Press Release: World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) welcomes Snake Nation into its membership as the first recipient of a Grant for the Web inclusion grant

Dear friends of W3C,

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and Grant for the Web welcome new W3C member Snake Nation whose social media platform offers Web monetization and greater access to the web for diverse voices.

In early 2021 the Web Consortium announced its collaboration with Grant for the Web, a program of the Interledger Foundation. Together the organizations aim to ensure that the proposals, grantees, and community of the Grant for the Web program will shape the emerging Web Monetization ecosystem so that it supports scalable, global, and open standardization.

Snake Nation is a mission-driven, culture, content and technology company based in Cape Town, South Africa and Atlanta, USA. The company's mission is to enable equity in the creative economy for diverse creators by giving them the tools to own their individual narrative. The company does so via a new kind of social media platform, SnakeNation.io where members are incentivized for engaging with content like posting, flame-ups, comments and shares and can earn digital currency. By linking creative and economic freedom and tapping into the intersection of culture and technology, millennials now have at their fingertips a powerful means of alleviating youth unemployment and poverty

"Media consumption has changed, and so has the world,” says SnakeNation.io CEO and Tech Visionary, Karl Carter.  "Millennials watch what they want, when they want and how they want. They have the buying power to move the needle and their diverse stories are not reflected in traditional media. We are thankful and excited to be recognized by W3C and Grant for The Web for our work to create a more just and equitable internet. We know that in our mission to create more equity in the creative economy, web monetization is a major tool that can create massive change for those creators and youth who use the web to earn a living. Having access to the world class tools, network and community of W3C and GFTW will help propel our collective missions forward." 

To learn more, the press release is copied as text below and online at: https://www.w3.org/2021/08/pressrelease-snakenation.html

Please feel free to contact me at <w3t-pr@w3.org>,  Nomsa Mdhluli at Tishala Communications at <nomsa@tsihalacommunications.com>, 
Roy Bannister at Tishala Communications  at <roy@tishalacommunications.com> or Chris Lawrence, Interledger Foundation: <chris@interledger.org> to schedule an interview.

Thank you.

Yours sincerely,

Amy van der Hiel
W3C Media Relations Coordinator

 

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   [1]W3C [2]Grant for the Web logo [3]Snake Nation logo Under
   embargo until 2020-08-17

      [1] 
https://www.w3.org/

      [2] 
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

      [3] 
https://snakenation.co/



     World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) welcomes Snake Nation into its
membership as the first recipient of a Grant for the Web inclusion grant
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   [4]Translations | [5]W3C Press Release Archive
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      [4] 
https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2021#snakenation

      [5] 
https://www.w3.org/Press/


   [6]
https://www.w3.org/
 — 17 August 2021 — The World Wide Web
   Consortium ([7]W3C) and [8]Grant for the Web welcome new W3C
   member [9]Snake Nation whose social media platform offers Web
   monetization and greater access to the web for diverse voices.

      [6] 
https://www.w3.org/

      [7] 
https://www.w3.org/

      [8] 
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

      [9] 
https://snakenation.co/


   The World Wide Web Consortium develops global Web standards
   that help ensure access for all, with a vision for one,
   interoperable World Wide Web for all humanity. In early 2021
   the Web Consortium [10]announced its collaboration with
   [11]Grant for the Web, a program of the [12]Interledger
   Foundation. Together the organizations aim to ensure that the
   proposals, grantees, and community of the Grant for the Web
   program will shape the emerging Web Monetization ecosystem so
   that it supports scalable, global, and open standardization.

     [10] 
https://www.w3.org/blog/2021/01/grant-for-the-web/

     [11] 
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/

     [12] 
https://interledger.org/


  Snake Nation awarded first W3C Grant for the Web inclusion grant

   W3C and Grant for the Web are also working together to identify
   geographic areas of growth,  target programs and development
   opportunities for these regions, as well as Inclusion Grants to
   underwrite new W3C memberships in lower income countries. Snake
   Nation joins the Web Consortium today as the first of these new
   members.

   [13]Snake Nation is a mission-driven, culture, content and
   technology company based in Cape Town, South Africa and
   Atlanta, USA. The company's mission is to enable equity in the
   creative economy for diverse creators by giving them the tools
   to own their individual narrative. The company does so via a
   new kind of social media platform, [14]SnakeNation.io where
   members are incentivized for engaging with content like
   posting, flame-ups, comments and shares and can earn digital
   currency. By linking creative and economic freedom and tapping
   into the intersection of culture and technology, millennials
   now have at their fingertips a powerful means of alleviating
   youth unemployment and poverty.

     [13] 
https://snakenation.co/

     [14] 
https://snakenation.io/


   Their new media platform and digital currency launched recently
   in South Africa and aims to target creatives across this
   African country. Snake Nation has already founded creative
   college societies with access to an audience of over 8-million
   Multicultural Millennial creators and consumers. Snake Nation
   also drives awareness and participation in Southern Africa on
   52 campuses and reaches 600k students.

  Incorporating diverse perspectives from across the globe

   "We’re excited to welcome Snake Nation as our first recipient
   of the W3C & Grant for the Web Membership scholarship,” says
   Dominique Hazael-Massieux, W3C Developer Relations Lead. “We
   believe passionately that to ensure that the Web achieves its
   role as a universal platform for humanity, its design needs to
   incorporate diverse perspectives from across the globe.
   Participation by organizations like Snake Nation is vital to
   W3C’s and Grant for the Web’s vision - we will have more
   creativity, more innovation and ultimately, a better web for
   everybody."

   "Media consumption has changed, and so has the world,” says
   SnakeNation.io CEO and Tech Visionary, Karl Carter.
   "Millennials watch what they want, when they want and how they
   want. They have the buying power to move the needle and their
   diverse stories are not reflected in traditional media. We are
   thankful and excited to be recognized by W3C and Grant for The
   Web for our work to create a more just and equitable internet.
   We know that in our mission to create more equity in the
   creative economy, web monetization is a major tool that can
   create massive change for those creators and youth who use the
   web to earn a living. Having access to the world class tools,
   network and community of W3C and GFTW will help propel our
   collective missions forward."

   "Snake Nation’s unique approach to tackling a number of key
   issues immediately grabbed our attention,” says Chris Lawrence,
   Senior Program Manager from Grant for the Web. "Their unique
   take on the platform addresses key issues like community via
   social media to promote creators, equity by monetizing the web
   via crypto and education by ensuring equal access to all."

Note to editors: For more information

   [15]World Wide Web Consortium
   [16]Snake Nation
   [17]Grant for the Web

     [15] 
https://www.w3.org/

     [16] 
https://snakenation.io/

     [17] 
https://www.grantfortheweb.org/


   End Press Release

Media Contacts

   Nomsa Mdhluli at Tishala Communications - South Africa: +27 (0)
   71 6286231 or <[18]nomsa@tsihalacommunications.com>
   Roy Bannister at Tishala Communications - South Africa +27 (0)
   82 468 8622 or <[19]roy@tishalacommunications.com>

     [18] mailto:nomsa@tsihalacommunications.com
     [19] mailto:roy@tishalacommunications.com

   Amy van der Hiel, World Wide Web Consortium:
   <[20]w3t-pr@w3.org>

     [20] mailto:w3t-pr@w3.org

   Chris Lawrence, Interledger Foundation:
   <[21]chris@interledger.org>
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     [21] mailto:chris@interledger.org

   [22]Translations | [23]W3C Press Release Archive

     [22] 
https://www.w3.org/Press/Releases-2021#snakenation

     [23] 
https://www.w3.org/Press/
 


—
Amy van der Hiel
W3C Media Relations Coordinator
W3C/MIT
32 Vassar Street, Cambridge, MA USA
email: amy@w3.org
phone: +16172535628
pronouns: she/her

Received on Tuesday, 17 August 2021 14:18:15 UTC