CA summary
The Developing Nations Leveraging Brilliance Programme
Our overarching aim is to support community hubs to develop an integrated pathway to enable them to:
· Become self-sufficient, revenue-generating, social impact organisations – offering well defined professional service products both to local national and international markets, and to
· Promote their position within their local communities as education, and be
· Impact enablers and innovation technology specialists, by
· Acting as a channel connecting Cardano and Catalysts to their local stakeholders.
Our objective is to fast-track a valuable outsourcing sector within the developing nations enabled by the community hub approach.
Community hubs will build the capability to offer productised solutions to other Catalyst driven services, including:
· CA engagement and development services,
· Catalyst onboarding Services,
· Word of Mouth Marketing Service development
· Outsourcing services
· SPO engagement and development services,
· Accelerator engagement and development services,
· Tech dev support,
· Rapid product development collaboration within Catalyst for separate country markets.
Our aim with this ‘Hub as Channel’ approach is to actively support decentralisation across all areas – whilst leveraging the benefits of the local to global, global to local systems approach to enterprise sustainability and growth.
Developing Nations Leveraging Brilliance Through Community Hubs, Programme detail:
This proposal is one of several discrete but interconnected feasibility studies that will
research and produce blueprints for
· Delivering real-world business use cases and solutions in the context of Cardano blockchain, Community hub and business capability.
Each will result in a blueprint for the steps for tech, business and community dev’s to scope delivery of
· The technical, business and community platform requirements necessary to develop a series of future, proof of concept MVP’s
· Followed by product rollout and implementation.
Overview of this proposal
Community Hubs as a node for CA services adoption and growth
To scope and produce a blueprint for building a platform to deliver Community Hub channelled and developed local resources, targeted to support the Catalyst Ecosystem with fit for purpose CA cadre.
Primary Impact – From this whitepaper feasibility study blueprint design and implementation plan
At a Cardano and Catalyst level
The blueprint will describe:
· How to support Catalyst’s need to access specialist resources to act as CA’s and VCA’s to effectively validate fit for purpose proposals – at scale. By exploring and defining how part of this need could be met by Community Hubs being skilled up to promote Cardano and Catalyst at a ‘local level’ engaging the services of specialist contributors from a local community, (where local means common culture, language and geography), and supporting them to become CA’s and VCA’s from a participating community hub.
At the country level
The blueprint will describe:
· How to support Cardano’s mission in building self-sustaining community hubs within nations
· By giving these hubs a roadmap to becoming being profit-making organisations that act as local channels for Catalyst supported products and capabilities – such as local community CA provision and nurturing.
At the community hub level
The blueprint will describe:
· How to give community hubs and their staff a stronger reason for engagement with their target community – as they will be able to offer access to paid work on an ongoing basis for local contributors – via undertaking CA and VCA roles.
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How to support decentralisation and robustness of the CA network, through how to translate and support the needs of the CA role in a local setting.
At an Individual level
The blueprint will describe:
· How qualified individuals will have the opportunity to engage with their local Community Hub, become a CA, and so gain both income and experience from working with the Catalyst family.
Secondary Impact – compounded through proposals 2 to 6 scoping and ongoing implementation
The Global Challenge
Opportunities for developing nations to grow a viable professional services sector has been limited by access to demand for these services at a local and national level. This has resulted in a lack of investment to:
· Provide a sufficient business infrastructure and
· Develop the relevant capabilities to deliver these services.
This has been exacerbated by the recent history of conflict, for instance, within the African and Latin American continents.
The Potential
There is a great pool of well-educated, highly talented and motivated people within these nations that can add enormous value to organisations and the global economy.
The constraint
This is a big complex challenge that can produce exponential results for all concerned.
But to deliver on the potential evident in this solution will take an integrated, highly focused, immediate, short, and medium-term approach with specialist input from dev’s from all sides: tech, business, community, etc,
In order to achieve the objectives outlined above, the phase - covered by this proposal – will be to produce a feasibility study and whitepaper. This will explore:
· The opportunity for building a platform that matches the specialist support needs of catalyst challenge proposers and coordinators (such as research and report writing requirements),
· With the capabilities of providers (such as university students) in Developing Nations
· To provide those services.
It is proposed that access to these service providers (contributors) would be managed locally by the relevant community hubs - in phase 1 through WADA.
The solution described above will leverage the untapped outsourcing potential in developing nations to match and meet the needs of Catalyst proposers and beyond, and will be described in a whitepaper.
The whitepaper will produce a blueprint for the development of an MVP of operational business models and create the applications that will deliver on this, tapping the outsourcing potential in developing nations.
The whitepaper will include wide-ranging input from other interested parties such as Catalyst, WADA and other community hub operators. This will ensure that we meet the needs of Catalyst proposers.
Following this whitepaper stage, implementation of a blueprint will be run as an MVP trial through WADA, who will act as lead partners and submit a separate proposal for implementation in Fund 9. Following that it is envisaged that the programme be rolled out through the other developing nations' challenge groups as appropriate.
· Challenge – identify key technical partners to assist in describing the gap between capability and delivery of the proposed local CA's through Community Hubs initiative.
o Mitigation – Engage with the Catalyst co-ordination team to identify appropriate partners
· Challenge – Describing the solution that delivers the outcomes required by the business use case in terms that will lead to a coherent scope of work for the development phase of the project in the future
o We will partner with WADA and through their community hubs and other developers learn what social, business and technical development needs to occur to deliver the solution, and how to describe it in a scope of work