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content/newsroom/africanregensummit/index.md

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+id: africanregensummit
+title: 🌍 African Regenerative Cities Summit
+image_caption: African Regenerative Cities Summit
+description: Learn about the summit we hosted this past weekend in Zanzibar to unite innovators and investors to support Africa's future.
+date: 2023-07-23
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [community,technology,update,event]
+    news-category: [foundation]
+extra:
+    imgPath: africanregensummit.png
+---
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+Over the past four days, we have had the pleasure to host the African Regenerative Cities Summit in Zanzibar, Tanzania – uniting top innovators and investors supporting human flourishing, with a special focus on science and technology that will lay the foundation for Africa’s future.
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+A lot has happened over the course of the summit, including a surprise visit today from an extremely special guest.
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+Generally, we have been blown away by the participants and the projects they are working on, and we warmly welcome many of them now into the ThreeFold community.
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+We'll be sharing more in the coming days.

content/newsroom/digitalfreezonezanzibar/index.md

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+id: digitalfreezonezanzibar
+title: 📣 A Digital Free Zone in Zanzibar – And More!
+image_caption: A Digital Free Zone in Zanzibar – And More!
+description: The President of Zanzibar, Dr. Hussein Mwinyi, visited us this weekend to publicly share our collaborations.
+date: 2023-07-27
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [partnership,community,technology,update]
+    news-category: [foundation]
+extra:
+    imgPath: digitalfreezonezanzibar.png
+---
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+This past weekend, we were honored with a visit from Zanzibar's President Dr. Hussein Mwinyi at the African Regenerative Cities Summit.
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+There, he formally and publicly expressed the government's commitment to the establishment of a digital free zone, a locally-owned Internet infrastructure, an incubator to support young local innovators – all in collaboration with ThreeFold – and their commitment to the ICT sector as a whole.
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+Read [Zanzibar Seeks to Become a Digital FreeZone](https://www.thecitizen.co.tz/tanzania/zanzibar/zanzibar-seeks-to-become-digital-freezone--4316150) (via The Citizen) and [Mwinyi Commits to Improvement of Digital Spaces](https://dailynews.co.tz/mwinyi-commits-to-improvement-of-digital-spaces/) (via Daily News Tanzania) for further details.
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+*We'll be sharing more developments on this front in the community call next week and as progress unfolds.*

content/newsroom/newchapter/index.md

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+id: newchapter
+title: 🌍 A New Chapter Unfolds - OurWorld Free Zone Joins Forces with Tanzania's Officials
+image_caption: A New Chapter
+description: OurWorld Free Zone Establishes Official Partnership with Zanzibar Government
+date: 2023-08-23
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [community,technology,update,event]
+    news-category: [foundation]
+extra:
+    imgPath: newchapter.png
+---
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+OurWorld Free Zone is excited to announce a significant milestone in its journey towards global collaboration. On July 23 2023, a momentous contract was signed between OurWorld Free Zone and the government of Tanzania, solidifying their official partnership.
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+The signing ceremony, graced by the presence of OurWorld Free Zone's co-founder, Kristof De Spiegeleer, marked a pivotal moment in the organization's expansion efforts. The event was attended by a distinguished gathering, including members of the press, honored guests, and key government officials from both Zanzibar and Tanzania.
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+During the event, discussions were held to outline the next steps in this groundbreaking collaboration. The partnership between OurWorld Free Zone and the Zanzibar government aims to pave the way for new opportunities and mutual growth. The cooperative efforts are poised to foster economic development, innovation, and cooperation between different sectors.
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+Stay tuned for more detailed updates on this exciting partnership as OurWorld Free Zone and the government of Zanzibar work together to shape a promising future of collaboration and progress. Further announcements will shed light on the specific initiatives and projects that will emerge from this alliance.

content/newsroom/our_world_financial_system/index.md

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+id: our_world_financial_system
+title: 📚 A New Financial System for “Our World”
+image_caption: A new Financial System
+description: ThreeFold co-founder Kristof wrote a Medium article about the problems of today’s financial systems and his thoughts on building better, more balanced systems...
+date: 2022-11-29
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [update, technology, news]
+    news-category: [foundation]
+extra:
+    imgPath: our_world_financial_system.png
+---
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+ThreeFold co-founder Kristof wrote a Medium article about the problems of today’s financial systems and his thoughts on building better, more balanced systems for the benefit of our planet and all of us. Take a look at the summary and discuss it here or you can read [the full article](https://medium.com/@despiegk/a-new-financial-system-for-our-world-602605d1f6d7).

content/newsroom/ourworldfreezone/index.md

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+id: ourworldfreezone
+title: 🗞 In the News – OurWorld Digital Free Zone
+image_caption: OurWorld Digital Free Zone
+description: OurWorld Digital Free Zone received some coverage recently from IPPMEDIA. Take a look!
+date: 2023-08-01
+taxonomies:
+    tags: [partner,news,community,technology,update]
+    news-category: [foundation]
+extra:
+    imgPath: ourworldfreezone.png
+---
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+"Our vision is to foster a digital ecosystem that harmoniously blends the tranquility of Zanzibar with the awe-inspiring power of the digital age. I am deeply appreciative of the dedication of the OurWorld Zanzibar team in turning this vision into a reality," Zanzibar President Dr. Hussein Mwinyi.
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+Take a look at [this piece](https://www.ippmedia.com/en/features/mwinyi-keen-establish-digital-hub-isles) from IPPMEDIA, which goes into some detail about our collaboration with the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar and the OurWorld Digital Free Zone.

content/newsroom/zonaris_sol_provider/index.md

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-id: zonaris_sol_provider
-title: 👍 Zonaris Approved as Solution Provider
-image_caption: Zonaris Approved as Solution Provider
-description: We’re pleased to share that Zonaris has been approved by a DAO vote to become a solution provider on the ThreeFold Grid. 
-date: 2023-02-22
-taxonomies:
-    tags: [update, technology, news, community]
-    news-category: [foundation]
-extra:
-    imgPath: zonaris_sol_provider.png
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-We’re pleased to [share](https://forum.threefold.io/t/zonaris-approved-as-solution-provider/3802) that [Zonaris](https://www.zonaris.io/) has been [approved by a DAO vote](https://polkadot.js.org/apps/?rpc=wss%3A%2F%2Ftfchain.grid.tf#/explorer/query/0x1780fd8132fb862054f38386ea4a0147f8a17d2e6ccd342f579d67857b53fa13) to become a solution provider on the ThreeFold Grid. Thanks to those who voted and congrats to the team at Zonaris!
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-Not sure what a solution provider is? A solution provider offers a solution on the ThreeFold Grid and receives 50% of the TFT utilization revenues from the workload related to the solution. You can dig further into this topic and how to become a solution provider [here](https://forum.threefold.io/t/threefold-solution-provider-and-sales-channel/3746).
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-_We highly encourage those in the community who are building solutions on top of ThreeFold to [apply to become a solution provider](https://forum.threefold.io/c/dao/solution-provider-proposals/115)!_

content/newsroom/zonarisgnosis/index.md

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-id: zonarisgnosis
-title: ⚡ Zonaris Launches with Gnosis
-image_caption: Zonaris Launches with Gnosis
-description: Congratulations to Zonaris for launching their second project, now live with Gnosis validators!
-date: 2023-06-27
-taxonomies:
-    tags: [threefold_grid,technology,update]
-    news-category: [foundation]
-extra:
-    imgPath: zonarisgnosis.png
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-After kicking off with Streamr, [Zonaris](https://zonaris.io/) has now launched 1-click non-custodial Gnosis validators running on top of the decentralized ThreeFold Grid.
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-Head over to [zonaris.io/gnosis](https://www.zonaris.io/gnosis) to get started! The first 100 validators are only €1.
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-*Congratulations to the Zonaris team for launching their second project!*