Onboard Tanzania Universities

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

Onboard Tanzania University Students Network. Aims to prepare university students towards achieving soft skills prior to employment as well as financial support and capital sources.

[GENERAL] Summarize your relevant experience.

• Registered business consultancy agency in Tanzania. Active contributors in Catalyst communities (Catalyst School, Sustainable ADA, GTH, C4C, CATH, CETH ), Catalyst PAs and referrers, Business developers, Community manager, Trainers, Fullstack developer, Funded proposer.

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The current number of Universities in Dar es salaam itself is 12. The common language in thIs region is kiswahili which we have already created Catalyst and Cardano resource with more than 1000 words to serve this community as part of our fund 8 funded proposal.

RFFXTZ Co Ltd is a registered business consultancy company based in Tanzania with office located in Dar es salaam city. Dar es salaam is a business hub City serving all the countries in East Africa. The proposal aims to onboarding universities how? by helping students contribute their ideas on the Cardano Ecosystem but that won't only target the Engineers rather all professional fields concerned

The ecosystem offers awareness campaigns as such bolstering resources mobilization and technical knowhow which also includes soft skills. A facilitation of Cardano ecosystem awareness campaigns and bridge for collaboration between Universities and the Cardano Catalyst ecosystem will help boost the resources and the know how.

This proposal aims to onboard university students' iaes towards contributing the cardano ecosystems transcends beyond engineers buth rather taps into myriad of professionals.

It will also help provide the general public, mainstream media and engage stakeholders directly to build support and momentum and favorable creativity and innovation in building on the Cardano Ecosystem.

[IMPACT] Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

The proposed solution will be flow in the ways mention below:

1. Education & Awareness Raising
2. The whole blockchain system explained and discussed, including (Smart contracts, DAOs, NFTs)
3. Demystifying ‘crypto currency’ and providing details on the fundamentals of the Cardano blockchain ecosystem. This will include the basics of blockchain and the various consensus algorithms to demonstrate the sustainability of Cardano’s Proof of Stake infrastructure,
4. Publishing materials for outreach by preparing a paper to be published which links workshop ideas to relevant academic literature and provides a more in-depth understanding of what we are doing.
5. Last but not least is community building, by first forming a Cardano Hub discord but also the opportunity of introducing young minds to project Catalyst and the Cardano ecosystem.

[IMPACT] What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The Blockchain is still an immature technology that is going to change our general public capacities. However, it has several problems that may strict the technology to be implemented

Technology approach.

• Educational aspect.
• Expensive computer utilization.
• Further security constraints needed.
• The cost associated.

• In the educational aspect

The best way to overcome this risk is through educational outreach, 1 to 1 meetings or seminars, website, mass media, media and other outlets like social media platform, videos and audios. we can also prepare seminars by visiting the Universities and educate them on the Cardo catalyst ecosystem

• Expensive computer utilization.

The best way to overcome this risk is by finding amicable ways that will minimize the usage of computer for instance we could use our phones to try relay the information we are trying to reach or instill in them

• Further security constraints needed

the ability to ensure to the public that this site is safe for them to join and that they are not just scams.

• The cost associated.

In the case of new technology like Blockchain in this case Cardano Catalyst ecosystem and after understanding the main requirements of the education sector, we could conclude that it has a positive impact on saving the cost of the daily operations for educational institutes. Blockchain will cut efforts needed to complete the same process manually, enhance the usability of the information by making it reliable and provide security

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

1. Week 1-2: Team gathering and recruitment
2. Week 3-6: Workshop development & Marketing
3. Week 6: Conduct workshop with University Students
4. Week 7-9: Collect workshop feedback & refine the workshop
5. Week 10: Circulate paper through faculty members and workshop participants for review
6. Week 11-12: Publish paper and begin publishing posts

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Workshop for an innovative forum:

• 6 hours/week @ 5 weeks = 1000 USD

Advertising Materials like broachers, flyers, stickers, posters ads.= 500 USD

Seminar & Meetup's for 3 different Universities

• Catering (50 people estimation) @ 200 USD for 3 days 600 USD

Venue rent for 3 different Universities in every seminar

• 500 per seminar @3 = 1500 USD

ParticipantIion and appreciation

• Cardano tshirts @ 150 = 600
• Appreciation and participation certificates 50 students from 3 different universities @700 USD

TOTAL=4900 USD

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

• Evans Kisanga

From Tanzania,

IdeaScale: @babaelliot

Discord: NYS#7565

Linked in : https://www.linkedin.com/in/evans-kisanga-3b4316181

Fullstack Web and App developer ( rffxtz-a57bb.web.app/#/ , https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.lordkisanga.rffxtz )

Member and active contributor in Catalyst communities ( GTH, C4C, CATH, CETH), Catalyst Proposal Assessors

• Regina Makungu

From Tanzania,

Ideascale: @reginawills,

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/regina-makungu-351b9497/ ,

Degree in Accountancy and Finance, ACSI certified by CISS, Operations Manager , Trader in Financial Markets ,

Trainer at RFFXTZ COMPANY LIMITED on Financial Market and Blockchain Technology ,

Marketing expert and content creator

Member and active contributor in Catalyst communities ( GTH, C4C, CATH, CETH)

• RFFXTZ Company Ltd

Registered company in Tanzania

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/company/35625072

Instagram: Rffxtz

Telegram: https://t.me/RFfxAcademy

[FEASIBILITY] If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Yes. I will return in to the Catalsyt for further funding. I believe there is much innovation to be explored and in the Cardano ecosystem.

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or any member of your team working on any other proposals in this Fund9?

[FEASIBILITY] Are you or your team working on any other proposals from previous Funds?

[AUDITABILITY] Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

• The prevalence of positive feedback from workshop participants (measured in post-workshop survey)
• Level to which workshop participants note there blockchain knowledge has been improved (measured in post-workshop survey)
• Views, comments & shares of LinkedIn blog series
• Views & future citations of peer-reviewed article
• Number of new Vienna based project catalyst participants
• Number of new members in the Vienna Blockchain Community discord server

[AUDITABILITY] What does success for this project look like?

1. Workshop participants will have a stronger understanding of the fundamentals of blockchain and the Cardano ecosystem, the various technologies it supports, and most importantly, how the students can further themselves once done with there University studies.
2. Workshop participants will produce innovative ideas of how blockchain can be used to address major local and global challenges facing students once they have graduated.
3. Being able to bring onboard some of the students to join the Cardano ecosystem.

[AUDITABILITY] Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new, and necessary proposal. 

Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Rating

1.No poverty. As the project will provide employment opportunities

4.Quality education enhanced by the free educational resources in the the hubs or workshop we will offer

5.Gender equality through opportunity offering equal opportunity to any one who would like to be involved in this project

8.Decent work and economic growth through the impact of the project implementation.

9.Industry, innovation and infrastructure

10.Reduce inequality through the ecosystem Cardano offers equal rights to people of different social class, income gap or even ethnic groups when conducting the said project.

17.Partnership for sustainable Development A well acclaimed partnership between the workshop and the Cardano Ecosystem.