Fund my Thesis: A research proposal on the "Impact of cardano blockchain on farmers in the Agricultural sector"

[GENERAL] Name and surname of main applicant

Mohammed Osman

[GENERAL] Are you delivering this project as an individual or as an entity (whether formally incorporated or not)

Individual

[GENERAL] Co proposers and Additional applicants

No

[GENERAL] Please specify how many months you expect your project to last (from 2-12 months)

3

[GENERAL] Please indicate if your proposal has been auto-translated into English from another language.

No

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem (200-character limit including spaces)

Make a three(3) months research on the above topic which will involve taking questionnaire samples from farmers discussing about the knowledge of cardano blockchain and how it will improve their lives

[GENERAL] Does your project have any dependencies on other organizations, technical or otherwise?

No

[GENERAL] If YES, please describe what the dependency is and why you believe it is essential for your project’s delivery. If NO, please write “No dependencies.”

No dependencies

[GENERAL] Will your project’s output/s be fully open source?

Yes

[GENERAL] Please provide here more information on the open source status of your project outputs

The project will be posted to cardano media platforms so that whoever sees it will appreciate the research made that will expand the cardano ecosystem.

Also to the school faculty and departments.

[METADATA] SDG rating

• SDG goals:
• End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture
• Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
• Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all
• Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns
• Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels

• SDG subgoals:
• By 2030, end hunger and ensure access by all people, in particular the poor and people in vulnerable situations, including infants, to safe, nutritious and sufficient food all year round
• By 2030, double the agricultural productivity and incomes of small-scale food producers, in particular women, indigenous peoples, family farmers, pastoralists and fishers, including through secure and equal access to land, other productive resources and inputs, knowledge, financial services, markets and opportunities for value addition and non-farm employment
• By 2030, ensure sustainable food production systems and implement resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production, that help maintain ecosystems, that strengthen capacity for adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters and that progressively improve land and soil quality
• Increase investment, including through enhanced international cooperation, in rural infrastructure, agricultural research and extension services, technology development and plant and livestock gene banks in order to enhance agricultural productive capacity in developing countries, in particular least developed countries
• By 2030, substantially reduce the number of deaths and illnesses from hazardous chemicals and air, water and soil pollution and contamination

• Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

#proposertoolsdg

[SOLUTION] Please describe your proposed solution.

Background:

Most farmers in Africa lack the knowledge of cardano blockchain as well as cryptocurrency. because of that, I will make a research to educate, innovate and empower them about the importance of cryptocurrency, cardano blockchain and wallet creation(yoroi, eternal). This project will leverage farmers understanding of cardano blockchain which will enable anyone know into details about cardano network which broadens and expand the cardano ecosystem.

The project seeks to organize a series of research to be made at varius farms in Ghana where everyone can have access to it, to introduce and promote the ideals of Project Catalyst. These project seek to educate farmers on the ideas of blockchain technology and develop their skills in blockchain entrepreneurship and empower them with the catalyst funding opportunity for them to create solutions and leverage catalysts to solve problems in their farms.

How the project will be implemented:

The project will be hosted for three months which will involve moving from farm to farm to collect data from farmers about cryptocurrency, cardano blockchain and wallet creation in the first month, data entry/project writing for second month and Results publihing for the last month.

BELOW WILL BE DONE FOR THE FIRST MONTH WHICH WILL INVOLVE TAKING QUESTIONNAIRES ON THE CRETERIA; cryptocurrency, cardano blockchain, and wallet creation: MAY,2024

The cryptocurrency session:

This will be done by onboarding farmers to the cryptocurrency and blockchain revolution since most of them will be newbies to the cryptocurrency space. This will provide an insight into the fundamentals of digital currencies, the impact of the satoshi community and what potentials and resources are available in blockchain technology. The session will also educate farmers on the evolution of money; from barter to bitcoin. Farmers will also learn how to download, install and set up Yoroi wallets; mobile and web wallets, and then be trained on sending and receiving ADA, staking ADA and trading ADA with other tokens and currencies on exchange platforms.

The cardano blockchain session:

This session will introduce farmers to project catalyst to explain its purpose, opportunities and resources available for them to leverage. The session will cover catalyst challenges, Proposal Assessment, Challenge Team, cardano Ideascale account creation, proposal submission, governance, execution and reporting of proposals to the catalyst community. Farmers will at the end of the day, be abreast with cryptocurrencies, Cardano blockchain and project catalyst.

cardano.ideascale.com

The wallet creation session:

This session will involve taking farmer through of how to download yoroi, eternal wallets into their smart phones and the necessary procedures involved. Will also caution them about the privacy of their recovery phrases. Airdrop/incentives for farmers creating the yoroi wallets successfully.

[IMPACT] Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community.

The proposal will address the challenge by;

1.Enhancing adoption, communication and knowledge sharing in the cardano network which are explained below;

• Questionnaires: The project will involve and base on taking 50 questionnaire samples from farmers about the knowledge of cryptocurrency, cardano blockchain and wallet creation which will initiate adoption.

• Project writing: I will write the project using the questionnaires taking from farmers and this will be updated to the cardano project platforms.

2.Reaching out to about 50+ farmers who views, shares and comments.

3.Broadens the cardano community as long-term growth.

• Results publishing: The project results will be published to cardano project community for reviews and to the entire ecosystem. Share to school faculty, department, school library and to other departments for recommendations.

Metrics:

This will involve;

• having about 50 farmers learned and trained about the cardano blockchain.
• almost the whole world to have access to the project.
• showing farmers how to create Yoroi wallets using their mobile smart phones and other internet accessible devices.
• creating social media platforms for farmers and to all those participating which includes facebook, whatsApp, telegram and YouTube to make easy interaction among them.

[CAPABILITY & FEASIBILITY] What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

I am a final year student from the university for development studies(UDS) Nyankpala campus studying Bsc Agriculture technology(AGT) who is going to write a research project to fulfill my final year academic program under Faculty of agriculture, food and consumer sciences in the department of agriculture and food economics. I have good relationship with students, student leaderships and most of the management in the university.

I am also a student entrepreneur and have the passion of skills development, education and organizing meetups and events. I am an alumnus of the university for development studies who studied diploma in Agriculture technology.

I also have strong knowledge about cardano blockchain, cryptocurrency and project catalyst and have attended over 15 meetups which talks about cardano blockchain. I am strong and conversant to manage project funds both in fiat (USD), (GHS) and in cryptocurrency(ADA). It is good to convert some of the funds to stablecoin(USDT) to avoid depletion of project funds due to cryptocurrency volatility. This will ensure an optimum use of resources for the success of the project. Below are some pictures of cardano events I have attended across Ghana.

https://www.uds.edu.gh/schools-and-faculties/foafcs

[Project Milestones] What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Taking of questionnaire samples: May, 2024

This will be done by visiting three farms within May, 2024 to ask them questions which will be based on cryptocurrency and cardano Blockchain about their farms that will aim at improving their live with the help of cardano blockchain. these include;

• Confirm funding receipt from cardano project catalyst.
• Onboard project team members and outline next step.
• Prepare flyers, banners, print t-shirts for team and farmers.
• Prepare questionnaires for data collection.
• Marketing by posting event details and flyers on social media.
• consulting with the farmer the day there will be available at their farmlands.
• Interviw farmers about the benefits that will be derived from learning cardano blockchain. Data will be gathering whiles interviewing
• Sharing incentives
• Post pictures on social media and prepare report for the cardano project catalyst.

This will be done for three farms

Target: 50 farmers

Project writing/Data entry: June, 2024

I will write the project using the questionnaires taking from farmers and this will be updated to the cardano project platforms. The line up includes the following;

• Onboard project team members and outline next step.
• Enter the data collected from farmers into a real project.
• Post pictures on social media and prepare report for the cardano project catalyst.

Publishing of proposal: July, 2024

• The results will be published on social media platforms of cardano project community.
• Print hardcopy of the project.
• To the department coordinator.
• To school faculty.
• Share to farmers on our social media platforms

[RESOURCES] Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Mohammed Osman ( Project Lead )

I am a final year student currently studying BSc in Agriculture Technology at the University for Development Studies at Nyankpala Campus in Ghana. I also have a two(2) year diploma in agriculture technology. I have been in the cryptocurrency space for the past four years and also attended several meetups to learn about cryptocurrency. A proposal assessor(PA) Fund 10. I have strong skills in wallet creation, transactions and trading with Cardano ADA, and also volunteered at numerous blockchain conferences and has gained some leadership and organising skills. I am also a team member of cardano Ghana community. I was also a team member as a an organizing secretary of catalyst campus train which was funded in fund 9.

Email: mohammedosmanmata@gmail.com / osmanmo1988@uds.edu.gh

School: registrar@uds.edu.gh

website: https://www.uds.edu.gh

Facebook: web.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100089380266704&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Twitter: mohamme65400553

Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/mohammed-osman-510b74248

Mohammed Mustapha Yakubu ( Project inspector )

Mohammed Mustapha Yakubu is a graduate student at the Manipal Academy Of Higher Education (MAHE), reading MBA programme (Distance). He is an advocate for Cryptocurrency and blockchain technology in Ghana, with 5 years of experience hosting crypto events; educating, onboarding newbies and engaging crypto users for mass adoption and enhanced use cases. Hub leader at Wada Ghana (wada.org), Catalyst Fund9 Funded Proposer (FP)& Proposal Assessor (PA), Fund8 & Fund9 Challenge Team (CT) Lead for Grow Africa, Grow Cardano challenge category. Also, a Cardano Ambassador, hosting Cardano meetups and community-led events at the Cardano Summit with the Cardano Foundation since 2021. He is also a hub leader at WADA, a global grassroots movement, that aims to educate local merchants, developers and users about the blockchain technology and economy behind cryptocurrencies and Cardano, as well as how to efficiently utilize them. He also runs a private cryptocurrency startup called the Chosen FinTech Solutions, where he educates and empowers hundreds of Ghanaians to adopt cryptocurrency and fintech solutions for an inclusive and freer financial future.

He is a passionate libertarian and National Coordinator for Ghana at the African Students for Liberty. He manages over 5 student chapters in 5 universities in Ghana where local leaders of these chapters are trained and supported with resources to host a local meetup on their campuses to advance classical liberal ideas such as financial liberty, economic freedom, free markets, drugs wars, injustice, media freedom and tech liberty.

For over four (4) years now, he has organized more than 30 physical cryptocurrency events and about 15 virtual meetups in Ghana. Mustapha remains at the forefront of blockchain education in Ghana and Africa, increasing the adoption of crypto on the continent through educational campaigns and local meetups. Just recently, he joined the Cardano blockchain as an Ambassador and hosted a local meetup to commemorate the Cardano Summit 2021 slated held on September 25 – 26, 2021, mainly to provide training on crypto fundamentals, practical tutorials on how to set up a crypto account - and buy & sell crypto, technical analysis and avoiding scams. Thereafter, he has organised already up to Cardano meetups in Ghana with close to 300 audience outreach. He has rich experience working with schools and students, especially at events due to his strong leadership skills and managerial competence in leading people and managing projects.

He will be a strong guide and inspector thruogh out the success of this project.

Twitter profile - www.twitter.com/cardanoghana

Emails: mohammed.yakubu@learner.manipal.edu / mmustaphayakubu@gmail.com / mustapha@wada.org

Contacts: LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/mohammed-mustapha-yakubu-a08455125

Telegram - www.t.me/mmustaphayakubu

Discord: mustapha#7312

Seidu Ziblim ( IT & Graphics Design )

Seidu Ziblim is a graduate of the University for Development Studies (UDS) with a Bachelor of Education in Economics education. He is a professional graphic designer with over 7 years in graphics and printing works. He has worked on several projects in charge of printing T-shirts, conference brochures, and designing logos and flyers. He has strong skills in IT and has worked on many projects as a technical director to control projection and screens, public address systems, lighting and slide control for speakers.

He is passionate about financial technology, entrepreneurship, investment, cryptocurrency and blockchain. He is good at event branding and publicity using graphic technology.

Contact details below:

Email: ziblimseidu99@gmail.com

Twitter- www.twitter.com/seiduziblim

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/seidu-ziblim-544326172

Alhassan Adam - Team mate

Alhassan is a graduate student at the University of Business and Integrated Development Studies, WA Campus, Ghana. He studied Bachelor of Commerce. He was a Vice President of the Students' Representative Council (SRC) during the academic year, supporting the management of a 5000+ student population. He has about 2 years of experience volunteering at Blockchain events. He has strong skills in organising and is very conversant with engaging event attendees, partners and the core team to ensure a successful event. He will contribute to the proposal by helping during farmers engagement.

Contacts:

Email: adamalhassan994@gmail.com

School: info@ubids.edu.gh

Website: https://ubids.edu.gh

[BUDGET & COSTS] Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

COST BREAKDOWN FOR MILESTONE 1

• Printing of 50 questionnaire sample = 1 paper=50ADA

50 papers = 50x50ADA

= 2,500ADA

• Incentives = 100ADA

• Prepare flyers, banners, print t-shirts for team and farmers = 5,550ADA

• Cost of transportation = 2500ADA

TOTAL AMOUNT = 2500 + 100 + 5550 + 2500 = 10,650ADA

COST BREAKDOWN FOR MILESTONE 2

• Food and water for project writing with team members = 500ADA

• Get team members Data bundle for postings = 1100ADA

• Cost of transportation = 1400ADA

TOTAL AMOUNT = 500 + 1100 + 1400 = 3,000ADA

COST BREAKDOWN FOR MILESTONE 3

Printing 4 hardcopies for project work = 4x500 = 2,000ADA

TOTAL BUDGET OF PROJECT = 10650 + 3000 + 2000 = 15,650ADA

NB: The above budget include all expenses, feeding, and transportation.

[VALUE FOR MONEY] How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

There cannot be a project without resources. The cost items indicated in the aforementioned budget represent the cost for the entire project period, and I will highlight on key items below;

• Printing of the 50 questionnaire sample: We will print 50 questionnaires in which we will use to take data from farmers to write the project.
• Project writing/data entry: The data collected from farmers will be used as a source of information to completely write the project.
• Results publishing: The project results will be published to cardano project community for reviews and to the entire ecosystem. Share to school faculty, department, school library and to other departments for recommendations.
• Printing of t-shirts, banners and flyers for farmers and team members: T-shirts & banners, especially Cardano brand t-shirts and banners make events attractive and the public to the community. It will inspire and help market the Cardano ecosystem better with such promotional materials.
• Airdrops and incentives: airdrops and incentives are provided to inspire and motivate farmers and the team respectively for their time, efforts and active involvement in making Cardano grow. This is to ensure everyone gets rewarded in the Cardano ecosystem which is one aim of Cardano making the world work for everyone.
• Transportation: The project also requires travelling around regions to gather the information from farmers. There will also be meal expenses to support project implementation.
• Media and photography: The project will hire a camera and video service to cover the work which will help us in producing proof of achievement for the IOG and the entire Cardano community for transparency and tracking of success records.

The budget is stated in ADA and not in USD and hence leaves uncertainties for everyone in the community as the fall in the price of ADA could affect funding and vice versa. Hence, it is prudent to leverage Cardano's DJED or Tether's USDT or other stable coins to preserve funds and prevent the depletion of project funds. Again, local expenses are incurred in local fiat (Ghanaian Cedis), which are affected by inflation and hence, there is the need to be economically sound in purchases to ensure expenses are covered without any difficulties. It is important to also have a convenient savings account to keep exchange withdrawals for covering project expenses.

I am sure and strongly believe that, the budget will see an optimum use to serve the purpose of the project to achieve the KPIs and deliver successfully without any shortages or loss of funds.

[IMPORTANT NOTE] The Applicant agrees to Fund Rules and also that data in the submission form and other data provided by the project team during the course of the project will be publicly available.

I Accept