African Blockchain Centre for Devs
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- Lack of trained Blockchain developers worldwide
- Acknowledgment/credibility of African devs
- African brains trot to the Western countries
Experience
Joshua, Gwen and the ABCD teams run the initiative for a year and already assembled a first cohort of 14 promising blockchain developers.
Solution
- Train elite Blockchain devs in Africa
- Establish the best Blockchain solution provider in Africa
- Build technical elite of the future Africa
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Addresses Challenge
Does the proposal effectively addresses the challenge?
Community Reviews (5)
Simple plan to train 25 dev's in Africa through EMURGO Certified Cardano Developer Associate and Professional sessions at a cost of $1500 per dev. Great to see some numbers on actual number of dev's to be trained compared to some competing African training ventures allowing voters to gauge value for money.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_11
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Your project for establishing a development center and training developers in the Cardano ecosystem definitely meets the challenge. I 'Strongly Agree'
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_320
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposal is for community-sponsored training with an aim to improve the availability of blockchain developers in Africa. This may not directly improve the developer ecosystem in general but can act as a catalyst to improve the availability of African developers for Africa-centered projects which is a critical requirement. In this respect, the proposal is addressing a requiemtent.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_46
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
This team wants to start an initiative to train and educate developers especially in Africa. The goal is also to retain excellent Blockchain developers in Africa. The adoption of Cardano in Africa (one of the main goals of Cardano) depends essentially on the ability to transform promising ideas into concrete solutions. Therefore, this proposal supports both this challenge and the positive impact on our ecosystem.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_484
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
https://www.abcdevs.com/ is a great venture and the proposal is an important one. The problem and solution are well defined. It is a long-term play to train local/African crypto developers, starting with 25 in this proposal.
As someone who managed several tech companies, having high-quality developers is highly important especially in a growing sector like blockchain where demand will keep rising.
What is missing for me in this proposal is more the association for the Cardano ecosystem. You use mainly blockchain in a general term across the proposal and less specifically Cardano and how the training will be linked to multiple Cardano-related initiatives. Also on the website, Cardano is one out of 5 sections and not the center of the course, while Etherium has 2 sections). Obviously, blockchain fundamentals are important, but my suggestion is to focus more on the Cardano ecosystem at least to be aligned with this challenge. This is the main reason why I gave 3 stars.
Another important area is to provide more information about the recruitment process and how you make sure you get the best of the best (or the Elite as you put it).
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
Feasibility
Given experience and plan presented is likely that this proposal will be implemented successfully
Community Reviews (5)
Simple yet well explained plan by a group that has already done it in the past year. No reason to think they cannot repeat and expand.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_11
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Having over 30 years as an IT Manager and having to train many over the years I have reviewed your proposal, team, budget.
It appears you have already invested one year into your ABCD plan and have already received 14 individuals that meet your criteria. This is a great advantage toward implementing this proposal.
The team experience and mix of talents looks excellent. Wish I had a team like that !
Your budget I believe is a bit light and you may wish to request funding for period of one year next time. Also I did not see any funds for marketing or any physical place for people to meet that cannot connect from home.
Given the team and the existing students the effort already put forth I 'Strongly Agree' you will be successful.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_320
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
The proposers are operating a training website and have a strong team to operationalize the plan as per the website. The plan is fairly simple and it is going o utilize Emurgo for conducting the actual training. Therefore it is highly likely that the proposal will be implemented successfully.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_46
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The main approach is to cover the costs of the training program of Emurgo of the participants as well as to offer the continuing support for them. So it is a kind of scholarship, which I think is a really good idea here. The amount requested is well explained and reasonable. The team behind ABCD is experienced and well connected. In this constellation there is a good chance that this project will be successfully implemented and the requested number of supported developers will be reached.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_484
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
The program is already started and running for a year with the first cohort of 14 developers. It would have been helpful to provide more information about the first program such as the recruitment process, progress, and if they are already being employed and with which companies.
The team looks great, with relevant experience, impact-oriented, community involvement, and a strong relevant network. Good details about the team members - LinkedIn profile would have to be helpful to have.
The training provider will be Emurgo as you mentioned. It would have been good to have more information about the service they will provide and how it will focus on Cardano content.
Plan vs. ideas seems reasonable and in line with the proposal.
The budget of $1,500 per developer for a 4-5 months course seems reasonable for me. When working with www.earthworm.org we had courses training the future environmental leaders in developing countries and the cost per person was much higher (different model but just as a reference). However, it would have been more clear if you detailed and explained the budget for the various budget lines and not having a total number, i.e. the cost of emurgo service.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
Auditability
Does the proposal provides sufficient information to assess and audit progress and completion?
Community Reviews (5)
Communicating back to the voting community the successes and failures, eg students graduating / dropping out, as well as employment should be easy for you to accomplish so I 'Agree'
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_320
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
Simple plan to audit. Did they train 25 Dev's to the standard planned. Success could be tracked further down the road by keeping in touch with what those dev's then went on to do. Perhaps as part of the agreement for the free training, they have to pay it forward to the community afterwards and help train others?
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_11
- Total QA Ratings
- 10
- QA Rating Outcome
The expected outcome of the proposal as per the listed criteria is difficult to quantify other than that it is fairly easy to audit how the proposal is implementing. The proposal is also not clear on the criteria for selecting the persons for training. The component-like cost of the person following up on developers is also not clear.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_46
- Total QA Ratings
- 7
- QA Rating Outcome
The roadmap needs further explanation as it is more a general 5-year plan for ABCD instead of explaining exactly what is happening when with this proposal. When does the first cohort start with the training? When is it finished? In terms of auditability a source for documentation about the progress of the proposal would be helpful. Overall, a clear goal is defined (number of first cohort), therefore the main part of this proposal is auditable.
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_484
- Total QA Ratings
- 6
- QA Rating Outcome
The roadmap and time frame are good but quite generalized and on a yearly basis, while the courses are only 4 months. It would have been good to have a roadmap for the proposal with 3,6,12 months timeframe and deliverables. Also, as mentioned above show the deliverable more in relation to the proposal and the Cardano ecosystem such as involvement in Cardano/catalyst projects. The key deliverable that could be measured is that 25 local people went through the course.
There is a good list of success measurements but to be able to audit them needs to add forecast estimations based on milestones timeframe.
Good that you included some barriers but they are mainly of the ecosystem (i.e. legal structure). Some risks are also implied in the text such as "Acknowledgment/credibility of African developers from those looking to hire".
Assessment Quality Assurance
Assessment Quality Assurance is an offered role to veteran in the Cardano Project Catalyst Community. The purpose is to review PA assessments of proposals, providing a second layer of Quality Assurance.
- Assessor ID
- z_assessor_636
- Total QA Ratings
- 8
- QA Rating Outcome
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