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10N giveaway - NEAR Africa DAO
Recorded: Nov. 21, 2023 Duration: 1:21:09Space Recording
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grab your um your your snacks or your popcorn and let's go let's dive in today
mr igose are you ready for our community space can we start now
yeah sure i'm ready i'm ready all right is there anyone or anybody in your community that also
wants to speak today uh yeah um sami is here and he's a council member with the dao uh it would be
great sami if you could request the mic um he'll be joining on the space and uh bakaka will be
joining us shortly okay okay you can tell them to request to speak so i can invite them
yeah sami i know you can hear me just uh request the mic please buddy
wow you won't believe that so many people are excited to hear from you guys today
wow this is amazing all right um before we dive in proper to today's ehimni um can you tell us about
yourself can you give us a brief introduction about yourself and rc dao how do you come about
rc dao uh okay hello everyone my name is igose israel and uh i'm one of the council members
and the point of contact for near africa community dao and uh i have been in the near ecosystem
um since uh early 2021 and uh i have been a community builder i have spent four years in
blockchain uh presently i am co-founder and ceo of mental maze it's a decentralized puzzle game protocol
uh built on aurora and um with uh near africa community dao uh what we are looking at for the dao
is to see how we as african leaders uh in the web3 space that are being in near ecosystem can
uh self-organize to see how we can grow uh near in africa with the best practices in helping us to
bring up builders and uh uh bringing up like startups from africa that will leverage on the technology that we
have in europe wow that's fantastic i really love that having african in mind to build african through
blockchain that's interesting mr sam is here hello mr sam how are you can we hear from you
hello mr sam are you there oh good evening hello
yes um i'm samuel
nice to meet you all all right nice to meet you too do you like do you like us to know more about
you beyond your name can you tell more about you um yes um samuel um he graduates like a computer um
graduate in mechanical engineering so i've been in the ecosystem for wow that's great so you're a
mechanical engineer yeah that's fantastic all right um mr idose i don't know if i'm pronouncing your name
right i'm sorry good let's write on okay thank you so now uh for like some days now i've been hearing
about rc dial rc dial like i was actually wondering that what is the motivation behind this rc dial though
you told us about um your mission earlier but what's like what's the motivation behind the name rc dial
uh okay uh so rc dial is actually uh the structure that guides uh regional communities in near ecosystem
and uh rc is just regional communities down that's the full meaning of what it means however uh on this
space we are not uh talking uh particularly about the rc dial entirely uh we are focusing on regional
communities from africa so uh just uh to uh make it clear for the audience to understand uh on the
space we are talking about uh regional communities in africa that is near africa community uh down not
the rc dial generally uh so that's uh i believe uh that's clear and then we can proceed
all right yeah that's clear thank you for that um can you tell us about your team member and your growth
so far in this project okay so with uh near uh africa communities now what we are looking at is uh
presently we have about uh 10 to 12 standing communities from africa uh that are already
functional in the near ecosystem so basically uh what we are doing is uh bringing all these
community leaders together from uh their various ideologies and uh the uh the individual ideas that
they have had for a long time so coming together for us to build like one functional idea that can
actually best grow uh near uh in african region uh because we we can see that uh other ecosystems have
like a good growth and a good traction from africa like having startups from africa on their chain we
we can cite example with acelo and we can cite example uh also binance with uh the bs uh chain where
we have like african view that's doing great stuff there uh so we we want to like take a trajectory
to see that the leaders that are already from africa in the ecosystem come together and then we also go
out there to see how we can onboard uh builders uh or startup founders from other uh african countries to see
that uh we really uh sell near the idea and the technology of near to them to see that we really
have products on near that are profitable to africans that they can use and uh enjoy
wow this is interesting i love the concept behind this okay um moving on i want to
urge the audience that you should follow rc dial on their socials follow their twitter page
and um mr igbo said do you have telegram community that they can follow too
okay so uh what we have now is not like the dow has like like doesn't have like one singular uh
community however we have a telegram group where all leaders from africa uh can like uh are in right
there whereby we are sharing ideas we brainstorm uh yes so uh if you are looking for that kind of a group
we have one however each of these leaders like have their individual uh uh telegram communities
whereby they serve they organize their communities together for example uh we have npk guild from
nigeria we have near hausa and we have tne society we have near health uh we have like a couple of
communities that we are coming together to become a single dow to see that we grow in the best direction yeah
that that's wow wow this is fantastic okay to all listening here you know this is the time for you
to utilize your idea probably you have been thinking of one idea and you don't know how to go about it
rc dial is there for you you can follow them on your twitter and also you can share your idea and i'm
very sure if they listen to you they will be able to um introduce you to some things all right um please
follow them join um near chill and chill telegram community and also follow wax um twitter account
thank you um going through some of the um the mission i want to ask that uh how does rc dial plan to
overcome potential challenges unique to the african context and also ideology so as to foster the the
project like how do you plan to overcome all the potential challenges that might all that have come
your way thank you okay uh so i i have been building communities uh in the web3 space uh for a couple of
years now about three years and one basic challenge that i have experienced as a person is uh the
education gap uh getting to newbies the education and then the second challenge is the difficulty in
getting the real product that you can actually uh like you can seamlessly or let me say easily
uh onboard newbies onto so like there are a couple of products good products that are like uh on on
different chains or on near however like a typical african barely has what they can do with these kinds of
products so like these are some of the challenges and our strategy like i said earlier our strategy in
building this is we are able to segment the dial uh into uh like different groups uh for example
communities that are best in education communities that are best in uh bringing up developers and then
communities that are best in marketing communities that are best in uh onboarding activities so what we
want to do is to see how we can uh like for every strength that uh these different communities have
bring them together and see that they they keep pushing the education aspect of near uh blockchain and
near and uh to africans and then we see that we we grow developers like we teach developers how to build on
our boss we teach them how to go about like smart contract building uh on near and with like these two
trajectories or these two mediums we see that we are we are able to solve like these two basic challenges
that i mentioned earlier because uh it's it's been like a very big problem for example uh you you like
it's easier for so many asians uh to actually jump in on near and use a couple of products because they
can easily find what they relate to from their region because it is those from their region that have
built those things if if as an african i am building a product i have the african mentality in my head
so i am able to build it in such a way that it offers solutions to africans more and then it's
easier for an african to use so uh this basic these two basic challenges are the things that we are
focusing on and we we definitely believe that with the experience of all the community leaders that
have come together seeing that uh we bring up this dow as hoping that the house of merits is going to
approve of this dow uh we see that we can actually like get to uh a good uh good uh growth um
trajectory there i i think uh sammy can be able to like jump in and share a few words about this also
all right thank you mr sammy we want to hear from you
um good evening from my end um hello mr sam are you there can you hear me probably serving twitter glitches
um hello hello yeah sammy i can hear you uh amber i think the challenge could be from you from me right
oh wow um so if you guys can hear me can you can it like can you speak again because i cannot hear him
um i can only hear you i'm sorry who else can hear me or maybe i can jump off and maybe come in again
mr iguze can you hear him yeah sure i can hear him like loud and clear
okay please if you can hear mr sam can you signify by by your emojis
um so i think the issues might be from your side so
sorry am i can you hear me yeah sure sammy i can hear you loud and clear um so the the purpose for
having um the regional communities have their own like foundation is because definitely we all
as regional communities understand ourselves from the from our points of where we are coming from
like the africa understands more on how to promote or how to reach out to more um use it um through
onboarding through educational aspect and through getting more engagement and retaining more accounts
and bringing more um like increasing the community to the near ecosystem um the europe have their own different
strategy some some continent actually need maybe how um you have to understand the strategy in your
community on how to build your community that's a very good understanding because some community need more of the
marketing aspects some need more of just educating them on crypto because some communities are actually
lacking behind in some aspects so just in the form of check and balance we need to work with
um the african dao by understanding the african community better than other um communities
so because if we don't if we we don't understand the community then it will be difficult for
other people not in our region to understand the community so um the purpose for the african dao is to receive
initiatives and proposals that are in align with the council of advisors
KPIs and other main objectives to promote the ecosystem and due to the fact that we are
having new communities willing to grow in different countries in Africa we are willing to educate those
new leaders so they can understand the ecosystem more and reach out to their communities and have
good understanding about the ecosystem and it would be best in that way to propose a good initiative
because only what you understand you can implement and you can make good utility out of it so we would
work on we're going to be working more on hosting workshops to discuss about the ecosystem the
infrastructure and how it can help the community so we use near applications as a very good use case
and utilize on the application and we're going to be working more on building also
we are going to be reaching out to universities hosting events maybe we are going to be targeting
the science students which they are more good in software engineering we are going to be targeting
devs hackathon and also reaching out so we're going to bring builders to the ecosystem so the build on
bus and we're going to be building useful infrastructures that will help the ecosystem and the Africa in a
whole so we can have a tool that we can use for the African region so we're going to be working on
educating the Africans about near reaching out to new communities either through collaboration partnership
and etc so we're going to find different means to onboard and we're going to not just only onboard
we are going to find different strategy and we're going to work on strategies to retain these people keep
them engaged provide build infrastructures that will provide solutions that they can engage in on their daily
activities and work with so this is the idea we have puts as what we are going to do when we are being
funded so we're going to reach out to the African community leaders to educate them and give them
vast understanding and knowledge about the African community so with this we can we can leave the ball
in their hands to reach out to their communities be it Kenya South Africa because only them will understand
best on how to work on their country more better and I think that's the aim of what we're trying to achieve right now
well am I audible yeah oh thank you I cool I was able to hear and Mr Sam thank you for that okay I have a question
I have a question since the idea to onboard more users in Africa you have the idea right okay have you
had any recent program in doing that so far like event to educate Africans about near protocol beats in real life or online and
and um secondly do you have any plan to involve any of your team members in the NDC
election coming six months months do you understand do you understand my question
yeah sure let me take that shortly uh so uh to bring clarity here the uh near Africa community DAO uh it's uh a
DAO that is proposed to the house of merit to uh to consider and uh accept to be part of uh the grassroots DAO
in NBC in this v1 uh so uh going back to the past we have like different communities from Africa uh in the near ecosystem
that have hosted IRL events in the past like have done uh uh events online i myself i have hosted like about three IRL events uh
uh before uh before to onboard users onto near uh in the past uh two years uh and a couple of other leaders
have done the same thing also but as a DAO we are new and have not done uh anything uh in the name of
near Africa community DAO we are hoping uh the vote for the African community DAO is already on by the house of
merit and they are voting and uh uh i yes we are hopeful that uh leaders from Africa can actually
contest in the election coming on in months to come in the past election a couple of us contested i
contested for a seat in the house of merit uh i think sami did also uh but we lost uh but we are hopeful
that uh we really bring like good growth to Africa to see the value comes from Africa onto the near
ecosystem and a good use case like products that solve African problems being built on year with the
great uh tech that we have uh with like some of the recent announcement from near corn seeing how we can
actually leverage on uh this good technology and then we really bring like good use case back home to
Africans uh for them to take advantage of wow that's that's fantastic um that's a great one um mr sam do
you have anything to say to this um yes we have a couple of Africans also for the upcoming election who
definitely would love to participate but since it's still kind of um we um i think it's still kind of far
so right now i believe the future will bring more um more participants for the election so um concerning
real life events i have actually hosted one real life events here in Africa and also one which i
collaborated with but i wasn't able to go but i was at least um making things in place and that one was
holding a um an event with the computer students that i think that was in india i was actually
working behind um assisting and trying to make things work out fine so we're able to onboard computer
science students and they were able to build um three to five components on the blockchain operating system
which we are currently using um while currently working and using it so um i think that's all i can say for events
okay um so that's all i can
okay um so that's all i can say for events but definitely would love to have more events here in Africa which we're working on um and i think um it's a big startup when we have received the funding
um to host events on board more Africans to the ecosystem
introduce them to the ecosystem
let them um understand about the web tree
then before we
make it easier for them to understand how near can make um transactions very simple easy and um
um understandable to use and
and it to see it to see it to see stuff like that
yeah am i audible
yeah sure i can hear you oh i'm so sorry
i don't know maybe i don't know what i did to ellen today
i'm trying to add mr abakaka
okay um let's just move on to our next question actually we'll be
we'll be diving into community question and answer now
but before then let's hear from mr bakaka
hello mr bakaka can you omit your mic
it's your mic
yeah well hello everyone
hello hello
yeah i'm doing great and i do apologize for coming later
taking carrying away by some items here also
and i i'm sure ibazi and sami have said hello regarding
african dao and our approach
toward growth and adaptations of near protocol and yeah
divorce adaptation in our entire region
and i won't say much actually because uh
if ibazi is here i'm very sure that he will cover almost everything but
i will add some of my pipe sense yeah actually
uh one of the key i think characters of africa is a very diverse culture you know
and also in terms of adaptations of the cryptocurrency and the blockchain technology
if you look at some western part of the africa or eastern part of the africa some regions are very
good in you know the crypto adaptations and also some regions are very good in the blockchain
adaptation so there are two misconceptions almost when it's come to web3 space you know there are
difference between the crypto adaptation and also the blockchain adaptations some regions are very
good in buying and selling generating tvl and all these things they're very good in you know
yeah buying the setups doing some trading and all these things some regions are very good in
terms of development building solutions you know that's solving some of our key
local challenges like ibazi mentioning lately i think one of the one of our mission in african dao
is to leverage on these key issues that okay what are the key problems that if we build at the top
of blockchain operating system that solve our immediate problem we are not looking at to solve the global
problem or global issues okay since boss is more of okay our developers are only going to focus on
front-end technology and all this time okay we have a lot of web3 ecosystem actually in nigeria entirely
and also some northern part of africa it's like kind of we have to simplify the narration of the boss
instead of saying blockchain because i came from a technical background when you mentioned blockchain to
the web2 developers there was kind of no no no we are not going to touch all this thing but when we
simplify the narrations especially boss like oh boss is a javascript boss is a react native you know
so if you are good in react native and combination of javascript you will be able to build some very
interactive solutions on bus oh okay let me try and see this is how i onboard more than five to six
developers into the ecosystem that they contributed currently instead of telling them that okay you are
going to use blockchain near protocol no no no okay just interact with the front-end technology
the boss going to take care of the backend you know okay so just in so we have a lot of plan i think
when you go through our charter submitted in the forum that okay like a outreach program i think it's one of the
core value that we wanted to focus on because uh in the entire ecosystem some south african people and
some northern part of africa are not inclusive in the ecosystem although we started to reach out to
them and see how we can collaborate and build a kind of a unstoppable community actually in africa
to see how we can contribute to the growth of the ecosystem but our main focus is like kind of
builders community so like events mentioned by sami is going to be focused on okay it's not just for
you to come and take some replacement and go and maybe no if it is a event that event is going to
focus on okay it's more of a uh developers focus event and all this thing or it's going to be like
okay we build some solutions in our local environment okay if we are to organize even we are going to
organize an event that we will let the community to know that okay this is the solutions that we build
currently that solve some of our problem that we are facing in that local community so i think these
are some of the approaches i'm very sure it was mentioning i just can't let i don't want to repeat
something that most of the yeah advisors and consults mentioning so yeah anything that i would add yeah
well thank you for that i really love um that thank you mr abakaka okay apart from mask onboarding issue
what do you think are the key problem you're facing in africa and what solution do you think
we need to implement to solve our own personal issues i think we need consumer applications whether
it is like let me give you a simple example if you look at africa most of the regions we have some with
two existing consumer applications whether like a booking system whether it is like something like
a delivery system and you know like my company like currently managing a student management system which
we have more than 42 students across nigeria i am still thinking that okay how are we going to leverage
the blockchain operating system or linear protocol where i don't want the schools or the students
and the parents know that they are interacting with blockchain technology but at the technical part
we know that the system the backend is running at the back of blockchain technology so i think what
bring mass adaptations is how are we going to leverage the existing web 2 solutions consumer applications
to convert them into blockchain technology without knowing them that they are interacting with blockchain
technology like uh uh existing solutions currently in their ecosystem like kai chai or kai chai something
that is one solutions you don't even need to know that okay i'm interacting with blockchain technology
parents yeah pay their uh children's school piece you know receiving notifications and doing all these
things for students for school uh for for schools management system they are just recording the student
record and all they don't even need to know that they are interacting with blockchain technology
so i think we have hundreds and thousands of existing solutions consumer applications currently in africa
that they need a support to convert into blockchain technology with this i think we are going to have a massive
adaptation into the ecosystem without spending much actually yeah so these are some of the approaches
and also education is very important because in africa some regions need more of education than building
solutions because if someone has zero knowledge about even the uf2 entirely it's not just about bus or near
protocol so you have to give them education in this particular region so this is the important of this is why
near africa now comes in play if you submit a proposal we have to look into is your regions like we have the idea about
africa entirely i work with google facebook and cellpost all this tech community before i know almost it's not all
but i know almost about how african works in terms of technology and all these things so when you submit a proposal
with our previous experience we have to know that okay it's your regions need more of education or builder
solutions like your regions need to educate yourself about the technology and you submit a proposal that
you wanted to build and boss you know boss applications and all these things the our our key role as
advisor advisor is that mr b we know that your regions based on data your regions need to educate your
people about the technology please can you go and do this and this maybe in the next two to three months
let us see if we can leverage to build some solutions that solve this particular problem in your region
and we know some certain regions also that like rwanda i have been to rwanda i know their ecosystem
in relation to polkadot you know polygon and all they are very doing tremendous job so those regions we
now have to tell them that okay why don't you people build some certain solutions that solve this and
this problem because we know there are abundant developers there that are building solutions so these are
some of the patterns with our previous experience that we are going to use to help a massive growth
in relation to africa i think i've said a lot yeah wow this is mind-blowing this is a great idea to be
sincere like god i really love the way you answer the question accurately thank you so much for that
um sorry guys mr doze went so like he is no more online he's just here he i think he has something
urgent to attend to so mr abakaka and mr fam will be speaking to us and i know you all are actually
enjoying this space this is actually the tip of the iceberg don't worry be sure you wait to the end so
that you will learn more and um see what they have or hear what they have in stock for us um moving
forward uh i don't know mr sam do you have anything to say to this hello mr sam is not there okay let's
continue oh sorry sorry what did you say i didn't i didn't get your question okay i said do you have
anything to say about the onboarding issue and what do you think um the key problem you are facing africa
what solution do you think we can we can implement to solve our own personal issue that's the question
um your first question concerning onboarding um there are different strategies to onboard
um you can i think there are more tech personnel in universities hosting events reaching out even
um using a normal social media engagement and marketing can also work for onboarding also because
i've tried it a couple of times so we would work on communities reaching out to universities
they can even hold a group maybe a little group um if it's like river states university
um near protocol group and just have different techniques and ideas on how to host events in
that university and we can maybe reach out to all universities and um host the program with the um
um with the improvement of the uh maybe the vice council of the university we can reach out host an
event get everything necessary that we need on board them so um hoping um i can see other new
doubts coming up to make um the user's experience on onboarding easier and accessible so um with good
collaboration we can collaborate we can collaborate and make onboarding easier so um with also shadow could
also make onboarding easier so during an event we won't have um maybe difficulties or hindrance while
onboarding so um definitely before onboarding then um maybe during the events we would also educate them
about the digital world um because many people know about the digital world web 3 i know many people
that ask was web 3 was web 3 i've been hearing about web 3 web 2 so i think with that opportunity we'll
have the chance to educate them we can make we can differentiate web 2 from web 3 like web 3 is a very new
advanced um um technology that i think few people know about and we still have more people to reach out to
to educate them about the web 3 then when they have vast knowledge about the web 3 we can tell them
and give them opportunity that okay this is it this is you can work with the near ecosystem this is what
the near ecosystem can offer this is what we have this is our infrastructure you can you can sell you can
buy and sell nft you can swap your token and other investment ideas which they can engage on we can they also
have opportunities to also build that's when we're reaching out to developers and maybe um software
engineers um to build i think it will be more easier for software engineers to build on the blockchain
operating system they can build on um they can build different infrastructures that will be of good
use in the african community holding hackathons to um in popular area in um africa we could hold
hackathon work with influencers get to get very um huge hype um about um the events
get members uh talk about the ecosystem show them about the opportunities they can engage on
the benefits because definitely most people want to get involved when there's a benefit when there's a
good use case and when there's something that would help them too because to be honest with ourselves
nobody wants to get involved with um something that won't be of benefit to them because there are more
opportunities too that um it's kind of like a competition so we have to offer the best um
opportunities to them to engage on so we won't be fair to ourselves or honest to ourselves if we say
we will just talk to people and they will just come up so we have to work on um different opportunities
and different reasons because we need to retain accounts we need to give them um we need to talk to
them educate them show them the new world how they can be profitable in web 3 the new digital economy system
and all and definitely we all hope to get more africans on board with different strategy and reaching out to
different states and different countries so because right i think bakaka is reaching out to south africa and other
countries um countries so we expand we expand the scope of um the awareness of near and all because
we have um like in africa we have populations to be honest with you africa have population um i don't know
about now but there was some time um i think nigeria was one of the most populated country if not
maybe top 10 or top five i don't know maybe now it must have come down so we have the population
they will just need um the persuasion i don't know how to put this we just need to convince them
tell them about the opportunity show them what um yeah is able to offer explain to them because
most people they don't know about the digital economy they are new to it so they are scared of getting
involved we can make it so simple and very easy to interact and i think near has different futures
to make everything easy for them to understand in a very simple way and engage in it we will start with
the little way we can then when they are getting used to the system gradually we will take them to the
next level maybe um when it comes to defy um nft and other engagements in the ecosystem but i think
um bring onboarding them with the gradual process would be the best because when you rush people
they get confused and they want to pull out so um with a little process of um explaining the digital
system first so it settles with them so when they understand okay this is a new system i've not heard
about it i only know about web 2 systems okay this web 3 system i'm interested how can i involve in it
then when they are settled then we can take them to the um defy the opportunity device can offer nft
for artists um be it um artists um musicians now can also upload their um eps and other stuff they
will go to the defy the decentralized finance maybe they can also work with the defy ecosystem so they can
borrow lend swap become a liquidity provider stake and also different opportunities also they can also
engage on so they can become active users and also engage in infrastructures on near i think this is a way to
build near and my belief is since we have been um funded to promote near i think
all our targets should be on promoting near and not our personal interest so we'll find a way i definitely
um unchained engagement definitely is a way of promoting yet due to transactions per engagement and building
not just building but building what people will likely engage on and also find interesting because if you just
build build build build out of what you have viewed nobody's engaging on it and we also need
the larger community also because i think we're a small community but with time we will all get
would all increase from different angles so we also need a community so if there's something to
build there should be a community to engage on it else there is no traction or there's no support from
the community so i think that's i don't know whether i've talked too much but that's just the little
i can say about onboarding oh no you did not talk too much i love the fact that um you guys are
promoting here and also the encouragement it comes with um um you learning skill utilizing yourself especially
technical skill because these days university students if you meet one of them they'll be like i'm even
tired of because i'm reading i don't like it this that's not knowing that there are a lot of
opportunities in technical world thank you for that thank you for the op you're bringing into this um
space um now we will be going into community question and answer once again i would um tell you the
instruction i will state the instruction again make sure you follow rc dial follow wax and join our telegram
community community all right okay i've i've brought so what's it called spark up here to ask his
questions spark how are you are you there yes i'm here um thanks a lot and great to have you here son
uh okay also my question is uh and uh um i know you guys have actually mentioned a lot which you
are set to achieve so i would love to know what's at the moment is the challenge you guys are having
with uh onboarding process and what challenges have you guys faced in the past and have conquered
um um actually actually actually
okay uh sammy i can't hear you i don't know whether i see any talk i think my net i think my net is bad
maybe maybe maybe you can hear myself hear myself um okay spark if i get your questions clearly you're
asking about uh what are the challenges that we face uh in past in the ecosystem in thalia or in africa
and also what are the steps that we take towards the onboarding people is that right um not not
basically okay um i think you have i think you have your voice has some some echo or something
yes um you have to do those all right thank you sorry for that and so um the question was actually
about onboarding because um i know he mentioned about that so the question is about the challenges
you are having with the onboarding process and what other challenge have you guys had maybe previously
and conquered i'd like to hear that okay thank you i think uh the challenge that we face uh regarding
onboarding um previously before uh near protocol the ecosystem starting transition into the
ndc you know v1 and all these things almost there are a lot of community in africa entirely
from creative sites and also marketing site where they will get a lot of funding from the ecosystem
and uh ecosystem existing grassroot dow and you will see a lot of metrics but you know every
morning you see hundreds of thousands of people have been onboarded to the ecosystem
but the key challenge is that we need to see an on-chain activities you know on-chain active if you say
that you onboarded 100 people this month okay we want to see that 100 people are interacting on-chain so
one of our key challenges and also previously and also still a challenge currently is to track on-chain
onboarding it's not just about onboarding people if you onboard 1000 people and only 10 people are
interacting on-chain and engaging with the ecosystem i think the measurement is going to be with only
these 10 people instead of saying that this community has 1000 people so the key challenge is that
how are we going to track and measure the onboarded users you know on-chain onboarded users and how are
we going to be sure that those people are real human people it's not bots or it's not like kind of you
know it's not just fake or fake users or something like that so this is this challenge is not only for
near africa dao i think it's a challenge in the entire ecosystem we have faced a lot of this challenge
since last year off to dca so now i think the risk especially in building a bus is that every any
community or any uh grassroots dao if he can or if he will be able to contribute to build some solutions
that we're able to track on-chain activities and on-chain metrics that show that if near uganda
onboarded 100 people this month and at least if we see 70 to 60 people are engaging using near social or
other forms of on-chain activities these are kind of the solutions that we need and we are facing
challenges in relation to this i don't know whether the question is unclear or i answered it clearly yeah
um yes yes
sorry sorry
um let me ask what bakaka said so um i think the um what bakaka said is 100 correct
some of the problem we have during onboarding is not onboarding to me i've worked with different um
org so onboarding is kind of easy retaining those accounts is the issue and keeping them active and um
having on-chain engagement is another issue so first issue is activity because only when you're active
that's when you can engage on chain yeah and that's some of the issues currently now in the ecosystem
um some of the house of merits they are not active i can see some complaints so first of all you have
to be active before you engage on on-chain activities and maybe some provided infrastructures by the
ecosystem so when we onboard most times the issue is keeping the community active introducing new
opportunities to them to engage on providing new facilities for them to also work on because
currently now to improve near it's not just um if we say educating is um is would help during improving
year we have a goal while educating we're educating people so they can have good use case while using
this infrastructure because if we're going to educate you about near and we know that you're not going to use
the um facilities then there's no need to educate you about what you won't engage on because it's just
like telling you something we're like okay i've heard you and that's all so uh our main goal here is to
educate you and also make you understand and have good knowledge of what we're engaging um educating you
about so you can so you find it easy to work with and you won't be lost that's why most communities
have um community uh mods to help attend to the community in case they have complications or they are
confused on how to use these uh infrastructures they have a helping hand they have a support they have a backup so um
um what we are targeting now is to um come up with different ideas to increase engagement in the
ecosystem and to also um work on um on chain activities also because we also need to work on
building because um when we get to build something that other ecosystem would like to also utilize on
it's a plus for the ecosystem because while onboarding web 2 users we also need to onboard web 3 users
also that already have vast knowledge about the cryptos um crypto economy and also um blockchain so um
i think there are investors out there there are crypto gurus that are looking for um different um useful
um app applications on web 3 to work on to invest on to also learn about so um talking about onboarding
we also need to build we also need to build good infrastructure and it will make onboarding
very easy so when we tell people that okay this is the infrastructure we have with this infrastructure
you can be able to swap this your token that you're finding it difficult to swap you can be able to do this
you can if you can have a system that you can even help in your daily um domestic activities like
paying light bills paying water bills and all people will rush it okay you can wow this app can you
can pay your light bill maybe with five percent discounts with and to be honest people like awuf like
something cheap something that will help them okay they won't go through the stress to pay that much
so we need uh infrastructures infrastructures like this then i think with this kind of infrastructure
it would be very easy to onboard because we don't need to talk much as we as they just know that this
infrastructure can solve their problem and as bring solutions to them they would willingly come on
board and want to use this application and they would want to use it maybe if it solves their daily
activities or weekly activities so we should be expecting them to use it daily or weekly but
there is they are going to use it so i think that's just something i can add up to what bakaka said
well thank you for that spark i hope you are able to get your details from the response
yeah sure i did um thanks all right all right thank you for attending our space have a nice day um
please um whatsoever i want to ask question now please stick to one question first our time is i don't know
we don't have any more time but we just have to um allow you guys to ask a question okay um bbm i saw him
now oh yeah it's gone all right clo can you ask your question all right thank you so much hamba
now to my question could you please provide further clarification on how to create awareness
to african countries to african countries that are here to understand english and work through itself
i mean language barriers and so thank you thank you
um yeah uh some please can you mute yourself okay okay okay
uh so um thank you for your questions like i'm mentioning we start we have started a outreach
program uh last two weeks yeah i started this personally to reach out to northern part of the
africa and southern part of the africa where both the south african and northern part of the african
uh there are there are more of builders community where because we try to create an inclusive dao
let me make it very clear now the dao is open if you wanted to contribute as a contributor
we are still in the early stage you can join our telegram group and start contributing and the the
chatter and the documents is available you can make a comment and any feedback or criticism where you
think that is not clear for the african growth and ecosystem so how are we going to inclusively
attract someone and create awareness in northern part of the africa northern part of the africa is
more of arabian people we are not going to tell them what language to use or we are not going to tell
them they must use english language to educate their people that is why even currently in the ecosystem
we have some language based community like near house our community all the activities they are
doing in house language because this is the language that their people clearly understand what they are
saying so if you are a french community you can submit your proposal that maybe you are from
francophone region that okay we wanted to start a french community in cameron in congo or wherever
you can submit it and you can communicate with your people the same language that your people who
understand it if you're northern part of the also africa using swahili or any language you can start your
community if you have a prior experience in building a ecosystem and community nobody will say that you
must be using english language all what we are going to do is that we can have you giving out the
framework for you on how to build your community most of us are community builders we can also help you
to see how you bring a lot of success and help you in measuring your deliverables and all these things
so the awareness is depending on who applied to starting a newly community in that particular region
so i think it's uh it depends on any community leader for him to see the need and demand of his
immediate community like i mentioned earlier other communities need education other communities need
more of developers activities hackathons events and other communities are creatives communities
like uh some western part of the country i know with their culture they are very good in caricature
artists and all these things you can start a community in that particular region where your
community is mainly focused on nfts creatives activities and all this nobody will say that no
you must do what we want you to do so i think this the awareness is going to be
depending on which regions apply to start a community yeah that's it
clo i hope your question has been answered yes yes thank you
all right thank you clo have a nice day um lord can you ask your question
hello hello am i audible
yes you are all right thank you so much oh my question goes like this i realized that this like
a near africa uh dial and i would love to know with africa and having a pathetic power supply
which in turn affects telecommunication how do you intend to keep other uh onboarded members
to uh carry them along for those that have been affected by this poor pathetic power supply which in
turn will affect communication so how do you plan to keep those that are being affected and carry them
along for the long time and not just keep them on the low key i don't know if you get my question
yeah actually i think uh you raise a concern regarding the entire african space in relation to crypto
adaptation what's hindering the growth of african in a paper i think we are among the top
pipe or top 10 countries that are that has a huge crypto adaptation like i'm always saying crypto
adaptation that does not mean blockchain adaptation the the rank of africa as the top five crypto
adaptation is more of trading volume generated by africans but when it comes to like solutions
builded by africans i think you cannot count them among even top 20 or 30 because we still need a
more of consumer african like i'm mentioning coming back to the issue of power supply and all this thing
there are some strategies that you don't even need people like let me give you an example on creatives
community like creatives community you don't even need you don't even need them to interact every day
with online activities or on-chain activities because if you give them education it's more of workshops
so workshop you don't need internet connections maybe if you provide already material for them to okay
you people are doing drawing arts and all these things so there are a process a way that you can
mint this process so you can do all these things when you have the network then you will be able to
mint your nfts and all these things so also apply to developers community that is the reason why
you see a starlink and all these things almost everywhere in africa so this issue we wouldn't lie that we
are going to solve these problems especially in relation to network issue and power supply because
this is a general problem that have been discussed for more than three to four decades in the continent
entirely so who am i bakaka to solve this problem no but what we are saying is that we are going to
minimize you know uh with our strategies to see how we can provide solutions to a place where they have
the issue of power supply or power supply or network issues and all these things by providing hands-on
materials where they will go through even without network or without power supply that is in pumps of
like tutorial materials or something like that where our people start working on all these things so
yeah thank you thank you lord lord i hope your question has been answered
yes it has all right thank you have a nice day um uh next on the list is excel excel can you unmute your mic
speak speak yeah um hello thank you amber for bringing me up am i audible
yes you're very audible all right awesome awesome so i just have a quick question so um
i just want to know um must i be a token holder before i can become a qualified member of the community
uh no yeah no i think uh let me further clarify something uh for you to be uh a normal member you
don't need almost anything you can just join our telegram group you know raise some suggestions ask
questions go through our chatter documentation and draft see where you can see you can contribute and
all this thing for now the existing councils and also the advisors is like choosing best of
marine and ecosystem experience it's not something like okay family and plan okay let us select who we
think that it's not a catalyst or centralized system the current councils and advisors those people who
have been in the ecosystem for a while and when you read our chatter you will see the reason why they are
here as a constant as also the advisors did but after the first three months or six months we are going to
have a inclusive and decentralized system where okay africa we have four regions south west east and north
africa this is what i propose even in a group chat that let us have a representative in almost all the
regions of africa instead of having a representative two representative in a single region how are we going
to choose representative you can still country you can start contributing now join the group start
contributing go to our charter raise some concern give some suggestions and all these things so by the
times after the three months or six months when you say that okay i am from south africa i'm from egypt
or i'm from somali i am from tanzania and i wanted to represent my region due to social so nobody will
deny you that this is what we are looking for so you don't need to hold a token or you don't need to
hold anything but in a situation where in the v1 if house of merit provide some framework on maybe all
the grassroot dow if you wanted to conduct some elections for your councilship these are the framework
that you must follow we don't know and we don't have the framework yet but i suggest you to just join
your group and start contributing and make your criticisms where you think that is not clear
yeah that's you don't need anything to start contributing and to become a council yeah that's it
i hope your question has been answered yeah thank you very much i hope you have good luck
all right thank you excel have a nice day um um okay the last person for today is um yazi yazi are you
there can you omit your mic and speak yes good good evening everyone good evening
um i want to direct my question to sambo is not here but i will still ask
okay you can proceed i see that you are a very important team member of finance and how which is
creating opportunity for near users and also on the other and trying to bring the near spotlight is there
any connection between freelancer dow and outside of africa um yeah let me clarify something actually
i think this issue and also concern has been like raising in or just group in the ecosystem entirely
there are no any restrictions if you wanted i think the value is what we are looking for
it's allowed i think for single persons to hold two to three positions in one or two grassroot dow unless
he is just here looking for like kind of physicians and he won't be able to contribute or deliver what we
are expecting for him to deliver he's a founder or like a council in freelancer dow and also he's a
co-contributor to near african dow the objective i think here is that if we started you know our fully
activities if we found out that some wouldn't be able to contribute and our expectation regarding his uh
his role in the african dow and all this thing even the community must raise a concern you can even remove
him so it's very important for people to read the charter and our draft i think is here so there is
no any restriction for someone you can see in the ecosystem someone may be holding more than four to
five positions and there is no any issue if he can deliver but like i said we don't have
a framework currently we are waiting for house of merit council of advisors and all these things for
them to when v1 started going smoothly maybe there are a lot of changes that if you are a council in
particular dow you won't be able to also hold in another positions in particular dow but currently we
don't have this restriction for some to be near african dow council and also freelancer dow council
because we don't even know the pet or body daos currently maybe in a in a process of absorbing the
grassroots daos maybe near african dow won't be able to reach v1 or freelancer dow maybe won't be able to
be included in the v1 so i think uh these questions you can resolve these questions maybe along the way
by january or end of december you can still raise the same questions and to see okay how are we going
to balance the question is still some in the board uh grassroots daos or is only one of his grass
others with daos is scaling to v1 yeah yazee yazee has been answered
all right mr barker thank you for today like i really appreciate um your time like today
today today's am is an amazing one thank you for coming to our ama session so mr barker can you
um give us close remarks and if there's any other thing you've not mentioned so far you can likewise see
it here
uh yeah near african dow is a community lead actually uh without community we won't be able to
even start establishing the african dow it's an open system it's a decentralized system
we need a lot of contributors actually join the group contribute especially those people who are
from north africa northern africa and southern part of the africa we need you people to join
the group and start contributing in fact if possible introduce yourself and your region
because we need a data where we will be able to know that where are those people who live in
in southern or northern part of the africa by this i think when we started to implement some of our
strategies we don't need to start thinking on okay who are we going to contact so uh for our modulators
i think try to create a introductory sections in our telegram group we are open for suggestions like i
mentioned criticisms and all these things this is just the beginning of the journey with or without
near africa we are still africans you know we have a lot of ways to contribute to the ecosystem growth
we need to revive a lot of things like mentioned by some of the speakers so near africa dow is a
decentralized system and a community lead join the group start contributing we need a lot of
contributors to help us to simplify the growth and adaptations of the bots and also near protocol in
telafrica yeah that's exciting yeah all right thank you thank you thank you um thank you thank you
your project is a great one and i wish you great success thank you so much so we have come to the
end of today's ama we'll be having another ama session tomorrow make sure you join the um telegram community
and do the necessary and do the necessary thank you all have a nice day bye
