Africa Ambassador November 2018 Report

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Africa Ambassador November 2018 Report

tinetien89

Hi All ( Community , Core team and fellow ambassadors),

I am posting my November 2018 report, a month which has been very busy indeed. I will post my expense report at the end, and you will surely notice an imbalance as I started doing the ambassador reponsibility beginning of Oct. 2018 and that my node finally started earning around the 13th November. Also as you all have probably noticed, the value of the NULS tokens (and all others) have tanked in the last month. But I am still super motivated to keep going strong as 2018 is the year of Buidling

1) SOCIAL MEDIA.

So to go back to my report, on social media our facebook community for NULS blockchain Africa (https://www.facebook.com/nulsblockchainafrica/) grew from around 100 to 271 currently.

I also wrote a general public article on steemit for the NULS article competition entitled " Why the World needs NULS now!" , check it out if you haven't had a chance yet.

https://steemit.com/nuls/@sebastienng/why-the-world-needs-nuls-now

2) LOCAL EVENTS and LOCAL community.

I have tried to focus mainly on local events after some positive criticism, the fact that there were no interesting events regionally and also because of budget constraints since I did not receive any funding from the NULS node in Oct. So here are a list of events I attended and the business cards of the people I met there:

a) Blockchain Technology & Digital Assets
Hosted by South African Chamber of Commerce in Mauritius. 31st Oct 2018

I met some really interesting people in the Blockchain space in Mauritius and South Africa. I sent to all of my contacts made there some info / video on NULS.

b) Mauritius Business Network. (1st, 6th and 8th November)

The Mauritius Business Network is a General Network platform where I went for 3 sessions in 3 different regions (West , North and centre) and I met some businessmen there to whom I talked about NULS and specially the investment opportunity in Staking as from 2000 tokens. I also ear marked the owners of that network, who are of South African Origin, to be my NUL stars in Mauritius. I will also be meeting with them to discuss a NULS 101 session for their members so that we can bring NULS to the masses for 2019!

c) Building Scalable African Tech Business: A look into the future. 8th November

I attended a very interesting event focussing on African Tech businesses, made many contact in the African fintech industry, both Mauritians, Kenyans and also some French expats building businesses here in Mauritius. I am keeping in touch specially with the kenyan people I met so that I can set up another regional base there next time I go to Kenya. (Please see my plan for the next 3 months in the election section)

d) GEW 2018 - Much to Celebrate! 13th November.

I attended a half day event hosted at a co-working space called the HIVE for the Global Entrepreneur Week, met mainly start ups in various industries but mainly I hooked up with the Management of the HIVE, with whom I am currently organising an "Intro session on Blockchain" like a "Blockchain 101" with a 5 minute section on NULS. Planning to do the event on the 29th Jan 2019 tentatively. So this is great news Also the owners of these working space are one of the richest families on the island and I am talking to him about potentially investing in Blockchain Projects (and you guessed it NULS

e) Coffee with Dolores 2018. 14th November 2018

Went to this very different event on "social networking" , many young people but no real interesting contacts for now. We can win everytime

f) Professional networking event with expat.com: Grow your network! 15th November 2018

I went to an expat.com networking event and mainly met some french , south-African and some chinese expats there, with some interested in knowing more about blockchains. I met again with the chinese engineer who is setting up all networks in a Chinese Company called Jin Fei, but he has no real interest in blockchain for now as user and / or investor.

g) Marketing for Startups Summit 2018. 17th November 2018

Went to a very interesting event for start ups and the most interesting people I met there were the Speakers, more specially Mr. David de Gaye , who is in the AI sector. We touched base again at another event on AI (See below) and talking about staking in NULS compared to the mining that he is currently doing in Mauritius.

h) Conference on AI by the French institute of Culture. 22 Nov 2018

One of my new contacts met the previous week, Mr David de Gaye and Mr. Philippe Mourand invited me on a session on AI. No new contacts there, but further discussed Blockchain and NULS with them.

3) ONE on ONE contacts for Concrete Deals for NULS.

During the course of November, I have made contacts with the chairman of the State Bank of Mauritius (SBM) , the second largest bank in Mauritius and have been talking of a potential dApp for either their HR or procurement dept. on the NULS platform. I have put their head of ebusiness dept. and their chairman in touch with the NULS CTO and they are currently discussing internally.

I have met with an ex finance minister of Mauritius, who is currently in the offshore business who has agreed to start staking NULS for about 8000 NULS tokens. We will do the transaction in about 1-2 weeks. The next step is to try to make him become a masternode

I have set up a wallet for a family friend of mine , who was a managing partner at one of the BIG four accounting firms in Luxemburg to stake 2000 NULS tokens for now and will eventually try to convince him to set up a node.

4) Expense account

I hope that the community can see that I am doing my best for NULS. November was a very busy month for networking, please note that December and January might be a bit quieter since it the holidays season and that the business community is on holiday last week of December and first week of January 2019.

Please leave me any comments as any comment will help me.

I have updated my expenses for October as well, please have a look. Now I will start working on the proposal plan for the next 3 months, if hopefully I am still Ambassador for Africa

Cristinh0

Dude ... I only have one point to mention. Going to an event without a Nuls t-shirt ... it's like going to play football and not taking the ball. Do not see this as a criticism but as a piece of advice. When we are identified, people look for us and they know we are someone with some status, Knowledge, and
they will have curiosity in knowing what Nuls is.

Therefore, You seem to be a person who intrudes well on events and that's good !! And it seems to me that you try hard this month.

tinetien89

Cristinh0

Hi Joao,

Thank you for your positive comments. As for your NULS tee shirt advice, it is noted. Only thing is I would prefer going to events with a NULS polo shirt or Shirt as in my opinion it is more classy. In Mauritius and Africa, the more someone is "well dressed" , the better impression they make. For example, it might be considered rude not to wear a polo / jacket or shirt / jacket in certain events that have specific dress code.

But yes, I will try to get some polo shirts printed / embroided with the NULS logo for sure for next month... if I am still ambassador

Carly

Dude ... I only have one point to mention too. I just think show all personal business cards in public not so good，Someone may collect them and as a contact data to sell and earn money.(not means our community member) You can give the number of business cards you received and include what companies etc.

tinetien89

Carly

Yes Carly you are right. I just wanted to show that I am doing my work as ambassador as proof, but yes will stop doing that, thank you so much for your comment. It is very helpful

Cristinh0

Carly eii !! You copied the beginning of my sentence !! that's cheating !! ahah

Carly

Cristinh0
Oh Joao! I C,Do I need to pay copyright royalty for using your sentence? Ahaha ,just tell me,cost how much NULS?ahahaha

Cristinh0

Carly You'll have to pay 1 Nuls ahahahah !! just to have some work for your sin ahahah

siwei

可以看到你参加了许多会议，但不知道你的目的是什么？给我的感觉你像是在推销NULS的硬币。
我觉得作为大使，是可以为NULS带来更多的资源或者合作机会，而不是仅仅能让更多人购买NULS的硬币。
当然您的工作可能还在起步阶段，正在积累人脉，无论如何，加油吧！
You can see that you have attended many meetings, but don't know what your purpose is? It feels like you are selling NULS coins.
I think that as an ambassador, you can bring more resources or cooperation opportunities to NULS, instead of just allowing more people to buy NULS coins.
Of course, your work may still be in its infancy, and you are accumulating your contacts. Anyway, come on!

tinetien89

siwei

Hi Siwei,

Yes I have been to many meetings mainly to make as many contacts a possible. No, I do not and have not sold any on My NULS to people. I go to Blockchain meet ups, conferences but also general networking events as there are not too many blockchain meet ups every month. Also, it is a good way to introduce Blockchain then NULS to the people that are interested to know about blockchain, have heard about it but that do not know anything about it. The education part is very important and it takes time. As mentioned, I am talking to 2 networking event organisers about doing a Blockchain / NULS 101 session as from next year as there is a lot of interest in this sector.

Thank you for you encouragements.

By the way, if some people understand the Blockchain industry and like NULS, it is also OK that I help them to download their wallets, help them buy NULS on exchange and set up a stake right?

siwei

tinetien89 By the way, if some people understand the Blockchain industry and like NULS, it is also OK that I help them to download their wallets, help them buy NULS on exchange and set up a stake right?

Of course, if you need assistance, I will do my best.
Every region has his situation, I believe in your judgment and hope that you will succeed.