Cardano Hub In East Africa

[GENERAL] Summarize your solution to the problem.

In partnership with RFFXTZ Co Ltd create a physical hub in Dar es salaam to facilitate online and offline meetups and coordinate collaboration between local East Africa entities to Cardano Ecosystem.

[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 population of Eastern Africa is 467,554,544 as of Friday, June 17, 2022, based on the latest United Nations estimates. Eastern Africa population is equivalent to 5.71% of the total world population. The common language in ths region is kiswahili which we have already created Catalyst and Cardano resource with more than 10,000 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 establish a center in Tanzania to help aid the mainstream engagement within the public policy space by shaping legislation and providing innovative policy alternatives for adoption of Cardano and blockchain at large.

This center will also serve as a hub for facilitation of Cardano ecosystem awareness campaigns and bridge for collaboration between local entities and the Cardano ecosystem.

It will also help provide the general public, mainstream media and engage stakeholders directly to build support and momentum for policy solutions for favorable legislation, reduce tax, and free-market environment that advances individuals' 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.

To help aid the mainstream engagement within the public policy space by shaping legislation and providing innovative policy alternatives for adoption of Cardano and blockchain at large.

This center will also serve as a hub for facilitation of Cardano ecosystem awareness campaigns and bridge for collaboration between local entities and the Cardano ecosystem.

It will also to help provide the general public, mainstream media and engage stakeholders directly to build support and momentum for policy solutions for favorable legislation, reduce tax, and free-market environment that advances individuals' creativity and innovation in building on 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 main risk would be the educational aspect, there has to be a way of convincing the legal and financial professionals that the projects are not a scam rather that they are real, in a way that motivates them to adapt and embrace.

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. Also through support research and education about blockchain technology and blockchain governance. Foster skills, develop talent and stimulate innovation.

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

The Project will be of the duration of 10 months whereas:

It will be conducted by the main proponent of said project.

• Month 1: Team and key hires identified and onboarded. Producing branding materials for Cardano and Catalyst (Brochures, Roll up banners and merchs )

• Month 2 &3: An extensive research phase and launch of the hub begun along with whitepapers published along with press to create public awareness.  

• Month 4 & 5: Engage climate and environmental stakeholders ( plastic pollution experts, youth environmental ambassadors and recyclers) to a collaboration with Cardano for Climate (C4C) and Cardano ecosystem at large.

• Month 6-8, will be to initiate open Forum with Media, Policy Makers, and Regulatory Institutions, press Release and Media Engagement.

• The last 2 months undertaken, will be for the online and offline meet up's gathering different views and opinions from community and all necessary stakeholders involved.  

Throughout the year the center will serve as a Cardano hub that facilitate other Cardano ecosystem sustainable goals.

[FEASIBILITY] Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

• Rent 500 USD @ 10 MONTHS = 6000 USD
• Incentive for the team: Project management, global network administration, proposal support, hub coordination = 14500 USD
• Community Manager: Full-time daily management of all social platforms, training and facilitation of online and offline meetup's =6500 USD
• Marketing of the content and Communication the whole year = 5000 USD
• Educational outreach and Awareness for 10 months = 5000 USD
• Infrastructure (internet and Electricity) & Miscellaneous the whole 10 months = 3000 USD

Total budget = 40000 USD

In the interest of challenge inclusivity and many of our partners' proposals, the budget has been revised down from 90000USD

[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 (Catalyst School, Sustainable ADA GTH, C4C, CATH, CETH), Catalyst Proposal Assessors

Name: 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.

This mainly depends with the delivered impact results of the project but also if there will be a need for us to tackle some other challenges that arise as we continue building a sustainable Cardano ecosystem, then yes we will return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding.

[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?

• Number of online and offline meetups conducted
• Number of Climatic impactful activities conducted
• Number of proposals addressing the fundamental issues preventing Cardano adoption in Africa
• Number of proposals offering solutions to infrastructure and education concerns
• Number of new East Africa-based users onboarded onto Cardano ecosystem
• Number of African developers onboarded in 2022
• Number of local colaboration and partnerships formed in Africa with Cardano ecosystem

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

Mass adaption, participation and contribution to Cardano ecosystem in East Africa and Africa in general

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

Yes, this is a continuation of a previously funded proposal in Catalyst fund 8 https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/404268 ( Catalyst and Cardano resources in Swahili ). Now that resources available its time to bring them forward for utilization to the East Africa community.

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 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 the project put a hub

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