Sankore 2.0 September Guild Report

Mazi · October 1, 2021, 5:48pm

Month: September

Guild Name: Sankore 2.0

Our progress so far and insights we’ve gained.

The monthly report for September includes 10 sections

1. September’s Highlights

Successfully registered our business in Kenya as Sankore LTD.
Set up a publishing partnership with the Kenyan Wallstreet Journal and Bitcoin Ke.
Published a brief summary on our initial weeks in networking with key profiles in Nairobi: Instagram
12 new members joined our Telegram Chat
91 new people followed us on Twitter
Presented Sankore 2.0’s initiative to 4NTS panel discussion with @metapool, @fluxprotocol and FinanceOIN: video
3 members from the Sandbox joined our team: doc
New Cross-Guild collaboration with #Rhino Guild
Rebranded our core activities in three categories, Sankore Education, Sankore Climate and Sankore Solution: website

Designed new paper prototype mock-ups of the mobile app with @Primaveralina from #inc4-guild: NDA
We’ve completed one out of the three flows so far in our solution analysis with @Primaveralina : NDA
Feasibility analysis: doc

List all the forests in Kenya: sheet: abri.co: excel
Outline all the forests conservancies overseen by the Kenyan Forests Service: (sheet: KFS-Forest & KFS-Conservancies): excel
Outlined all REDD+ Projects and Programs in Kenya: (sheet: REDD+): excel
NGOs: Outreach to onboard projects as OFP founding members: (sheet: NGOs): excel

[Rhino Guild]: will help us with the Social Media blueprint roadmap.
[Uganda Guild Community]: gave advice on how to grow NEAR-based communities in East Africa to its leader @Mucu256 . We will collaborate in cross-guild NEAR-based events in the region, both in Kenya and Uganda.
[Sandbox]: we have onboarded three people from the sandbox that will help on website development and social media management in collaboration with @Magnus .
Spoke with a software developer, Nate Mamman (website), from Nigeria, who is involved with the #Createbase community and plans to create his own guild. We provided advice regarding Guild creation, and discussed a potential collaboration to build an Africa-focused NFT application on top of existing NEAR-based NFT platforms.

Projects we plan to build on the NEAR protocol (in evaluation process) protocol (in evaluation process)

Portable Health Record: doc
Afreative is interested in exploring the opportunities that DLT/blockchain could offer to their area of work.

Organising Sankore’s first event: a pitching competition on 4th December for new NEAR based projects from Kenya): doc.

NEAR Conference (documenting the entire journey through our new YouTube Channel)
Publish content on NFT’s i.e. introducing the creator economy.
Discuss with mint base and DAO records to evaluate the possibility of introducing African artists and developers on the NEAR-based NFT platforms.
Construct a partnership content roadmap with the Kenya Wallstreet Journal and BitcoinKe: preliminary doc
Collaborate with Afroeative and the Portable Health Record team to bring their projects to the NEAR Protocol.
Have two devs start the NEAR Certified Instructor training.
Start drafting the narrative (storyline) of Principal Payment.

Thanks,
Sankore TEAM

Dacha · October 1, 2021, 7:22pm

Great job and report guys .

Mucu256 · October 15, 2021, 5:24am

Amazing report @Mazi always appreciative of your advice on building a strong Near ecosystem in the East African region.

IgbozeIsrael · October 17, 2021, 4:43am

Awesome report @Mazi