• Benin
• Port Harcourt
• Kano
• Kaduna Ghana
• Kumasi
• Accra Kenya - Nairobi
• Kisumu Uganda
• Mbarara
• Lira
• Kampala | | Meetups | | | | | Community meet-ups geared towards growth and networking in East and West Africa. | 6 community meet-ups in East Africa 6 community meet-ups in West Africa | 6 months✅ | We successfully hosted meet-ups across the countries and cities listed above. | | Dev Workshops | | | | | Dev workshops geared towards development in Polkadot | 3 dev workshop in West Africa 3 dev workshop in East Africa | 6 months✅ | We have hosted several developer workshops online and IRL on different tools, including Solidity, ink!, and the Polkadot SDK across East and West Africa. | | Mentors | | | | | Mentors to help out developers. | 6 mentors | 6 months✅ | We onboarded six mentors to help out with community development and developers. | | Developer community | | | | | Polkadot developers (smart contracts and substrate developers) | At least 30 developers.  15 from West Africa 15 from East Africa | 6 months✅ | We achieved this. Also, we are one of the communities that have been able to produce developers who now contribute to the SDK | | Advocates | | | | | This includes technical writers and content creators | At least 20 advocates from both regions. 10 from East and 10 from West Africa | 6 months✅ | So far, we’ve grown a network of over 20+ passionate advocates across East and West Africa — learning, building, and spreading knowledge about the Polkadot ecosystem in their local communities. | | Content creators growth | | | | | Onboarding new African Creators | 50+ content creators | 6 months✅ | We have onboarded over 50+ content creators on Polkadot, some of whom now produce content on WagMedia, contribute to our graphics bounties, and generally create educational content about the Polkadot ecosystem. | | Community Onboarding | | | | | Develop a new member acquisition strategy.  Onboarding flow optimisation | Create an onboarding guide Work with Devrel to create an onboarding guide for regular users and African creators (in both content and development). Provide step-by-step instructions on how they can contribute to Polkadot's ecosystem Develop an acquisition plan targeting Web3 users, such as NFT collectors, DeFi users, Blockchain developers, and university students, to join the Polkadot ecosystem through education and hackathons. | 6 months✅ | We created a section on our Notion site called the Handbook that gives newcomers clear steps to get familiar with the ecosystem. We then onboard them into our Discord server (started from 0, but has over 950+ members at the time of writing). We also prepared a content creator onboarding guide to help creators new to the Polkadot ecosystem get started on WagMedia. We optimised our onboarding flow, especially on the server, to make the process smoother. | | Community Engagement | | | | | Working with the community manager to develop a strategy to grow and engage the community, focusing on platforms like Discord, Telegram, and Twitter. Include tactics for organic growth and community events like AMAs. Provide a report summarising community growth metrics, engagement rates, and feedback from community members. Use insights from these reports to adjust the strategy and improve engagement. | Community Engagement Calendar Monthly Community Engagement Report Working with the community manager and DevRel to assess the onboarding process and propose optimisations to enhance user experience. | 6 months✅ | As our activities grew over time, we implemented a community calendar, which was crafted based on the community's tastes and trends. Activities like runtime developer calls, community builders call, and town hall meetings, some of which are held weekly. These are planned according to the level of experience the expected audience has regarding  Polkadot. | | Partner with ecosystem wallet providers, DeFi and NFT platforms to grow their user base in West Africa and Nigeria. | Partnership agreements with key players in the Polkadot ecosystem(e.g., parachains protocols, DeFi platforms, NFT marketplaces) | 6 months✅ | As our activities kicked off, we partnered and collaborated with some ecosystem projects like Bifrost. We utilised DotMemo at our various meetups. We also collaborated with Kodadot to showcase their NFTS at our meetups to increase awareness. | | Strategic Reporting and Iteration | | | | | Conduct a monthly review of growth initiatives, analysing KPIs like community acquisition, partnership effectiveness, and community growth.  Highlight successes, challenges, and areas for improvement. Quarterly review summarising progress towards business goals, key achievements, and adjustments to the strategy. | Monthly growth review Quarterly Strategic Review | 6 months✅ | We have been able to comprehensively write and submit our first quarterly report to the OpenGov Watch. The second quarter report will also be submitted to the OpenGov watch by June. | | | | | | | Creating and implementing a social media strategy for Polkadot Africa.  Focusing on engaging content highlighting Polkadot’s potential impact in Africa, key developments, and relevant African use cases. Highlighting content created by African creators for Polkadot and incentivising more members to contribute high-quality content. | Content calendar for Polkadot Africa's Twitter (X) account.  Feature the best content produced by creators on Twitter (X) and Polkadot Africa website. | 6 months✅ | We created a strategy to constantly engage with community members on our social media to build a presence and always provide information with regards to developments on Polkadot. This has been done on  X through quotes and retweets and we have a channel on our Discord server dedicated to showcasing important ecosystem updates. With regards to content from creators, we repost and quote highly impactful content through X. | | | | | | | Community management for platforms like Discord, Telegram, YouTube and our website, which will be held on behalf of the Polkadot DAO. | Create and manage social media channels used by local community Organise online activities like AMAs, community calls | 6 months✅ | We unanimously agreed to use Discord as a base of operation and communication with the community to concentrate the community especially in the beginning phases of our work in reaching, teaching and onboarding more communities to Polkadot.  To constantly engage with the community, we’ve hosted quizzes, chess tournaments, Spaces on X and consistently have Discord calls. | | Website Development | | | | | A website containing all information and activities that are happening in the Polkadot community in Africa. | 1 website with good SEO | 3 months | Developed and launched the Polkadot Africa website, featuring comprehensive information about the Polkadot ecosystem in Africa. Created a dedicated technical resources hub, offering expert-curated articles, tutorials, and guides | | Recordings & Photos of Workshop | | | | | Recordings and photos from workshops | 6 recordings of developer sessions and as many photos as possible | 6 months✅ | Runtime Developer Guide:

• Introducing Frame (Hosted by Jesse Chejieh) • Weights & Benchmarking (Hosted by Jesse Chejieh) • Storage Migration & Runtime Upgrade (Hosted by Jesse Chejieh) • Building Sovereign Economic System with FRAME (Hosted by Jesse Chejieh) • Asset Hub Migration Walkthrough (Guest Hosted by Oliver Tale-Yazdi) • Transactions and Transaction Extensions (Guest Hosted by Guillaume Thiolliere) • Introducing Flite, a lightweight alternative to FRAME (Guest Hosted by Kian Paimani)

Encode Hackathon:

• Solidity on AssetHub(Guest Hosted by Bruno Galvao) • ink! Walkthrough (Hosted by Femi Olah)

ETHiopia Workshop:

• General Message Passing with Hyperbridge (Guest Hosted by David Salami) | | Collaboration | | | | | Collaborate with Polkadot ecosystem entities and Polkadot Africa. | Collectives, Bounties, DAOs, DF grantees, communities etc | 6 months✅ | We have created collaborations with the following entities: • OpenGuild • WagMedia • Polkadot Ambassador Fellowship • Meetups Bounty |

Notable Highlights:

AFRICA GROWTH IN POLKADOT DISCORD & TWITTER

Since the inception of Polkadot Africa, our community has grown rapidly. Starting with just the team members on our Discord server, we now have over 900+ Discord members from various regions in Africa. Our X (formerly Twitter) has also experienced significant growth, gaining 1400+ new followers since our launch in January.

AFRICA REPRESENTATION OF POLKADOT

Polkadot Africa has featured in a couple of reports as one of the most actively growing communities in Nigeria.

Polkadot Africa was also listed as the top 20 active Blockchain Ecosystems in Nigeria by the Web3 community.

Hashed Emergent Nigeria Web3 Landscape Report 2024, shows Polkadot Ecosystem as one of the Web3 presences in Nigeria.

DEVELOPER GROWTH & CONTRIBUTION IN POLKADOT

Polkadot Africa is currently involved in grassroots communities through its agents in communities like Rust Nigeria, Rustaceans Kenya, and other developer communities. This involvement has brought forth fruits, where we are now nurturing developers hand in hand.

We partnered with Encode and we had a number of developers who participated in the Encode Scalability Hackathon, boasting of our Devrel efforts in the past months.

To foster sustainable developer growth in Africa, we focus on hands-on mentorship and active contributions to the source code that makes up the Polkadot ecosystem. Our approach integrated Polkadot’s core development workflows to ensure developers transition from learners to active contributors.

Polkadot Runtime Developer Guide:

A weekly immersive session focused on onboarding developers into Polkadot runtime development with guest mentors/speakers from the Polkadot Technical Fellowship.  We can now boast of PRs merged into the Polkadot SDK from developers since we started our initiative. We are looking to scale this initiative to even reach more developers. The future is OpenSource!

PBA GROWTH IN AFRICA

We have over 20+ community members from Africa who joined PBA-X in the last two waves, and more are looking forward to enrolling in the upcoming waves.

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