Grow Ethiopian cardano community

[IMPACT]

African developers constitute a small percentage of total graduating youth in Africa. majority of graduates are looking for jobs and unfortunately there isn't enough market to employ them. creating entrepreneurs through Gig jobs is a first choice for many countries and i believe it is the most sustainable solution.

thus introducing web3 and blockchain to the youth must be a priority to ensure mass adoption in the future. as cardano is one of the leading blockchain system in the world, it has a bigger role to play. therefore i would like to promote cardano's ecosystem through coding boot camps mainly among university students and graduates.

Creating a strong developer and affiliate community is also as important as ever. Thus through get-together programs, zoom meeting and through social media channels, we can create a strong community

Main challenges in the blockchain space are low awareness, technical entry barrier for developers and lack of awareness about long term financial gain of crypto projects.

Financial education programs can encourage local investors to explore and invest in Blockchain space, particularly cardano. In collaboration with cardano's team, we can create motivating programs and investment packages.

Media campaigns can bear fruit to create mass awareness. Particularly in Ethiopia, there are more 1 million people who has at least heard of cryptocurrencies. this part of the population is mostly young and educated. Thus, media campaigns can target this demographic group through social media channels.

Africa is a beautiful continent with more than a billion people living in it. Ethiopia in particular is the 2nd largest country by population in Africa.

Most people are not literal left alone aware of blockchain technologies. so long term teaching programs will be as important. it might be hard to see the fruits right away.

Regulatory complacency is another challenges. since many African countries doesn't have regulatory framework for Cryptocurrencies and blockchain, sometimes it is not clear whether it is allowed to do Crypto related things.

Africa might have millions of students graduating each year but many of those students doesn't have basic computers for programming. as a result, programming centers and libraries are good alternatives.

[FEASIBILITY]

This plan's timeline is up to Jan, 2023.

1st month: social media campaign for developers. a call to online conferences and physical meetups.

2nd month: creating and expanding Telegram, ,LinkedIn, Twitter and Instagram community groups.

3rd month: organizing the first Cardano coding bootcamp on East-Africa.

4th month: first East-African community online meetup.

5th month: first investors get together and briefing meeting.

6th month: investor landing, education programs for investors

7th month: 2nd coding bootcamp

8th month: Cardano coding Competion in East-Africa

9th month: Community coffee chat Meetups in Addis Ababa

10th month: Educational Sessions online

11th month: 3rd coding bootcamp

12th month: Cardano coding Competition in East-Africa

if we recieve 15k usd we plan to use 3k for organizing bootcamps and meetups. the other 5k will be used for competition programs. investor programs and media promotions will take 4k and 2k respectively.

i will like to add 1 social media manager and 2 cardano developers.

[AUDITABILITY]

Auditable in terms of

• Total developer engagement
• Total cardano Applications Developed through these programs
• Total number of Stake holders created
• Total community created and community engagement

Success

• More than 100 developers
• Youtube tutorials and also in-person assistance for university students
• 100k Social media and other outlets engagement
• 3 bootcamps
• 2 hackathons

This project is new for cardano

SDG Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 8. Promote sustained, inclusive and sustainable economic growth, full and productive employment and decent work for all

Goal 9. Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation

Goal 10. Reduce inequality within and among countries

Goal 13. Take urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts

SDG subgoals:

8.a Increase Aid for Trade support for developing countries, in particular least developed countries, including through the Enhanced Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to Least Developed Countries

9.2 Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and, by 2030, significantly raise industry’s share of employment and gross domestic product, in line with national circumstances, and double its share in least developed countries

9.3 Increase the access of small-scale industrial and other enterprises, in particular in developing countries, to financial services, including affordable credit, and their integration into value chains and markets

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

9.2.2 Manufacturing employment as a proportion of total employment

9.3.1 Proportion of small-scale industries in total industry value added

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