Web3 school for India

[IMPACT]

We not only train and empower the youth to be a developer or a freelancer. But also provide them financial freedom by helping them join various startups or empower them to launch their own venture.

Currently there might be a lot of educational contents, services available on web3 both online and offline. But even the most passionate people fail to make a career in web3 due to

1) Lack of affordable instructors who is easy to access and communicate

2) Lack of clarity on the career opportunity once they are trained (https://gdc.unicef.org/resource/why-india-should-worry-about-its-educated-unemployed-youth )

Our aim is not only to empower students to become good quality developers, But we also want them to handhold them to have a successful career. In order to achieve that we want to empower them as entrepreneur's to launch their own startup or provide a good career in web3 by connecting them with other successful entrepreneurs.

To achieve that we will be creating a community for talent seekers and talents in the web3 space. For creating new talents we will be approaching various colleges, educational centers and startup organization's to provide training and certification for students in Cardano.

Reference Links

• Only 3.84 per cent of engineers in the country have the technical, cognitive and linguistic skills required for software-related jobs in startups

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/the-growth-catalyst/how-to-address-indias-unemployability-problem/

• Skill gap and unemployability in India

https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explainspeaking-the-challenge-of-skilling-india-7411258/

• I am already part of multiple startup communities. And we could be the official web3 partner for few communities and colleges in India.
• Provide basic training around 200+ developers in India to develop their app on Cardano in the next 3-6 months.
• Get media coverage.
• Connecting with mentors from India to give guidance.
• Engagement with government/non-government organizations.

• We could easily convince colleges and organizations to conduct training for the students in an informal way.
• Making it more formal might be challenging since there will be resistance for change from the management. We hope to overcome by directly approaching the student bodies.

[FEASIBILITY]

Initial one month

• Creating course materials. Eg : Sample material we had created for training students for deploying their app on web2 :- https://kred.gitlab.io/nodejs-bootcamp/dev_setup.html
• Listing out schedules and availability of trainers and mentors.
• Reach out program to partner/engage with key startup communities and government /non-government organizations (Kerala Startup Mission, Nasscom 10000 startups, T-Hub, Mumbai Fintech Hub etc)
• Give introductory class to students on web3 and use cases.
• Identify the initial batch of committed and deserving students.
• Reaching out to media.

After one month

• Every month thereon we will be training 50 students every month till we have trained 200 students.
• Training will be structured in a format that by the end of training the students will be able to deploy a basic app using Cardano.
• We will also be connecting the developers with various startups and their founders to provide a better understanding of the ecosystem

Final Result

• If the student doesnt want to follow the path of entrepreneurship due to socio-economic situation we will be also providing support to connect with the right startups.

• Course material preparation will cost around $5000.
• Travel and infrastructure cost will be $5000.
• We will be spending $20000 on training. (Taking the average cost per student trained, as low as $100)

Full-time members:

Nicky Jacob

Cofounder thetokenlist.com and Paysack.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/nickyjacob

Engineer, 10+ years of experience in entrepreneurship, product management and business development. And has helped multiple fintech founders launch their MVP without tech cofounders though Paysack.

And prior venture Kred, was aimed at creating financial inclusion for underserved in India by offering various financial services to cooperatives in India. And was backed by Barclays Bank Accelerator powered by techstars.

Was part of global accelerators : SOSV - Ireland, Techstars Barclays - Israel, Startup Village, Nasscom 10K startups, Spark10, Mumbai Fintech Hub, Startup Village, Kerala Startup Mission and few others

Sachin TS

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sachin-t-s-2768411b4

Full stack developer, 2+ years of experience in developing solutions in web3

Jimshad

Frontend developer, 1+ years of experience in developing solutions in web3

Trainers (Part Time)

Ricky Jacob : Cofounder TRDR.money, paysack.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rickyjacob

PhD in location based services, Ex team lead google maps, 15+ years of combined experience

Rajat Talwar

https://www.linkedin.com/in/talwarrajat

Full stack developer, Ex Amazon Engineer 10+ experience in developing scalable codes.

Richmond Chethalan

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rcheth

Masters in Cyber security with 5+ years of experience in financial services

Sreenadh H

https://www.linkedin.com/in/sreenadhh

Full stack developer with 10+ years of experience.

Mentor Network includes various founders and CXOs (For business interaction and feedback)

George https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgepanamkuzha

Thanuj Sinha https://www.linkedin.com/in/sinhatanuj

Nabarun Chakrabortty https://www.linkedin.com/in/nabarunchakrabortty

Shamsu https://www.linkedin.com/in/shamsudheentr

and few others have been lined-up

[AUDITABILITY]

• Number of students onboarded.
• Each student onboarded will be opening a Gitlab account and deploying his projects using Cardano.
• Gitlab commits of each students.
• Number of mentors and trainer's signed up for the program. (We will be listing them on our website)

• 200+ GitLab accounts each having deployed their 1st ever web3 app on Cardano.
• 200 certificates issued verified by Aadhar in the form of NFTs.
• Partnership with colleges and other organizations.
• News article published by a popular tech media in India.
• 10% of the intake get placed in a startup even even before the course completion.
• Able to attract local sponsorships for running next cycle.

We also want to see 100% of the students starting to earn within 6 months of completion of course.

This is a new proposal

SDG Rating

SDG 4 - Quality Education

SDG 8 - Descent Work and Economic Growth