On the Steem platform, we have a wide variety of various projects and initiatives, many of which surely deserve support and attention.

> "With great Steem Power comes great responsibility" - Uncle Ben<sup>[1]</sup>

However, one of these initiatives is unique and has a special place in my ~~heart~~ brain.

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) is something that has brought us where we are now.

Steem is a perfect platform for STEM, and I’m really glad that the #SteemSTEM community is doing so well.

> _Transparency, as used in science, engineering, business, the humanities and in other social contexts, is operating in such a way that it is easy for others to see what actions are performed. It has been defined simply as "the perceived quality of intentionally shared information from a sender"._<sup>[2]</sup>

I’m not selling my votes or delegated Steem Power to bots or voting platforms.

Among my eight outgoing delegations, six have been made to active members of the [SteemSTEM](/@steemstem) community:
@justtryme90, @lemouth, @mobbs, @ruth-girl, @suesa, @trumpman.

Initially, the purpose was to incentivize their efforts for a month or so… but it turned out that this continued for at least eight months, over a year in some cases ;-)

Thank you for your hard work!  I will update this list soon.

So what about the remaining two delegations? One went to @santarius, the best manual curator for the local #polish community, who gave me a chance to support the posts I wouldn’t have found myself,  the other to... @utopian-io, which is yet another very important project that supports SteemSTEM

# Italy will soon host [SteemSTEM & Utopian.io Meetup](https://steemit.com/fundition-ffdnxgdga/@steemstem/steemstem-and-utopian-io-meetup-in-italy-a-window-on-florence-nightingale-aka-the-lady-with-the-lamp), which will include [hackathon](https://steemit.com/fundition-ffdnxgdga/@steemstem/utopian-hackathon-revealing-date-topic-prizes-and-more-details-on-the-first-utopian-io-community-hackathon).

# All liquid funds from this post will be sent to @steemstem to support the meetup. 

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Here’s a short video that I’ve just rendered to promote SteemSTEM: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6jLMgHm6PM
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Feel free to use this promo video for the SteemSTEM needs.

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<sup>**1**</sup> I don’t think he actually said that, which doesn’t make it any less true.
<sup>**2**</sup>  _Organizational Transparency: A New Perspective on Managing Trust in Organization-Stakeholder Relationships_, Andrew K. Schnackenberg, Edward C. Tomlinson
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