EA - Announcing the African EA Forum Competition - $4500 in prizes for excellent EA Forum Posts by Luke Eure

Link to original articleWelcome to The Nonlinear Library, where we use Text-to-Speech software to convert the best writing from the Rationalist and EA communities into audio. This is: Announcing the African EA Forum Competition - $4500 in prizes for excellent EA Forum Posts, published by Luke Eure on May 14, 2023 on The Effective Altruism Forum.The Effective Altruism Forum serves as the main platform for thought leadership and experience sharing within the effective altruism movement. It is the virtual gathering spot for EAs and the space where most EAs will go to check for resources, materials and experiences for various areas of interest.However, there are low levels of authorship by EAs from Africa, which gives the impression that not much is happening in the African space with regards to EA - despite there being 10+ local EA groups in Africa.There is a need for increased thought leadership, experience sharing, and engagement from an African perspective that reflects the growth of EA in Africa and brings African perspectives to the wider EA community.To get more Africans writing on the forum, I'm excited to announce the African EA Forum Competition.How it worksPrizes will be awarded for winners and runners up in each of three categories:Cause exploration: Explorations of new cause areas or contribution to thinking on existing cause areasAfrican perspectives on EA: Posts that challenge or complement existing EA perspectives and/or cause areas from an African worldviewSummaries of existing work: Informing the EA community about ongoing/completed research projects, sharing experiences within community groups, or reflections on being in EATop prize in each category will be awarded $1,000. Runner up in each category will get $500.No need to include the category in your submission.JudgingPosts will be judged based on the following rubric:Originality of insightClarityDiscussion provoked: (judged by the post’s forum score and number of comments)Persuasiveness of argumentThis is replaced by Relevance to forum readers for summaries of existing workThe members of our judging panel are:Alimi Salifou - Events and Outreach Coordinator for EA NigeriaJordan Pieters - independent community builderKaleem Ahmid - Project Manager at Effective VenturesDr. Kikiope Oluwarore - co-founder of Healthier HensZainab Taonga Chirwa - Chairperson for Effective Altruism UCTSupport offered to writersWe will support writers in the following two ways:Virtual training on EA Forum writing: there will be a ~1-2 hour workshop to build the capacity of individuals interested in writing forum postsOffering mentorship: curating a list of individuals who are happy to offer feedback to new writers to bolster the confidence of those writing about their posts, especially those who may feel intimidated by the seemingly high bar of forum postsWriters do not have to attend the forum or receive mentorship to be eligible for the competition. They only have to make a forum post within the competition period, and meet the eligibility criteria below.Please fill out this form if you would like to join the workshop or receive mentorship.Who is eligibleAnybody who is:a citizen of an African countrya children of a citizen of an Africa countryPosts should be made to the EA forum with the tag ‘Africa EA Forum Competition’ to make them easy to find, and then the writer should identify themself by filling out this form.Posts with multiple authors are eligible as long as 50% or more of the authors meet the above criteria.TimelineThe competition will run for 3 months. Any post made between 14 May 2023 - 11:59pm on Friday 18 August 2023 is eligible.Please reach out to me with any questions or feedback on how this competition could be better! ([email protected])Thanks to Daniel Yu for funding the prizes, Waithera Mwangi for support in writing this post, and to our judges for offering their timeThanks for listening. To help us out with The Nonlinear Library or to learn mo...