Malaysia has a multi-ethnic society that are predominantly Malay, Indian, Chinese and Indigenous peoples who are multicultural, and multilingual. Both West and East Malaysia have their own unique cultural traditions, languages, arts, cuisines and lifestyles.
Aim:
Konmahood will be able to bring all the like-minded people together to share their talents, ideas and experiences by using a structured, decentralized, autonomous system and introducing them to the blockchain and Cardano ecosystem.
With Konmahood we aim to solve the problem statement by using our existing stand-alone community forum for people who can be united by their common interest for blockchain, crypto trading, and the likes, and creating an exclusive tribe called “Cardano Malaysia”.
Main Features –
Konmahood has various features that can be used to build the Cardano Malaysia community.
COMMUNITY FORUM
Konmahood is a community forum with a democratic approach where people from different social strata, cultures, and backgrounds meet to exchange their views with the aim of creating a harmonious community. It is a place where professionals and enthusiasts come together to share their experiences and combine forces. Updates, peer-to-peer communication, mass communication, event hosting, course/workshop offering, can be done in one single platform.
TRIBE SYSTEM
- The community is forked into multiple tribes that are centered around exclusive domains under food, lifestyle, and art with independent stories, guidelines, and economies! An exclusive tribe for Cardano Malaysia.
Anyone can join tribes as an enthusiast or as an expert and take up roles and help each other build the "Cardano Malaysia" tribe into a robust and sustainable community. This will be an open community as we aim to bring in as many members as possible to create a strong Cardano Malaysia community.
VOTING SYSTEM
When we say that Konmahood is a decentralized community forum and we are more focused on community decision making than individual decision making. Konmahood has the poll feature which helps to take the public opinion on the tribe-related actions. This makes the forum more active and keeps the participants engaged and gives them a sense of belonging. With our previous experiments during the beta stage of Konmahood, we found that the community integrity was great and individuals felt like their voices were heard through these polling systems. This feature will be a strong foundation to building and holding together the Cardano Malaysia community.
CONTENT STREAMLINING
The major issue with most conventional social media is that contents are cluttered. Finding content specific to individual interest is limited. Each tribe has a “Topic” feature which helps to categorize everything that is posted into specific topics. In the Cardano Malaysia tribe, we intend to create such topics that will help the participants find the information based on their topic of interest. This way the community members are not wasting their time. Using these features, it will be easier to streamline language specific content into topics and make it easier for users to find the right content.
PEER-TO-PEER COMMUNICATION
Communication is key to the integrity of any community. With a peer-to-peer communication system, it is easier for community members to interact and synergize. There is a mass communication channel that can be used to communicate information, event details, etc. And there is an ever-active feed where the content in the form of text, images, videos, or links can be shared.
EVENT HOSTING
Konmahood also has event hosting features which will send automatic reminders for the event and help integrate the Konmaverse platform (virtual meeting space) to host virtual events. This can be effectively used to host Hackathons and competitions for the Cardano Malaysia community
COURSE OFFERING
Experts can offer courses and workshops on the same platform to upskill the enthusiast and create their own tribe economy. This can be effectively used for the Cardano Malaysia tribe to offer value to its members.
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
Since Konmahood is an existing community forum and will be hosting various other tribes in different fields, Cardano Malaysia Tribe will have a scope to reach a larger audience. This scope can also be expanded to form a tribe for Cardano in other countries in the future.
Intended Audience –
The target audience is in Malaysia falls into the following categories -
- ADA holders who are unaware of the Cardano ecosystem and Project Catalyst
- Start-ups and Entrepreneurs
- Students (Schools and Colleges)
- Blockchain Enthusiasts
- Blockchain experts
- Crypto Trading enthusiasts
- Haskell/Plutus developers
WHAT WILL THE CARDANO MALAYSIA TRIBE DO?
- Create a Cardano Malaysia Tribe under Konmahood.
- Create resources and content to educate and create awareness about Cardano ecosystem in English, Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Punjabi, Tamil, Iban , Kadazan. Each of these language will have their exclusive space to find all content in these languages.
- Conduct multi-lingual events to sensitize participants and tribe members about Cardano ecosystem
- Motivate people to bring forward their proposals and give a platform in these weekly sessions to trial run their proposals and get active feedback from the community. This helps build confidence and improve their proposal and open opportunities to collaborate with the right people.
- Educating the community members about the different roles they can take up as Proposers, Voters, and Community Advisors.
- As initial participants, we will set the guidelines for the tribe and conduct sessions to help with their proposals and create awareness about Project Catalyst and the various roles they can partake in. Tribe members who participate in the upcoming Project Catalyst can then moderate sessions to motivate newcomers to do the same and the ripple effect continues. This "Ripple Model" as we like to call it, will give a sense of comradeship, sense of belonging and set the base for a sustainable community in Malaysia.
- Conduct a weekly roundup session to discuss new proposals ideas if any and updates about the Cardano community.
- Conduct Clubhouse and Spaces sessions to spread awareness about the Cardano Malaysia Tribe and increase traction.
- Daily discussions, polls, and posts on Cardano Malaysia Tribe to keep the community active and the conversations going.
- Using other social media platforms like Instagram and Facebook as a marketing stream to bring more members to the Cardano Malaysia Tribe.
KPIs
Number of members joining ‘Cardano Malaysia’ Tribe
• Number of successful events and workshops conducted on Konmaverse and/or Zoom
• New Member feedbacks through interactive forms
• Regular Poll reports
Outcome Reports
• The platform generated statistics report will show the turnout ratio to the Cardano Malaysia Tribe
• The feedback form reports will be submitted to show the outcome of the onboarding process.
• Virtual event participation report
• Report on number of people taking up roles in Project Catalyst
CHALLENGE
Resistance to adaption – Since blockchain is a new concept and there are many inhibitions about the credibility and real-life uses, there will surely be resistance and questions raised.
MITIGATION STRATEGY
Education and Awareness - Introducing simple concepts of blockchain in a progressive manner with real-life examples and concepts will be helpful. This we intend to do by conducting workshops and courses that will aid in better adaption
CHALLENGE
Multi-Language – There are many languages being spoken in Malaysia and it is easier to penetrate and build a stronger community by communicating in regional languages because there are various language mediums used in schools and colleges.
MITIGATION STRATEGY
Hosting multi-lingual sessions for more effective understanding and creating resources for these regional languages starting with Malay, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, Punjabi, Tamil, Iban and Kadazan.
CHALLENGE
With different level of understanding and access to information it is a challenge to communicate the same content to all.
MITIGATION STRATEGY
Instead of targeting a large group, we intend to divide the target group based on accessibility, level of understanding and languages and communicating on different levels over a period of time. We understand that adaption takes time and we are willing to take the necessary steps to consistently work on growing the adaption.