October 1 – November 1: Enrollment Process – Entering the Action Learning Journey

This stage of the Cardano Africa Tech Summit journey is dedicated to enrolling and activating the core participants who will carry the work forward through the upcoming regional hackathons. It marks a transition from orientation and inspiration to structured participation, establishing the foundation for a decentralized, multi-site Action Learning Process that will unfold across Africa in the months leading up to the February summit.

The primary purpose of this phase is to onboard both Hub Leaders and Participants into a collaborative, regenerative learning and building journey. The process emphasizes capacity-building, contextual awareness, and alignment around shared tools, methods, and values. At its heart, this stage is not only about logistics—it is about co-creating a network of practitioners who are rooted in local realities and equipped to translate those realities into relevant, high-impact solutions using Cardano’s infrastructure.

Enrollment will be facilitated through three to four live calls, organized to meet demand and accommodate different participant roles. Two parallel tracks will guide the onboarding: one for Hub Leaders, who will be trained to facilitate and support local hackathons (“train the trainers”), and another for Participants, who will form the development teams. Each track is designed to reflect its audience’s needs, offering tailored tools, frameworks, and expectations that will support effective participation in the upcoming six-week online hackathons.

During these sessions, the facilitation team (led by Prisma) will guide participants through a structured process of identifying local problems through regenerative design practices. Each participant is invited to begin with place-based inquiry: What in your context is calling for transformation? What capacity exists within your community to respond?

These local insights will serve as the foundation for the development of services, tools, or applications using the Cardano stack. The Cardano skills training that follows in the hackathon phase will be directly tied to these problem statements, ensuring that technical learning is grounded in meaningful, locally relevant use cases. This tight integration between context and technology is essential for activating real-world utility—and for sustaining momentum beyond the summit.

As part of the enrollment, all Hub Leaders and Participants will also be onboarded into a shared digital infrastructure that will allow for tracking, documentation, and public storytelling of the work as it evolves. By using a common stack of tools, participants will be equipped not only to build but also to document and publish their journey and outcomes—culminating in a shared “publishing stack” at the end of the hackathon period.

This enrollment stage is a bridge between vision and action. It activates the distributed capacity of the network and gives each participant a meaningful starting point. It also sets the tone for accountability and collective growth. The emphasis on local leadership, regenerative framing, and open collaboration ensures that the hackathons will not be isolated events, but instead become a continental learning journey toward systemic innovation and impact.