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region in Latino America so two years
ago we had Defcon six in bota it was an
event that broke thousands of Minds to
the city to get together and
start improving the ways that we did
things before Devcon
so in Devcon it was a fantastic
fantastic
gathering in one venue a big venue that
we had have in the city there in Bogota
it was a place where we were able to
meet in between and start working
together a lot of things started at that
moment in the whole region uh with
leaders uh from every uh country of the
region and it sparkled it started
something that was starting joining
together more community in the different
cities of the region and having uh
community events that brought a lot of
people inside the different
countries ER there were a lot of new
steps on how to bring blockchain
education to the region
through different methods all over the
place all over the different countries
uh starting using um new programs to
involve developers in the ethereum
ecosystem and it started growing through
alliances with universities and networks
of universities this was something that
wasn't happening a lot before the Devcon
but afterwards it started to pop up in
different places all over the region uh
and it happened more to hackathons and
these alliances with
universities and it it just came all
over the place so right now between all
the different communities around
ethereum in the region we have on
boarded over 2,000 developers web mainly
Web Two developers into the web tree
ecosystem and the ethereum ecosystem
itself two different programs and it's
people who before
Devcon they had no idea of what was
going on in the industry but now we have
this uh new sense of consciousness of
what are the
possibilities and mainly taking the
message to the people in the region that
it's not an industry only to be a user
but you can be a builder and it's
something that it's being made to
attending three main points that is
Community Education and development two
alliances events and production and it
is growing and growing there's more and
more uh alliances happening all over the
Latin region between the communities in
universities other different communities
social uh places and and in general the
actors of the ecosystem like putting
everything together to make things
happen and right now uh there has been a
great Improvement in the ways to do and
to bring the education to the people uh
through online programs ER and putting
together developers and students from
all the region together developers and
non-developers who are starting to build
in the in in this program have we had
some impact I'm just going to mention a
few cases of the students that we have
had that I don't know 18 months ago they
had no idea about the industry and now
there's the case of Neil who at his 17
became a deathcon 2023 scholar and he
was able to travel to Turkey and share
his experience as a new developer with
developers from all over the world and
also after this time Christian and Juan
Diego who are here today they after
taking this these courses and joining to
this processes and giving time to it
they have been able to find jobs in the
web three industry and go to they they
used to work at a call center before
that and now they are part of the
industry and they were able to travel
here to Defcon uh so what next what
needs to go next we need Regional
coordination we need we need to nure an
environment of trust between Community
Builders and Community users so we can
take all this to the next steps uh after
the education and create spaces in
common between the different actors of
the whole region so we need to push to
encourage frequent blockchain
interaction within the different
communities and places where we can
share hackaton opportunities to work
open source and bring this to a Next
Level before the end I just want to
mention uh between into this great
impact that has been in the region there
have been also very difficult times uh
he was Emerson David Silva he was part
of the E Colombia leadership and he was
Assassin by the war this terrible War we
have in Colombia so so we lost him this
year in March 27
and I asked myself why can't I do
Emerson to preserve and honor your
legacy he present every day in my
thoughts and the community and the
leadership thoughts we want to make his
legacy to go further uh so we have we we
need to support Emerson's family uh so
if if you scan this QR code we have a
giveth project so we are
uh uh trying to get funds to help his
family and to keep on helping on the
operations h on education in Colombia
and aroka uh so thank you very much uh
it's been a pleasure and thank
you thank you we're going to do one
quick question of Q&A you mentioned you
onboarded 2,000 developers to the
ecosystem how did you estimate this
number uh this number is estimated
between data that we have from the
different uh
organizational processes that is been
taken in into the into the region so we
have it's more than 15 organizations on
boarding new developers so this number
comes from brother it's been done in the
L 18 months and what do you think are
the best next steps for the students
that just learned about ethereum it's
the next step is the most important
thing because we need them
to take what they learn to the uh to to
the different educational process and
apply that into hackathons working in
open source working together meeting
other people and this is something that
we are pushing right now thank you very
much that conclud the session everyone
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