Please describe your proposed solution.

PREAMBLE

Ghana is an African country. Africa is perceived as a deprived continent and I believe it is not because of lack of Human Resources but rather that the African people are not exposed to opportunities like the outside world is. If the African people have access to such opportunities the people will be able to implement their ideas and projects that will be of great impact to the continent and the world at large.

PROPOSED SOLUTION

A small percentage of the population of Ghana have heard of Cardano Blockchain and out of those who have heard, a section of them are active members. The percentage of the Ghanaian people who have not heard of Cardano are much more than those who are aware of it. What does this mean for cardano and the catalyst community? It means that, there are still more people to be reached out to. It therefore also means that, Cardano needs to sponsor projects that seek to reach out to Ghanaians, hence this proposal.

The proposal seeks to embark on a series of community events to broadcast Cardano education to the percentage of Ghanaians who have not heard of it.Through our community events, we intend to engage with business people, local developers, entrepreneurs, farmers etc to help boost their specialized areas and businesses by leveraging cardano blockchain. In the short and long-run, we will have a community of people who are blockchain minded.

How does your proposed solution address the challenge and what benefits will this bring to the Cardano ecosystem?

IMPACT OF PROJECT ON CARDANO

At the end of the project delivery, this will be the impact on cardano

1. the project intends to educate about 300 people about cardano within the country through our physical meetups.
2. Participants from different skill/training backgrounds come together to build projects and hence encourages collaborative building of solutions by the people in cardano ecosystem. This is/will be a great innovation.
3. About 250+ of the people get to create a Yoroi wallet address and receive Ada tokens during our Q&As session.
4. help business men and women to get support for their businesses through their knowledge of cardano and project catalyst and to ascertain the impact such businesses would have on the ecosystem.
5. get developers building smart contracts on cardano blockchain.

PRECISE CHALLENGE ADDRESS

All contents, materials, resources from our project delivery will be made publicly available to the catalyst community. The principle of open source is key to the catalyst open challenge and so therefore we uphold and follow the principle with our utmost strength and respect.

This proposal has a timeframe of 3 months, it does not fit into any other F10 challenges. The budget is also in adherence to the budget cap of the challenge.

How do you intend to measure the success of your project?

1. Participation/Attendance: Measure the number of people attending our community events. This measure helps track metrics such as active participants and participants interest.
2. Participants feedback: we will measure the feedback of people who attend our community events by issuing questionnaires and conducting surveys to determine their satisfaction with our events or solution in general.
3. Community engagement: Evaluate the level of engagement and participation from the community in order to determine if the event generated interest and involvement from local residents or community groups. Assess the level of interaction, networking, and collaboration that occurred during the event.
4. Multi-collaboration: developers, engineers, business people, agriculturalist and other personnel from other fields coming together to build projects and develop solutions on the cardano blockchain will be measured. This will be a massive innovation to cardano to experience and have such diversified minds building on the blockchain.
5. Impact on the community: Measure the long-term impact of our event on the community to ascertain whether it created any positive changes or outcomes. For example, we will lookout for innovations and development hitting the community by leveraging cardano blockchain.
6. Achieving goals and objectives: Review the specific goals and objectives already established for the project in other to determine if they have been achieved. For example, we will check out for awareness creation since it is an ultimate goal of the project.

Please describe your plans to share the outputs and results of your project?

1. Documentation and compilation of outputs: We will gather all the necessary materials, presentations, reports, data, photographs, videos and other artifacts generated as a result of our project delivery: organize them in a way that makes them easily accessible and understandable by community members.
2. Community engagement (Social media sharing): Outputs will be shared on relevant social media platforms especially on catalyst telegram and discord groups so that community members can have access to them.
3. Open source content: All materials and content used in the project delivery will be made public and hence available to community members.
4. TH: There might be the need to address some issues and questions of catalyst community members regarding our project, in such a case, town halls will be organized online to address such issues.
5. Open forum: Participants and probably other community members where we have held our events might have some issues and concerns with regards to our project in such a case, an open forum will be used to address all of such outstanding questions and issues and also share project’s outputs to interested parties.

Outputs from the project will help us to know the caliber of projects people from diverse backgrounds have and are interested in and will help us streamline our future activities to fit or match the expectations of the Ghanaian people.

What is your capability to deliver your project with high levels of trust and accountability?

Convened and hosted the 2022 Cardano Summit in Tamale, Ghana which was the largest blockchain summit ever hosted in Tamale. The summit ended successfully and all participants were well educated and nicely received and refreshed. The event wouldn’t have been deemed successful if the funds were not properly used. Have also organized and facilitated successfully community events, some in Northern Ghana and in Kumasi with support from Wada.

We have also held conferences where people were educated about blockchain and many of the people today are active in the cardano ecosystem. As a result of past events and conferences we have held, we have been able to garner enough experience in hosting and facilitating projects like this successfully. We are also very reliable in terms of using funds for the right tasks to ensure success of our projects.

we have also been PAs and vPAs in project catalyst for some time now.

<https://twitter.com/baanibenjamin>

<https://twitter.com/Jerrybnj>

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsQtjgRJSp8&amp;t=101s

What are the main goals for the project and how will you validate if your approach is feasible?

The following are the goals of the project:

• Raise Cardano awareness by introducing the Ghanaian people to cardano and project catalyst.

Validation: Through our community events, we will be able to get some percentage of the Ghanaian people who have not heard about cardano to be well informed.

•Cardano becomes vibrant in Ghanaian communities.

Validation: Areas or communities we have held our events, we will establish a cardano community group for the participants so that they can stay in touch with one another and receive updates from the project team about current developments in the catalyst community. This helps to create a vibrant cardano community.

• Encourage local innovation/development.

Validation: Project catalyst proposal submission and funding will be introduced to the people where they can get to submit local projects and receive funding to execute them for the development of their community.

• Establish networking and collaboration.

Validation: Facilitating interaction and collaborations among community members and thereby fostering good relationships and building a stronger network within the community.

Project Launch

The team intends to launch and kick start the project in October 2023 through to January 2024. We will hold a cardano community event in October, two (2) in November and another in December in different towns/communities in Ghana. So in all, the team intends to hold 4 cardano community events in different towns in Ghana. Aftermath, close out report will be prepared and submitted.

Please provide a detailed breakdown of your project’s milestones and each of the main tasks or activities to reach the milestone plus the expected timeline for the delivery.

Milestone 1: Project Development and Planning and Project delivery (Phase 1)

Tasks:

1. Objectives and scope of the project get defined.
2. Develop detailed project plan with timelines, tasks and resources required.
3. Marketing and publicizing community events to reach the target audience making use of various channels such as social media, flyers and local media outlet to publicize our events.
4. Setup registration and check-in processes. We will create online registration links so that interested participants can register.
5. First phase of convening and facilitating our cardano events/education begins.
6. Transition into milestone 2.

Estimated Cost: 16,000ada

Timeline: 1 month

Milestone 2: Project Delivery (Phase 2)

Tasks:

1. Continued convening and facilitating cardano events/education.
2. Collect feedback from participants
3. Transition into milestone 3.

Estimated cost: 15,000ada

Timeline: 1 month

Milestone 3: Project Delivery (Phase 3) and Evaluation

Tasks:

1. Continued convening and facilitating cardano events/education.
2. Collect feedback from participants.
3. Analyze events’ success based on predefined objectives.
4. Prepare a comprehensive report for the project.
5. Evaluate opportunities for future events or initiatives based on the project’s impact.

Estimated cost: 15,000ada

Timeline: 1 month

Please describe the deliverables, outputs and intended outcomes of each milestone.

Milestone 1: Project Development and Planning

Deliverables:

1. Project Plan: Develop a formal document outlining project’s objectives, scope, timeline, tasks and resources required to implement it.
2. Effective Marketing Strategy: An effective marketing strategy by which we can reach our target audience for publicity through various channels such as social media, flyers, local media etc.
3. Participation Registration Created: Help interested participants (students) register their interest and check-in to our conferences. Online link will be created.
4. Events Convening (phase 1): We will run the people through a step by step cardano education so that they can be well informed about the blockchain and all that it entails.

Outputs:

1. Completed and comprehensive project plan
2. Developed marketing strategy
3. Participants registration collected.
4. Organized and facilitated in-depth cardano education conference.

Intended Outcomes:

1. Well constructed plan with defined objectives, scope, tasks etc.
2. Well defined and effective marketing strategy.
3. Well defined category of blockchain enthusiasts in the communities we held events.
4. Well informed community participants.

Milestone 2: Project Delivery (Phase 2)

Deliverables:

1. Event Convening Continued: Second phase of cardano education takes place in two other different Ghanaian communities. Participants get to know about the cardano blockchain.
2. Conducting Surveys: To receive feedback from participants to assess their satisfaction about our events.

Outputs:

1. Facilitated cardano conference continued.
2. Prepared and conducted surveys and questionnaires received.

Intended Outcome:

1. Well-informed community participants.
2. Ascertain participants satisfaction of the events

Milestone 3: Project Delivery (Phase 3) and Evaluation

Deliverables:

1. Events Convening Continued ( phase 2): Cardano education is continued and the community participants are exposed to how they can take up roles in project catalyst, for example, proposers, community reviewers, CT members etc.
2. Conducting Surveys: To receive feedback from participants to assess their satisfaction about our events.
3. Success Measurement of Events: Metrics to be assigned to evaluate the success of our project delivery employing both quantitative and qualitative approaches.
4. General Evaluation: Assess overall delivery of our project and improving in areas lapses were encountered.
5. Report Preparation: Prepare a report that captures whatever transpired in the project’s delivery.

Outputs:

1. Facilitated cardano conference continued.
2. Prepared and conducted surveys and questionnaires received.
3. Analyzed students feedback for determining project success.
4. Assessed overall project delivery.
5. Summarized report of project delivery.

Intended outcomes:

1. Well-informed community participants.
2. Ascertain participants satisfaction of the events
3. Know what success is for this project
4. Improvement in future project delivery
5. Create a reservoir of information for reference purpose in the future.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown of the proposed work and resources.

•Transportation, accommodation and feeding of team- 9,000 Ada

• Creation and printing of cardano T-shirts and education materials- 300*30 Ada= 9,000Ada

• Honorarium for team

. resource persons- 2*850 Ada= 1,700 Ada*4= 6,800 Ada

. Event Organizers- 1,200 Ada

Sub total= 8,000 Ada

• Rental of events space- 4 events* 1,500 Ada= 6,000 Ada

• Refreshment of participants-

Snacks and water 300*3.333= 1,000 Ada

. Lunch 300*13.333 Ada= 4,000 Ada

Sub Total= 5,000 Ada

• Events Capture- 3,000 Ada

• Events publicity- 3,000 Ada

• Ada rewards for participants during Q&As session- 2,000 Ada

• Contingency fund/miscellaneous- 1,000 Ada

Total: 46,000 Ada

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

Benjamin Baani (Team Lead, resource person):

A cardano community event enthusiast and was a speaker at the 2022 Cardano Summit in Tamale, Ghana. PA and vPA in project catalyst for a while now. CT member. And Lead for Startups & Onboarding Challenge Team. A member of WADA.

<https://twitter.com/baanibenjamin>

Jeremiah Baani (resource person): A tutor.

Cardano Ambassador for Ghana and hosted the 2022 Cardano Summit in Tamale, Ghana. Organized and facilitated community events in northern Ghana and Kumasi successfully.

PA and vPA in project catalyst for a while now. CT member. A member of WADA.

Founder of Cteil Ghana

www.cteil.org

<https://twitter.com/Jerrybnj>

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

•Contingency Fund: Every project will encounter challenges in the course of its delivery, so therefore there might be need of some push up funds to undertake the project especially at the completion stage of the project (we want to fully execute the project). The contingency fund of 1,000 Ada captured in the budget will be able to cater for unexpected expenses.

•Publicity: To get the Ghanaian communities we intend to hold our cardano events to be aware of our upcoming events and participate, there is the need to embark on massive publicity using channels such as social media, flyers and local media, which is a demanding process and requires much funds to carry it out effectively, hence the amount of 3,000 Ada.

•Accommodation, feeding and transportation of team (resource persons): The condition of the economy of Ghana has caused prices of goods and services to skyrocket. Accommodation, feeding and transportation have been affected by the economic situation and hence an amount of 9,000 Ada will be able to cover these expenses.

•Rental of gadgets and conference space: cost of gadgets and conference space rental have increased however the amount of 6,000 Ada will be able to cover the expense.

•Printing of cardano T-shirts and materials: This component of the budget will make our conferences very unique and more insightful. Aside our conference sessions, students will be able to receive basic education about cardano and project catalyst from the cardano materials (booklets). It requires more funds to get the T-shirts and materials printed, hence the amount of 9,000 Ada.

All other components/items (affordable and less costly items have been considered) in the budget have been careful prepared with respect to current and prevailing economic conditions in Ghana and hence the outcome of 46,000 Ada.

THE COST OF THE PROJECT

The cost of the project represents value for money for the cardano ecosystem considering that the funds requested will aid in the education of people about the ecosystem and giving them opportunities to become members of the ecosystem. The membership of cardano ecosystem will increase and also receive innovative ideas from developers, entrepreneurs, business personnel etc to help build the ecosystem.