• Burkina Faso - Laurentine
• Cameroon - Megan
• Côte d’Ivoire - Malik
• DRC: Goma - Boaz
• DRC: Kinshasa - Dan
• Ghana: Accra - Afia
• Ghana: Nalerigu - Jeremiah
• Senegal - Bineta
• Sierra Leone - Ron

Wada Hub

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Hub Location: Bobo-Dioulasso, Burkina Faso

Inkuba, a Wada Hub

Specialization: English Language

Mission: Produce and deploy game changers for Africa

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Vision: We believe that by breaking language and technology barriers, we can unlock the vast potential of French Africa’s youth, and enable them to shape a brighter future for their communities, their nations, and the world.

Business Model

• Current revenue sources:
• Language services (French/ English)
• Translation services
• English language courses
• Digital marketing
• Web design
• Planting Roots in Africa funds
• Future revenue:
• Continue and expand current services
• Future funding opportunities

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Resources

What’s next?

• Seek funding to boost ICM Courses

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• Get accreditation from the Ministry of Education

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• Launch a training center in Ouagadougou

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Disruptive IT Cameroon (DITC), a Wada Cameroon Hub

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Location: Douala, Cameroon

Specialization: Agriculture and Culture

Mission: To provide IT solutions incorporating web 3 technology for applications with a focus in agriculture and cultural preservation.

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Vision: Make blockchain solutions useable for businesses in Cameroon.

Business Model (revenue sources)

• DITC (IT services)
• Current:
• Catalyst funded projects
• Future:
• Seek new projects/consulting
• Paid Programming Training programs
• Next phase of our own projects that will generate revenue
• CosTel Farm
• Current: Income from crop sales, Farm boutique
• Future: ex) NFT Sales from NFTrees

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• Partnerships
• Ufulu PanAfrican Library
• Current: Paid clubs/workshops with youth; Library membership fee for library services; Fundraising/sponsorship for monthly events
• Future: Mentalyse and NF-Art platform income

Resources

What’s next?

• Assign DITC trainer to each Wada Hub as developer mentor

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• Launch NFTrees to support both farm and IT

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• Seek funding to boost agriculture activities

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Location: Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo

Wada Goma Hub

Business Model

• Current revenue
• Public secretariat
• Catalyst funded projects

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• Future revenue
• Agriculture
• Nftree sales (From Mtidano funded by Project catalyst) Other projects

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• Partnership
• ISDR/gl : Physical host

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Specialization: Agriculture and Environment

Mission: To use technology for social and environmental good to create opportunities for individuals to learn and innovate.

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Vision: To be the technology leader of the city of Goma by promoting the environment, agriculture and education for the well-being of local communities.

Resources

What’s next?

• Launch NFTree sales

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• Launch Agriculture project

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• Seek funding to boost the hub’s activities

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Location: Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo

Uptodate Developers,

a Wada Hub

Specialization: Software Solutions

Mission:

Our mission is to design and implement digital tools and resources, especially software, to enable automatic performing of certain tedious tasks, but in a more extensive and remarkable way, to provide effective solutions to some given problems that our community faces, using technology.

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Vision:

We are looking forward to building the largest community of developers in Africa, a community of people willing to get the continent to live up to the era and the standard of technology. Our ideal, as implied in our logo, is to be the light that leads the community to brighter future with technology.

Business Model

• Current revenue:

Our services :

• Software development
• Graphic Design
• IT consultancy
• Webmaster service
• Digital Marketing
• Promotion of ICT

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• Future revenue :
• Development of applications that integrate the Cardano Blockchain

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Resources

What’s next?

• Creating a Stake pool to support Cardano integration in Africa

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Location: Westlands Avenue. Accra, Ghana

Ghana Accra Hub,

Rebranding

(Blockchain Information Center)

Specialization:

Mission: To build an informed ecosystem for a sustainable future, to help people especially the youth to work better together, trust one another, and build global solutions to global problems

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Vision: A world in which any person can realise their full potential, regardless of where they found themselves

Business Model

• Current revenue sources
• Various Project Catalyst funded projects
• Future revenue
• Project funding
• Consultation
• Training
• Hosting events
• Explore NFTs

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Resources

What’s next?

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• Seek more projects to boost the hub’s activities

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• Implement a regular blockchain learning program

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• Explore New Opportunities, New Relationships and New Potential (giving voice to the voiceless)

- Might look at stake pooling for community growth

- Multiply land use system

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Center For Technology Education And Innovation Lab- CTEIL (NALERIGU HUB)

Nalerigu, Ghana

Specialization:

Mission:

To be a leading IT and business hub in the region, recognized for our commitment to fostering entrepreneurship, innovation, digital skills training and collaboration among community.

Vision:

To become a world class, impactful and innovative IT center that influences lives, societies in Ghana and beyond.

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Business Model

• Current revenue sources
• Personal financing
• Proceeds from printing services & multimedia works
• Support from Nurturing roots
• Future revenue
• Seeking new projects, partnerships and sponsorships
• Fees charged from IT training sessions

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Resources

What’s next?

• Seek more projects, support and collaborations to boost the hub’s activities

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• Acquire few computers for training, a large format printer and an AC for the space.

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• Regularize blockchain training programs in the hub

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Hub Location: Senegal

TECH-E a Wada Senegal Hub

Specialization:

Mission:

Anticiper la formation des jeunes sur les nouvelles technologies.

Anticipate the training of young people on new technologies.

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Vision:

Faire de l’Afrique la nouvelle eldorado des NTICs

To make Africa the new Eldorado of ICT.

Business Model

• Current revenue sources
• Nurturing Roots
• Tezos Foundation
• Future revenue
• Parteners
• Sponsors

Resources

What’s next?

• Continue activities with youth

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Hub Location: Sierra Leone

Kuseo, a Wada Sierra Leone Hub

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Specialization: Agriculture, Tourism

Mission:

To use technology to empower, educate and drive change.

Return to basics - lets us learn to fish again!

Vision:

Education is key. Teach them tech - it’s the(ir) future!

Be vocational focussed - what does the country need?

We start from a low base. Set up pilots in agriculture

Background Material about Sierra Leone:

https://time.com/6261863/freetown-peninsula-sierra-leone/�https://www.standard.co.uk/escapist/freetown-sierra-leone-travel-west-africa-b1075657.html

Business Model

• Current revenue sources
• School
• Funded mainly by volunteers
• Some corporate, charitable organisations
• Farm
• Entirely by me (Ron)
• Future revenue
• School
• Will remain the same. But with a new budget to introduce IT
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• Farm
• Crop sales
• Rice
• Peanuts
• Beans
• Other crops

Resources

What’s next?

• 2 Projects:�1. Educational
• Intro IT into the curriculum

2. Agricultural

• Pilot small sustainable farms
• Quick turnaround in yield
• Rollout gradually
• Teaching to fish! No slash burn!

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