Technical side

• dApp has been successfully deployed
• NFT gated content on the website completed.
• delays in a smart contract but a token-based MVP is ready for open-sourcing and community feedback

Operations

• MOU signed with Kotebe University of Education
• First meetings with YALI East Africa, Kenyatta University, Derja, Power Learn Project, IO MOE team
• Recruitment of tutors started
• Visits to Kagumo High school and Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girl's High
• Digital art collection completed

Technical side

• dApp has been successfully deployed
• NFT gated content on the website completed.
• delays in a smart contract but a token-based MVP is ready for open-sourcing and community feedback (this means that we have deprioritised the scholarship platform)

Operations

• MOU signed with Kotebe University of Education
• First meetings with YALI East Africa, Kenyatta University, Derja, Power Learn Project, IO MOE team
• Recruitment of tutors started
• Visits to Kagumo High school and Bishop Gatimu Ngandu Girl's High
• Digital art collection completed"

We will also submit a request to change the scope of our proposal. See separate document.

We have completed our initial phase of the project. We are now moving on to the next phase which was funded in Fund 8.

Hand-on Cardano, focus on onboarding members by direct hand-on activities like create wallet and mint NFT.

"A beta version of our dApp With working wallet connect on vercel

• new UI design
• 10+ user interviews
• curriculum draft design completed
• 8 student interviews/mock exams conducted in Ethiopia
• Analysis of 90 student questionnaires
• CTO Rohan participated in panel at London summit + interview
• CEO Simon at Lausanne summit, presentation on Monday 21st “impact as an opportunity for Cardano”
• Kotebe University of Education MOU to be signed week of December 12th
• soft commit of COTI sponsorship

A beta version of our dApp With working wallet connect on vercel

• new UI design
• 10+ user interviews
• curriculum draft design completed
• 8 student interviews/mock exams conducted in Ethiopia
• Analysis of 90 student questionnaires
• CTO Rohan participated in panel at London summit + interview
• CEO Simon at Lausanne summit, presentation on Monday 21st “impact as an opportunity for Cardano”
• Kotebe University of Education MOU to be signed week of December 12th
• soft commit of COTI sponsorship

We have completed our scholarship programme. The scholars of the programme engaged in learning Plutus and created project based outcomes. We weren't able to fulfil all the goals we set to ourself. The general community engagement wasn't high, but we were able to find a few passionate individual who will continue their Cardano journey beyond the scholarship programme.

Recent updates: DirectEd animated project video - we now have our animated video finished on our website that describes our mission and the problems we solve - check it out! DirectEd Development Foundation

We have signed a MOU with Kagumo High School

Lido nation x DirectEd meeting in Nairobi!

Collaboration with Microverse, leading online course provider is proceeding to MOU

Initial collaboration discussions with OrcFax and Charli3

Studentreader-Prism-ADAO-Proofspace Ethiopia collaboration proceeding

Recent updates: DirectEd animated project video - we now have our animated video finished on our website that describes our mission and the problems we solve - check it out! DirectEd Development Foundation

We have signed a MOU with Kagumo High School

Collaboration with Microverse, leading online course provider is proceeding to MOU

Initial collaboration discussions with OrcFax and Charli3

Studentreader-Prism-ADAO-Proofspace Ethiopia collaboration proceeding

General

• Mailing list - monthly newsletter

  • DirectEd's monthly newsletter covers all relevant news and updates about the progress of the organisation. Subscribe to receive monthly emails on the last Friday each month.
  • Same information as here, but directly sent to you
  • Sign up here: https://dev.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5e91c1c90b58c84aad30e7ea3&id=8da05b2c45

• Q3 OKRs

  • Updated OKRs and KPIs for 2022 Q3 are now listed on Notion under progress updates

• Team upskilling

  • A few of our team members gathered in Morocco for a two-week work retreat with some team bonding, personal development and strategising. We might realse some vlogs in September!

Operations team

• User interviews
  • Holding regular user focus interviews with Cardano users to hear what’s important for them and general feedback
• Collaborator meetings
  • Proofspace
  • Datacamp
  • Springboard
  • Catalyst After Town hall discussion with SSI alliance
  • Poko
  • Charli3
  • Atala PRISM
  • SALT.dev
  • Kotebe University of Education
  • Lido nation
  • Gerowallet
  • 180 degrees consulting
• Video presentation and pitch completed
• Website migration and emailing
• Salary framework
• Risk mitigation policy

Tech team

• Website, mobile and donation app UIX prototype completed
• Plutus Pioneers - 2 completed
• Atala PRISM Pioneers - 2 completed
• Technical specification https://directed.notion.site/MVP-Smart-Contract-Spec-5b22cb0037d5412f9e93e24a727fd45a
• Proof of Concept v2 in progress

General

• Mailing list - monthly newsletter

  • DirectEd's monthly newsletter covers all relevant news and updates about the progress of the organisation. Subscribe to receive monthly emails on the last Friday each month.
  • Same information as here, but directly sent to you
  • Sign up here: https://dev.us9.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5e91c1c90b58c84aad30e7ea3&id=8da05b2c45

• Q3 OKRs

  • Updated OKRs and KPIs for 2022 Q3 are now listed on Notion under progress updates

• Team upskilling

  • A few of our team members gathered in Morocco for a two-week work retreat with some team bonding, personal development and strategising. We might realse some vlogs in September!

Operations team

• User interviews
  • Holding regular user focus interviews with Cardano users to hear what’s important for them and general feedback
• Collaborator meetings
  • Proofspace
  • Datacamp
  • Springboard
  • Catalyst After Town hall discussion with SSI alliance
  • Poko
  • Charli3
  • Atala PRISM
  • SALT.dev
  • Kotebe University of Education
  • Lido nation
  • Gerowallet
  • 180 degrees consulting
• Video presentation and pitch completed
• Website migration and emailing
• Salary framework
• Risk mitigation policy

Tech team

• Website, mobile and donation app UIX prototype completed
• Plutus Pioneers - 2 completed
• Atala PRISM Pioneers - 2 completed
• Technical specification https://directed.notion.site/MVP-Smart-Contract-Spec-5b22cb0037d5412f9e93e24a727fd45a
• Proof of Concept v2 in progress

Since the last report, we have kept in contact with the scholars of our scholarship programme, assisting their Plutus learning journey. We have also started to plan out the next steps we will take after this project is completed. Including seminars and social event that will increase the awareness of the Cardano blockchain.

As noted in the sister proposal, we were affected by the Nomad exploit. This should not stop the project from meeting its milestones but it does put us at an economic deficit nevertheless.

As our project very much revolves around transparency, we wanted to maintain our funds on-chain. Unfortunately, only bridged USDC was available and so we kept a large portion of the funds we had thus far received in madUSDC. Hence, we were severely affected by the Nomad bridge exploit. This may affect our ability to complete the project on time but that remains to be seen.

Scholars of our programme is engaging in plutus project based learning.

We have passed the 100 twitter followers mark! As we are now formally incorporating, we will soon be able to formally intitiate partnership talks with local organisations in Kenya and Ethiopia.

Loom Demo video recorded. We have formally filed the application to incorporate as a UK charitable organisation. Rohan and Simon admitted to the Creative Destruction Lab blockchain stream bootcamp (top tier incubator for deep-tech ventures). DataCamp partnership proceeding

Scholarship announced, applications reviews and scholars just started on their Plutus learning process.

We have been talking with RootsID and people working with Atala PRISM on how to implement our vision. We are also now finalising a basic sketch of how we want the design to look

We are 3 people who are commencing to work full time on this in July, so things will start to move much faster from now on!

https://cardanox.notion.site/CardanOx-Summer-Scholarship-Wiki-693cc5e94ce24b1fab8afc742e90ec18

We are looking to finalise our closeout report this weekend!:) There'll only be a brief presentation of our team members and simple demo of website and possibly the smart alpha smart contract

No

We will be closing out our fund 6 project now

We have published video and article. https://youtu.be/WE621Tz_1pQ

We are now in active discussions with Kenyatta University and Kotebe University of Education. We also have recruited a person with experience working with higher education in developing nations and a person to do our graphic design for our website. I pushed the "completion" status to May so that we could include a demo of this first demo in our project completion report.

A lot of event coming up next month. Not much done in April as this is a university based project and we aren't able to do much during Easter break.

The photos are from Kagumo High School in Nairobi that our Kenya lead Moses Kahure visited to discuss the DirectEd cardano scholarship.

Our devs are still finishing up Plutus and working on getting a very simple testnet version of the basic smart contract that we seek to use for the scholarship and we hope to submit a closeout report once that is done and once we have presented at Ideafest (as we are now proposing in fund8)

Organization of successful events including “Introduction to Cardano” where students were informed on Project Catalyst with detail on how to become a Community Advisor. Created many resources for the community. Expecting to reach target audiences through more events in the coming month.