Blockchain Education Masterclass

[IMPACT] Please describe your proposed solution.

The Cardano Blockchain and its potentials for Africa is been extensively discussed across the world and most especially by the founder, Charles Hoskinson. The fundamentals of the Cardano blockchain and its use cases will have a significant impact on the African continent if there is first of all a massive awareness creation and education across tertiary and high schools within the country to capture the hearts and minds of the youth to utilize the potentials this great ecosystem is bringing to our doorstep utilizing both online and face-to-face meetups.

For this reason, I am seeking for funding to be able to reach out to over two thousand students in tertiary and High Schools in Northern Ghana to educate them about the opportunities Cardano is bringing to the African continent and how they can participate through project catalyst. This will be achieved through the organization of meetups and conferences where the target audience will extensively be exposed to what Cardano stands for, the things they are already doing around the globe and the benefits it has for Africa as whole. Furthermore as an IT professional, Lecturer and a blockchain educator and advocate over the years I have been organizing series of masterclasses online to introduce blockchain education to a wider audience on how they can utilize the opportunities associated with this revolutionary technologies.

·      I believe awareness creates a good avenue for adoption and I believe when I get the necessary resources with my team we will be able to spread the awareness, education and knowledge of blockchain education most especially cardano like wildfire across the tertiary institutions and High schools in Northern Ghana and possibly beyond utilizing both online and face-to-face education.

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

Key metrics to measure:

• Number of students who have attended our conferences

• Percentage of students that become active community advisers

• Percentage of brilliant proposals submitted by these students to solve local problems in their respective communities.

• Percentage of students that became referrers

• Percentage of students that became proposers

• Number of students that successfully created native cardano wallets and participate to vote for proposals.

•local developers learning Haskell with the long term goal of developing local dapps to solve problems within the nation or their respective communities.

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

Risk:

•The time it might take for some institutions to approve letters for the event might also be a delay factor.

Risk Management

• We will have to send letters early and work with institutions to get the document for the event approved earlier before the event.

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

My team and I intend to use 1-3 months:

• Reach out and educate at least 1000 tertiary and high school students in northern Ghana through our conferences / meetups that will be organized.

• Our participants will become much more knowledgeable and aware about the opportunities cardano ecosystem is offering to them and how they can bring onboard their brilliant ideas for funding through project catalyst proposal writing.

• Train at least 200 of our participants to become active community advisors to be able to constructively review proposals on ideascale

My team and I intend to hold up to 10 or more face-to-face community events when funded...

Sample content outline to be covered

-The evolution of money

-Over of blockchain/Cryptocurrencies

-Cardano Blockchain (History, founder etc)

-What makes Cardano unique

-Cardano use cases etc.

-The Cardano african strategy and opportunities for young people through Project catalyst etc.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Project Funding Information

Proposed Budget ($26,000)

Budget Breakdown.

Creation and printing of customized cardano educational materials $1500

Transportation, feeding, accommodation of Resource persons $5000

Internet bundles for online masterclass 2000

Honorarium for resource persons $1600

Publicity $2000

Refreshments of Participants $3400

Conference Space and gadgets rental $4000

Printing of cardano branded T-shirts $4500

Ada rewards for participants through quizzing $2000

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

Jeremiah Baani -- https://mobile.twitter.com/Jerrybnj: Team Lead and will oversee to the smooth running of the entire project. Will further work as an educator for the face-to-face events. I am also the main facilitator of the online masterclass that has been in session for some time now.

•Mohammed Mustapha Yakubu --  https://twitter.com/mmustaphayakubu: Serves as a facilitator and events director for the face to face meetups.

• +Wada -- https://wada.org.: Wada will oversee the progress on the project and offering support to keep the project running...etc

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

Yes i might return to catalyst if there is still the need to reach out to more tertiary students to continue the education outreach since projects of this sort requires much resources to be able to effectively hold successful and well structured events.

[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?

Through the leadership and supervision of Wada; a reputable organization in the cardano ecosystem this project will be executed successfully with the implementation plans the organization has in place for the execution of every funded Wada proposal.

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

When there is massive education and awareness;

• There will be mass on-boarding of students and participation through project catalyst (active community advisors, proposers etc)

• There will emerge local developers who will start learning how to program in Haskell.

• We will begin to see the creation of dapps by our local developers in the long term.

[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 project.