We aim to create a scientific hub in Argentina specifically designed to attract members of the scientific community, in particular STEM oriented scientists, to the Cardano ecosystem and its multiple possibilities.
Cardano’s technology has many scientific and technical challenges that may be approached in a decentralized manner. We need talented scientists and developers to tackle these challenges, but first there must be a widespread and visible community of scientists that understand and are engaged in our ecosystem.
These communities mainly exist in places such as the US, Europe, Russia, Japan, etc., but we need to strengthen their presence in LATAM. Our region hosts many scientific talents that could boost Cardano’s growth, but we need to create a network that welcomes and enables them.
This scientific hub would operate in a more traditional manner, organizing scientific symposiums and workshops to adapt itself to the academic world and its idiosyncrasies. But its topics won’t be “traditional” at all: the blockchain revolution; scaling solutions; decentralized validation; the advantages of PoS; smart contracts in the Cardano blockchain; SPO; dApps development, etc.
We believe that we can attract many young scientists from Argentina that are interested in researching and building a better ecosystem for Cardano.
Our proposal would address the challenge by creating a MVH that has a very specific target audience: young scientists in Argentina.
These scientists will be able to access the crypto world in an academic framework, and through a process that shields them from some of its more problematic edges (like Ponzi schemes and scams).
This is very important, because reputation is a core aspect of a scientist identity. In Argentina we’ve had many unfortunate events, like the Zoe Ponzi scheme, that discredits the blockchain technology as a whole and drive away serious and promising developers and scientists.
Is a sad state of affairs, since the adoption of a decentralized currency may be the only viable solution for countries such as Argentina, which have an inflation rate that makes development almost impossible.
Our hub aims to show young scientists that there’s another side of the crypto phenomenon: the possibility to answer technical and scientific questions in a serious and groundbreaking environment such as the Cardano ecosystem.
This would not only add valuable human resources from LATAM for our ecosystem development, but would also drive adoption between the more conservative and serious investors, that would not spend any money on shady or weak projects.
The main challenge is to create an academic-friendly environment to showcase and divulge the potential of Cardano as a career defining subject for young STEM-oriented scientists.
As stated before, we’ll need to adjust this goal to the idiosyncrasies of the academic world, which heavily relies on credibility and requires high standards for discussion and intellectual production.
Our team comes from this academic background, so we understand the need to apply a more traditional approach (such as symposiums and workshops) in order to distinguish the Cardano community from the general discourse on cryptocurrencies that dominates media (and impacts on potentially valuable human resources, such as young scientists).
That is the main challenge: to efficiently communicate that Cardano is a serious project for serious developers and scientists in Argentina and LATAM. We’ll measure our success with this communicational goal in mind.