1. Proposal Purpose:
My aim with this proposal is several fold,
1/ Get 5x Mobile phones (Android) to DFA Academy along with initial data for 1 month per device.
2/ Get Gaming NFTs to these players either through donations from our supporting Solana Gaming projects from working with them and/or from our Vault - if new tooling comes about that makes this possible to retain the NFT, that would be the preference.
3/ Introduce the players into our Grape community and events, get them playing in events and participating within Grape, and even within the Solana Gaming projects with which they will be playing.
I do not want to aim to donate the phones and consider that a completed process and successful, the team (DFA Academy) will need to consider many topics include physical safety, mobile phone safety and storage, data usages and access, power access (yes we need to think how to actually make sure they have power), and of course safety within the crypto and discord space, and as a community protocol I’d love for us to help where possible.
The end goal is to make sure they can safely and proficiently use these donated phones to be able to set themselves up for their own data usage costs, and work towards growing the amount of devices and thus enabling them a higher chance of earning and LEARNING for the entire team. They are young boys obviously, so we need to make sure we consider extra factors and actually help them to safely navigate the space to empower them to then develop skills and opportunities they may not have otherwise.
It is worth noting that there are currently not playable Solana Blockchain games completely ready (that I’m aware of), this is to be ready for the wave that will be incoming, and we can start to safely teach these boys the above topics ASAP, and they can engage within our community immediately from there.
2. Grape Proposal Overview:
I have spoken with DFA and Futuremind and we have located several bits of positive information of different phones, and data costs (the data is cheap ultimately - that’s a minor problem).
$8.92 = 20 gig (data costs are rough estimates converted from Naira to USD
$6.25 = 12 gig
$4.46 = 6 gig
$3.75 = 4.5 gig
$2.67 = 3 gig
$2.14 = 2 gig
These costs do not include postage and insurance atm. I personally don’t know the above 2 cheaper phones, I personally own and use an S8 and S20 FE.
In NG cell phones are very available and easy to acquire through a local online vendor. Which means a few things…
- There will be online receipts for proof of purchase/use of funds.
- This will take less time (shipping 2-7 days locally.)
- The Grape/Solana/USDC can be traded/sent to Binance for Naira (local currency) to purchase the phones.
3. Stakeholders
- The best person to contact for additional information is DFA and Futuremind, who does help him with communication and chasing information for the charity organisation. I obviously have had to learn alot of these things, this has been a steep learning curve for me as well.
I absolutely welcome additional points to consider, I don’t want to rush sending things, we’ve taken time to find the access to purchase the phones, and plan to do delivery in stages. 1/2/2 phones at a time.
I truly believe it will be easy to get games to donate NFTs, and many other protocols releasing products like StepN with which I’ve started talks with (move to earn). This will alllow the boys to be a very real world benefit from Grape and a potential chance for us to help a community out from the ground floor. They will be able to re-brand and include us, they will be able to chase other sponsorships from mobile data companies, the list goes on for possibilities.
We don’t need to rush the 2nd and 3rd phase, but I do think starting phase 1 Immediately is a small cost to trial something that could be life changing.
4. Costs/Resource Requirements:
My proposal is to get 1 Phone initially sent across to test this process, also to include postage/insurance and a small amount to also purchase a decent battery pack in case of power losses, and data considerations. I think initially data may get chewed up a bit, they are young boys after all, and we probably need to at least let them watch some kind of stream content to educate them as well via short online tutorials (language considerations here as well). I feel data is one of the least concerns initially from some of the listed points to consider.
1/ 1x Techno Camon + Sundries
$550 USDC
From there once successful I would propose to do:
2/ 2x Samsung Galaxy Note 20 @ $875 each along with $25 for sundries = $1800
3/ 2x Samsung Galaxy Note 20 @ $875 each along with $25 for sundries = $1800
