Treasury Proposal: Polkadot Africa Community Growth (West and East Africa regions)

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10d ago

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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 representing 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

Educational sessions.
Community engagement and management.
Ecosystem representation.
Developer outreach and support.
Encourage the building of Polkadot native apps and integrations.
Providing guides on utilising Polkadot native apps and products in the ecosystem.
Recruit mentors to help out and onboard new community members.

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.

Icebreaker events (Phase 1)
Rust community activations (Phase 2)
Developer workshops (Phase 3)
Community meetups (Phase 4)

The team

Bekka - Developer relations lead West and East Africa
Kratist0s - Operations lead East Africa
Sanchez - Content creation and community manager
Victor - Business developer lead West Africa.

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. The full proposal is here.

Team Compensation - $47,520
Events (sourced from EB) - $39,000
Utilities - $30,960
Transport (IRL events)- $11,400
Marketing - $3,000

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.

Nigeria
Kenya
Ghana
Uganda

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

Request

92,880USDT

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94.6%Aye

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≈25.66MDOT

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Support(0.30%)

≈4.55MDOT

Issuance

≈1.52BDOT

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1haH...VPbf

It seems like the current fund allocation is more focused on compensating the proposed contributors rather than addressing core needs like hosting events or promoting Polkadot at scale. To make a real impact, a $3000 marketing budget won't go far (or move the needle whatsoever if we are being honest). For proposals like this to be taken seriously, it would be helpful to see more specific, actionable strategies and clear plans for how funds will be used effectively. You literally have a line item titled "Marketing budget" and no explanation as to what that is going to include...

1vYC...1Xyt

Hi Flez,

1. It seems like the current fund allocation is more focused on compensating the proposed contributors rather than addressing core needs like hosting events or promoting Polkadot at scale.

The breakdown as shown below shows 36% of the total budget will go to contributors who will be working on dedicated roles and a number of responsibilities as elaborated in the proposal and on top of that we shall also be hosting events and working to grow the Polkadot community in 4 major tech countries in Africa within their major cities without requesting additional organizer rewards.
This budget and compensation is really lean and based on individual skills and capabilities, we tried our best to be sincere to have a compensation which will majorly assist in ensuring dedication and fair reward.

2. To make a real impact, a $3000 marketing budget won't go far (or move the needle whatsoever if we are being honest). For proposals like this to be taken seriously, it would be helpful to see more specific, actionable strategies and clear plans for how funds will be used effectively.

Please note that all our Events will be under Events Bounty guidance and will be subject to their approval.
Any meet-up as stipulated by Events Bounty has a dedicated marketing budget of $300 which when needed shall be utilised this why we have not included extra marketing budget for events and so rest assured that yes the events will be have a marketing budget!

Also note that as Marketing Bounty has already been set-up shall the need arise for a bigger marketing need, we shall approach the bounty with our request to have their guidance and experts assist us.

3. You literally have a line item titled "Marketing budget" and no explanation as to what that is going to include..

On your last point indeed we have $3000 budget for marketing but as mentioned in the proposal under Budget caps and restrictions its meant to be for fliers and posters we will need to serve all agents who will be doing various activies such as online sessions, spaces, meet-ups etc(please see below)

Thank you for taking time to participate in our referendum please let us know if we need to make more clarifications as we would appreciate your support.