#692 Smartcash Adoption by Businesses and Conference in Nigeria

The discussion on Cryptocurrency in Africa today cannot be over emphasized, it was informed by google that Africa recorded the highest search request on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency in late 2017 and early 2018, about 43% search on Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency was from Africa with Nigeria holding the highest proportion of it. Nigeria being the largest populated country in Africa, presents to be a fertile base for adoption of innovative technologies, pregnated with millions of youth that are interested in internet businesses and open to technology that present to them a way of making money online.

Educating student and community on Smartcash platform through conference and effective workshop activities in Nigeria in various institutions will serve as a great way of creating new user base and community base for SmartCash in Nigeria and Africa at large. This will allow crypto driven individuals that got enlightened through our conference and meetups to start using SmartCash as a medium of exchange and a way of making money online through Smartcash Reward system and Smartcash Nodes. Business owner meetups will also serve as a massive way for SmartCash adoption to be used as payment for goods and services.

GOALS

1. To create a large SmartCash community base in Africa
2. To introduce SmartCash to a minimum of 200 business owners and merchants in Nigeria. They would begin using Smartcash as a medium of exchanges in their businesses and would be listed on find.smartcash.cc.
3. Training individuals with vast knowledge of Blockchain to become smartcash ambassadors for continuous merchant adoption;
   Participants would be trained on how to benefit from smartcash reward system, set up SmartCash wallets and also how they can be part of Smartcash social activities to contribute to the development of Smartcash community. Individuals with vast knowledge on Blockchain and Smartcash services will be trained on how to continuously onboard merchants and businesses for the adoption of Smartcash as their payment means. Below is the planned activity for them.

The event would entail talks on:

o Blockchain & cryptocurrency,
o How to download and setup SmartCash wallets
o Buying and selling of Smartcash
o Understanding the Smartcash Reward system
o Smartcash Mining.
o Smartcash Rewards.
o Smartcash Smart Nodes

o Smartcash for Merchants and Businesses

a. Presentation on how Local and major business to adopt SmartCash as their payment means.
b. Advantages of using SmartCash for their daily transactions like payments of goods and services, payment of fees/bills, receiving remittances and many more
c. Training individuals with vast knowledge on Blockchain to become Smartcash ambassador for continuous merchant adoption.

BUDGET

Budget for Printing:
Shirts - $12 per shirt for 100 T- shirts = $1,200
Banner $40 * 3 = $120
Stickers $2 * 200 = $400
Pamphlet $1 * 200 = $200
Roll up $130 * 3 = $360

SubTotal = $2280

Budget for Conference
Venue $350 = $350 
Audio Visuals $70 = $70
Media Coverage $100 = $100
Press Coverage $100 = $100
Refreshments $10 * 100 = $1,000
Logistics = $100
Total = $1720

Budget for Publicity
Online adverts = $400
Flyers = $200
Bulk sms = $25

SubTotal = $625

Remuneration for Volunteers
$100 * 4 = $400

Total Budget = $5025