Please describe your proposed solution.

The requested funds will cover the following expenses for 3 experienced developers:

• Emurgo Academy Solutions Architect training course (3 * $1,900 = $5,700)
• Time required to complete the course (3 x 200 hours x $30/hr = $18,000)

All developers are gainfully employed and unable to forgo earnings to learn Cardano technologies. The stipend will allow them to 100% focus on learning and practicing Cardano technologies.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The Challenge objective is to encourage developers within Africa to learn and develop using Cardano technologies. This solution will train 3 experience developers. The developers will then begin working on the open-source Cardano ERP project.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

If funding is received, we do not anticipate encountering any foreseeable risks to getting the developers trained on Cardano technologies. The developers have been vetted; and we have worked with them all on previous projects. The risk of them being poached after receiving training is low.

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

The timeline and key milestones are:

1. Identify experienced developers (done)
2. Obtain funding for Emurgo Academy training courses
3. Enroll developers in training courses (175 hrs per course description)
4. Developer practice projects or participation in architecting Cardano ERP and/or developing MVP (~25 hrs)

We anticipate up to 6 weeks to successfully complete the above.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

The requested funds will cover the following expenses for 3 experienced developers:

• Emurgo Academy Solutions Architect training course (3 * $1,900 = $5,700)
• Time required to complete the course (3 x 200 hours x $30/hr = $18,000)

Total Budget: $23,700

All developers are gainfully employed and unable to forgo earnings to learn Cardano technologies. The stipend will allow them to 100% focus on learning and practicing Cardano technologies.

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Please see our website for CVs of developers who will enroll in Emurgo Academy training courses.

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

We do not anticipate returning to Catalyst in a later round for further funding for the purpose of training the identified developers.

Feedback received from Catalyst vCAs was to split our budget and re-apply during Catalyst F9. We are following that advice.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We will measure the number of experienced developers from Africa who successfully complete Emurgo Academy courses.

What does success for this project look like?

Success for this project would be all 3 developers successfully completing Emurgo Academy training.

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new project in Catalyst. Our previous attempt to obtain funding during CF8 was not successful.

We have other CF9 proposals pending, in accordance with feedback received from vCAs during CF8.