SSI through ancestral Africa lenses

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Propose an interactive platform incorporating a unique journey to discover our real self through African lenses with a gaming component

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Wada Cameroon Hub:

• 3 senior software architects and developers with 12+ years of experience
• Nine interns and software developers actively learning Haskell, Plutus and software architecture
• Wada network of resources
• 1 Subject Matter Expert support

[IMPACT]

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Context

Nowadays we tend to introduce ourselves through a multitude of roles we have played or persona we have assumed either during our education journey or work experience. I am a math teacher, I am a singer …etc. This has limited the perception of who we really are and we see this translated into the current implementations of SSI as perceived in the western world. In the Traditional African view, we are a portion of the unique divine source experimenting itself in all fields of knowledge: Education, Agriculture, Physics and so on. We do not live, we are lived through. This leaves no place to the ego and bring us to the table to re-open the debate about the very important notion of self sovereign identity.

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Equity and inclusion is the direction our proposal is aiming to follow with this challenge category. The fact that we are still in the early stages of SSI implementations gives us some open ground to explore other paradigms. This proposal is suggesting an entirely new direction to this concept and in so doing making sure we are promoting inclusion in our community. The Africa perception of what Identity needs to be exposed.

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The biggest challenge is the status-quo observed. Most Africans today perceive themselves through the lenses of the dominant western world paradigm and in so doing have a perception of the world that do not always align with their ancestral patterns of life.

We intent to mitigate that through an open and franc conversation, conducted through the African town hall that will allow us to analyse the notion of identity through ancestral African lenses.

[FEASIBILITY]

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Our strategy will consist of 03 parallel Phases:

Phase 1 will focus on wrapping up conversation / contracts we started with subject matter experts to invite them to some of our debates. Note that our ongoing work on our funded proposal: Cardano Preserving Culture has triggered the need to dig deeper into the concept of SSI.

Phase 2 will consist of leveraging the African town hall space to bring the community in for deep debates and discussions around the notion of Identity seen through the lenses of the African paradigm. We intend to setup a break out room focusing on this specific subject.

The main points we anticipate to discuss are organized in five chapters that each focuses on one peace of the big puzzle.

1. Kongolo dia Ntente: Cosmos structure

• Bumuntu (human in their incarnation area: horizontal connections)
• Kintagulu dia nza ()
• Disu-Mu au Masu-Mu (Re-incarnation)
• Introduction to Kisono
• Ntinu
• Kisono dia nza
• Kongo Cosmogony
• Introduction to colours

1. Kongolo dia Zole: Human body structure

• Biseliya mysteries
• Muntu: a multidimensional being
• Kimuntu (human in their incarnation area: vertical connections)
• Bi-Mwelo

1. Kongolo dia Ntatu: Principles, Laws of the Comos, Nkindoki: nature science

• Ki-Ndoki science
• Spritual laws
• Meditation techniques
• Ndosi (Dreams)
• Munu kia Nsi - Munu dia Zulu
• The 5 common senses
• Hypnosis
• Astral trip
• Tatu thechniques

1. Kisalu initiatique Solaire: The initiatory journey
2. KIS Heb
3. KIS SGA
4. KIS Kituni
5. Discovering our real identity

As we develop this phase,

• We will extend it to our fund 7 funded proposal (Clubs + Hackathon = Cardano adoption ) to include questions geared toward the notions cited above.
• We will also showcase consultations with Anthropologists, and local experts at live events and online through YouTube, Zoom, and podcast conversations.
• We will lastly translate some strategic content from subject Mater Experts from French to English making it accessible to our English speaking audience.

The end goal in phase one is to expose each of us to a completely new paradigm and perception of who we really are and what we are really doing here in the cosmos. Through these debates, we will gather information that will help us design a game like platform that will allow and ease the process for those who might be interested to dive deeper into the notion of Identity seen through the ancestral African paradigm.

Phase 3 will be centered around leveraging the work executed in the previous phase to create a game like journey to allow people to dive into a new Identity paradigm.

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Budget 24 months: $30000:

• Subject Matter Experts consultation fees $6k
• Research & Travel & Logistic $3000
• Outreach Coordination & Team costs $5K
• Marketing & Advertisement $1,6k
• Developer team motivation (3 * 400 * 12): 14,4k

Cameroon Wada Hub Trainers & Coordination:

Manfo: Cameroon Team Co-Lead, Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (F#, Haskell, Elm), Multilingual (French, English, Italian, Ngiembo)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/felicienfotiomanfo1642a479

Nkalla: Senior software architect & developer, 12+ year of experience programming, 3+ years in functional programming paradigm (Haskell), Mathematics teacher (Education Systems Engineering), Multilingual (French, Italian, English, Mbo)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/didier-junior-nkalla-ehaw%C3%A9-2a40a463

Arcel: Senior Software developer in Closure 7 + years experience, Project manager, Multilingual (French, English, Medumba)

https://linkedin.com/in/kamwa-f-a-raulain-959208ba 

Megan: Wada Cameroon Hub Co-Lead, Central Africa Coordination Lead, Wada core team (Education and Event Lead), Math & Physics teacher, bilingual (French & English)

https://www.linkedin.com/in/megan-hess-5b853292

Nlongi Nswadi Ki-Mbazi: Subject Matter Expert

https://www.kimuntu.com/

DITC Haskell/Plutus interns (actively training)

Wada network of resources: Wada is a resource sharing network connecting people all over Africa and the Diaspora to IT, human, and financial resources to make dreams come true. wada.org

[AUDITABILITY]

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Our progress will be measured through the following item:

• Bi-weekly town hall gathering
• Number of shared docs on in GitHub (weekly)
• Quarterly Hackathon session
• Bi-monthly conversation with subject matter experts
• 12+ (video and or Docs ) translated in English
• Number of weekly commits from devs

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Our core goal with this proposal is really to open the debate about a totally new perception of what the notion of SSI is in the ancestral African circle, a huge attendance to the debate space will definitely be the first step to success, the next step will be developing a Game conceptualizing this notion and getting it usable and fun.

We intend to build on top of the ongoing work for our fund 6 funded proposal Cardano Preserving culture [https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/366816])