F8: Scale-UP Cardano's Community Hubs
Campaign Brief
Challenge Updates
Top 3 Challenge Category in Fund 7 by number of submissions (see attached).
2x Funded Challenge Setting Proposal (Fund 5 and Fund 6)
A selection of past-funded 'Scale-Up Hubs':
- Homeless Hubs
- Cardano in South L.A.
- Cardano in Buenos Aires
- Salmon Nation Hub
What this means:
Demand is growing for this category and we are only at the beginning of what is possible with a network of Cardano hubs globally. The network effect will take a hold at some point and when it does, we need to be ready with templates, guides and materials on creating and sustaining a new Cardano Community Hub (CCH). The impact is real and ROI is being met. Real lives are being affected and improved through this category. This creates a win-win, positive feedback loop as more people benefit from the solutions we offer them, there is even more demand for these services worldwide.
How is the Fund 8 challenge different?
While the growing demand is showing us that the need is there, our focus for the next challenge should be on the other side of the coin. Capital supply.
While the facts have proven the necessity of a Community Hubs challenge, there are many other equally as important challenges vying for a position in Fund 8, so we must act accordingly. We must make budget requests that allow others to also pursue their goals within the ecosystem, both macro, for Catalyst and micro, within the Challenges themselves.
While we are Scaling UP community hubs, we need to Scale DOWN individual capital outlay, to ensure that we can spread as far as possible, as quickly as possible, which is why we work from first principles.
Delivering information to people who would not otherwise have the access.
Ensuring resilience and self-reliance within that community.
When we approach hubs from the lens of information-delivery nodes, we can build a hub taxonomy within a need-impact matrix and then find the most capital efficient model for each location.
In simpler terms, consider why a hub exists, in the context of it's location, access to infrastructure and community readiness. Then design a hub according to those factors, with a traditional brick-and-mortar (CTH) being only one out of many potential information-delivery systems within a local community.
This round will focus much more on 'minimum-viable hubs' (MVHs), what is the smallest effective unit for a hub, and by identifying this unit, can we begin to scale CCHs more rapidly.
Additional Success Metrics:
- Is the hub's Fund 8 proposal in keeping with the MVH principle?
- Do they have an understanding of their target audience?
- Can they accurately project their reach (physical and online) in the first 3, 6, 12 months?
- Can they accurately project the number of onboarded members to the hub in 3, 6, 12 months?
- Have they given an indication of a financial sustainability model?
- Have they given an indication of budget costs vs 'cost to launch'? (eg. A CTH may only apply for 1/5 of their cost to launch due to the demand pressures of acquiring catalyst funding
Ratings by CAs and Voters should favour:
- Proposals that have a budget:cost-to-launch ratio between 1-1.5.
- Proposals that do not exceed 5% of the total Challenge budget.
- Proposals that account for local needs and infrastructure concerns.
- Proposals that show creativity and ingenuity around hub design and information delivery.
- Proposals that are using local, recyclable materials and have a commitment to sustainability practices.
Let's build an ecosystem that is truly global, allowing everyone to participate to the best of their ability, whatever level they are starting from.
When you drive adoption at the ground level, you are doing more than just 'building cool products', you are empowering people to change their lives in ways they could have never imagined by themselves.
Extra reading (where we are going):
Cumbria, UK Business Hub: https://www.gov.uk/government/news/sellafield-invests-26m-to-create-cumbria-business-hub Rwanda Business Hub: https://techcrunch.com/2021/12/03/norrsken-foundations-hub-opens-in-rwanda-to-house-1000-entrepreneurs-by-next-year
Past-funded challenges:
Scale-UP Community Hubs (F6) Scale-UP Community Hubs (F5)
Why is it important?
Without users on the ground level, we are building niche products serving mostly technical people with blockchain expertise.
What does success look like?
Local Community Hubs across the world where the average person can take part in their own language and with their own cultural understanding
Key Metrics to measure
- How many new Hubs were launched in 2022?
- How many developers did this community-focused challenge bring into the Cardano ecosystem?
- How many new users of Cardano were onboarded?
- What was the total reach of the Hub's initial marketing launch?
- How many external organizations did this community-focused challenge bring into the Cardano ecosystem?
USA East Coast Cardano CommunityHub
Solution: The Hub will Market Cardano Blockchain to Universities and Tech Companies and facilitate in-person events, accelerating the Network Effect.
Uganda Business & Technical Hub
Solution: Start a community hub in Kampala with emphasis on education and enabling entrepreneurs collaborate to solve local problems using Cardano.
Townhall Channel in Vietnamese
Solution: After 2 and 6h from the main Townhall, a 5 mins brief and 30 mins summary Podcast versions in Vietnamese ready for commuters, TL;DR users.
The ADA Cafe Grows Cardano
Solution: We made the Cafe and see success. Now we need to jump start it.
TADATek Insights
Solution: We provide up-to-date information on the Cardano network.Contents are produced in the form of news blogs, infographics, and video tutorials.
Sustainable Solution Hub
Solution: Build a community Hub providing education on sustainable business models, with real world solutions to climate issues and Cardano adoption
Science Hub in Argentina
Solution: We’ll create a scientific CCH in Argentina that hosts symposiums to engage members of the scientific community with the Cardano ecosystem.
Scale: Nationwide Innovation Hubs
Solution: There are more than 30 countrywide hubs in Kenya that reach out to the community. We will partner with t these hubs to grow Cardano
SalmonNation Decentralized Alliance
Solution: Setting up a local community center in the region will give us the opportunity to recruit local people into the Catalyst ecosystem.
Project Support Stake pool in Japan
Solution: We will establish 100% margin pool and distribute original Token instead of ADA rewards. The delegators can vote for use case of ADA rewards
Plutus for Nigerian Universities
Solution: Create hubs in universities that train students become plutus developers with the help of our friends at Wada.
Oxford Student Hub
Solution: Created a student hub based at Oxford to further increase Oxford students’ exposure to Cardano through physical and online events.
🛫 On-Boarding ALL stakeholders
Solution: On-boarding and launch protocols that make sense and engage in a meaningful & fun way
Networking Events LatAm EXT
Solution: Students in LATAM who are already being educated on cryptocurrency and blockchain tech should be introduced to this community and guided.
Model ICT Hub for Deprived Students
Solution: Set-up a community hub in Nalerigu to offer students access to basic ICT training and services to compete with their peers in other regions.
Mesh Network-Konma Xperience Center
Solution: An Xperience center for members to learn from real-time examples and how Konma is using blockchain and building solutions on Cardano.
Marketplace for Artists
Solution: Introduce artists to the blockchain with easy and as easy as if they were using devianart.com, or any other known art website
MADAO New Mexico Ambassador program
Solution: We will hire 6 Community Ambassadors from New Mexico to raise awareness of MADAO and bring up the visibility of Cardano in the state.
Living Waters Costa Rica
Solution: We have bought a 15 acre fish farm in Costa Rica which we will be a hub of innovation in the eco tech space and retreat for innovators.
Liverpool Cardano Philosophy Hub
Solution: Work with an established UK community philosophy network, to build a philosophy-based Hub and develop philosophy discussion within Catalyst.
Knowledge hub for Vietnam and Japan
Solution: we want to create a knowledge hub for project quality evaluation for the Vietnamese and Japanese communities through our Vcoincheck.io
Kandy Community Hub
Solution: I want to setup a hub in Colombo. Both physical location and online meetings
IRI: Champaign Cardano Meetups
Solution: The Immutable Research Institute will begin holding monthly Cardano Happy Hour Meetups near the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Innovatio Digital HUB
Solution: Develop a digital community for users around the world to increase mass public adoption and participation in blockchain technology.