No-Code For Creative Africa

ABSTRACT
The global IT services market is expected to reach 4.07 trillion U.S. dollars in 2021. The African continent should have a strategy for taking a share of this market. We propose a using an IT trend for No-Code development and a strategy called Disruptive Innovation, a term coined by Clayton Christensen to describe using competitive advantage such a low cost labor to grab a share of the market and then "up-marketing" to take over more profitable parts of the market. This is the strategy successfully employed by the India IT industry. Leading business strategist Professor Clayton Christensen describes this strategy in the video below:
https://youtu.be/qDrMAzCHFUU
The No-Code revolution is an ideal place for the African continent to start its journey of Disruptive Innovation of the IT sector. According to Gartner, the worldwide low-code development technologies market is projected to total $13.8 billion in 2021, an increase of 22.6% from 2020. No-Code will move work from the highly trained IT worker to the Citizen Developer - a person who has little or no technical training but can understand requirements and use a No-Code Platform.
By stratigically using its wage advantage, Africa could set up centers for No-Code development that would create hundreds of thousands of jobs across the continent. This would put Africa on the map as an IT center and the first step of Africas disruptive innovation of the IT industry would be accomplished and the process of up-marketing could then begin.
QModeler is the only No-Code platform that can be used to build blockchain applications and protocols. QModeler uses NFTs to attribute work to teams of hundreds of distributed workers. Using No-Code new layers value worth trillions of dollars will be created simply but connecting existing protocols, integrating on-chain and off-chain protocols and providing the message format transformations required to allows applications to communicate.
EXPLAINER VIDEO
https://youtu.be/aidsd3WztFY
VALUE PROPOSITION
Greater employment of Africans. Increased opportunity to engage with US and EU companies. QModeler will track contributions using NFT tokens. A portion of the revenue generated by a component will be shared with the authors of the component. The remaining revenue will be applied to education and marketing. A DOA will be set up to manage how funds are spent.
VALUE PROPOSITION (Blockchain Ecosystem)
No-Node can be the jet fuel for blockchain adoption. Cardano is a network without, as yet, a significant network effect because of its lack of interoperability. No-Code will help blockchain fulfill its purpose of bringing equality to under developed continents like Africa and India by allowing people to develop their own blockchain applications, food safety, payment apps, remittance, cold chain, without needing to give up their independence to large first world corporations.This will create a new layer of value consisting of these connected components and a stronger influence of Metcalf's laws on the network effect that will raise the value of all blockchain apps.
We will stop thinking of blockchain protocols as rigid one-size-fits-all solutions and start to think of protocols as a toolbox of components that can be configured, perhaps on the fly, to create custom solutions to diverse sets of problems. Users of blockchain will find a richer ecosystem and a toolbox in which they can build solutions to their problems with costs of their product proportional to the labor costs of the regions in which they happen to live.
ABOUT US
We believe technology should unite and not divide us. We strive to democratize technology by simplifying it so that innovation happens across all strata of society. Our vision will be realized when any sized company, from enterprise to a small business owner, or even a single person with a yen to create, can innovate solutions to their problems. Ferdon - the maker of Qmodeler is its headquartered in Vietnam where all its employees live. Ferdon understands well the challenges facing developing countries
WHAT IS A BOARD GAME, A TURING COMPLETE LANGUAGE, AND THE SUBJECT OF HUNDREDS OF RESEARCH PAPERS
It would be easy mistakenly assume that QModeler generates code from the graphs users create but that would not be correct. The graph used by the users is itself a turning complete languages. QModeler relies on Pebbling that is at once a board game, a topic of hundreds of research papers; and a Turing complete "languages". More about this technology. Listen the the video below by the founder of QModeler to learn more
https://youtu.be/LOR2Z1Jpbik
MARLOW COMARISON
Since we are often compared with Marlow I wanted to point out some important differences. Also please watch the above video to understand the unique functionality of QModeler that wedon't have room to describe here.

1. Targeted Demographics -QModeler targets the"Citizen Programmer" who has little or no technical training. Marlow uses blocky which was intended to teach programming. Our own usability tests as well as others shows Blockly is too complex for "Citizen Programmers". More on citizen programmers :https://tinyurl.com/4z33rx8r .
2. Greater Flexibility - Components must be flexible enough to allow Citizen Programmers freedom to build what they want. For instance in the blocky program I may want to take half the amount in escrow, I may want to pay the arbitrator 10% of the funds for incentivization, I may want to wait until all bids are in and select the highest bidder. To me the components in Marlow look like they were built by working back from the demos.
3. Does Not Use Code Generation - Code generation is an approach with a 15 year history of failure by companies like IBM and Microsoft. Generated code is error prone. Blockly is built on code generation,
4. Easy Process for Building Components - It must be very easy to build a new component. Users will find use cases that are not handled by existing components and it must be possible to build these components quickly. Otherwise it becomes like Wordpress where you get 95% of features you want out of the box but getting the remaining 5% features may require you to abandon Wordpress.
5. Formal Verification of Conformance to Business Requirements - the model should be formally verified and results displayed to the user or development will be a very slow process. QModeler formally verifies the models in realtime and supplies feedback on how to fix the models. QModeler
6. Team Support - The platform should contain versioning, teams, admin.
7. Support for Requirements Engineering - QModeler supports full SLCD by the Citizen Programmer. Applications are formally verified against requirements before deployment .
   Persona Based Visual Languages - The platform should support persona based visual languages that have the right tradeoffs and flexibility and abstraction for multiple personas Addresses Integration - QModeler addresses Cardano as part of a broader ecosystem of off chain components
   BUDGET AND PLAN
   $20,000 USD

• Work with WADA and other organization to prioritize uses cases and discover 3 personas of users in Africa. 1 weeks
• Design visual languages to the 3 top personas and work with African organization on usability testing these personas. 1 weeks
• Design the languages and components for the 3 top personas identified - 3 weeks
• Perform capacity planning and setup infrastructure for QModeler SAS platform- 1 weeks
  Embark on a train-the-trainer campaign to train individuals identified by WADA to train users on how to use No-Code and QModeler - 2 weeks.
  DEFINITION OF SUCCESS
• 50 individuals have registered and built a smart contract in QModeler in 3 month
• 300 individuals have registered and built a smart contract in QModeler in 6 month
  1000 individuals have registered and built a smart contract in QModeler in 12 month
  LAUNCH DATE
  July 20, 2021
  PROPOSER
  Tim O'Brien Is a Xoogler, and CEO of Ferdon Inc. Tim has been writing code for 20 years.