Problem Recap
For a long time, Uganda has faced a back-lag challenge in the different folds of development for the singular purpose in question, a wide technology gap. The Ugandan education system has lately encouraged development through moves to restructure so as to step-up innovation. As known, university students must have final year projects to showcase their craftsmanship in innovation. As strong blockchain advocates in the country, we have through our community outreach noticed a lag in blockchain related innovations. In fact, for the traditional states of East Africa; That is to say Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, Uganda still lags in blockchain related innovation. Whereas the Eat African neighbors leverage top positions with Kenya topping the p2p ranks as Tanzania ranks fourth(4th) according to the crypto adoption index <https://blog.chainalysis.com/reports/2021-global-crypto-adoption-index/> Uganda is still left behind.
Proposed solution
To address the above challenge, we (The Blockchain Club of Uganda) shall embark on an initiative to introduce Cardano to the studying software engineers as a credible opensource platform to build Ugandan solutions.
But as hinted earlier, it should be noted that Cardano is not yet deep rooted among the local devs as well as those still at college and university plus the general blockchain community in Uganda.
Additionally, very few resources are available to Ugandan local devs to delve into building on Cardano. We shall diagnose this with a good connection between Ugandan local devs and the pre-existing ecosystems on Cardano in the region; a case in point, Wada. This will help the local devs here to access the necessary resources to help them get acquainted with building on Cardano.
Therefore, as the very first Cardano based initiative in Uganda, we shall focus on onboarding local developers especially those still in college and university onto Cardano. The rationale of pivoting our initiative around this group is because our previous Cardano meetups in Kampala have attracted more of them than any other group https://www.meetup.com/Cardano-Blockchain-Kampala/
We shall do this through community outreach in form of meetups, workshops and a hackathon within the with the next six months.
Through this, local devs will get to know Cardano as a blockchain platform for change makers, innovators and visionaries with tools necessary to for creating possibility for all and bring about positive global change.
Our initiative will address the challenge at hand through the following ways;
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More Cardano awareness in Uganda
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More developers onboarded onto Cardano
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Some university and college students start to work out their final year projects on Cardano
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Ugandan local devs will be connected to already proven Cardano ecosystems in the region such as Wada
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More college and university students from Uganda join the Cardano Academy https://tutorials.cardanoacademy.io/
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Indeed, the success of this cause will be tracked through the students that will start building their final year projects on Cardano
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We anticipate to face huge challenges with the man power to walk the students through the most relevant tutorials for Cardano.
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Adaption of the learning devs from web2 to web3 could also pose a challenge.
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Whereas we have two experience devs in the Blockchain Club of Uganda, they are quite busy with an availability of about twenty hours a month.
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Otherwise, we hope to push this as possible as we can through good use of the available tutorials on the Cardano Academy <https://tutorials.cardanoacademy.io/>