Proposal is live here, kindly vote: https://www.dashcentral.org/p/BLOCKCHAINAIConferenceMerchantsAdoption
This proposal will help Dash achieve adoption and use in Africa. It entails sponsoring the Blockchain Conference, to organising a conference monthly for 2 months for Merchants who wish to start accepting Dash. We're also going to get some staff to join the business integrations and development arm. We will be rolling out between 5 - 10 major integrations for Dash.
In total, we will reach out to over 500 merchants and sign up about half of them on discoverdash.com.
We will be doing these and more for less than 1% of the budget this month.
What are MNOs saying?
TanteStefana
This team is so hard working, they cost so little when compared to Venezuela and do just as much. They are behind Venezuela now because they haven't been funded all summer. Really, the comments I see from some MNOs are so unfair, and considering the potential Africa holds, having such a dedicated team on the ground who have reached out to neighboring countries (by invitation, not by spending funds that we've given them for other things) we can set the continent on a roll never seen before. Give the people the freedom, and the rapers will lose. This will set off a Renascence in Africa, it simply can do nothing else. It is human nature to grow when allowed to. Dash's network will grow from this now, not much but slowly. However 10 to 20 years from now, Africa will bey like China with or without Dash (the genie is out of the bottle). Lets make it WITH Dash!
Some ongoing integrations are:
Yellowcard.io is the first cryptocurrency gift card that allows people buy cryptocurrency from local stores.
They're present in 160,000 locations globally and 55,000 locations across 13 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe.
This would allow people buy Dash is smaller denominations. Exchanges usually have a minimum of $100 for any trade. But with this, people can buy Dash offline worth $5, $10, $20, $50.
Having this will greatly solve the existing liquidity issues of Dash.
Kindly note: 10 integrations are in the pipeline and will have announcements on them as they're successfully sealed.
COMPARISON OF DASH ADOPTION IN NIGERIA BETWEEN 2017 AND 2018
What we will do
1. Attend the Blockchain Conference Abuja 19th-20th of October, 2018 at Ladi Kwali Hall, of Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, Nigeria.
2. Hold a conference for businesses and merchants adoption in 2 states for 2 months November and December 2018
3. Integrate Dash to major Blockchain/ Cryptocurrency platforms such as; Kurecoin (exchange and bank), Bitpesa (remittances) Yellowcard (Sales of Small denominations of Dash such as $5, $10, $20 $50), Cryptostorez (E-commerce).
4. Sign up the Merchants/ Businesses on discoverdash.com
5. Assist with the technical aspects of the integrations (We have the support of Dash Core and their availability for this)
6. Demo videos on how to use the integrations
7. Marketing and outreach to more businesses to accept Dash.
8. Documentary on businesses accepting Dash
9. There’d be a monthly follow-up/ support for the businesses/merchants for three months
10. They would get a Dash kit
11. They’d take the course on dashafrica.org to get them familiar with Dash
12. Publications on major crypto and blockchain media outlets
13. Local publicity for the Dash Accepting businesses
Nathaniel Luz @ROTC is the Executive Director of Dash Africa, a Dash Funded Organisation committed to representing and promoting Dash in Africa. He is credited with having raised new Dash ambassadors, taken Dash to other countries and spearheading business integrations such as Yellowcard, Bitpesa, Kurecoin, Cryptostorez, and others still in the pipeline.
Pre-proposal link
Dash Africa Website
Forum thread
Dash has been position to be the leading innovative cryptocurrency been adopted in Nigeria and still exploring every part of Africa. Understanding this, Dash can stand to be the frontier of every creative idea put in place to promote blockchain in Nigeria by taking charge and sponsoring every mega and innovative conferences, setting the pace in leading blockchain development in Nigeria and Africa at large. Sponsoring an event of this kind, it will provide a good way of promoting and increasing Dash awareness in Nigeria, which will help to expand community base, Dash cryptocurrency user, investors and generate more business partnership for Dash.
It is time to have Dash Fintech conferences in other parts of Nigeria. These are not conferences for students and youth, they are conferences for professionals and Business owners. These are our best shots at mass adoption.
A cost efficient method would be to sponsor/ partner with other major Blockchain events in the country. The first of this will be to Sponsor the annual BLOCKCHAIN & AI Conference in Nigeria.
Abuja Blockchain and AI Round-Table: Beyond Cryptocurrencies, will hold from the 19th-20th of October, 2018 at Ladi Kwali Hall, of Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, Nigeria.
The Conference will bring together business leaders, government and regulatory agencies, data practitioners, AI and Blockchain tech pioneers who are applying artificial intelligence to solve today’s problems and creating tomorrow’s opportunities, while leveraging available tools, to create entirely new values.
This conference is a great opportunity to meet other companies we would approach to integrate Dash.
Benefits of Dash Sponsorship: Blockchain & AI Conference in Nigeria
Dash has been one of the cryptocurrency that have shown a remarkable interest in making Nigeria a target market. Becoming the sponsor of this event, will reinforce awareness among Nigerians that are knowledgeable and enthusiast of cryptocurrency on the value and services provided by Dash, this in the long run bring a tangible form of positive return of investment (ROI).
Dash will stand to enjoy wide range of benefit, which are:
1. Raise Dash awareness and create preferences
2. Get more businesses to adopt Dash as means of payment
3. Visibility before industry leaders who will integrate Dash in their businesses
4. Dash community expansion and bring new investors
5. Market Dash product and services with attractive content
6. Generate internal commitment to Dash in Nigeria
Sponsorship gives us:
1. 30 minutes speaking opportunity to pitch dash
2. Booth at the event
3. Opportunity to co-host the evening networking event
4. All participants would set up a dash wallet and get a tip
5. Dash to be a means of payment at the event
6. Visibility of dash in the press
Dash Business Adoption Campaign
This is a campaign solely to sign up new businesses, merchants, and companies to Dash. This campaign will run for 2 months and would reach over 500 companies/ businesses / merchants.
Estimated number of participants per conference would come from over 200 businesses, companies, and organisations ranging from online shops, to offline businesses, exchanges, blockchain and cryptocurrency based organisations, and savings/ credit-facility institutions.
We will leverage on the mailing lists of the Blockchain and AI conference above, and our previous events to ensure our publicity is strategic and direct.
We will also leverage on bitcoinafrica.io, cryptotvplus.com, and other websites for adverts.
The staff would be in charge of creating and nurturing business relationship with clients till it becomes successful and coordinating the entire project.
We are working to integrate Dash to major online stores, more exchanges, and blockchain/ cryptocurrency focused organizations.
Some ongoing integrations are: Yellowcard, Bitpesa, Tradefada, Cryptostorez, Kurecoin and several others.
PROPOSAL VIDEO
Things achieved through our previous projects include:
1. Over a thousand wallets created
2. New 500+ users used dash to recharge their mobile phones
3. Hundreds of users bought Dash as an investment
4. More ambassadors are getting on board and taking the course on dashafrica.org. Over 250 participants have taken the course as at last count.
5. Dash has become a prominent feature in the global market, specifically Africa.
The statistics from Nigeria look very impressive, but, those statistics are just from about 10% of Nigeria. While the Economic capital of Nigeria is Lagos. The Dash Nigeria office is based in Lagos and lots of our activities have been in and around Lagos, save for meetups that are country wide.
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-expands-throughout-africa/
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-continues-expansion-in-nigeria/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/a...ion-african-countries-fight-back-with-crypto/
https://cryptotvplus.com/dash-drives-adoption-in-nigeria-with-new-products/
https://cryptotvplus.com/dash-is-gaining-more-ground-in-nigeria/
https://dashafrica.org
https://imgur.com/a/hddXd4B
https://imgur.com/a/olHn4Mg
https://dashafrica.org/dash-fintech-conference-lagos/
https://dashafrica.org/dashcart-launches/
Funding Breakdown
Exclusive Diamond Sponsorship 10,000
After series of discussions with the organizers, we agreed to pay in Dash at a fixed price of $300 per Dash. This means the organizers would accept Dash, and hold till Dash gets to $300 before they sell.
This implies we would be paying 33.33 instead of 55.5 Dash
Materials:
2 Rollups $100 = $200
10 shirts $15 = $150
Transportation plus accommodation for 4 team members $800
Token for team: $150 * 4 = 600
Giveaway: $600 for 200 new wallets ($3 each)
Proposal fee reimbursement: 5 Dash
Subtotal:
$2,350/200 + 33.33 + 5 = 50 Dash
Venue $1,500
Refreshment $1,800
Conference materials $1,000
Publicity (Radio, Online ads, fliers and posters) $450
Logistics $400
Photo and Video $500
Shirts 12 * 100 = $1200
Banners $200
$7,250 * 2 = $14,100
$3 for 300 new wallets $900
4 Staff on Salary for 2 months $400 = $1,600 * 2 = $3,200
Total = $18,200 / 200 = 91
91 + 50 = 141/ 3 = 47 Dash for 3 months
This proposal will help Dash achieve adoption and use in Africa. It entails sponsoring the Blockchain Conference, to organising a conference monthly for 2 months for Merchants who wish to start accepting Dash. We're also going to get some staff to join the business integrations and development arm. We will be rolling out between 5 - 10 major integrations for Dash.
In total, we will reach out to over 500 merchants and sign up about half of them on discoverdash.com.
We will be doing these and more for less than 1% of the budget this month.
What are MNOs saying?
TanteStefana
This team is so hard working, they cost so little when compared to Venezuela and do just as much. They are behind Venezuela now because they haven't been funded all summer. Really, the comments I see from some MNOs are so unfair, and considering the potential Africa holds, having such a dedicated team on the ground who have reached out to neighboring countries (by invitation, not by spending funds that we've given them for other things) we can set the continent on a roll never seen before. Give the people the freedom, and the rapers will lose. This will set off a Renascence in Africa, it simply can do nothing else. It is human nature to grow when allowed to. Dash's network will grow from this now, not much but slowly. However 10 to 20 years from now, Africa will bey like China with or without Dash (the genie is out of the bottle). Lets make it WITH Dash!
Some ongoing integrations are:
Yellowcard.io is the first cryptocurrency gift card that allows people buy cryptocurrency from local stores.
They're present in 160,000 locations globally and 55,000 locations across 13 African countries including Nigeria, Ghana, and Zimbabwe.
This would allow people buy Dash is smaller denominations. Exchanges usually have a minimum of $100 for any trade. But with this, people can buy Dash offline worth $5, $10, $20, $50.
Having this will greatly solve the existing liquidity issues of Dash.
Kindly note: 10 integrations are in the pipeline and will have announcements on them as they're successfully sealed.
COMPARISON OF DASH ADOPTION IN NIGERIA BETWEEN 2017 AND 2018
What we will do
1. Attend the Blockchain Conference Abuja 19th-20th of October, 2018 at Ladi Kwali Hall, of Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, Nigeria.
2. Hold a conference for businesses and merchants adoption in 2 states for 2 months November and December 2018
3. Integrate Dash to major Blockchain/ Cryptocurrency platforms such as; Kurecoin (exchange and bank), Bitpesa (remittances) Yellowcard (Sales of Small denominations of Dash such as $5, $10, $20 $50), Cryptostorez (E-commerce).
4. Sign up the Merchants/ Businesses on discoverdash.com
5. Assist with the technical aspects of the integrations (We have the support of Dash Core and their availability for this)
6. Demo videos on how to use the integrations
7. Marketing and outreach to more businesses to accept Dash.
8. Documentary on businesses accepting Dash
9. There’d be a monthly follow-up/ support for the businesses/merchants for three months
10. They would get a Dash kit
11. They’d take the course on dashafrica.org to get them familiar with Dash
12. Publications on major crypto and blockchain media outlets
13. Local publicity for the Dash Accepting businesses
Nathaniel Luz @ROTC is the Executive Director of Dash Africa, a Dash Funded Organisation committed to representing and promoting Dash in Africa. He is credited with having raised new Dash ambassadors, taken Dash to other countries and spearheading business integrations such as Yellowcard, Bitpesa, Kurecoin, Cryptostorez, and others still in the pipeline.
Pre-proposal link
Dash Africa Website
Forum thread
Dash has been position to be the leading innovative cryptocurrency been adopted in Nigeria and still exploring every part of Africa. Understanding this, Dash can stand to be the frontier of every creative idea put in place to promote blockchain in Nigeria by taking charge and sponsoring every mega and innovative conferences, setting the pace in leading blockchain development in Nigeria and Africa at large. Sponsoring an event of this kind, it will provide a good way of promoting and increasing Dash awareness in Nigeria, which will help to expand community base, Dash cryptocurrency user, investors and generate more business partnership for Dash.
It is time to have Dash Fintech conferences in other parts of Nigeria. These are not conferences for students and youth, they are conferences for professionals and Business owners. These are our best shots at mass adoption.
A cost efficient method would be to sponsor/ partner with other major Blockchain events in the country. The first of this will be to Sponsor the annual BLOCKCHAIN & AI Conference in Nigeria.
Abuja Blockchain and AI Round-Table: Beyond Cryptocurrencies, will hold from the 19th-20th of October, 2018 at Ladi Kwali Hall, of Sheraton Hotels, Abuja, Nigeria.
The Conference will bring together business leaders, government and regulatory agencies, data practitioners, AI and Blockchain tech pioneers who are applying artificial intelligence to solve today’s problems and creating tomorrow’s opportunities, while leveraging available tools, to create entirely new values.
This conference is a great opportunity to meet other companies we would approach to integrate Dash.
Benefits of Dash Sponsorship: Blockchain & AI Conference in Nigeria
Dash has been one of the cryptocurrency that have shown a remarkable interest in making Nigeria a target market. Becoming the sponsor of this event, will reinforce awareness among Nigerians that are knowledgeable and enthusiast of cryptocurrency on the value and services provided by Dash, this in the long run bring a tangible form of positive return of investment (ROI).
Dash will stand to enjoy wide range of benefit, which are:
1. Raise Dash awareness and create preferences
2. Get more businesses to adopt Dash as means of payment
3. Visibility before industry leaders who will integrate Dash in their businesses
4. Dash community expansion and bring new investors
5. Market Dash product and services with attractive content
6. Generate internal commitment to Dash in Nigeria
Sponsorship gives us:
1. 30 minutes speaking opportunity to pitch dash
2. Booth at the event
3. Opportunity to co-host the evening networking event
4. All participants would set up a dash wallet and get a tip
5. Dash to be a means of payment at the event
6. Visibility of dash in the press
Dash Business Adoption Campaign
This is a campaign solely to sign up new businesses, merchants, and companies to Dash. This campaign will run for 2 months and would reach over 500 companies/ businesses / merchants.
Estimated number of participants per conference would come from over 200 businesses, companies, and organisations ranging from online shops, to offline businesses, exchanges, blockchain and cryptocurrency based organisations, and savings/ credit-facility institutions.
We will leverage on the mailing lists of the Blockchain and AI conference above, and our previous events to ensure our publicity is strategic and direct.
We will also leverage on bitcoinafrica.io, cryptotvplus.com, and other websites for adverts.
The staff would be in charge of creating and nurturing business relationship with clients till it becomes successful and coordinating the entire project.
We are working to integrate Dash to major online stores, more exchanges, and blockchain/ cryptocurrency focused organizations.
Some ongoing integrations are: Yellowcard, Bitpesa, Tradefada, Cryptostorez, Kurecoin and several others.
PROPOSAL VIDEO
Things achieved through our previous projects include:
1. Over a thousand wallets created
2. New 500+ users used dash to recharge their mobile phones
3. Hundreds of users bought Dash as an investment
4. More ambassadors are getting on board and taking the course on dashafrica.org. Over 250 participants have taken the course as at last count.
5. Dash has become a prominent feature in the global market, specifically Africa.
The statistics from Nigeria look very impressive, but, those statistics are just from about 10% of Nigeria. While the Economic capital of Nigeria is Lagos. The Dash Nigeria office is based in Lagos and lots of our activities have been in and around Lagos, save for meetups that are country wide.
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-expands-throughout-africa/
https://www.dashforcenews.com/dash-continues-expansion-in-nigeria/
https://thefreethoughtproject.com/a...ion-african-countries-fight-back-with-crypto/
https://cryptotvplus.com/dash-drives-adoption-in-nigeria-with-new-products/
https://cryptotvplus.com/dash-is-gaining-more-ground-in-nigeria/
https://dashafrica.org
https://imgur.com/a/hddXd4B
https://imgur.com/a/olHn4Mg
https://dashafrica.org/dash-fintech-conference-lagos/
https://dashafrica.org/dashcart-launches/
Funding Breakdown
Exclusive Diamond Sponsorship 10,000
After series of discussions with the organizers, we agreed to pay in Dash at a fixed price of $300 per Dash. This means the organizers would accept Dash, and hold till Dash gets to $300 before they sell.
This implies we would be paying 33.33 instead of 55.5 Dash
Materials:
2 Rollups $100 = $200
10 shirts $15 = $150
Transportation plus accommodation for 4 team members $800
Token for team: $150 * 4 = 600
Giveaway: $600 for 200 new wallets ($3 each)
Proposal fee reimbursement: 5 Dash
Subtotal:
$2,350/200 + 33.33 + 5 = 50 Dash
Venue $1,500
Refreshment $1,800
Conference materials $1,000
Publicity (Radio, Online ads, fliers and posters) $450
Logistics $400
Photo and Video $500
Shirts 12 * 100 = $1200
Banners $200
$7,250 * 2 = $14,100
$3 for 300 new wallets $900
4 Staff on Salary for 2 months $400 = $1,600 * 2 = $3,200
Total = $18,200 / 200 = 91
91 + 50 = 141/ 3 = 47 Dash for 3 months
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