Please describe your proposed solution
◆Reasons for approaching
- The skills gap in the blockchain industry: According to a recent digital and IT skills report of DevSkiller based on 209,249 coding tests sent through the DevSkiller platform to candidates from 54 countries, blockchain demand increased by 552 % in 2022. However, there is a massive gap in the required skillsets, especially for the Cardano Developers. 1.1 Understand the basics of blockchain technology, including 1.2 Understanding Haskell and 1.3 Learning Plutus (• Cardano Toolchain & Binaries setup – Developer Tools. Transaction structure – Transaction Metadata – Native Tokens. Plutus Build Tools & various Forms. Plutus smart contracts – Plutus PAF, PAB, DApp connector. KEVM – Milkomeda Sidechain – Glow – IELE – K Framework)
- Why do we choose MOCC as the suitable approach?
Since the year of MOOC (Massive open online course) in 2012 with top universities and MOOC providers such as Coursera, Udacity and Udemy, and edX, the trend remains positive on a global adoption scale in the next decade. The CARG growth is more than 30% and remained the top learning platform recently with new reliable players such as Linkedin with LSM providers such as Cornerstone OnDemand and SAP SuccessFactors.
With the Covid impact, MOOCs keep growing faster with more innovative and interactive teaching methods.
Report: MOOCs Market by Type, Subjects, and Geography - Forecast and Analysis 2023-2027 (technavio)
- The unfinished rate (50%) in the Catalyst proposers: Project owners in Cardano, Catalyst, and Blockchain have difficulty finding talent that fits within the budget. That affects the progress and completion of the project. One of the critical factors is the lack of skilled resources.
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There could be some challenges for this for nearly 2-year incompletion ratio (fund 9 backwards)
- The financial management of the proposal team due to the fluctuation of ADAUSD
- The skillsgap between qualify Freelancers vs. Business demands.
- The lack of particular hub for freelancers especially in Cardano blockchain, Plustus, Haskell programing languges, etc… while Cardano are more and more coming to Smart Contract and heading to Voltaire era.
- dRep delaying: this also poses a thread on the quality and highly-skilled proposers to have capacity to manage project ontime (Indirect impact.)
However, positively we see a slight decreases around 5% in incompletion rates vs. first half of 2023. And we see a better rule for Proposers with max cap of number of Proposals and the latest deadline completion for past funded proposals. This will also help the Catalyst Cardano community become better.
<u>◆Our Solution</u>
- Set up a professional freelancer training platform.https://proskills39academy.com/ (our website is still in BETA phase for testing and taking feedbacks from community. We will follow the sprints in after the funding results.)
- On this platform, we will connect freelancers and trainers.
- Freelancers will learn the knowledge and skills necessary to become experts in the field they want to join.
- To create quality talent, and contribute to the development of Cardano, Catalyst, in this early phase, we will focus on attracting trainers and experts in the field of blockchain, Cardano, Catalyst and providing The course helps to improve skills in this area.
<u>◆Project end-users</u>
- Freelancers
- People who want to learn knowledge to become professional experts.
- Experienced experts and lecturers who want to participate in talent training.
<u>◆The uniqueness of this solution</u>
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The unique feature of this solution is that.
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Focus on training freelancers to provide talent for areas where human resources are scarce, such as blockchain, web3.
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Freelancer's achievements will be recorded and saved as a basis for promotion on the platform connecting Freelancer with project owners - ProSkills39 (details in proposal: <https://cardano.ideascale.com/c/idea/111289> FUNDED since Fund 8,9 (COMPLETED)
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The courses on our platform will be compiled according to the criteria of concise, easy-to-understand, lots of practice. This helps students feel excited about learning and become passionate about their careers.
*Below is an example video for a lesson on our platform
<https://youtu.be/V9lt3PB4n0Y><https://youtu.be/paWQewAZ1-g?si=dmNoWaZlbcMeDwnZ>(*) NOTE: this is a demo video of the trainer that we have partnered with, without funding. When we have secure the funding, we will develop the Training course based on Community Survey and right quality Trainers.
- The course quality will be assessed by the students who have studied and made public for future students to refer to—an utterly objective quality assessment based on community experience.
◆Project demonstrates outcomes and why this is important to Cardano
- Creating high-quality human resources that contribute to the growth of Cardano.
- Attract new freelancers/developers from other tech and blockchain industries to Cardano through training platform promotions.
- New developers are more interested in learning and coding thanks to our easy-to-understand and hands-on lessons.
- Help increase the completion rate of projects funded by Catalyst and increase the number of golive products on Cardano.
<u>◆ We also listened to feedback from the Catalyst community to improve the platform</u>
- We are building the Academy on this current beta domain <https://proskills39academy.com/> . However, we will integrate into the freelancers training in our core business Proskills39 Service Marketplace after the project completion. <https://proskills39.com/>
- As we are raising fund through Project castalyst and we already established a Service Market Place platform. https://proskills39.com/
- We will have sustainable revenue streams from the matching fee 10-20% per learning course (from Trainers fee)
- In order to be suitable with Payment gateways, we have offer both payments:
- Cardano -based wallet transactions (In the future, after integrating into proskills39.com)
- and Pay Pal for market which are not legally viable for cryptocurrency transation