TLDR: Create a collaborative strategy for Africa aligning different stakeholders and the community to drive awareness, adoption and growth.
Introduction
In emerging markets, blockchain technology is essential and a chance to leapfrog several difficulties. Africa is one of the places where Web3 can fulfil its full adoption potential where people use the technology for daily things like remittance and cross-border payments.
Motivation
Polkadot has limited engagement and few project developments in Africa compared to newer platforms like Ethereum L2s, Solana, Avax, ICP Network etc
Mission
This proposal aims to build a supportive community of agents who would represent Polkadot in Africa. There are so many pieces to the puzzle when growing a diverse community. For instance, we would want developers and content creators. How do we achieve this?
Solutions
Plan
There would be different phases of development for this 6-month strategy. Please note that these 2 different phases could run in parallel too.
The team
We are also the team behind the Polkadot Africa X account and collectively we've assisted to highlight activities by different community members as well as contribute in various capacities towards bringing Polkadot community together online and IRL.
Requested amount: $92,880
Duration: (Jan - Jun 2025)
We would focus on setting up the foundations for the rest of the year and carry out initiatives properly next year.
Total (after EB deduction) = $92,880
Regions/Key countries
Our initiatives would be mostly carried out in these countries, we selected 2 countries from West and East African regions.
Limitations
While our IRL activities will start with West and East Africa regions in select key cities, we still have a broader view to reach out to North and South African regions, support them online and create a website and discord community that caters to all community members from Africa
Conclusion
We have written a proposal highlighting our reasoning for the strategies we will be taking to embark on this mission. We are inviting the community to review our proposal and provide feedback. Please read the full proposal HERE.