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Expand Up @@ -4,44 +4,64 @@ _This is a guideline on how to best structure your proposal._
## Project Overview

### Project name
> Name of your project
> Shamba Dynamic
### Team members
> Name your team members
> Kennedy Nganga, Samuel Wanjohi, Steve Firsake, Hezron Seya, Mohammed Ajuang
### What project are you building
> Short summary/abstract of your project
> We are building a geospatial data oracle to power smart contracts in agriculture and the natural environment
### Why did you decide to build it
> Short summary of your motivation
> We decided to build this solution due to the lack of data of this kind in the current oracle networks
### How long will it take
> Estimation of how long you will need to finalize the project
> It will take us 6 months to build out the entire solution
### How much funding are you requesting
> How much money do will you need to finalize the project
> $6000 USD
### How did you hear about the GECO
> Website, Twitter, Conference and others
> Gnosis Website

## Your Proposal
### Project description
_Outline a detailed description of your project, why you chose to build this project, the overall goal and future outlook of your project and why we should fund you._
Shamba Dynamic aims to become a premier provider of agricultural data for smart contracts and the DeFi ecosystem. Our goal is to make available high quality data on the weather, crops and the natural environment. Most of this data is off-chain and is typically in geospatial format, an area where we are specialized in. Within the larger DeFi ecosystem, we come in as a data oracle focused on providing data related to agriculture and the natural environment. Many of these datasets hold the potential to lead to innovations in the field of DeFi applications once they are made available to developers.
Shamba Dynamic is coming in at the data layer, where our role is to make available geospatial data produced by different organizations and experts, to various blockchain platforms. To do this we shall be running oracle nodes as part of a decentralized oracle network such as Chainlink. Our aim is to become a premier global supplier of agricultural and natural environment data for all kinds of smart contracts.
Our project is underpinned by building a data economy through partnerships with various parties. On the data sourcing end, we will build partnerships with a wide array of data producers, ensuring alignment to core values of data accuracy and reliability. On the data consumption end, we will build partnerships with smart contract developers with a view of understanding the type of data they need so we can supply it.
The key problem we hope to address is the lack of quality data options for agriculture related solutions in decentralized finance. The status quo has only a few data providers and limited options in the quality and variety of data available to dapp developers. We believe this limitation restricts innovation in the nascent DeFi industry and this is particularly serious for agriculture related solutions.
Our work will empower the wider DeFi ecosystem by availing specialized geospatial data to power new solutions. We expect our service to directly benefit decentralized oracles such as Chainlink by increasing the number of data feed oracles they offer, dapp developers on platforms such as Etherisc who will get new data to build new products, as well as off-chain data producers who will get a solution to getting their data on-chain. Indirectly we expect to benefit millions of farmers who will get access to new risk management products courtesy of our contribution to the DeFi ecosystem.

### Features
_How do you plan to implement your project, which tools and framework will you use? Optional: Architecture, Mockups, etc._
We will be implementing our solution on the Ethereum platform, creating data oracles on Chainlink, and serving dapps developed for platforms such as Etherisc, Vulcan and Gnosis.
In particular we want to provide data that drive smart contracts dealing with prediction markets in agriculture. Other areas are crop insurance and derivatives.
### Team description
_Who are your team members, what is your background and what you built before._
Kennedy Nganga – Founder and CEO
Kennedy has an engineering background and has worked as a researcher, analyst and developer for over 8 years. His domain has historically been in agriculture where he has worked across a dozen countries in Africa, using geospatial information to empower smallholder farmers. He has worked with several multinational firms including CIAT-CGIAR. He has a long running interest in blockchain technologies and is particularly passionate about DeFi and how it can be applied to agriculture.
Samuel Wanjohi - CTO
Samuel is a full stack web developer specializing in geospatial technology. He has held several leadership roles in software development projects for high profile organizations across Africa. He is also well versed in blockchain-based solutions and has helped organizations in implementation projects.
Steve Firsake - Senior GIS Developer
Steve is a senior software developer specializing in developing geospatial information systems and mobile applications. He has worked with various multinational research centers on high profile Earth observation projects including the NASA-backed SERVIR project.
Hezron Seya – Senior Geospatial Analyst
Hezron is a geospatial data wizard, specializing in extracting valuable insights from big data. He has worked with a number of organizations in the geospatial space in Kenya, including WRA which is the agency mandated to manage water resources across Kenya. He has over 8 years’ experience working with geospatial.
Mohamed Ajuang – Senior Geospatial Analyst
Mohamed is a geospatial analyst with experience working on projects from across Africa. He has worked with international private research conglomerates such as the Dalberg Research Group, producing information to inform high level decisions.

### Timeline, Milestones and Deliverables
_Detailed description of your timeline milestones and the corresponding payouts_

**Phase I** _Outline the different phases_
**Phase I** Building data pipeline for sourcing the data from different providers

**Deliverables** Data infrastructure for sourcing data from data creators

**Time and Price Estimate** This will take 2 months and cost $2000 US

**Deliverables** _What features will be implemented_
**Phase II** Building automated data validation and verification tools

**Time and Price Estimate** _How long will it take and what is the estimated price_
**Deliverables** Tools for checking incoming data for quality and reliability

**Phase II** _Outline the different phases_
**Time and Price Estimate** 2 months and cost $2000 US

**Deliverables** _What features will be implemented_
**Phase III** Setting up oracle nodes on decentralized oracles

**Time and Price Estimate** _How long will it take and what is the estimated price_
**Deliverables** Nodes on decentralized oracles

**Phase III** _..._
**Time and Price Estimate** 2 months and cost $2000 US


### Others
Anything else you want to share with us
Our website is https://shambadynamic.com