Ocean South Africa - Revised

OceanDAO Round 15
#1

Part 1 - Proposal Submission

We would like to thank everyone who advised us on changes to our proposal. We hope this is a translation of all the learnings.

Name of Project:
Ocean South Africa

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Proposal in one sentence:

Community of Data Scientists, Software Engineers, and Enthusiasts with a shared mission to raise awareness, and contribute to Ocean Protocol to scale the Web 3 Data-Economy to South Africa.

Description of the project and what problem is it solving:

Because of our unique history, South Africa has the highest income inequality in the world. Simply, the rich are too rich, and the poor are too poor. We have an unemployment rate of more than 30%, and an even worse youth unemployment rate of more than 50%. By contributing and building on top of Ocean Protocol, we believe young talent, startups, and SME’s can discover new income and revenue streams to chart a new path for themselves.

Grant Deliverables:

Community on-boarding

    • On-board 4+ new data scientists and software engineers
    • On-board 7+ new active Ocean Ambassadors

Community knowledge sharing

    • 3 weekly calls to educate the community in addition to Ocean Academy resources.
    • 2 Sprints to facilitate ideation.

Awareness

Which category best describes your project?

  • [X] Outreach / community / spread awareness

What is the final product?

    • An active self-sustaining Ocean community.

**Which one or more of the criteria will your project focus on? Why do you believe your team will do well on those criteria? **

  1. Usage of Ocean:

After this phase has concluded, we would have added new members, and active Ocean Ambassadors who are ecosystem participants. This can subsequently lead to an increase in # of Active Users.
We are poised to achieve this because of our advantage of operating in arguably Africa’s most innovative region - Cape Town (dubbed Silicon Cape). And crypto adoption and development is relatively higher.

  1. Community active-ness:

Since we are a community comprised mostly of technical people, we are actively using Ocean SDK’s and gaining experience and orientation. This will lead to new projects and contributions to projects like Ocean Missions, Algovera, etc.

3.Adding value to the overall community:

As we continue driving our message and mission; more talent, and on-lookers will notice. This will be a self-fulfilling prophecy as it would keep feeding into the chances of success of the first criterion, which is Usage of Ocean. When we do our job right, the loop restarts.

Funding Requested:

3000

Proposal Wallet Address:

0xaF768E4fBf309B4d68A96B327A9708b36C6577D8

Have you previously received an OceanDAO Grant? N

Team Website:

Twitter Handle:

@oceanprotocolZA

Project Lead email:

bhalisasodo@gmail.com

Country of Residence:

Republic of South Africa

Part 2 - Team

2.1 Core Team

Bhalisa Sodo

Lwando Siyo

  • Role: On-boarding
  • Background/Experience:
    • LLB, University of Johannesburg

2.2 Advisors

Robin Lehmann

Dr. Prakash Kamaraj

  • Relevant Credentials:
  • Background/Experience:
    • Co-founding member of Deep Medicine Labs, a HealthTech solutions in the AI space
    • Led a project submission at Solana India hackathon
    • Ocean Ambassador community; outreach ship
    • Project Lead at Ocean Protocol India

Part 3 - Proposal Details

3.1 Details

South Africa as an innovation hub has tremendous potential to see our mission through because of our ever-growing innovation ecosystems in Western Cape and Gauteng. We are home to a one of its kind Data Science institutions, Explore Data Science Academy, which produces world-class Data Scientists annually. We intend on the optimal utilisation of these unique networks and ecosystems to further the project’s mandate - which is to incentivise especially young talent to participate in the OP ecosystem.

3.2 “Outreach / community”:

  • Strengthen our core functions for On-board, Educate and Build.

3.3 Community engagement:

The rubber has already touched the concrete through our 2 main engagement outlets; Twitter and Medium.

What is the team’s future plans and intentions?

Build and ship products and services on top of Ocean Protocol.

#2

Thank you @Bhalisa for your proposal, it has now been registered for R15.