Please describe your proposed solution

There are thousands of community and professional groups in existence in Nigeria operating at the national and sub-national (state) levels. While these groups have existed for decades in some instances others are recently formed. The primary goals of these groups are to further the interests of their members collectively and promote their professions.

Besides operating at the national level, some have branches in several states across the country. Some of the associations or professional groups have thousands of members while others are in hundreds.

There have been instances of disputed elections among other governance-related issues thus holding back their effectiveness.

We believe we can enhance transparency and accountability within these community and professional groups with the introduction of Cardano DAO tools.

We plan to make presentations to the leadership and subsequently to the members providing general blockchain education and the potentials of Cardano DAO tools in addressing some of their challenges.

The outreaches and presentations are veritable avenues for onboarding new users and increasing blockchain adoption.

The available Cardano DAO tools will in our opinion provide effective platforms and tools that will enhance governance and afford these groups opportunity for greater effectiveness.

The Clarity DAO Medium article clearly articulates the various phases of organizational transformation with respect to the DAO structure. We believe our target community and professional groups can easily fit into any of these phases as they adopt the DAO structure or tools to enhance their effectiveness and impact.

Please define the positive impact your project will have on the wider Cardano community

An initial first step is educating leaders and members of these groups on the potential of Blockchain in addressing some of the challenges holding their effectiveness.

We believe the proposal if implemented will have the following positive impacts on the Cardano ecosystem:

• onboarding of new users (Target of 500 new Cardano users)
• increased adoption of the Cardano blockchain
• Collaboration and deeper understanding of the needs of these groups and building/adapting DAO tools to meet their needs.

Impact measurements will involve the following on-chain and off-chain metrics:

• Number of presentations/workshops to the leadership and members of the community and professional groups. (8 to 10 presentations).
• Number of new to Cardano wallets opened.( Target of 500 new users).
• Number of groups or associations engaged in deep dive sessions.
• Number of groups adopting DAO tools (Target of 5 community and professional groups adopting Cardano DAO tools)
• Formation of new DAOs

We plan to have a repository of findings and reports from the project on a website/Github together with reports to Project Catalyst Community.

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability? How do you intend to validate if your approach is feasible?

The team behind the project comes with valuable experience both within and outside of web3 and a strong commitment to delivering sustainable solutions. To ensure this is achieved, the project has been divided into phases and milestones with clear deliverables.

Ona Ohimor

The lead proposer is a finance professional and trainer. He has been in web3 for over three years, initially as a crypto enthusiast but now a Blockchain and Web3 evangelist. He has trained and on-boarded dozens of newbies to Blockchain. Besides, his passion for blockchain, he is an advocate for small and growing businesses and provides functional skills and enterprise development training for businesses.

He has been active within the Cardano community since Fund 10 as a Proposer and Community Reviewer (L!) subsequently as a Moderator (L2). In addition, he has actively explored the available DAO tools and infrastructure within the Cardano Community including Clarity and Summons DAO tools.

To validate our approach, we will engage the larger Cardano community and in particular work with the DAO infrastructure teams such as Clarity and Summons among others to deliver most fitting solutions to the target professional and community groups.

What are the key milestones you need to achieve in order to complete your project successfully?

Milestone 1: Milestone 1

Prepare, Promote and Inform.

Month 1

• Team formation with roles and responsibilities
• Project management setup. Establish Communication and documentation methods (Choose project management tools).
• Documentation of Project plan.
• Preliminary survey of community professional groups - Identify groups
• Develop the survey
• Preliminary survey of Cardano DAO tools
• Creation of website and other social platforms
• Progress reporting (for Project Catalyst and Group members)

Month 1

Deliverables:

• Website
• Team member mailing list and social media accounts
• Project Management Documents
• Surveys
• Preliminary list of community and professional groups
• Milestone report

Milestone 2: Month 2

• Outreaches to the leadership/executives of the community and professional groups.
• Prepare and deliver informational sessions
• Gather feedback
• Create an insights report on all informational sessions
• progress reporting

Month 2

Deliverables:

• Promotional campaign documents and records
• Mailing list of professional groups
• Information sessions: agenda, presentation and feedback
• Summative Evaluation report from information sessions
• Milestone report

Community and Professional Groups Workshops

Month 3-6

• Design, Develop and implement Blockchain education for community professional groups.
• Hold at least two presentations per month.
• Deploy DAO tools and obtain feedbacks from the groups.

Month 3-6

Deliverables:

• Workshop materials (Workshop agenda, Training slides)
• Feedback from workshops
• Onboarding of new Cardano wallets
• Formation of new full or partial DAOs
• Milestone report

Final Milestone: Final Milestone:

Finalize and Close out

Month 7

• Finalise project
• Create closeout report and video

Deliverables

Close out report/video

Who is in the project team and what are their roles?

Ona Ohimor

Project Lead

Responsible for project implementation, training facilitation, and presentations.

Ona is an experienced trainer and blockchain evangelist. He has completed the Cardano Blockchain Certified Associate (CBCA) Course by Enurgo Academy.

The lead proposer is a finance professional and trainer. He has been in web3 for over three years, initially as a crypto enthusiast but now a Blockchain and Web3 evangelist. He has trained and on-boarded dozens of newbies to Blockchain. Besides, his passion for blockchain, he is an advocate for small and growing business and provides functional skills and enterprise development training for businesses.

He has been active within the Cardano community since Fund 10 as a Proposer and Community Reviewer (L!) subsequently as a Moderator (L2). In addition, I have actively explored the available DAO tools and infrastructure within the Cardano Community including Clarity DAO and Summons DAO.

https://www.linkedin.com/in/onoakpomaohimor

Emmanuel Rukevwe

He is an Information technology professional with essential coding skills.

A third team member will be engaged to complement the team. This role will focus on logistics and promotion.

Please provide a cost breakdown of the proposed work and resources

Budget

Milestone 1 (Months 1 and 2)

Team set up A3,000

Social media tools A2,000

(website, zoom, and promotion)

Informational session A3,000

(5 sessions x A600)

Team Salary A7,000

(Lead and 2 Project Assistants)

Total A15,000

Milestone 2 (Months 3 to 6)

Design and deliver 10 workshops A15,000

(Venue, logistics, refreshments, etc)

ADA for new to Cardano wallets A10,000

Deployment of DAO tools A10,000

Team Salary (Lead and 2 Assistants) A14,000

Total A49,000

Milestone 3 (Month 7)

Close out report and video

Total A4,000

Grand Total A68,000

No dependencies

How does the cost of the project represent value for money for the Cardano ecosystem?

This proposal will fund:

• 8 to 10 presentations and at least 5 informational sessions.
• Promotional campaigns.
• Follow-up deep dive sessions with community and professional groups

With the following expected outcomes:

• Promotion of Cardano Blockchain and DAO tools to professional groups in Nigeria (10 presentations and deployment of DAO tools to at least 5 community and professional groups).
• Creations of wallets of people new to Blockchain and Cardano (Target of 500 new wallets)
• Potential large market adoption
• Formation of new DAOs (partial or full) on Cardano
• Partnerships and Collaboration among Cardano ecosystem.

The proposal is value for money.

The project has a huge impact potential as the target audience are persons who will ultimately make inputs to policy at governmental levels based on their interactions with governments at various levels.

Outreach to these categories of persons/groups has the potential of delivering immense value to the Cardano ecosystem.