F8: Grow Africa, Grow Cardano
Campaign Brief
"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. Focussing 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)
Throughout human history and civilization, it has been that every few centuries or so a confluence of factors align to transition us from one phase of development to another; The first and second industrial revolutions are prime examples. Right now we are barely out of the Web2 revolution and a fourth Industrial revolution or Web3 is upon us.
Although Africa did not play a key role in the first, second or third industrial revolution, it is poised to be a leader in Web 3.0 technology and those with foresight are positioning themselves strategically.
The Cardano community can be one of these visionaries. Let's be serious about seeding long term projects in Africa to capture a large share of an important emerging market.
Rationale for budget
Let's be frank here. We need much more than 250k to continue seeding Cardano in Africa. We are asking for this amount because of Catalyst voting patterns; in that $250k is better than $0 and Wada and Partners can still take advantage of other challenge categories to help expand Cardano in Africa.
Why is it important?
The 'Grow Africa' challenge is central to a key initiative of Cardano's, expanding into Africa. Allow Catalyst to also support this drive.
What does success look like?
Cardano is the blockchain of choice in Africa by 2023.
Projects and developers in Africa will not be isolated, but networked and growing.
Key Metrics to measure
- Number of new African projects seeded in 2022
- Proposals clearly demonstrate Cardano tech use-case solutions
- Number of African developers onboarded in 2022
- Local impact (measurable through user activity and reach)
- Local partnerships formed (size of institution + influence)
Win-Win South Africa Expansion
Solution: Outreach universities, legal bodies and local governments in South Africa to expand and localize Win-Win services.
Wildlife Conservation NFTs
Solution: Build an in-house platform, with NFT integration, which enables users to support wildlife conservation through a DeFi Staking Pool protocol.
Translate Pool Peek Mobile: Swahili
Solution: We built Pool Peek Mobile to assist users with the staking process. We will translate the app into Swahili (~200 million African speakers).
Translate Pool Peek mobile: French
Solution: We built Pool Peek Mobile to assist users with the staking process. We will translate the app into French (141 million African speakers).
Translate no-code SSI to Swahili
Solution: Translate a no-code SSI SaaS platform (ProofSpace), including products and open documentation, from English to Swahili.
Train 100 Math Teachers in Africa
Solution: Start by training 100 Math teachers interested in programming to pass this skill on to their learners and peers to increase coder capacity
Tokenized Security Exchange
Solution: A tokenized security and cryptocurrency exchange for Africa.
Tinypesa
Solution: Tinypesa is instant & convenient for developers via our API and businesses to collect money via online mediums at no transaction cost.
The Future of Cardano is African
Solution: Educate youth on the basics of blockchain, its applications, and social impact possibilities, via experiential learning programs on Goodwall
The Africa Catalyst School
Solution: Provide Africa with a catalyst school to onboard local communities and enhance the impact of Catalyst in the continent.
Sustainable Energy For All Africa
Solution: Our new technology can be quickly deployed in the field and constructed by local communities overseen by our mobile support team.
Protecting wildlife & Maasai, Kenya
Solution: Introducing Systems to decrease the strain on the farmers, herders, wildlife, the landscape and the people of the Maasai community
Networking Events Africa Extended
Solution: Hosting monthly Networking Events similar to successful F5 and F7 networking projects managed by Defi Discussions team in PY, EC and ET
Mentoring Africa to Success
Solution: Reach out to African Catalyst skilled Mentors, to onboard them into PMM's platform to help African proposers to deliver solid proposals.
Mass Cardano Education for Students
Solution: Organize community events to educate about 2,000 tertiary and high school students in northern Ghana about cardano and its benefits.
Lokole/Cardano community Networks
Solution: Lokole/Cardano Community Networks solution is a shared system which aim to connect any unconnected individual into modern telecommunications
LEVERAGING NETWORKS IN AFRICA
Solution: We want to leverage existing networks and projects to create a simple way to increase access to and knowledge about Cardano
Leapfrogging Industrialization
Solution: The first Waya garment factory in Uganda will set a new standard for highly efficient, sustainable, and decentralized production in Africa.
ISIG-GOMA Cardano Hub
Solution: Launch a student hub in Goma to inspire young developers to choose Cardano through conferences and hackathons promoting Haskell and Plutus.
Inc. Train the Trainer Africa MVP
Solution: Adapt our proven SPO incubator into a ‘Train the Trainer’ model for African NGOs, as a blueprint for other developing regions.
Healthcare Developers Onboarding
Solution: Hippocrades is a health infrastructure that makes it easy for devs to create DeHealth apps. We'll provide onboarding manuals and tutorials.
Hackathon and Internship Program
Solution: Expose Cardano more to the market through the hackathon and have our student developers build smart contracts for some of these businesses.
Grow Wada, Grow Cardano
Solution: Aquire funding for key hires and initiatives in order to bridge the gap for the next 6 months as a more sustainable solution is developed.
Grow Ethiopian cardano community
Solution: promote Cardano and it's ecosystem to developers through Coding bootcamps, community Meetups and social media promotion.