Please describe your proposed solution.
PROBLEM:
Part of the SDG goals is no poverty, decent work and economic growth, and reduced inequalities. With 85% of Africans living on less than $5 a day according to the world bank, we can say that Africa is far from the realization of these goals.
CONTEXT
While many laudable approaches are being employed to solve this problem, for us we identify the need for more Africans to have access to decent work as a precursor to solving this problem. But unfortunately, many people from our African background lack the in-demand skills, and requisite experience, and technical know-how needed by global startups and companies.
APPROACH
So we will be building a job shadowing platform powered by the Cardano blockchain. Through this platform these talents from our background get to shadow for startups for a period of time where they garner requisite knowledge and experience which will go into their CV, they receive payments and receive authentication and recommendations from these reputable startups which goes into our blockchain and can be used to validate their working experience and competence by future hirers.
The platform is solely agnostic to your educational background but on your skills and willingness to shadow for a startup. It is also agnostic to your country of nationality but solely on your passion and job ethics, and the platform is only for remote jobs only.
IMPLEMENTATION:
A block diagram showing how this will be implemented can be seen below
We can see from the image above, the Startup and the talent have different interfaces on the job shadowing platform, identifying the different needs that both have, and underneath we can see that all of it is built on the cardano blockchain. In our image above we can see two talents whao are shadowing for a startup, and they are able to receive feedbacks, certification, ratings and payment from the startup. The feedback, certifications and node remain in the chain, and become digital identities that future employees can hire them based on.
IMPACT
The impact of this solution is multifaceted with impact on many persons and groups but primarily the beneficiary is on the African who will be using our solution. Our target is to onboard and connect 10,000 persons from Africa in the next 6 months after launch to shadow jobs, those 10,000 persons are infact the primary beneficiary.
The second beneficiary is the Cardano community, from our block diagram we can see that everything is done on the cardano blockchain, this means that everyone onboarded on our platform has indirectly onboarded to a Cardano utility solution. Both the talents and the startups onboarded. Moreover all payments are made through cardano, because this is the most Africa centric payment solution, therefore a potential of 10,000 new persons will be added to using of cardano blockchain and up to a million in the next 5 years.
And lastly the Remostart team, we will benefit from market validation and will also gather much experience building this as well.
Please describe how your proposed solution will address the Challenge that you have submitted it in.
Our solution is directly addressing the challenge question which says
How do we prepare Africa for a future of wide-scale Cardano adoption? How do we continue to seed and grow adoption in 2022 and beyond?
Obviously to drive mass adoption and continuous adoption of Cardano in Africa in 2022 and beyond we need to see more use cases that will drive adoption, these use cases must solve real problems that affect the people. This is exactly what we are achieving with our solution by creating a utility through Cardano that answers to a fundamental problem of poverty, decent work, and inequality, and by ensuring that every account on the platform is automatically opened on the Cardano blockchain. In the first 6 months of the launch of this project, we are estimating to impact about 10,000 Africans and in the long run 1000000 Africans. This aligns clearly with the challenge of Cardano adoption and growth beyond 2022.
What are the main risks that could prevent you from delivering the project successfully and please explain how you will mitigate each risk?
The following are some risks that can affect this project
Risk1: Technical: As with most development some unforeseen errors are very prone to occur which can affect the development
Solution:Deploy an agile project management method, and deploy real-time testing to minimize such errors, while working with competent cardano developers with experience in project of likely similar magnitude.
Risk2: Language: Africa is multilingual and our platform is primarily in English this can disenfranchise the inclusion of persons from other countries.
Solution: We will start with English, run the first pilot with only English countries and take the relevant lessons. Then build on the lessons and include French, Portuguese and other languages translation web pages of the platform for subsequent pilots.
Risk3: Coverage: How do we reach all of our Africa with this solution as wide and diverse as Africa is?
Solution: Instead of conventional marketing approach, we will use grassroots approach, by using community platforms to spread awareness of our solution.