# World Experience: Updates from the Next Billion Fellowship

DevFeed: [World Experience: Updates from the Next Billion Fellowship](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/world-experience-updates-from-the-next-billion-fellowship-17167.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ethereum.org/en/2025/06/16/world-experience>)

Author: Next Billion

Published: 2025-06-16T00:00:00Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Ethereum Foundation Blog](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ethereum-foundation-blog.md>)

Topics: [Ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ethereum.md>), [Blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/blockchain.md>), [Protocol (disambiguation)](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/protocol.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [blockchain](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/blockchain.md>), [development](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/development.md>), [ethereum](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ethereum.md>), [next](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next.md>), [next-billion](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/next-billion.md>), [stories](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/stories.md>), [updates](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/updates.md>)

## AI overview

An update on the Next Billion Fellowship Program introduces four new fellows and highlights the work of five alumni. Their projects explore digital identity, climate finance and conservation data, Ethereum-based initiatives in global development, and disaster-response systems using zero-knowledge proofs, trusted execution, and satellite imagery.

## Source excerpt

This is an update from the Next Billion Fellowship Program. Applications are rolling and open for cohort 6 beginning in October 2025. Individuals interacting with an application have a user experience. Collectives interacting with a protocol have a world experience. There are many worlds that the Ethereum protocol touches;...