In the African local context, women play a key role in designing and running local Defi solutions within their communities. Our plan is to train these women, equipping them with the right tools to put the full power of brainstorming, designing, and implementing solutions (on the blockchain) into their hands. We see a lot of potential for blockchain based solutions and think it is really vital to include more of the affected people in the process. The first step to inclusion is education. This is important as it will allow solutions to fit local mental models with higher probabilities of mass adoption.
In order for Cardano to have success in the African market we need to focus on providing use cases applicable to Africans. Then, once those use cases are operational, encouraging widespread adoption. By educating local visionary women (the ones in charge) we are ensuring that the solutions make sense to the local communities and therefore giving higher chances of mass adoption.
The main risk here is lack of interest due to time constraint and/or financial constraint. We plan to offer training for free and also will motivate participants through hackathon prizes to mitigate this risk.