# Introduction

**What is it?**

We call **Iteration 0** to the first distributed decision-making process carried out in ALDEA and driven by the community. For these definitions, we’ve used the learnings and experiences from Project Catalyst as a basis. However, there is no “best” way to carry it out, since there are multiple endogenous and exogenous variables of the DAO that performs it (i.e.: objective, region, knowledge, maturity, infrastructure, etc.). For this reason, we define **Iteration 0** as the first "experimental process" that will help us improve and adapt for the next iteration, following the path outlined by the community.

We invite you to be part of it!

**Why?**

**Iteration 0** is the first step aligned with [ALDEA's mission](https://www.aldea-dao.org/about-eng.html), to facilitate change in the Hispanic World by creating an ecosystem that allows us to self-govern, produce and trade as an Autonomous and Decentralized Community, without third parties or central entities that moderate these interactions for us.

**What for?**

A Decentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) aims to allow the community to make decisions transparently without the need for a hierarchical structure. For this to happen, there are multiple phases, tools, elements and mechanisms that must be defined and work harmoniously: Funding, Consensus, Human Tasks, Governance, Rules, etc.

**Iteration 0** will help us to diagram this complex system for the first time and in a controlled environment, where we can experience the synergistic behavior of the components of our DAO.