Please describe your proposed solution.
Project Description
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Significance: Harness Africa's eager population across diverse regions to meet the evolving demands of digitizing economies. Introducing Wada
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Solution: Develop an online, multilingual, self-paced learning environment leveraging Gimbalabs' Andamio platform, while preserving region-specific content and face-to-face interaction.
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Localize the Andamio plutus PBL (<https://plutuspbl.io/>) to fit needs in different WADA hubs
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Regional Focus
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Hubs in Cameroon, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Ghana, DRC, Côte D’Ivoire, Sierra Leone, and Senegal will offer content tailored to local community needs.
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Strategy: Streamline existing local content to be more scalable while maintaining its relevance.
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Deliverables
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A regionally-tailored, online and in-person group learning environment built on Andamio, hosting modular educational courses.
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Initial course focus: Cardano platform development, with content adapted to local contexts.
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Project Brief
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Goal 1: Integrate local educational courses from various Wada hubs within the Andamio platform.
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Goal 2: Upgrade learning experiences from current methods, improving user engagement while maintaining key local content and in-person interactions.
<u>The Andamio Platform</u>: Gimbalabs has experience in introducing developers to the Cardano ecosystem through its Plutus Project-Based Learning (PBL) program, utilizes the Andamio platform to enhance the PBL experience by providing features like skill and contribution tracking, emergent reputation, and real-world project opportunities, successfully empowering learners while facilitating user onboarding.
PBL framework scheme:
How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?
Our project aims to deliver substantial, tangible value to the Cardano community and its growing ecosystem. This value goes far beyond the funding request and will have a lasting impact on Cardano's growth and influence in Africa and beyond
<u>Community Building</u>
Attracting Newcomers: Our project will draw more people into the Cardano ecosystem, specifically targeting Africa's youth and graduates keen on web3 technologies. By providing accessible and personalized learning, we expect to engage several thousand learners within a year post-completion.
Enhancing Retention: By offering localized, self-paced learning paths, we increase the likelihood of learners becoming active, long-term participants in the Cardano community.
Ecosystem Strengthening
Skill Development: Our platform will build a pool of Cardano platform developers across Africa, directly strengthening the ecosystem's technical capacity.
Partnership and Collaborations: Our relationship with Gimbalabs' Andamio platform sets the foundation for more symbiotic collaborations within the Cardano ecosystem.
<u>Problem Solving</u>
Scalability: Our approach will resolve the current issue of scalability and accessibility of learning resources across multiple African countries.
Inclusivity: By preserving region-specific content and face-to-face interaction, we solve the issue of ‘one-size-fits-all’ education that often overlooks local nuances.
<u>Expected User Base and Transactions</u>
Short-term
Within the first year post-completion, we expect several hundred users to have used the platform, with numbers growing as we refine the learning offerings.
As learners progress and begin to implement their skills within the Cardano ecosystem, we anticipate a rise in the number of transactions generated from these newly onboarded developers. This effect, while hard to quantify at this stage, will be a direct outcome of our project's success.
Long-Term Impact
Beyond the immediate scope of the project, we aim to inspire similar initiatives across other regions, thus contributing to the global strength and resilience of the Cardano ecosystem.
Through our proposed project, we aim to deliver substantial, tangible value to the Cardano community and its burgeoning ecosystem. This value goes far beyond the funding request and will have a lasting impact on Cardano's growth and influence in Africa and beyond.
How do you intend to measure the success of your project?
Our project is designed and positioned to provide measurable, sustainable value to the Cardano ecosystem, contributing significantly to its productivity and growth both now and in the future
User Engagement Metrics: Utilizing platform analytics to track user sign-ups, course completion rates, active engagement, and overall retention. This is realistic as these metrics are standard in Learning Management Systems like Andamio.
Community Feedback: Surveys, user reviews, and direct feedback mechanisms will allow us to gauge the effectiveness of our offerings and identify areas for improvement.
Learner Outcomes: Tracking learners' progression to active contributors within the Cardano community serves as a direct measure of success.
Benefits to the Cardano Ecosystem
Human Capital Growth: Our project will facilitate the development of skilled Cardano developers across Africa. The ability to quantify this growth, through tracking the number of course completions and the contributions of these individuals within the Cardano ecosystem, is a realistic and tangible measure of benefit.
Community Expansion: Our project will draw more people into the Cardano ecosystem, quantifiable through user registrations, platform usage data, and the conversion rate of learners to active community members.
Impact on Cardano’s Productivity and Growth
Short-Term: An immediate increase in ecosystem engagement through new user onboarding, heightened activity, and increased contributions to Cardano-related projects.
Long-Term: By developing a steady stream of skilled contributors, we expect an acceleration in Cardano's growth, measured through the rise of Cardano-based projects and transactions from the regions we operate in. This is realistic, given the high interest in web3 technologies among Africa's youth and the tailored, accessible learning paths we are providing.
Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?
- Sharing Outputs and Results
- Regular Project Updates: Via Cardano forums, social media, newsletters, and Wada's official website. This includes development milestones, success stories, and course announcements.
- Collaboration with Partners: Sharing of data and insights with Gimbalabs and other Cardano entities for mutual learning and ecosystem growth.
- Spreading Outputs Over Time
- Phased Course Rollouts: The rollout of courses will be staggered, allowing for continuous engagement and output dissemination over time.
- Iterative Learning: Regularly publishing findings from each phase to inform future rollouts, and using these insights to refine our offerings.
- Stakeholders to Share With
- Wada Academy Users: Through the platform itself, newsletters, and community forums.
- Broader Cardano Community: Via Cardano's official communication channels.
- Partner Entities: Through direct communication and collaborative meetings.
- Future R&D Activities
- Data-Driven Decisions: Using analytics from the platform to inform future course development, platform enhancements, and region-specific tailoring.
- Piloting New Features: The learning and data gathered will feed into future iterations of the platform, including features like learn-to-earn and game-based learning.