Grow Africa, Grow Cardano gravatar Grow Africa, Grow Cardano

How do we prepare Africa for a future of wide-scale Cardano adoption? How do we continue to seed and grow adoption in 2022 and beyond?

It's no secret that Cardano is recognized as a blockchain with a strong focus on Africa, and formally stated as such in Cardano's strategic goals. However, as other blockchain protocols recognize the potential of crypto in Africa, without concrete sustained action, Cardano risks losing a potential $1 trillion in market share of the African market to other blockchains within the next 3 years.

In Catalyst Fund7 the combined Africa funded projects amount was almost negligible compared to those from western and developed economies. https://twitter.com/danny_cryptofay/status/1496078645319933954?s=20&t=Ohr06EIZW05vz_B4Fjk_JA

This needs to be reversed through intentional action. Otherwise smaller and smaller portions of Catalyst funding will continue to be allocated to projects focused on African and other emerging economies due to endemic barriers.

"Having a funding round that focuses on Africa is a win, win, win scenario. Africa wins by getting some backing. Commercial projects that are already building up in Africa win, because they get the signal of support from our community. Cardano holders win when there is an encouraging environment for mass adoption anywhere. Focusing on Africa is a strategy that has often been promoted and is openly pursued by IOG and Charles Hoskinson. The ROI is likely to be high because community sponsored projects are better run in young and developing economies." Greg Bell; (originator of the Grow Cardano series)

Why is it important?
We need to look at the fundamentals that are preventing Africa from being a Cardano adoption leader, rather than a perpetual follower.

How does success looks like?
Practical innovations offered on tackling the unique challenges faced by the continent. A clear roadmap that points to increased adoption.

Key Metrics to measure

  • Number of proposals addressing the fundamental issues preventing Cardano adoption in Africa
  • Number of proposals offering solutions to infrastructure and education concerns
  • Number of new Africa-based users onboarded onto Cardano (wallets, platform sign-ups)
  • Number of new Africa-based Catalyst members (proposers, voters, CAs)
  • Number of new African projects seeded in 2022
  • Number of African developers onboarded in 2022
  • Local impact (measurable through user activity and reach)
  • Local partnerships formed (size of institution + influence)
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Total Proposals
15
Funded Proposals
0
Completed Proposals
$ 500K
Available
$4M
Requested
$499.6K
Awarded

CatalystCon 22 - Africa Spotlight

$36,000 Requested

Solution: A dedicated program at the CatalystCon 2022 for African projects, speakers, demos and workshops.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 7.2% of the fund.
4.47 (36)

Catalyst Campus Train

$19,575 Received
$19,575 Requested

Solution: To educate, develop and empower tertiary students with the ideas of blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and Catalyst tools and resources so that they can ideate blockchain ideas on Catalyst.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed Awarded 3.915% of the fund.
4.83 (54)

Catalyst Africa Town Hall (CATH)

$23,800 Requested

Solution: The CATH is a community-driven project which emerged through engagement in Project Catalyst. It aims to enhance the community which proactively participates in building the Cardano Ecosystem. 

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 4.76% of the fund.
4.45 (60)

Caricatures 4 Africa

$10,500 Requested

Solution: A weekly caricature that has an educative and humoristic purpose and that shows the opportunity of using Cardano

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget Requested 2.1% of the fund.
4.67 (24)

Cardano Youth Ambassadors

$50,000 Received
$50,000 Requested

Solution: Goodwall has a huge community of African Youth and is developing an educational program about blockchain, which will be followed by a hackathon to identify Cardano Youth Ambassadors in Africa.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 10% of the fund.
4.88 (33)

CARDANO TO THE EYES OF AFRICA

$25,000 Requested

Solution: WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO ENSURE THAT THE PROJECT IS WELL KNOWN AND USE IN THE LOCAL AREAS OF AFRICA THIS CAN BE DONE BY FACIAL ACTION AND REAL ACTIVITIES.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 5% of the fund.
1.48 (27)

Cardano Students Hub

$2,500 Requested

Solution: Creation of Hub structure between 3 Tunisian Universities (and more) and Cardano, to offer the needed support to allow students to scale & help their communities.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 0.5% of the fund.
3.6 (15)

CARDANO'S FIRST CONCERT IN AFRICA!

$57,250 Requested

Solution: Music is a great way to bring people together, we will organise a concert in Lagos and Accra to educate people about Cardano in a compelling way, whilst they have a great time with music and food!

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 11.45% of the fund.
3.33 (21)

CardanoOutreach - Africa Focus

$4,500 Requested

Solution: Our funded project needs to hire local African speaking developers to promote our educational program to the various countries listed below.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 0.9% of the fund.
3.78 (18)

Cardanonization of town halls

$20,000 Requested

Solution: Currently in Senegal for a simple reproduction of a birth certificate at the level of any municipality you will stay at least more than 24 hours without even having it sometimes more.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 4% of the fund.
1.83 (18)

Cardano needs Math Teachers

$10,000 Requested

Solution: Train Math teachers to teach Haskel

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 2% of the fund.
2.78 (27)

Cardano Ladies Hub (CLH)

$15,500 Requested

Solution: Rent a space to be used as a hub for the sole purpose of training women at the University of Cape Coast in blockchain technologies to scale up and push the number of women in the Cardano ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 3.1% of the fund.
4.47 (30)

Cardano Hub In East Africa

$40,000 Requested

Solution: In partnership with RFFXTZ Co Ltd create a physical hub in Dar es salaam to facilitate online and offline meetups and coordinate collaboration between local East Africa entities to Cardano Ecosystem.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 8% of the fund.
4.21 (24)

CARDANO HUB IN CKT

$25,000 Requested

Solution: CKT-UTAS is open to blockchain education. I seek to establish a hub in CKT-UTAS where different category of Cardano funs will be trained.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 5% of the fund.
3.28 (39)

CARDANO FRENCH COMMUNITY IN DRC

$9,000 Requested

Solution: Organize weekly live code meetups on Blockchain technology to expand the French community in order to broaden our knowledge on the subject.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 1.8% of the fund.
4.22 (72)

Cardano For Ugandan Universities

$18,000 Requested

Solution: Build Cardano Study Clubs in the major Ugandan Universities to onboard learning devs on Cardano as a platform for blockchain based projects.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 3.6% of the fund.
3.88 (33)

Cardano ERP - Grow Africa

$23,700 Requested

Solution: The requested funds will be used to cover Emurgo Academy training fees for experienced developers residing within Africa.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved impact proposal Requested 4.74% of the fund.
2.71 (21)

Cardano Community Center Cape Town

$100,000 Received
$100,000 Requested

Solution: Cardano Community Center (CCC) Cape Town will be a hub for Cardano enthusiasts + newcomers, enabling community engagement, value creation, and education.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 20% of the fund.
4.76 (72)

Cardano and Agri Value Chain

$35,268 Requested

Solution: To incorporate Ada payment systems into the Agricultural world for;

  1. Easy Transactions
  2. Fast and secured Transaction
  3. Fewer Transaction fees

Using Ada coin.

And also create more adoption of Ada

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 7.054% of the fund.
4.47 (51)

Cardano Africa SmartFarming DApp Quick Pitch

$15,000 Received
$15,000 Requested

Solution: Create a photo taking DApp using AI, ML, Robotics to improve efficiency of farm production. Conduct user research and behavioral data to prototype a mobile app for SmartFarming in the coffee industry.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
completed impact proposal Awarded 3% of the fund.
4.27 (15)

Cardano Academy GH

$42,820 Requested

Solution: We will start an aggressive educational club in schools to educate children 10 years and above about Cardano ecosystem, blockchain technology, cryptocurrency and smart contracts.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 8.564% of the fund.
4.2 (15)

Cardano4Climate Africa

$14,500 Requested

Solution: A joint collaboration between WADA, African Townhall, and Cardano4Climate to support climate- initiatives related to the Cardano Blockchain, thus piloting of nature-based solutions as adaptation

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget impact proposal Requested 2.9% of the fund.
4.7 (54)

Buy Ada with M-PESA

$41,000 Requested

Solution: Build a mobile app that allows users to buy Ada using M-PESA and into a wallet of their choice. M-PESA has 35 million KYC'ed users and will provide an easy way for users to get started with Cardano.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
over budget Requested 8.2% of the fund.
3.85 (27)

Business Strategy for African Proj.

$25,000 Requested

Solution: Advising new growing African projects by providing guidance and advice and the right connections for individual growth and success. Coordinate multiple advisors with different specialties.

Fund: Fund 9 Challenge: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
not approved Requested 5% of the fund.
3.73 (15)