Cardano Forest In Vietnam

[IMPACT]

We will establish a team to work with tree planting organizations in Vietnam to introduce the blockchain technologies to solve their problem in providing transparency, auditability and measurelity to their donors.

We have worked with Gaia Nature Conservation to support us on planting the trees. Gaia is a national not-for-profit organization of Vietnam. Gaia empowers people and applies its experience to stop biodiversity degradation with the aim of creating a future where humans live in harmony with our rich and beautiful nature.

For more detail about Gaia, please visit: http://www.gaiavn.org; please select the English version to view content in English). More planting organizations will be onboarded in the future.

A number of trees planted in a particular area will be tokenized as an non-fungible token (NFT) which includes: planting time, the picture, the tree’s coordinate (latitude-longitude)… The NFT will be minted using cardano blockchain and provided to donors then they can easily check the result, we call each NFT as a Green Certificate.

We will build a web application to track and report the progress for starting to plant the tree, growth of the tree, calculation of impact (ie: Carbon sequestered over time from our forest…), NFT creation and reporting to donors.

We will also build the community, work with corporates, government bodies to continue to raise the fund to plant and tokenize the trees. Our target is to plan 200,000 trees until 2025.

The Cardano community leans heavily toward North America and Europe. Blockchain is also widely adopted in Western world, where many companies applied blockchain technologies in the real world: supply chain and logistics monitoring, NFT for art products, payment … In East Asia, particularly in Vietnam, most people are miss understand that blockchain is all about crypto currencies.

We would like to introduce another application of blockchain technology to provide transparency, auditability, measurelity, permanence in reforestation work in Vietnam. This will help the Cardano Community as well as the blockchain community in Vietnam understand more about how blockchain technologies can apply in the real world and also help Vietnam combat against climate change. The resolution of the Vietnam government also aims to plant 1 billion trees for the period from 2021-2025. https://en.baochinhphu.vn/vn-to-plant-one-billion-trees-in-2021-2025-period-11140813.htm

The successfull of proposal is not only help to strengthen knowledge about the blockchain technology application but will improve the people live in Vietnam, create great social and environmental impact as well as promote the subtstainable development beyond the scope of Catalyst.

ADA market price fluctuations cause a shortage of funds for planting the tree.

Fund raised from corporates/ communities isn't enough to plant the target number of trees.

We are requesting $1,000 additional for the reserve fund.

[FEASIBILITY]

Roadmap

Our goal is to plant and tokenize 3,000 trees in 2022.

Pre-work:

Project proposal

Working with partners (Gaia)

Fund 8 (from the funded date):

Goal: First 500 trees were planted and tokenized.

Timeline:

From Fund 8 funded date to July 2022:

- Fundraising activities

- Develop/ translate the technical documents

From Fund 8 funded date to September 2022:

Building set of tools for tracking, reporting the impact (web app);

Educate planting organization about the technical solution

August to September 2022: Planting tree and tokenized

From Fund 8 funded date to September 2022 and go beyond:

Marketing and communating the project

Reporting and Marketing the result to create greater impact.

Fund 9: (from the funded date)

Goal: 1,000 trees were planted and tokenized.

Timeline:

1 month from fund 9 funded date:

Connect with other planting organization/ government bodies to create greater impact;

Work with companies/ communities in Vietnam to raise funds for 1,000 trees;

3 month from fund 9 funded date:

Upgrading set of tools for tracking, reporting the impact (mobile applications and web application);

Work with Planting organization to plant trees and tokenized;

Reporting and Marketing the result to create greater impact.

Please see the product road map in the attached link:

Fund need:

- Project team, technical solutions, communication: $ 21,750. Please see the detail at: https://bit.ly/ADAforest_budget (Phase 1 worksheet)

- Jumpstart fund: we seek a fund to plant the first 500 trees at a cost of $2,8 per tree at Xuan Lien Forest. (http://gaiavn.org/tin-tuc/tin-moi/trong-rung-xuan-lien.html - please select the English version to view content in English). The tree will be planted in August - September 2022, in total: USD 1,400.

Risk management (see above): USD 1,000

Total fund need for this phase: USD 24,150

WHO WE ARE

1 .Project Manager: Mr. Quoc Nguyen: Managing the whole project progress and KPI, reporting, connecting with partners/ donors.

Experiences:

• Over 10 years of experience in finance and fintech.

• Director of EY Vietnam

• Member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (ACCA) - England

• Ambassador of Genius Yield

• Cardano Stake Pool Operator (ADAUP).

• Cardano Community Advisor (Fund 7)

• Telegram: https://t.me/Britnguyen87
• Linked in: https://www.linkedin.com/in/quoc-nguyen-708370142/

2. Product Manager: Ky Tong: Product management

Experiences:

- 8+ years experience in managing digital & educational products, which serves millions of users in Vietnam.

- Product Manager of Rootopia.vn - A p2p lending platform focused on Education.

- Experienced in Marketing & Growth, especially community platform.

- Founder of GSTT Group (https://www.facebook.com/SHARINGTHEVALUE) - An NGO that shares educational materials for students in Vietnam.

- Telegram: https://t.me/kytq2011

- Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tongquocky/

3. Full Stack Developer: Phuc Nguyen

5+ years experience as full stack software developer

• Tech Lead of Rootopia
• Tech Lead of Pulsely

Contributed Projects:

• Zipster: Singapore Mobility as a Service platform that brings multiple transport option on a single place
• Karzo: Myanmar-based logistics services that connects independent truck drivers, fleet owners, and third-party logistics (3PLs) with businesses

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/phuc-nguyen-tuan/

4. Community management: Tung Tran: digital content creator, community management

Experiences:

- MBA degree

- 06 year experiences in Marketing

- 04 years experiences in Digital Marketing (Strongest in WordPress, SEO, Social & Community Marketing)

- 03 years experiences in Blockchain Industry

- Founder www.facebook.com/yeutrongcay (objective is increase cognitive of young people about climate change, plant tree and protect environment)

- Founder www.vneconomics.com (objective is increase cognitive of vietnamese about Blockchain Technology)

- Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tranthanhtung37/

5. Project Advisor: Ms. Huyen Do – Tree Planting Technical advisor, Partnership/ Communication advisor

Experiences:

- Founder, CEO of Gaia Nature Conservation - a national not-for-profit organization of Vietnam focus on

- Master of Faculty of the Environment – Hanoi National University,

- Over 20 years worked on nature conservation.

- Wide range of in-depth skills in managing an NGO as well as applying advanced initiative in nature conservation, especially nature education and communication.

- Nearly 20 publications on nature conservation, wildlife protection, marine conservation and plastic waste education in Vietnam.

- Linked in: https://vn.linkedin.com/in/chicadohuyen

6. Project Advisor: Mr. Do Manh Hung – Blockchain Technical advisor, Partnership/ Communication advisor

Experiences:

- Over 15 years of experience in financial management for large corporations

- 20 years of experience in investing in financial markets: Stocks, Forex, Crypto…

- 10 years of training, sharing knowledge, experience in financial management and 4 years in Crypto market for thousands of students in Viet Nam

- Member of Plutus Pioneer Program,Cardano Stake Pool Operator (FIMI), Cardano Knowledge Sharing

- Telegram: https://t.me/hung_domanh

7. Project Advisor: Mr. Nguyen Anh Tien, Technical advisor

Experiences:

- Founder of the VILAI stake pool, computer science experts, working in the Cardano/Crypto space since 2018.

- Deploying many payment systems for major banks, financial institutions, and telecommunications in Vietnam

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tienna

- Twitter: https://twitter.com/tiennganh

- Email: tienna@gmail.com

- Telegram: t.me/tiennguyenanh

- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tiennguyena

[AUDITABILITY]

• Technical solution in Vietnamese: slide deck, printed material

• Number of tree planted and tokenized for this fund: 500

• Mobile app and Web-app to track the tree planting progress, communicate and report the results.

• People in Vietnam particularly the Cardano Vietnam community and goverment bodies understand more about the application of blockchain technology and how it can be used in the real world.

• 3,000 trees were planted for 2022 and continue to grow with the cardano blockchain technologies to provide a great solution for this activity.

• Mobile app and Web-app to track the tree planting progress, communicate and report the results.

This is the new proposal

SDG Rating

SDG goals:

Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss

SDG subgoals:

15.b Mobilize significant resources from all sources and at all levels to finance sustainable forest management and provide adequate incentives to developing countries to advance such management, including for conservation and reforestation

Key Performance Indicator (KPI):

15.b.1 (a) Official development assistance on conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity; and (b) revenue generated and finance mobilized from biodiversity-relevant economic instruments

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