Please describe your proposed solution.

Problem:

There are no complete onboarding systems to engage with African Artists with the tools and resources to enable them to become engaged Cardano Members. Including reliable methods of communication.

Steps Already completed for Kingbrownartnft:

• Visit twitter spaces outside of Cardano for possible artists to recruit.
• Provided wallet setup instructions through Whatsapp: including best practices for storing seed phrases
• Funded the wallet with 50 Ada to establish a working knowledge of sending and receiving transactions-
• TX-ID 550b95d69835b6c57dfacd9a5ba0d590f54ff45eebe92657971051e9732eba5e
• Minted two works selected by the artist for a prototype and to demonstrate how NFTS are stored and transferred between parties
• TXID 7414cb3c71896962a25201726a5edc9bdfd7f9d1f09de30c7c4b5178e426cd13
• Created a webpage for KingbrownArtnft to showcase his work https://dagwelldev.com/collaborations/
• Refurbished an 8th gen Intel Laptop to provide a better method of communication. The cost of shipping has prevented me from sending the laptop.

What is the Purpose?

The purpose is to create an effective onboarding strategy that leverages common obstacles preventing Africans from onboarding to Cardano. Creating a personalized onboarding plan that provides a budget to ensure the Artist's needs are met and can contribute to Cardano. The ecosystem we are building in Cardano is changing how and why we interact with each other. We are building technology that aims to provide everyone with a way to engage with our growing community. It's imperative that we remove as many barriers to entries as possible.

How will we implement the project?

Our earlier efforts relied on visiting different Twitter spaces in order to find possible artists. thanks to the work KingBrownArtnft and I have done, we already have our next candidate, Our program relies heavily on artists onboarding local artists who will face the same barriers we aim to remove. By ensuring our program starts and scales organically, our methods will tackle common issues faced by Africans in the area they live in. All of the progress will be tracked on the web pages created for each artist. Artists will have an area that allows them to discuss their work and preview their new collections. There will also be a dedicated channel in the Hardfork Kafe to create and develop a community setting.

What Will Be Created

Each Artist will create a portfolio of NFTs on Cardano. In some cases, a digital camera will be used to capture an Artists's existing work in other mediums. Whatever medium the artist uses, our job will be to integrate it into the existing Cardano ecosystem. Our main output will be engaged Cardano community members.

Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.

This proposal aims to build A stronger Cardano and Africa. By creating the necessary system to onboard Africans and ensure they are properly supplied and can bring Value to the Cardano ecosystem.

What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?

The ecosystem we are building in Cardano is changing how and why we interact with each other. We are building technology that aims to provide everyone with a way to engage with our growing community.

• What if you never heard of Cardano?
• What if you are a talented artist but don't possess the means or know-how to mint an NFT?
• What if you do find success creating NFTs and don't have access to a bank?
• What if you have other issues outside of Cardano you need assistance with?
• What if the country you are delivering to doesn't have a reliable postal service

Solutions

• Continue to Visit Artist NFTS spaces outside of Cardano
• Walk each artist through the process of minting an NFT and educate them on community options
• Research ways to send fiat outside of traditional banking systems. i.e., Ria, Money Gram, Western Union
• Create a network of Africans that can emotionally and creatively support each other
• Look to locally source Materials
• Partner to rent a studio or secure a post office box

Please provide a detailed plan, including timeline and key milestones for delivering your proposal.

For Our Proposal, We have chosen to focus on three Main Phases

Introductory Period - First 30 Days

• This time is spent meeting the Artist and developing plans for Minting their first NFT on Cardano
• Register Artists for Catalyst and take them to Town Hall
• Determine the Best methods of Communication (Whatsapp, Twitter, Discord)
• Create and Fund Wallet
• Make sure Artist is comfortable Using Wallet

Assessment of Need First 60-90 Days

• Determine what challenges are preventing the Artist from successfully and permanently onboarding. Examples- Housing, Materials, Laptop, support system
• Work with the artist to select work to be featured on Cardano
• Mint artwork and introduce the artwork market to the Cardano community
• Create Webpage to display artwork
• Determine the best logistics to deliver found needs. Locally sourced, Shipping costs, are there existing solutions that are more cost-effective.

Stable and Growing First 90-180 Days

• Artist has a clear understanding of the Cardano ecosystem
• Artist is capable of onboarding and is now bringing in new artists to Cardano
• Artist has secured jobs creating art for other projects and can build wealth
• Artists are in a network of Africans that are empowered to bring new ideas to Catalyst and Cardano

Hopes and Dreams

That the Artist involved will be a catalyst of change in their communities providing meaningful reform.

Please provide a detailed budget breakdown.

Developer Cost 4000

Designing and Minting Native Coins for Artists - 25hrs@$75.00 / hr

Designing/updating a Webpage to display Artist's work 25hrs@$75.00

Web Hosting Service 250/yr

Possible Artist Needs $2600/Artist

This total will change depending on how many Artists we are able to onboard, and what particular needs each artist will need to be successful.

Proposed Budget for each Onboarded Artist (Proposal will onboard 5 Artists)

Laptop 1@500

Materials to Produce art $500

Housing Costs $1000

Wallet funding $100

Cost of Shipping $500

Marketing and Community Bounties - 3000

Budget to offer bounties to the community for any unforeseen issues $1500

Budget for Artist giveaways $1500

Please provide details of the people who will work on the project.

Dagwell- Member of Plutus Pioneer third Cohort. I have had the pleasure to design and mint NFTS for several Cardano projects. I love the Cardano-cli. My experience ranges from creating governance tokens, linking physical objects to NFTs, creating websites embedded on tokens. I have a passion for allowing people to find and know their WORTH.

Linkedin Website Github

KingBrownArtnft - Nigerian Artist specializing in acrylic and medium.

Twitter

Nnadichristabel6- Nigerian Artist and Psychologist. Recently published and sold her first pieces on Open Sea Twitter

If you are funded, will you return to Catalyst in a later round for further funding? Please explain why / why not.

Our intention is to create a robust network of African artist who have the necessary tools to train and onboard others. This will be a process that will continue to expand as we onboard new Artists. In the early stages our onboarding will be limited partly by resources to completely onboard several people. Our initial funding will better educate us on the cost we may face.

Our long term goal outside of funding is to create/utilize a bounty system for projects needing Artists, with the ultimate goal of creating a self sustaining career.

Please describe what you will measure to track your project's progress, and how will you measure these?

We will measure the number of original works the artist has created on Cardano. We will provide transaction Ids of how the funds were spent and if these resources made a positive impact on the lives of the artist.

We will also measure if the artist is able to complete the onboarding process and if it was pleasant.

A clear measure will be how many participants we were able to attract and if they are still active members in 6 months

We will also have a referral system to track how the network grew.

What does success for this project look like?

• Artist has a clear understanding of the Cardano ecosystem
• Artist is capable of onboarding and is now bringing in new artists to Cardano
• Artist has secured jobs creating art for other projects and can build wealth
• Artists are in a network of Africans that are empowered to bring new ideas to Catalyst and Cardano

Please provide information on whether this proposal is a continuation of a previously funded project in Catalyst or an entirely new one.

This is an entirely new proposal.