Cardano and Impact
Impact is a key element of the Cardano philosophy. The first sentence at Cardano.org is “making the world work better for all” and you can see this line in practically every video of Mr. Charles Hoskinson as well as many of the Cardano ecosystem activities.
Following fund 6 we have conducted the research matching Catalyst proposals with SDGs and the results were very promising. This research showed that 27.5% of the funded proposals directly connect to impact the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs) and 68.5% indirectly connect to impact the SDGs. This is not a surprise as blockchain technology has the potential to have an impact on financial inclusion, governance, education, and other areas which comply with SDGs objectives.
This is a huge opportunity for Cardano to continue to be the leader in philosophy, technology, and initiatives that support the growing number of government initiatives, investors sentiment, and company projects aiming to “make this world better for all”.
Many purpose driven newcomers are therefore having an interest in Catalyst and Cardano. This proposal will focus on how we can support easy onboarding for those people and build a framework around it that could be shared with other communities as well.
Proposal for this challenge:
Use the Cardano4Climate community, network to the catalyst & Cardano ecosystem, and projects in order to build a model for onboarding new members through a catalyst active community.
The solution will includes:
Cardano4Climate is already welcoming newcomers and contributing to the onboarding process through our media channel, info sharing and meetups.:
- Preparing educational materials of why Cardano - the work already started with a dedicate telegram (C4C Education Collaboration) and a dedicated discord channels (<https://discordapp.com/channels/886330927628820522/941068294625054850>) both in collaboration with communities teams from WADA (www.wada.org), SustainableADA (www.sustainableada.com), and Climate Neutral Cardano (www.climateneutralcardano.org).
- Dedicated meetups and breakout rooms for purpose driven newcomers sessions for example after town hall, Cardano4climate weekly meetup and other community meetups
- Internal marketing - reach out to the community with information about the service to direct impact related initiative to Cardano4Climate so we could support with the onboarding
- Use of media channel to reach out to a greater audience
Build the model for newcomers (main work for this proposal):
A 3 month process to collect information
- New members survey: Conduct a survey with a minimum of 50 newcomers about their motivation and onboarding process. Understand how they got to Cardano, Catalyst and Cardano4Climate. Understand also their areas of interest and availability to dedicate to the ecosystem
- Record weekly engagement touching points with the Cardano4Climate and catalyst community of newcomers
- A monthly follow up survey
- A monthly meetup to discuss newcomers engagement
Model development
- Based on the information collected we will develop a model to onboard newcomers and evaluate what are the activities and interactions that helped to develop a successful onboarding process
- Define a successful onboarding process
- Test assumptions on a monthly basis
How might we make it easy and fast for dApps and other projects to expand or completely move from Ethereum to Cardano?
By providing moderation, facilitation, coordination, knowledge sharing and guidelines through an active community will facilitate the interest and onboarding of new projects.
Why is it important? Many projects are stuck on EVM-based blockchains like Ethereum and are looking for an escape. Cardano can be faster and cheaper to use.
Knowledge sharing and guidance is important to achieve it.
Risk: The external community may not see how Cardano can help impact initiatives better than other block chains
Mitigation: We will undertake extensive educational opportunities to gather the evidence of Cardano’s energy efficiency, strengths in traceability and transparency, and use this material to educate the external community.
Risk: The growth of the community can outstrip our ability to successfully facilitate
Mitigation: We will train and on-board more people that are able to do community management and meeting facilitation. We will seek to train within our existing community first, and hope to draw more qualified people from other blockchain communities as well to fill these roles.
Risk: There are many industry sectors that are related to climate change, and we risk being ineffective by being spread too thin.
Mitigation: we will develop educational materials and focus on key areas of expertise
Risk: ineffective onboarding and connection to the right community channels
Mitigation: continue to promote coordination and sync within the community, Cardano projects IOG and CF
Risk: some of the Cardano tech tool are less mature than Etherium
Mitigation: we will guide newcomers through available solutions and coordinate with IOG tech teams