Unlock East Africa: Ecosystem Growth Initiative

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Description

Unlock East Africa focuses on increasing Unlock Protocol adoption across East Africa, starting with Rwanda. Africa is buzzing with new Web3 communities and numerous emerging projects and is a prime target for Unlock's innovative ticketing, memberships, and subscription offerings. This initiative aims to educate developers, creators, and entrepreneurs first about Ethereum and takes a step further to illustrate Unlock Protocol as a prime example of an application built on Ethereum and demonstrate some of its use cases such as ticketing, memberships, rewards, and loyalty programs in a practical manner. This approach will not only educate but also familiarize participants with Unlock's distinctive features as they go through different experiences in real time. The project involves 7 workshops designed to cater to both technical and non-technical audience, with sustained weekly events over the span of 3 months to facilitate a sense of community. We round off with a hackathon to usher new developers into the ecosystem and provide an opportunity for builders to create innovative solutions to local challenges using the power of Ethereum and Unlock Protocol. Through this grant, we aim to instigate Unlock's adoption at ground level in East Africa, building toward a powerful ripple effect across the entire continent's blooming Web3 communities.

Website URL

https://x.com/p2einferno

Twitter

https://x.com/dannithomx

Github

https://github.com/blahkheart

LinkedIn

No response

Discord handle

blahkheart

Completion time

3 months

Team

Danny Thomx (myself), an experienced blockchain developer and educator. Partnering with on-ground entities like ALX Rwanda. While not officially part of the team I'm also getting contributions from Angela Steffens (@wonderwomancode)

Milestones

Month 1: Pre-Event Preparation Objectives:

1. Secure venue and date for the non-technical workshop, technical workshop, and the hackathon
2. Design workshops curriculum and hackathon scope
3. Initiate promotions and engagement drive for workshops and hackathon attendees

Main Tasks:

• Book flights and accommodation
• Identify and secure venues
• Develop the programme for the workshops and hackathon
• Initiate marketing and promotional activities

Deliverables:

• Secured venue and dates for events
• Ready workshop curriculum and hackathon programme
• Create and schedule promotional activities

Month 2: Execution of the Non-Technical Workshop Objectives:

• Conducting the non-technical workshop
• Encourage participation in subsequent events
• Collect feedback and initiate improvements for future events
• Airdrop phase 1 (Initial UDT distribution)

Main Tasks:

• Finalize event logistics for the non-technical workshop
• Execute promotional activities
• Execute the non-technical workshop

Deliverables:

• Successful organization and completion of the non-technical workshops
• Feedback from attendees evaluated and plans to adjust future workshops
• Successful Initial UDT distribution

Month 3: Execution of the Technical Workshop and Hackathon Objectives:

• Execute the technical workshop
• Conduct the hackathon
• Airdrop phase 2 (Final UDT distribution)
• Gather feedback and debrief on event successes and areas of improvement

Main Tasks:

• Finalize event logistics for the technical workshop and hackathon
• Continue promotional activities
• Execute the technical workshop
• Execute the hackathon

Deliverables:

• Successful completion of the technical workshops
• Successful completion of the hackathon
• Analysis of feedback from all events for future improvements
• Successful Final UDT distribution

Requested grant amount

Other amount, or not requesting UDT

Anything else you think we should know, including why you've requested a particular grant amount

Total execution cost of the initiative is ~$10,000, I have secured a grant of $5000 from the Ethereum Foundation to cover the execution costs. Support from the Unlock Protocol DAO would ensure the successful initiation and execution of the project. Furthermore, 20% (200 UDT) of the total requested UDT amount (1000 UDT) will be airdropped to the community through various community activations to further decentralize Unlock DAO governance and increase participation in governance processes.

Requested grant amount: $3000 in ARB - Upfront (covers travel, and accommodation costs.) 1000 UDT

Milestone: Month 1 deliverables - 300 UDT. Milestone: Month 2 deliverables - 300 UDT. Milestone: Month 3 deliverables - 400 UDT

Total UDT Amount: 1000 UDT

Is your work Open Source

Yes, my project will use an Open Source license such as MIT

Code of Conduct

• [X] I agree to follow this project's Code of Conduct

[Calla-Ji]

I will add this here for transparency reasons, even though @blahkheart and I already talked on DMs:

David-Moderator and I suggested the following changes to the proposal:

• $2000 in ARB
• 600 UDT streamed over the period of 3 months

One reason is budgeting right now. The other is that while we know Danny will sing the 'gospel of Unlock, ' we feel the initiative is not exclusively about that (which is fine), but therefore it is not entirely clear how much of an ROI this initiative truly holds for Unlock.