Understanding the Cardano community
Problem
To grow the Cardano network, we first have to deeply understand it: How do people use it? What do they value? How could it be more communal?
Solution
- Systematic literature review of peer-reviewed research;
- An ethnographic study of the Cardano network;
- Implementation suggestions.
Total to date
This is the total amount allocated to Understanding the Cardano community.
About this idea
Objective
The idea is to do groundwork: Researching the Cardano community (including Artala Prism current and potential users).
1. By conducting a systematic literature review on community and networks of peer-reviewed research from marketing, sociology and psychology, a research frame is built to then
2. Conduct an ethnographic study of the Cardano network to deeply understand how it is used, valued, and what are issues (e.g., requirements for SSI, personal connection/privacy, online/offline, within core community/links to outside); based on which
3. Specific, informed implementation suggestions can be made on how to grow community engagement, and quality interactions while expanding the network.
FAQ
How does this proposal relate to Atala prism? How does it benefit Cardano?
Understanding requirements, barriers to wider adoption and new opportunities for Atala prism is one research objective. However, the main idea is to do research on the entire community, thereby relating to and benefiting several challenges, uncovering areas of issues and opportunities which may not even be specifically asked for in any challenges yet, such as:
- Who are community members?
- How do they connect their engagement with Cardana and Atala prism to their local communities? What network of communities are they engaged in?
- How does community engagement work? What are barriers to community engagement?
- What are barriers to a wider audience? What education would be needed?
Timeline
Project completion within 6 months, of which
- Month 1 & 2: Literature research and research proposition formulation
- Month 3 & 4: Ethnographic research
- Month 5 & 6: Insight analysis, recommendation formulation
Budget
- 6x 1000/month as a research budget over
- 1000 to give to research participants
Team
- PhD in Management candidate focusing on community (purpose, co-creation, identity).
- Previous community research on feminists in Jakarta.
