Introduction

An introductory presentation held at the May 2024 Intersect Town Hall

Intersect Town Halls (ITH) and After Town Halls (ATH)

Facilitated by Swarm

I'm pleased to introduce you to Swarm's facilitation of the Intersect Town Halls and After Town Halls.

A Connected Experience

Publicity, planning and community research

Swarm is going to facilitate these Town Halls and After Town Halls every month, making them a connected experience. This means we'll coordinate the publicity, planning, and community research together. Our goal is to create Town Halls that are engaging, welcoming, well-publicized, and truly participatory.

Intersect Town Hall happens every fourth Thursday in the month at 16:00 UTC

ITH Zoom Registration Link: https://bit.ly/46nPeKJ

Swarm’s Town Hall History

We start them, support them and hand them over.

Now, a little bit about our history. Swarm has a solid track record of kickstarting Town Halls in various communities. We provide the initial support, knowledge, and mentorship needed, and then we step back to let the community take over. We've successfully done this in places like Project Catalyst in Africa, Latam, the Eastern Hemisphere, Europe, and the Pacific regions. Also, we've worked with SingularityNET’s Ambassador Program and DeepFunding Program. We typically take about 7 to 10 months to get things rolling, which fits perfectly with the time frame of this grant.

Open Town Hall Working Group

To engage the wider Intersect community in Town Hall planning, we'll be running two open workshops per month. These workshops are for anyone in the Intersect community who wants to get involved in Co-Creation and Operations for Intersect Town Halls.

ITH Working Group Zoom Link: https://bit.ly/3W4tb8q

ITH Problem Board: https://github.com/orgs/Catalyst-Swarm/projects/2/views/1

Tracking Topics, Contributions, Decisions and Ideas.

Town Hall and After Town Hall content becomes an Intersect community asset.

One of our key goals is to make sure all the topics, contributions, decisions, and ideas that come up during the Town Halls and After Town Halls are well-documented. This way, everything becomes a valuable community asset.

ITH GitHub Project Board: https://github.com/orgs/Catalyst-Swarm/projects/1/views/1

Town Hall Playbook

Build a baseline and iterate on it

To help with this, we'll be adding to Intersect’s existing GitBook materials with a Town Hall Playbook. This will give us a solid baseline to work from and improve upon as we go.

ITH Playbook: https://catalyst-swarm.gitbook.io/intersect-town-hall-playbook