ICON AFRICA DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE & ICXArmy

Grants
#1

Category- community activities

PROJECT DESCRIPTION.

Africa remains a potent force and an untapped market in the crypto space, this initiative seeks to achieve.

  1. Develop and build a very vibrant icon community in Africa, seek out partnerships in the continent and onboard Devs from the continent into Icon. We will be using the power of social media engagements like twitter, organizing and attending events and meetups to present the icon project,article writing, reaching out to crypto communities through “ask me anything sessions” on different exchanges like Binance Nigeria, Huobi Nigeria and other groups we will also leverage the power of graphics that speak.

  2. Set up and grow the IcxArmy twitter handle,the aim is to gather people from different areas and geographies whose sole job is to tweet and retweet information that will help the project,it is intended to get social media sentiments about icon very high and also kill fuds if any should come up.even the ceo of Binace adviced projects to set aside some funds for the sole purpose of fighting FUD, his advice can be found here https://twitter.com/cz_binance/status/1197720622681321472 .

the power of social media cannot be over emphasized.we will be running regular giveaways on the handle to build a very large Army for marketing purposes. as at the time of submitting this proposal the icxArmy twitter handle is already being set up.

We have already started a series of activities in the past few months all geared towards establishing a formidable presence in Africa, the community has continued to grow organically some of the things we have already done include.

we organized two offline events in the month of may and June

We also wrote an article on how icon can be used to solve trade problems in Africa which all received positive engagements from the community .

people usually absorb and act on information bit by bit, because of this we started a twitter campaign, the objectives is to leverage the use of graphics to represent facts about the icon project, this received a very positive engagements from the community, the links include

Project Duration: 1 month

Amount requested: $ 2,500.

Public Address: hxa3fc11ffa20742d7d23bc54f7302acf0d43d6b1e

funds coverage.
The requested funds will cover
A. 3 meetup events
B. 3 contents in the form of articles to be published on iconafrica medium channel and publish0x
C. Ask me anything session on Binance Nigeria Telegram group ( giveaways)
D. continuation of Did you know series facts about icon, 10 more graphics that speak

contact : wealth01@protonmail.com

Twitter: @IconAfrica2

Team name IconAfrica

We have the vision and passion, please give us the mission

Thanks

#2

Hi there, overall I like the idea of having compassionate team in Africa. However, before we give out grant I think your team should build more credential in order to get it. Could you be more active in ICON community for next one or two month so we can build trust each other? thanks!

#3

Thanks for the response, my team is quite active on twitter, will be more active on telegram if that is what you meant.
icxarmy is already set and gradually getting some traction

#4

Initial Review Result Comments

Review Result

Request for more information

Review Comments

Please provide 3-5 KPIs for your project, for example

  • ICXarmy twitter
    • Current Followers: 15
    • Target Followers: 500
  • Meetups
    • Target Registrations: 100 people
    • Target Participants: 50 people
  • Etc. etc.

Also, please think about lowering the budget if possible. Looking at your plans, it looks like only costs are meetup and AMA rewards and we do not think 2,500 is necessary for these costs. If you can provide more information on justifying this cost we understand, otherwise please try to lower the cost.

Next Procedure

ICON Foundation provided the Initial Review Result Comments on the proposal. Grants recipients will respond to the Foundation’s response. Depending on your comments, the foundation will provide the Final Review Result Comments.

#5

Thanks for your comments.
meetup costs are as follows.
$230 for logistics and $80 for announcements on campus media channels like campus radio (4 slots at 20 usd for a slot), $310/meetup, for 3 meetups = $930
Ama on binance Nigeria = $ 500 giveaways ( minimum requirement for ama on Binance Nigeria).
collaboration between crypto twitter groups to build up icon africa and icx army $150 for each handle totaling $300 (as giveaways). basically what the groups does is to retweet my messages and encourage there followers to also follow the handles.
930 +500+300 = $1730
the balance of $770 takes care of the graphics designs , content creation in the form of articles to be distributed on iconafrica medium channel and publish0x and compensationfor the team
we expect minimum of 40-60 participants/attendance for each meetup
our activities we expect will increase icx army from current 15 followers to 150-200 followers
iconAfrica from current 64 followers to 150-250 followers. Thanks

#6

Initial Review Result Comments

Review Result

Partial Approval

Review Comments

  • We approve a total of 1,500 to cover meetups and Binance AMA
  • We think you must put in your own efforts to grow your twitter but we appreciate efforts to grow ICON community in Africa. Please try your own efforts to grow twitter from current level of followers
  • Please provide information and evidence of success of meetups and Binance AMA
  • We would like to see
    • Binance AMA: Number of participants and number of questions
      • Please provide examples of some interesting questions you receive from Binance Nigeria community after the AMA we would be interested to see!
    • Meetups: Number of registrations and number of actual participants. Also please provide photos so we can share on social media
      • Any additional interesting information about the success of the meetups is great!

Next Procedure

ICON Foundation provided the Initial Review Result Comments on the proposal. Grants recipients will respond to the Foundation’s response. Depending on your comments, the foundation will provide the Final Review Result Comments.

#7

because of our passion and commitment we will work, but please know that from your approval, after our work is done the team is actually left with nothing of any sought.
Thanks

#8

Final Review Result Comments

Review Result

Approved

Reporting Period

Grant recipients should produce Periodic Reports in order to continue to receive grant funding. If the Periodic Report is showing that the initiative is not meeting expectations, the ICON Foundation has the option to halt continued funding. Please check the link (ICON Community Grant Program (“ICON CGP”)) and leave reports on this page (https://forum.icon.community/c/g/pr)

The team must submit the Periodic Report by the timeframes below (UTC):

  • 2020/09/08 02:00 AM (UTC)

Funding Amount

The ICON Foundation is going to give out $1,500 in 2 monthly installments based on the Periodic Report. The amount of ICX will be determined and paid according to the price at 02:00 AM (UTC) on the day of payment.

  • 2020/08/12 02:00 AM (UTC) - $750
  • 2020/09/15 02:00 AM (UTC) - $750