Please describe your proposed solution
What we have learnt from our work with Fund9 is that it is very difficult to maintain a platform that provides educational content with only those who are interested in Cardano and the community within Cardano in mind.
Our learning platform contsnts are lead by community, but now that the NFT boom is over, it is much harder to keep people connected to Crypto in the community within Discord and keep them active there.
(As can be seen from the lack of activity on Discord, even on well-known metaverse platforms).
In light of this, we are redefining our target personas and starting to do charity work to get them onto our platform.
The personas we have identified in this phase are mainly "Japanese local government officials in charge of regional development and public relations, and people who are running DAOs in the region for regional development", "business people involved in regional development", "consultants" and "Japanese students".
The people in charge of regional development in Japan, public relations and people who are doing regional development in the region are people in Japan who have a strong desire to foster community using Discord, many of whom feel the need to incorporate DAO and Web3, and who need to learn and communicate in the real world of work.
They are therefore the ones who are actively participating in recent events related to Web3 and DAOs.
In addition, Japanese students are now taking classes known as 'exploratory activities'. These classes are designed to research the world and their own interests, and to think about problems and solutions to them.
Since these students are often researching global matters and local creation, especially in relation to the SDGs, we believe that there is a great deal that they can learn from our Cardano global community and that it is a great fit with the personas mentioned above.
We are putting the L-Earning Bazaar, which has already been developed and tested on the testnet with the funding we received from Fund9, on the mainnet to make it easier to onboard newly established personas to our platform, to provide examples of community development and presentations of inquiry learning as well as giving us the opportunity to deliver Cardano content directly to the demographic interested in Web3.
The uniqueness of our education platform is that it
In addition to the usual interactive and on-demand teaching, our educational platform is unique in its ability to
- Our platform does not decide who the teachers are, but that everyone has the right to be a teacher and that teachers are decided by voting
- The category of the lesson is not limited to Cardano, but the teacher can create a lesson about his/her area of expertise, from hobbies to telling about the area where he/she lives or about his/her business, etc.
- The teacher can check the students' understanding of the lessons by setting up tests.
- The possibility to set up classes that are free of charge and receive money to throw at the student
- 5Classes can be set up where students can earn ADA by participating.
- Special classes can be set up where NFTs are used as tickets, and special NFT tickets that are airdropped when points are earned can be resold so that those who have studied diligently can earn money.
These on-board features have already been built on assets from Fund9, though,
With the budget from Fund12, we intend to implement and promote the following features in 6 months to make new personas onboarding a success.
⚪︎ Features implemented
- Making it possible to purchase paid courses with an ADA / Credit card
- Enabling students to get an NFT badge as proof of course completion.
- Front-end and back-end modifications.(Currently, points are purchased with ADA in advance and classes are bought and sold using points, but the front-end and back-end will be modified so that classes can be bought directly using ADA).
- Making it possible to receive vorious tokens on Cardano as a reward for taking classes seriousl
⚪︎ Promotion
- Promote partnerships with secondary schools and high schools to use the platform as a test case
- Approach local authorities to use the platform to publish information such as tourism information that they want to promote globally, or to disseminate information about their local arriva
As mentioned in the previous sentence, our aim in this phase is to become a place for local authorities and organisations in local cities in Japan to transmit, share, co-create and educate about their local creation initiatives.
Activities in this field are becoming really active, but there is no place for various regions to come together to transmit and exchange ideas together, and local authorities often have no contact with the global community, so we want to connect people in our cardano ecosystem here.
Also, for local municipalities, the Japanese government has developed a bill on DAOs, and a significant percentage of them are currently trying to create DAO-like organisations, and we want to put information on how to create DAOs and the tools for building DAOs created by NMKR and Clarity on our platform. itself is also very useful to make people aware of the Cardano ecosystem.
Distributing regional tokens to those who attend classes, if they are in a region that is doing DAOs, may encourage members of the global who receive them to visit the region.
This will be done in conjunction with Region Link, a programme run by DAO Inc. and the Japan Association for Local Web 3 Collaboration, with which we have a partnership.
Region Link has already run business contests connecting high schools and local authorities, so we would like them to make use of their connections to our platform and run educational events involving high schools and local authorities on our platform.
We will also make use of our partner SBI VC Trade's connections with local authorities in the hometown tax payment business to further promote the use of our platform for local authorities to disseminate information.
Through this initiative
- Japanese students can learn about Web3 and the global world situation from members of our community and their families
- Our global members will have the opportunity to earn money while delivering educational content
- To create a place where Japanese students can present their research according to their interests globally, and where our Cardano community can be exposed to and exchange ideas with the
- To give Japanese students the opportunity to earn money if their content is good enoug
- To create an opportunity for regions involved in Region Link, SBI VC Trade, etc. to learn from each other what other regions are doing to create their own regions through this platform.
- To enable local authorities to be in touch with Cardano's relevant content when they think about using Web3.
- To give out unique regional tokens to people who have watched the classes, so that they can be used to promote regional development in the regions of Japan.
We are trying to achieve these seven things.
Our platform will not only create opportunities for people from all over the world to research their own interests and to be exposed to educational content from all over the world that they would not normally be exposed to, but also provide opportunities for young people and local authorities in Japan who have not been exposed to Cardano before to naturally come into contact with and learn about Cardano. We also create opportunities for young people and local authorities in Japan who have not been exposed to Cardano before to naturally come into contact with it and get to know it.
At the same time, we will promote Cardano to people in our ecosystem.
To this end, we are currently approaching global Cardano ambassadors and organisations that create educational content to onboard more and better Cardano content.
We also hope to form more partnerships over the next six months.