[CLOSED] Introducing Near Tanzania

NDC Community and nodes Africa DAO
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PROPOSAL: Introducing
Near Tanzania

I. General Information

Community/Project name: Near Tanzania
Link to the latest report/Introductory post:

Website: website

Github: Github

Near Social:

Linkedin

Names/near.social Links of team members:

Rasta Bujo
Twitter

Machuche
Twitter

Victor Muhagachi

Astra ++ address of Community/Project: neartanzania.near

II. PROPOSAL FOCUS
Q1 Objectives:

  • Community Growth and Engagement
    • Objective: Increase the number of active NEAR Tanzania community members and foster engagement.
    • Key Results:
      • Increase the number of community members by 30%.
      • Achieve an average engagement rate of 15% across community channels (Telegram/ WhatsApp, Twitter, etc.).
      • Host at least two community events or meetups with a minimum attendance of 50 participants each.
  • Education and Awareness
    • Objective: Educate Tanzanians about NEAR Protocol and blockchain technology.
    • Key Results:
      • Conduct a series of educational webinars reaching a total of 100 attendees.
      • Publish 3 educational blog posts or articles on NEAR blockchain and its applications, generating at least 1000 views each.

Monthly Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) with Detailed Breakdown:

  1. Community Growth and Engagement:
  • Increase in Community Members:
    • Initial Target: 100 new members
    • Posts with 5k impressions on X and Instagram
  • Engagement Rate:
    • Current rate: 0%
    • Target: 15%
  • Event Attendance:
    • Event 1: 50 participants
    • Event 2: 100 participants
  1. Education and Awareness:
  • Webinar Attendance:
    • Webinar 1: 50 attendees
    • Webinar 2: 70 attendees
  • Blog/Article Views:
    • Article 1
    • Article 2

Strategies to Achieve KPIs:

  • Community Growth and Engagement:
    • Implement targeted social media campaigns to attract Tanzanian blockchain enthusiasts.
    • Encourage existing community members to invite friends and family through referral programs and gamification.
    • Regularly host engaging AMA (Ask Me Anything) sessions with NEAR builders, devs.
    • Incentivize participation through rewards and recognition programs.
    • Organization of hackathons
  • Education and Awareness:
    • Collaborate with local universities and educational institutions to host blockchain workshops and seminars.
    • Utilize social media platforms and near social to promote upcoming webinars and share educational content.
    • Translate educational materials into Swahili to reach a wider audience.|1|

Timeline deliveries. (If some of the KPIs will be fulfilled in days/weeks, please indicate)

  • Week 1-2:
    • Plan and launch social media campaigns to increase community membership.
    • Schedule and promote the first webinar.
  • Week 3-4:
    • Evaluate the effectiveness of the social media campaigns and make necessary adjustments.
    • Conduct the first & second webinar.
  • Week 5-6:
    • Host the second webinar and assess attendee feedback.
    • Further webinars.
  • Week 7-8:
    • Building ontop of community product: Chatafisha
    • Plan and execute the second community event.
    • Analyze engagement metrics and adjust strategies as needed.||

III. FUNDS
Funds required - For the first month to attain target, $2,000||
Funds as associated with each KPIs (In details, specify how much will be needed to achieve the KPIs above)

  • Posters & Design for IRL event, $

  • Fliers, $

  • Event branded banners, $

  • Swag & Merchandize, $

  • 2 Articles

  • Bi weekly X spaces
    Future Plan:Product Building ontop for Community regenerative : Chatafisha

  • Build on a Carbon-backed NFT Marketplace that will also onboard non web3 organizations, startups and regular users to our community in not only Tanzania but whole of Africa

  • NFTs as Carbon Credits: Each NFT would represent the amount of waste that has been recycled, processed and verified by a trusted third-party, in this case Regen Network. The carbon offset value of the recycling effort/ carbon reduced (as calculated by a recognized methodology) would be the underlying value of the NFT.

  • Third party verification to verify regenerative work being done according to predetermined methodologies in the registry.
    Link to full doc

Product Timeline:

Phase 1: Revevampment and redeploying of Carbon NFT Marketplace 2,000$

  • Integrate wallet selector
  • Improve UI/UX with updated forms for metadata
  • Build frontend and backend components of the marketplace.

Phase 2: Integration with Third-Party Services for Eco-credits 1,000$

  • Integrate with carbon offset verification services and implement metadata integration for NFTs.
  • Implement smart contracts for third party verification.

Phase 3: Deployment & Further on-ground pilots

  • Redeploy and develop marketing strategies.
  • Coordinate with media outlets for coverage and visibility.

Fund requested for Product building: 3,000$
Total Fund requested: 5,000$

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Hello!
thanks for submitting your proposal. It’s great to see a NEAR community striving from Tanzania.

I have a few concerns and questions.

  1. There is no detailed explanation as to why funds are required for the project. Is it to compensate the Devs, other team members and Marketing of the product? If YES, please indicate here.
  2. Given that the Tanzanian community is a new one, could it be best to start with the Campus tour?
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Thrilled to see a community springing from Tanzania.

Here are my concerns:

  1. $5000 dollars for revamping an nft marketplace and collaboration with media outlets? Where was the marketplace launched before? I mean ecosystem.
  2. What are your plans for education and onboard?
  3. Looking at everything going onchain on NEAR what are your plans or strategies to promote onchain activities?

Thanks

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@adeiza @IgbozeIsrael Thanks for the responses. As for the community Yes, we are planning on the irl event first (one at The University.) We are aiming to start with the irl event then go along with the dApp for onboarding.
2. In regards to the funds for the Carbon-backed NFT Marketplace, We launched on NEAR mainnet, and yes all of it is going towards development:

  • Revamping of the frontend and smart contracts
  • Integrating wallet selector
  • Revamping updated form with fillers for variety of methodologies
  • Integrating gamification/ Leadership board with Impact2earn model. (Which will also drive onchain activities)

Hope these answer your concerns. More than happy to clarify anything else

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Can you help to clarify which of the funding is for the community please?

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I will suggest we restructure the proposal to focus on the IRL campus event to start the community. With the numbers on your socials, it is the best fit for this community.

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Thank you for your community intro, and looking forward to seeing a Near engagement in Tanzania and am very optimistic about the growth there.

I see you are a project manager at Chatafisha and have already received MDAO funding. What I would recommend is that you focus on some community engagement, educate your new users on basic things, continue your MDAO activities, and resubmit the next round when your community is active and visible Now is more of community intro which we support, and we look forward to see your commitment report

Unfortunately; can’t support this round.

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We are not only planning on onboarding students but also non-web3 organizations such as Green NGOs like HUDEFO, Open Map Tanzania and many more. However, here is our restructured proposal as advised.

FUNDS
Funds requested to achieve the targets: 2,000$

Funds as associated with each KPIs (In details, specify how much will be needed to achieve the KPIs above)

  • Posters & Design for IRL event, $100
  • Event branded banners, $50
  • Venue $200
  • Account acquisition cost 200$
  • Fliers, $50
  • Video, Pictures & documentation $100
  • Swag & Merchandize, $200
  • 2 Articles $200
  • Bi weekly X spaces
  • Team compensation $300