Nigeria Community Building in February 2022

OceanDAO Round 14
#1

Name of Project:

Ocean Protocol - Nigeria Community Building

Proposal in one sentence:

Managing community channels, educating new network participants, promoting the Ocean ecosystem, media and online communication outreaches, translations and sharing information (materials), focused majorly on the Nigerian Community.

Grant Deliverables:

  • We will translate 68 articles which will be published on Ocean Nigeria blog, this will include translating the 5 newly created blogs in Ocean official medium into Yoruba, Hausa and Igbo, then we will translate the previously created 53 articles into Pidgin English (a widely spoken language in Nigeria).

  • Growth of the Nigeria community (quantitatively measured by the number of followers on twitter, instagram, our local telegram, newsletter subscibers and posted articles engagement)

Which category best describes your project? Pick one.

Outreach / community / spread awareness.

Are you applying for an Earmark?

General

What is the final product?:

We are building a platform that Powers Communities and gives them the Opportunities to learn and unlock value. We host an information website with a content curation and translation section for OCEAN materials. Our immediate focus is to develop partnership networks in Nigeria and then Africa at large.

Question on “value add” criteria: which one or more of the criteria will your project focus on? Why do you believe your team will do well on those criteria?**

Adding value to the overall community:

We have introduce some projects to OceanDOA and personally guided them through the proposal submission process. Since we started, we have translated over 150 articles into our local languages to adopt more Ocean protocol awareness, the link to the articles can be found on substack. We keep growing the twitter page, local telegram channel, Instagram page and the blog site subscribers monthly with the growth rate for:

Twitter: 1427 followers with 532 tweets
Instagram followers: 3230 followers
Blog site followers: 868 subscribers
Telegram channel currently with 348 members.

Please you can visit the report link below to see a more detailed explanation and links to the work done so far:

Community active-ness: We was two (2) members team whose primary focus is delivering the promised proposal deliverables and actively managing our online community channels, we mostly are not that active in the Ocean official discord channel but we added a new team member, and we intend to increase our active-ness in the Discord channel and also join the project guidance group to help guide new applicants.

Viability: We are a registered digital agency in Nigeria and this is what we primary do, promote crypto knowledge and adoption in Nigeria. The chance of success of this project is high because of the overall effort the team members put into this work, you can see this in the work done so far in our growth report document above, and the encouraging feedbacks / testimonials we get (Check the testimonial section of https://bloqfurylab.com/) and you can also learn more about us there.

Funding Requested: $5000

There are some others factors that shape the price of translation service to suit an individual project, such as:

  • Complexity of the subject matter
  • Language combination
  • Discount for ongoing commitment with a client looking for partnership based on a consistent volume of work
  • Quicker turnaround time for translation service demands a higher rush fee
  • Proofreading
  • Revisions
  • Transacriptions before translations

Proposal Wallet Address: 0xe16aeE13e6a7bA2d2f5Bf338F8b063C33Ff8ff87

Have you previously received an OceanDAO Grant (Y/N)? Y

Round 11 - Requested $3,000 and got funded :muscle:

  • We translated 61 articles in Igbo and Hausa Language
  • We engage the various online communities and got 405 twitter followers, 356 tweets, 410 newsletter subscribers and 1291 instagram followers.

Round 12 - Requested $5, 500 and got funded :muscle:

  • We translated 72 articles in Igbo, Hausa and Yoruba Language

  • We continue engaging the various online communities with:

    Twitter: 1427 followers with 532 tweets
    Instagram followers: 3230 followers
    Blog site followers: 868 subscribers
    Telegram channel currently with 348 members.

Team Website (if applicable): https://www.oceanprotocol.ng, https://bloqfurylab.com

Twitter Handle (if applicable): @OceanProtocolNG

Discord Handle: @Adeyemo

Project lead full name: Adeyemo Yinka

Project lead email: oceanprotocolnigeria@gmail.com

Country of Residence: Nigeria

Core Team

Oluwayinka Adeyemo

Olawunmi Olaniran

Adetola Durojaiye

  • Role : Social Media Expert
  • Relevant Credentials :
  • Email Address : [tolasola@gmail.com](mailto: tolashola@gmail.com)
  • Background/Experience:
    • General Manager, Strategy. Syracuse Africa.
    • Shaw Academy Diploma, Social Media Marketing.
    • Social Media Consultant, Brandcook.

Advisor

Solomon Oluwole Oyetade

What is the project roadmap? That is: what are key milestones, and the target date for each milestone.

Continuous translation of new blog articles as fast as possible. Continuous daily translation of the official Ocean Protocol social media channels. Organize seminars, hackathons and events in institutions of higher learning to create more awareness about OCEAN protocol and Blockchain adoption generally. The intention is to spread awareness, educate and on-board new people that will keep growing the community.

Please include the team’s future plans and intentions.

Strategic Partnerships: Partnerships with key stakeholders like universities, NGOs, Data centers, innovation hubs, grass-root corporatives etc. Our immediate focus is to develop these partnership networks in Nigeria and then Africa at large.

Ecosystem Building: We will get involved in the local ecosystem by running or sponsoring local meetups, event sponsorships, hackathons and language boot-camps to reach more people. Our primary market here is the African Market where we have local access.

Ocean Ambassadors in Nigeria: people who are genuinely interested in the product and willing to spread the word for us.

Why Africa and Nigeria?

  • Over the past year, Africa has been widely reported as one of the fastest-growing markets for cryptocurrency adoption.

  • The African crypto market has grown by over 1,200% in terms of value received over the past year. Chainalysis estimates that African countries collectively received around $105.6 billion worth of cryptocurrency between July 2020 and June 2021.

  • This trend shows an important report which attributes the fast growth rate to grass root adoption. Although the growth has been progressive, the demographics shows a huge market that can be unlocked with localization of the concept in these un(under)served regions. This will greatly unlock opportunity for the rest of the Blockchain sector and for us, this is where we see Ocean positioning, considering the huge data deficit on the continent which goes to show the impact Ocean has in the region.

  • Nigeria on the other hand is the second largest bitcoin market on Paxful (the largest P2P exchange in the world), Kenya No. 8 and South Africa, No. 10. With this massive adoption we intend to pilot our effort here, creating translations of all ocean blog posts, white papers, business papers and social media posts and podcasts to the 3 major languages in Nigeria (Yoruba, Igbo and Hausa). We will go a step further to create media content and seminars that educate and onboard new members into Ocean in these areas.

  • With the country, we are targeting a huge market size. To put it into perspective, Africa is the second-most-populous continent in the world, with around 1.3 billion people, with reports claiming the continent’s population will more than double by 2050. However with the unstable governance, infrastructure deficit, civil wars and instability, the financial sector has largely remained less accessible which has subsequently led to over half of the population staying unbanked.

  • More so, the collection, management and utilization of data on the continent has also suffered setbacks owing to similar crises that moribund the financial sector.

  • However, this challenges on the one hand constitute provi less, on the one hand can be seen as huge market opportunities for unleashing data, blockchain technology as as solution for financial crises and making it the next big hub blockchain adoption

Why vote for us :pray:

We are a dedicated team whose primary focus and work at the moment is building Ocean Protocol Nigeria Community, this is our way of contributing and giving value.
Your support will make us work even harder and spread ocean to the world from Nigeria.

#2

Hi @Oluwayinka_Adeyemo,

Thank you for submitting your proposal for R-14!

I am a Project-Guiding Member and have assigned myself to help you.

I have reviewed your proposal and would like to thank you for your participation inside of the Ocean Ecosystem!

Your project looks promising and I believe it’s aligned with our evaluation criteria of generating positive value towards the Ocean Ecosystem and the W3SL.

The specific project criteria for this proposal I see are:

  1. Viability — As recipients of grants in R11 & R12 you’ve shown promising results in terms of engagement and community growth.
  2. Community active-ness — as you mention in your proposal it would be great to see even more engagement filtering its way through to the Ocean Ecosystem

Based on the reasons above, I am in support of your project and proposal. I look forward to continuing providing support and feedback to your project.

All the best!

-Your PGWG Guide

#3

Hi @Scotty, thanks so much for the feedback, it means a lot to us and we appreciate your support for the project. :pray:

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#4

Thank you for submitting your proposal @Oluwayinka_Adeyemo, it has now been registered and accepted into R14.

All the best!

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