since December 2022, hosting occasional Filecoin/future web hosting-related meetups.
As an Educator, have run several NFT minting workshops using NEAR wallets and Mintbase, to audiences in New Zealand (online), India, Thailand and Nepal.
Speaker at several blockchain/web3/tech conferences, including ETHIndia, FIL Bangalore, Robots & Animals, and various web3 events in Goa.
Producers of Robots & Animals Kathmandu - a 5-day boutique arts/tech festival, with knowledge sessions on blockchain, web3 solutions for artists, NFTs (minting on NEAR), generative AI, and more.
India Blockchain Week 2023 afterparty, in Bangalore - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vU1UjmvTSxY
Live Links to Examples of Relevant Work
Post-event Reports from GLOA x DAO in 2023:
Report 1 - Monsoon Sessions 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 2: South East Asia Web3 Roadshow
Report 2 - South East Asia Roadshow (with Vandal @ DAO Records) - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 2: South East Asia Web3 Roadshow
Report 3 - Nepal Tour November 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 3: Nepal Tour
Report 4 - India Blockchain Week @ Hard Rock Cafe Bangalore 2023 - [REPORT] GLOA x CDAO 2023 Project 4: India Blockchain Week @ Hard Rock Cafe
LEGACY - Preserving Memoirs Forever - https://legacy.page
Seaâs Github: motherdomains (Sea Ansley) ¡ GitHub
Portfolio of Jarredâs VR spaces: LOVEOF.ART - VR
Robots & Animals - How we added a âKnowledge Arenaâ to an arts festival, April 2023 in Goa - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnxMCeuXzsI
Monsoon Sessions (summer 2023) episode on NEAR / CDAO - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvVdZDLZ4Z8
Web3 Roadshow with Vandal @ DAO Records, September 2023 - Part I (Kuala Lumpur) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aiE2P-Ks-U
Web3 Roadshow with Vandal @ DAO Records, September 2023 - Part II (Bangkok & Koh Phangan) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ajtQjIJojQ
Goa Music Lab x Tetouze - Episode production example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HHVb9gtXpKY
Relevant Data Points Showing Your Competencies
Data points compiled from our GLOA x NEAR reports late-2023 (3-month period):
Total Instagram/FB reach: 135,408+
Total Instagram/FB views: 224,241+
Instagram accounts reached: 19,938+
NEAR wallets onboarded: <>100
Cumulative live attendance in 2023: 900-1000
Total flyers and posters distributed: 2000+
Section 7. DAO/Project Charter/Goals
Mission:
GLOA unites global creatives & technologists, to push boundaries of ingenuity and societal impact, through arts, collaboration & experimentation.
Vision:
To bring the world together peacefully through the inspiration of arts, responsible tech, and riveting shared experiences.
Core programs:
We run parallel yet complementary tracks, related to arts & technology.
On the event & festival side, we offer opportunities to artists for showcases - through live/hybrid events, studio sessions and video, encouraging artists to push imagination through experimentation. We run workshops and clinics on web3 fundamentals, such as wallet creation, crypto/blockchain safety, and generative AI minted as NFTs. We are devising tangible solutions for creatives, communities & volunteers to self-seed their projects, and mastermind DAO-led bounties that support non-profits and volunteers in developing regions (e.g. our Malawi project).
How they align with NDC:
Increasing quality NEAR wallet activations and MAA. Integrating NEAR wallet access and issuing dynamic NFT tickets required to enter our regular live & hybrid events, including post-event HD recordings of artistic performances, and accessible in custom, token-gated VR spaces.
Building and improving upon core NEAR technologies. We need to build a system to help us run these things, to progress from manual trialing, MVP, and prototype into indispensable, everyday tool.
Global, broad promotion & knowledge dissemination of NEAR. We have been NEAR proponents from our outset, crafting introductory videos and facilitating NFT minting workshops on Mintbase. Our 3-year roadmap reaches completely around the world, to sophisticated creative & arts-tech communities in a plethora of regions and cultures. We are particularly appreciative of NEAR because of its history of supporting the arts & creative projects.
Team: Sea Ansley, Samarth Jairaman, Jarred Taylor, Noble Luke, Valencia Selestina, Sara Sush
Budget requested: $3200 (Tier C)
What Problem Are You Aiming to Solve?
Exciting people about learning and harnessing the potential of emerging tech. Improving accessibility & dissemination of knowledge and content to engaged audiences, through simplistic onboarding and incentivising ongoing interaction.
AI Dragon has multiple objectives:
- Exploring how dynamic NFTs (tokens, tickets and keys) can underpin & elevate events production, audience engagement/retention, participant rewards
- Open Education & Knowledge access, including ahead of events (warming up audiences and additional promotional mechanism)
- Masterminding deFi-led methods for events teams and small communities to self-seed & resource their projects (intercorrelated with DAO, tokens & NFTs)
- To simplify onboarding authentic individuals & participants in new, safe and secure ways
- Making wallets indispensable in the operations of a fluid system/platform, and ensuring regular, authentic wallet/on-chain activity
- Following on the efforts of Robots & Animals, to inspire and spread the imperative need for responsible programming to founders & devs, particularly with AI, MLM, blockchain and
- Improving the quality and performance of tech-focused events, and improving stakeholdersâ benefits / satisfaction.
How can your DAO / Project achieve NDC priorities, goals, and KPIs?
This project strives to integrate NEAR technologies with the running, execution, attendance and accessibility of events and communities. Dynamic NFT tickets gate access to live/hybrid events, while inviting ticketholders back to enjoy post-event HD recordings of artistic performances, and accessible in custom, token-gated VR spaces.
Wallet and on-chain interactions will occur upon numerous milestones that are designed to increase in frequency:
- Registration for the event / tickets (receive NFT as ticket)
- Entering the event (NFT ticket verification / claim, can also receive Proof of Attendance)
- Perks and interactions within the event/festival itself (a key study component of our AI Dragon trials & surveys). For instance, in-house food/drink, merch, dancefloor rewards, costume prizes, (no) talent contests, quiz shows, games, etc.
- Crew & Artist payment and rewards, if applicable. Increasing events offer tokens to event participants, lowering financial risk while fairly rewarding team members upon success
- Post-event, gated access to HD media captured (performances, DJ sets, videos, documentaries, photographs, artwork, stories, etc). This media could be periodically rolled out, such as a weekly episode of sets from a festival, that could last for weeks or months.
- An award or early invitation to the next event (in our study, it will be the AI Dragon Showcase event - Milestone 3)
- Wallet interactions within the supplementary finale event (see point 3, but of a more digital nature.)
Building and improving upon core NEAR technologies.
A simpler and more secure means of onboarding masses of people to âweb3â is imperative.
Improved means of tracking referrals - for instance, wallets that originated in the GLOA community, and from which individual (if any).
Specific to AI Dragon, we are hoping to mock up a platform that automates and simplifies the workload of planning, producing, promoting & financing festivals, events and creative projects.
Leveraging NEAR technologies to greater societal benefit.
NEAR tech could play a vital role in our efforts to implement autonomous deFi systems that fund & educate social impact groups, non-profit communities and volunteers. For instance, fundraising for Malawi. A combination of DAO and deFi can protect donor funds by ensuring contributions are matched with verifiable action. AI assistants could radically transform equal access to information (and language translation), particularly useful for poor and under-educated populaces who have been historically underserved.
Promoting NEAR around the world. We have over two decades of experience producing exciting and original events. Weâve previously brought NEAR to our events Nepal, Malaysia, Thailand and India. Our roadmap spreads across the world in the coming years, with our next stop to return and grow our Thailand audience in May 2024.
Roadmap of your DAO/project, Milestones, and achievements
2024
April 2024 - Goa / India
First A.I.Dragon prototype series in Goa
Workshops and focus groups based around: 1) wallet interactions; 2) open knowledge recordings; 3) Specific development solutions
NFT ticket = access to live/VR spaces, post-event media
Q2 2024 - Thailand / South East Asia
Several trial web3/arts networking events and workshop groups. Extended NFT ticket functionality.
AI Dragon Global Bridge event to bridge Asia with Africa
Aspiring to join NEAR HZN Accelerator in June (or later in 2024, time-dependent)
Q3 2024 - India / South East Asia
4th season of Monsoon Sessions: Experimental arts & tech
Planning, practice & production. Development of prototype
Q4 2024 - South Asia and/or South East Asia
Opportunities include a return to Nepal and visiting Sri Lanka
Could scale up AI Dragon / Robots & Animals in S.E.A.
2 0 2 5
Q1 2025 - India
Upscaling larger knowledge festivals in major Indian cities
Q2 2025 - Africa
Festivals & workshops in South Africa, Nairobi & Nigeria
Tech/creative/language education in Malawi
Q3 2025 - Europe
Popup shows & exhibitions of Goa Music Lab / GLOA artists
Side shows / theme camps / booths at established festivals
Q4 2025
Latin America (TBC)
Opportunity to trial A.I.Dragon / Robots & Animals in different languages
2 0 2 6
Q1 2026 - Australia / NZ
Robots & Animals (or equivalent) tour of Australia & NZ
Q2 2026 - East Asia (TBC)
Korea, Japan, China
We intend parallel development tracks, in tandem with our evolving live events & curated experiences. The NEAR Horizon / HZN pathway is intended to support our Development track, where we would receive mentorship, resources and support towards hiring NEAR developers to build our dApps & functionality. We are looking for a Head of Tech to relieve SEA, ideally female.
Achievements
Robots & Animals Goa (April 2023) attracted <>250 guests, 50:50 male:female ratio, balancing founders, creatives devs & enthusiasts, with a Knowledge Arena - talks & presentations on emerging tech, blockchain, web3, generative AI and neural mapping
Nepal Tour November 2023 initiated a vibrant & supportive local community while attracting several hundred people and participants across 2 festivals & 4 popup shows.
Brought NEAR to new regions & audiences, such as Nepal, and meetups in KL / BKK
NEAR joined us at India Blockchain Week December 2023, for our show at Hard Rock Cafe in Whitefield/ Bangalore
Doubled our Instagram following over the course of initiating our DAO
Projected Budget for the next two months (In USD for each Task/Milestone)
What is the length of Commitment to Delivering Your Project? 1-2 months
Will your team be working on this project full-time? Yes
Will your team be fully remunerated from this budget? No. DAO Bounties where necessary.
USD 3200 - (TH)AI DRAGON
Events throughout Bangkok, Koh Phangan, Chiang Mai (TBC)
2-3 Web3-focused meetups testing a range of formats and audience interactivity. Seeking to meet / onboard Founders, Devs, Promoters and Creatives. Knowledge events workshopping wallets, NFTs, AI, with post-Knowledge arts. Budget covers venues, event & video production, promotion, content, catering, artists & presenters, crew, broadcast, rentals, moderate travel allowance for 3-4 crew
Confirmed event dates:
Sun, May 12 - Bangkok @ Speakerbox (live electronic music event, requiring NFT tickets)
May 16-20 - Koh Phangan. Centrepiece Web3 event (May 16), workshops (May 17-18), centerpiece arts performance (May 18 TBC) live-to-air DJ stream into metaverse space (May 19)
Budget/time-dependent, we are considering opportunities for smaller web3/arts events in Chiang Mai and/or Phuket later in May
- Web3 Event budgets include allocations for production, content creation, promotion (flyers, posters, social), printing, artists/presenters, catering for guests/crew, audio/video recording & occasional broadcasting, venue rental if applicable, audio/visual rentals & engineers, etc.
- Content Creation and marketing materials include promotional printing/distribution, design and video assets for regular social posts, and post-event episodes of recorded performances / highlights, all of which will include NEAR branding
- We will consider NEAR token giveaways, perhaps to incentivise the most number of on-chain transactions
- SWAG is NOT budgeted, as there is the sentiment that it contributes to wasteful printing & manufacturing. If NEAR feels itâs important to offer a selection of high quality, eco-friendly merchandise, we can explore local manufacturing in Thailand, and offer a merch table (extra production costs required)
- Detailed budgets and breakdowns will be shared upon each Milestoneâs report
Section 9. Project/DAO longevity
Does your project/DAO require one-time or continuous funding? One-time
Will your DAO/Project device way of sustaining itself after this round of funding? Ideally. We will continue to self-fund as necessary, while assessing the viability to progress our Dev funding tracks
What are the possible roadblocks to the success of your project/DAO? Technological issues that complicate our ambitions. For example, to correlate NFTs with virtual/live tickets & access, or even simpler wallet onboarding/usage, or systems are too slow and buggy. Otherwise, at this point, the DAO and project are strong, and on a solid upwards trajectory.
Thank you for your time, consideration and good service. Please feel free to reach out with any questions / ideas, and we can arrange a meeting if desired.
