This is one of a few novel initiatives in the past few years that’ s introducing people to the blockchain industry. Based on my analysis of the script, I see a comprehensive approach to provide education on the blockchain technology in a way that would attract more young African people. Considering the unemployment challenge in africa, I am convinced that this incentivized learning platform would drive the growth of the Cardano in Africa especially among the young population. This is because incentivized learning system stimulate students to pursue more successes. Therefore, I think this initiative has the potential to scale up the growth of Cardano in Africa in several ways. Firstly, this initiative has being designed to be used in several communities with different language background. By estimate, close to 14 Africans speak Swahili, and with the improvised environment in africa, this could serve as an escape root from poverty. Therefor, this platform could serve as the springboard that would advance awareness creation of Cardano among young African population. This project could help address the challenge of adoption in Africa. In several ways, this project opens the door of value addition to the Cardano community —from awareness creation to on-boarding, to increase in developers and to adoption. By this project the Cardano project could penetrate several communities that are open to addressing challenges via the blockchain ecosystem with their ideas. From the script we know the target audience and marketing strategy adopted here, solid and well designed marketing strategy. The only setback to this project may likely be the issue of internet accessibility in some part of the continent. Have the team anticipated that and what’s the team strategy to mitigate this?

A large number of Swahili speakers in Africa do not learn Cardano or use blockchain tools as these contain educational material that engages the colloquial language, this is due to the fact that almost all cardano are done in English. From this, we dare to affirm that this proposal stands in its challenge as it will constitute to the growth of cardano among Swahili speakers as well.

This proposal clearly fits within the Grow Africa, Grow Cardano challenge in particular onboarding more users onto Cardano, providing education and offering local impact. The proposers, creators of Lido Nation, have a website and community already in place with English, Spanish and Swahili resources to learn about Cardano and Catalyst. The next steps they are requesting funding for are to create more resources about opening wallets, and specifically learn to earn resources. They propose educational content supported with quiz taking to earn ADA similar to an existing popular feature from Coinbase. Through working in the education and technological integration sector for over 18 years I have experience with gamification and have seen many successful projects deliver educational goals. Although the project mentions possible rewards will be capped at $25, that is significant enough to motivate users to complete the task. I spent 4 years living in Tanzania (a Swahili speaking country like Kenya), and traveled throughout south east Africa. That small amount of money, plus the chance to learn and develop a new skill set will be very valuable and desirable to many people within the community. The impact also reaches the blockchain lab in Kenya (created in fund 7) they plan to work with as Swahili translators, beta testers and local marketing leads. Having this local, on the ground support and integration allows for the impact to be felt directly within the community. The proposers give clear detail as to the direct impact on the Cardano community, and the metrics that will be gathered to document the success in regards to the challenge. The proposal also highlights the ability to upscale it once the initial cohorts of learners engage in and give feedback to the learning system and quizzes. Once the initial success is achieved, the project has a clear future, but ongoing funding may be required, whether through Cardano or other means. The potential impact of this proposal for the Grow Africa, Grow Cardano proposal is considerable, through the people in the African continent being able to learn about Cardano in their native language, for those who speak Swahili. I give this proposal 5 stars for impact.

Awareness and education are fundamental in order to make Africa a Cardano adoption leader. This proposal hits the core of it. Developing gamification in dapps for the learning of Cardano blockchain can be a practical and concrete project that will rapidly increase the amount of Cardano wallets. A monetary-reward by learning can be a really attractive way of drawing in a wide range of newcomers. Also, giving people the chance to have monetary reward for their learning will help Cardano Catalyst fight against the reluctance the wide audience may feel towards the blockchain universe. It might be interesting to find a way to engage dapp players into the Cardano Catalyst Community because it may be a risk to lose the opportunity of engaging potential active members if gamification only focuses on solving quizzes. Somehow, quizzes can end with some audiovisual content inviting newcomers into our Community.

A lot of native Swahili speakers in Africa won't learn about Cardano or Blockchain. So the team that came up with the solution is to encourage Swahili-speaking people to learn, open wallets, and earn ADA + NFT by participating in educational content and answering quizzes. This project fits the challenge posed by "increasing the number of new users in Africa participating in Cardano, targeting education directly". Based on the facilitation available on the website "LidoNation.com", they add a Swahili multiple-choice question to each article. Encourage anyone who visits Cardano's informational site to answer 25 quizzes that will be rewarded with ADA and will be sent an NFT. This method will help more people in Swahili-speaking Africa to open Cardano wallets. The project effectively addresses the challenge. Through an educational platform that makes it easy for the community to adopt Cardano, "Beginner Level" blockchain interaction, increasing the number of new Catalyst members based in Africa. Proposals have local impact and can scale to address future challenges. The proposal presents very clearly how it will add value to the ecosystem.

Many native Swahili speakers in Africa will not learn about Cardano or use Blockchain tools unless there is engaging educational content in a familiar language and clear incentives to learn. Faced with this situation, you have come up with a very good proposal that is "encourage Swahili speakers to learn, open wallets, earn ADA + NFT by participating in educational content and participating in quizzes." quiz". Why are you focusing on the Swahili market because Swahili is one of the 10 most widely spoken languages ​​in the world with over 200 million users. Most Swahili-speaking areas are economically depressed, meaning the value and impact of the monetary reward system is substantial. Your proposal not only directly solves economic difficulties for the people here, but also affects the development of Blockchain technology in Africa, which is the core goal of the Cardano ecosystem. You have also raised the risks that can occur in different aspects I find very accurate, the explanation to reduce the risk I find reasonable. I strongly support your suggestion

Many native Swahili speakers in Africa will not learn about Cardano or use Blockchain tools unless there is engaging educational content in a familiar language and clear incentives to learn. Faced with this situation, you have come up with a very good proposal that is "encourage Swahili speakers to learn, open wallets, earn ADA + NFT by participating in educational content and participating in quizzes." quiz". Why are you focusing on the Swahili market because Swahili is one of the 10 most widely spoken languages ​​in the world with over 200 million users. Most Swahili-speaking areas are economically depressed, meaning the value and impact of the monetary reward system is substantial. Your proposal not only directly solves economic difficulties for the people here, but also affects the development of Blockchain technology in Africa, which is the core goal of the Cardano ecosystem. You have also raised the risks that can occur in different aspects I find very accurate, the explanation to reduce the risk I find reasonable. I strongly support your suggestions.

The Swahili (Wawahili) are an ethnic group residing in the Great Lakes region of Africa. There are 2 - 15 million people (in 2012) who speak their mother tongue, 30 million people with a second language and more than 100 million people in total. There are many native Swahili speakers in Africa. However, they won't learn about Cardano or use a blockchain tool without engaging educational content, encouragement, and familiar language. Personally, I am very confident in the ability of the team to implement the proposal. Sallyanne is a Swahili interpreter at the Cardano blockchain lab in Kenya and has been with Lido Nation for 6 months. Stephanie: Experienced Blockchain Educator…Darlington: 14 years of software, engineering and blockchain experience. The Lido Nation ideation team 50 articles on Cardano and Catalyst in Swahili, encouraging Swahili speakers to learn, open wallets, earn ADA + NFT by engaging in educational content. The team clearly and specifically describes many of the details presented about: What they already have, what they will do, how they will do it, pervasive awareness and market size. At the same time, detailed solutions specifically impact the challenges posed. This is a rather complicated proposition and fraught with risks. The team recognized the hidden risks to its challenge and the solution to the risks when the proposal was implemented.

Expanding Cardano to many people with many different languages ​​is necessary, because, through the native language, it is possible to reach more people with many classes, thereby bringing Cardano and Blockchain to a wider audience. rather than just limited to a few people who know English.

Your proposal wants to push more Swahili-speakers in Africa to learn about Blockchain and Cardano through 50+ articles about Cardano & Catalyst in Swahili through the incentive mechanisms program. This is a reasonable approach because the content after being translated, if the number of people reading and accessing this content is too small, it will not bring a great impact.

To encourage people to read the content, your group uses small quizzes and participants will receive a small reward and NFT when they complete a quiz. This is a way to apply gamification in education, which is quite effective.

I believe this proposed solution will attract a large number of Swahili-speakers participating, thereby increasing the number of people who understand Cardano and Catalyst. I fully support the idea and implementation of the project.

However, to be able to bring this program to the community proactively, it is also necessary to have a detailed marketing and communication activities attached. Because a good product or program with a good marketing plan will make a much bigger impact.

You are stating a long-standing reality: Vast numbers of native Swahili speakers in Africa will not learn about Cardano or use Blockchain tools. And you made this proposal to solve that situation, I comment that it achieves the goal set out in the Challenge, it contributes to the development of Africa and Cardano. This directly adds value to the Cardano ecosystem. If successful, this proposal could scale up in the future and solve a similar problem. I love how you make engaging content in the familiar language (Swahili) of the people of Kenya. It is a way of encouraging learning that contributes to improving the community's knowledge, understanding, and understanding of Cardano. This is very important for underdeveloped African countries. It is proposed that Swahili speakers have an understanding and access to the Cardano ecosystem, a cutting-edge blockchain of its kind. Although the team model is similar to Coinbase's, I still find it very interesting and above all the benefits it brings to the community in Africa. This is one of the proposals that I think has the most suitable goal to solve the Challenge "Grow Africa, Grow Cardano". I vote 5 stars.

This is a thorough and substantiated proposal. The creative idea to spread knowledge about Cardano and blockchain in general is to create an engaging educational content that uses gamification to make learning more appealing. This strategy has been proven to work in different scenarios and it is even more likely in this case due to the use of monetary reward in the form of ADA distribution as prize for the quizzes. The goals of the proposal clearly align with the challenge as they aim to grow the number of African-based users onboarded onto Cardano, increase awareness about Cardano in general and cause a local impact. Unfortunately, I could not find suggestions regarding scalability and future sustainability in the proposal. But I would add as next steps at the end of the project a search for a way to maintain the project as a going concern. For example, with the success of the proposal the team could quantify their results through the KPIs proposed and look for partners or sponsors that could fund the plan in exchange for marketing or access to potential clients.

Incentives and rewards always attract people to fulfil a task, even if it may appear to be small. I' m sure it would be the same for the idea presented by the team in this proposal. Learn in a native language, and get an incentive would make a lot of visitors of the Lido Nation website to comeback for an extra visit. meantime the person would be share that information with his entourage and attract them . This approach would have a direct impact to the cardano ecosystem as many people would lean more about the blockchain, the DeFi, the NFT, open wallets and try this process by themselves when they are signing up. This proposal is scalable as it may be expanded in other countries where Swahili is spoken, and this is one of the project implementation plan, and that would create a global impact, since the Lido Nation is an online platform, accessible to everyone. I totally support this project and rate it with 5 star

The proposal is excellent and deserves top marks in all aspects. Started with impact analysis: the project works directly with what the challenge seeks. Here, we are looking to finance projects that benefit both the African continent, its inhabitants and so on, as well as Cardano; ie - ideas that can be useful, generating opportunities and income for the locals but that are also advantageous for our blockchain, fostering the growth of our community, contributing to Cardano being widely adopted in Africa and being better recognized and valued. That will certainly be worked on here. The problem raised is that, generally, people will not go out of their comfort zones to learn about a new technology, which is something as complex and different as blockchain. Therefore, the solution would be precisely to create a more attractive way for them to learn about Cardano and get involved with the technologies relevant to our ecosystem. This would be done by earning small rewards (in Ada, from what I understand), as users would read content and answer some questionnaires involving the various contents of the blockchain universe. Several positive points are observed here: first, the project is inspired by something that already exists (an application called coinbase), which performs the same function; probably the proponents observed how the proposal worked and will replicate it, directing knowledge to Cardano, which will certainly bring solid benefits to our blockchain. Another positive point is that the content would be produced in the Swahili language, which is certainly a very influential and strategic language for us to invest in. I say this because, in addition to the arguments provided by the proponents - that the language is spoken in 12 African countries and by more than 200 million people - I have already seen several proposals that seek to translate content in English into Swahili, that is, it is really a very relevant language for our project to invest in Africa. Another positive point is that the proponents are already financed, that is, they already have successful proposals in other funds (I remember having evaluated something of them before); but for those new reviewers and readers, they have attached the LidoNation website, where they already have a lot of content regarding Cardano available in English, Spanish and Swahili. They explain well what kind of content you can already find there ("how to open a Cardano wallet, reviews and overviews of different types of wallets, how to buy ADA, articles on many facets of Project Catalyst and how to participate, news about Cardano and etc. "); so we have a good understanding of the type of work they have been doing so far. And not enough, they attach a step by step of what would be done here (I consider this project as an extension of successful initiatives they have had before). In the “how do we do this” section, it is detailed what various steps would be followed for the ultimate goal to be achieved (that more Swahili speakers understand Cardano and get involved with our blockchain). In other words, the idea is very good, it is very well explained and it has everything to work out and reach the objectives of the challenge, as new wallets will be created (so that users can receive their rewards), new people will be learning about Cardano and maybe become active members of the community, in general, I found it to be a smart and accurate strategy on how to popularize our blockchain on the continent.

LIDO Nation has approached onboarding in a welcomed innovative way which is through the use of gamification of their translated articles. Their gamification system attempts to mimic that of Coinbase, where contributions are given a range from $1 to $5. It is capped though to $1 dollar per wallet per day. On paper this should be interesting, as the proposer has mentioned but through my personal experience, these efforts are more of complementary one and does not replace the effectiveness of free direct education. An approach that is being currently being used by many of this proposers peers.

It seems LIDO Nation seeks to establish this system to be a primary system of education on blockchain. In my experience no matter what the incentive is, if the topic itself is complicated and not engaging enough, it will face challenges in gaining traction. Let us take the efforts of Catalyst School themselves as an example, for instance Proposal Assessor. Even though the compensation are quite high for even advanced economies the growth of PA's are not as substantial as it was in the beginning of it's introduction.

Seeing how LIDO Nations seeks to cap it to $1 per waller per day, this level of incentive has the potential to become wasteful no matter how engaging the content is. $1 per day is $30 per month. Even if we were to increase the incentives, there will always be stagnation of interest by the reader. An equally extensive effort would be needed in expanding the readers pool.

Despite all that, it would be interesting to see how this effort pans out in Africa. Perhaps the results would be different, if so it would prove to be invaluable data as a strategy of deployment in various similar regions.

The information presented to audit this project looks comprehensive and well detailed. Hence I am convinced the information is sufficient to audit the project. To assess, monitor and track how well this project performs, we must know what the end goal of the project is — (to ultimately help participants from Swahili-Speaking Africa learn about Decentralization and Blockchain technology - many for the first time, in a real way or with deeper understanding). With that been said, the proposal states that, the number of quizzes created, number of new accounts linked to the sites, number of quizzes taken and number of NFTs awarded would be the metrics needed to measure the progress and success of the project. More importantly, for each of these KPIs, the proposer provides specific expected performance target and also indicates how the team would get these information. I am more satisfied with the team’s readiness to make available all report on these KIPs to the community via their website.

The links indicated in this proposal are convincing and constitute good indicators to measure the project. The sheet is well detailed in this proposal is well clarified and proves that this project will be auditable. The number of questions they have indicated in this proposal (75 multiple choice quizzes) show how the objectives of this project will be measurable. For, I am For this proposal to be funded.

The auditability information outlined in the proposal clearly indicates how and when the team plans to document their measures of success. Beginning with the number of quizzes created, early on in the project, the community on the Swahili-language side of the program website will be able to see these implemented. They state that eventually these quizzes will be populated to the English side of the program as well. A clearly auditable aspect will be the number of wallets linked to the site. The proposers plan to document each month how many new users have joined and how many wallets have been connected. A thought, possibly a minor concern, is how to ensure these new users are Swahili-speaking Africans, what’s to stop a ‘bad actor’ somewhere else translating the website themselves and completing the quiz? Without collecting overly personal information it will be important for auditability to ensure the true identity of the new users as the target audience. The last key auditability factor will be the rewards given in the form of ADA and NTFs once the ADA threshold has been met. The team has explained clearly how the budget breakdown will occur for these items, and that they will continue to award the prizes as long as the budget remains. The proposers go on in detail to describe micro level success attributes and public financial documentation that both lend a great deal of confidence about the proposals potential success. The proposers should be commended for the dedicated time and effort they put into such a thoughtful proposal. I rate this proposal 5 stars for auditability.

Number of Quizzes created, number of wallets linked to the site and number of the NFTs awarded is sufficient to audit the progress and the success of the proposal. This kind of easily auditable project is great to fund and mentor. Monthly reports in numbers can help a great deal the Community database to gather and improve African data. Feedback surveys can also help to know about the quality of users' experience and help the team improve and develop their dapps.

Regarding the ways to measure project success, I found the team to be very detailed and choose the correct way to measure engagement around the proposal. The community can easily measure the success of the project through: Number of quizzes created, number of new wallets associated with the site, number of quizzes taken, number of NFTs awarded. The conversion rate of the new members, the number of new wallets and the rewards given out have helped to prove that the team knows how to monitor the results well. In addition, we also found that the ideas transferred regarding success awareness education are well-suited to any challenge.

You have provided enough information to measure the progress of the project. The success of the project is described quite clearly. I know this project builds on previous successes. However, it is not clear the continuation of that work. Instead it was a new idea and a unique endeavor, building further value on an established foundation. I fully support your suggestion. Good luck.

For the proposed team, the Catalyst project will continue to be a potential way to keep their work going. Based on its own design and value, it will bring in hundreds of new cardano wallets and users from Swahili-speaking Africa. At the same time, it will build a toolkit for learning and continuing to serve the community after July of this project. There have been previously funded translation and writing proposals, but this is not a follow-up proposal, but a completely new one. The proposal has a detailed roadmap, the budget is analyzed reasonably and transparently, creating favorable conditions for monitoring project progress. A team of skilled and experienced members will contribute effort and time to complete the task according to the set plan. If successful, it will be a new step for the idea team, Swahili-speaking communities in Africa, Africa development and the Cardano ecosystem. Here, the team has provided many ways for us to track the development and measure the progress of the project. Number of new wallets associated with the site. Number of Rewards paid and NFT awarded… All will be reported monthly, final report and on website. We have many ways to check that, I believe, complete and satisfactory information has been established. We know what will be done and how it will be done to achieve the end result that is the desired success in the proposal. Regarding the final product, which is what is expected of this project, there are product indexes listed. Swahili African Community will learn about Decentralized and Blockchain technology; Cardano is a particularly interesting blockchain project; they will share with their friends, who are Africans who speak Swahili. Proposal has good auditability.

The performance indicators of the project are described in detail and are suitable for the project. For example, Number of Quizzes created, Number of NFTs awarded,.. These indicators all have specific KPI numbers attached to evaluate the success of the project.

However, I also want to suggest more to the proposal to more understand the feelings of the participants, the quality of the content of the quizzes, etc., that every month you should have a small survey to understand what the participants are thinking, do they have any additional comments to make the program to make it more suitable for them, … from the results of these surveys will give you many insights to improve the program and program will have the best results.

The proposed roadmap you listed lasted 7 months, I have read what the team will do when implementing the proposal. But I have questions about specific timelines for implementation. What's the problem that you don't include milestones with the action steps? I was particularly impressed with the team's solutions, which were very clear and concise. You guys did this well and not all proposals in Catalyst do. You have stated KPIs and key metrics, I like your ability to express key metrics. I only regret that I have not been able to see specific KPIs, key metrics. The description is great, but the numbers aren't there yet. I recommend the team to add more to complete the proposal in the best way. This is quite important so that the community can audit at any time during the entire implementation phase. For the rest, the solutions are good and workable.

The roadmap provided in this proposal has pertinent and consistent milestones. It is very complete; it goes from the first steps as creating the quiz questions and starting the development on the website up until the rollout and the exhaustion of the prizes that will be rewarded. Also, for every step of the way there is a time horizon estimated which sounded reasonable and achievable. The KPIs chosen by the team are well-thought and translate well what success means. For example, the number of quizzes taken and new wallets linked to the site measure how engagement is flourishing in their website and tracks how much knowledge is being spread by the initiative. The solution found is effective and has a cascading effect because once someone is lured to the website and sees first hand it is both entertaining and rewarding chances are they will tell their friends about it. Finally, the team already has a pretty nice website in place where they will share every aspect of the progress of the plan which is extremely desirable by the community.

The plan to mitigate risks(team turnover, people abusing the system…) is clearly defined. the progress ay be followed through the Lido Nation online platform. the indicators of success described the necessary elements that prove the success. % star for auditability as information, implementation process and results would be accessible to every person interested.

A lot of information is attached regarding the auditability of progress, and as with the other topics in the proposal, each is explained in detail. We know that partial results can be measured through the creation of multiple choice tests, we know how many tests to create (75) and also what topics would be covered (questions about Cardano, Catalyst and blockchain in general). We know when they have to be filled in and English and Swahili. Other suggested metrics are the number of wallets linked to the site, number of tests performed and NFTs granted granted. My only suggestion for this part of the proposal would be for the proponents to update us on each of the tasks mentioned in the roadmap part, in addition to the partial results presented here. As we have a very comprehensive wealth of details, it would not be difficult for the community to monitor whether activities are being carried out the way they were planned. My only question here would be, really, how could we be aware of this context - what would be our way of contacting the team? I don't think it's appropriate for updates to be posted directly on the LidoNation website, so I suggest they prepare monthly reports to be sent out at the end of each month to our community members (via discord, for example). In terms of success, the goal is for Swahili-speakers to understand decentralization and blockchain well, according to the proponents. They detail, once again quite richly, how this scenario could be better understood, in snippets such as: that they will understand why Cardano is an especially exciting blockchain project, important Cardano news, projects and partnerships; will have practiced basic blockchain interactions, including opening a wallet, connecting to a blockchain service, and receiving funds and NFTs; they will also understand the basics of DeFi, DApps, DAOs and DEXes and will have demonstrated their knowledge by passing tests, etc. Again, one more suggestion I would like to make would be in relation to the communicative bridge between the members of this team and the rest of our community. How can we be sure that the target audience would have enjoyed all these benefits? It would be important for the team to carry out a field research, post project, to understand how the participants of these questionnaires would be relating to all the concepts mentioned here; It is equally important that this information be made known to all members of the community (a good idea would be to present the final report/research somewhere after town hall). So, I think we have a lot of material to work on to audit the proposal, and we just need to establish a bridge between the project team and the rest of the Cardano community.

As this is their first endeavour, having clear targets, numeric targets is essential for the Cardano community to have a general understanding where all the funds go. And indeed they provide numerous metrics, one though does cause for concern which is their plan to use NFT as an incentive.

NFT currently is at a phase where it's existence is being questioned. We can see this from the attacks on Spacebudz. People are asking what is the underlying value of NFT. Perhaps if the mechanics of their NFT were to be tweaked in a way that it can be accumulated which then can be exchanged for perhaps with some form of merchandise. This can be done by collaborating with NFT Link. Therefore it does not become just a $1,500 gimmick but actually educates that NFT is more than a *.jpeg.

Other than that, they have covered a litany things, with the most important is their main delivery item, which is the Coinbase inspired gamification. The mechanics are clear, how they mitigate gaming is also clear, the educational effects of this gamification is also clear.