An African blockchain enthusiast starts an expedition to highlight the potential of East Africa-interview
An African blockchain enthusiast starts an expedition to highlight the potential of East Africa-interview
While the African continent is generally considered one of the most suitable places to accept the blockchain and use it completely, the reality on site indicates something else.
The blockchain expedition in East Africa
like Adedayo Adebajo, the managing director of Jelurida Africa and a blockchain enthusiast, told Bitcoin.com News, the focus of the investments was mainly on two regions, South and West Africa.
ADEBAJO suggests questions to Bitcoin.com News in written answers that the East Africa region will be left behind. In order to correct this anomaly, Adebajo therefore has organizes the East Africa Blockchain Expedition, an enlightening and Sensitization campaign, in which he has several African countries. This expedition, which began on October 23, is supposed to take 30 days.
To learn more about this expedition and its goals, Bitcoin.com sent news questions about Adebajo, and below are his answers.
Bitcoin.com News (BCN): Can you briefly explain what this blockchain expedition is about?
Adedayo Adebajo (aa) : The blockchain expedition is a journey through East African countries that aim to educate, train, communicate and then present areas in which blockchain technology is already used in the zone. The intention is to enlarge developer communities, to promote more acceptance and to improve public and private knowledge, especially in areas where blockchain technology can help companies and standards.
bcn: What motivated you?
aa : The main activator was the open explanation of the President of Tanzania, Samia Suluhu Hassan, which granted banks and other sectors to deal with blockchain technology and cryptocurrency. It was an open invitation in view of the position of Tanzania in the East African region. This is an opportunity for the evangelists and representatives of interest as I have waited. Bring the sensitization campaign to another level of comprehensive commitment. I think now is the perfect time to educate more people and thus promote more acceptance.
bcn: Why Ostfrica and are there plans to do this in other parts of the continent?
aa : I think everyone is always looking for opportunities. While most are looking for greener pastures that make it possible for them to easily scale, I am more of a pioneer and pacemaker who creates possibilities that others think the other is crazy. The focus of most technology gends is mainly in western and southern Africa and that has to change. You will be amazed at how much technology genius is available in East Africa, of which the rest of the world knew nothing. So my expedition should begin in the east and serve as a reference point for the rest of the continent.
BCN: What do you hope for after the end of this expedition?
aa : At the end of the expedition I hope to have the following:
- Hundreds of thousands of municipalities in the entire region gathered to further spread awareness,
- The support of certain public bodies according to technology-oriented interactions that promote a dynamic and start-up-friendly regulatory framework for blockchain technology.
- successfully convinced and laid the foundation for the mass adoption in the private and public sector.
- increase the community of the blockchain developer by hundreds.
bcn: Charles Hoskinson, the creator of the Cardano-Blockchain, apparently identified Africa as the most ideal market for the blockchain and is currently tours The continent. On the other hand, the CEO of Twitter, Jack Dorsey, has tweeted the potential of blockchain-supported cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin in African countries like Nigeria. Why do influential people like Hoskinson or Dorsey repeatedly emphasize the potential of blockchain in Africa?
aa : I basically see them as investors and like any other who sees the potential among the population and the need for decentralized solutions. Despite the numerous resources that the other part of the world does not have, Africa is still considered poor and underdeveloped. These are large enough potential for decentralized technologies to scale them, and every investor would see that.
BCN: Do you agree that the blockchain in Africa may be more useful than in North America or Europe?
aa : As already mentioned, we have the population and the resources, which we lack on the way to the most coveted continent, is the correct use and allocation with the help of these arising technologies such as blockchain. If it is accepted and used in the right sectors, it will promote (blockchain) quick developments on the entire continent and enable us to compete with other developed continents.
bcn: Do you think that the African governments fully understand the blockchain and what they can do?
aa : I don't say enough to what the African government understands. Most people at the seat of power do not belong to the new generation. Most come from the analog age that still see value to use a typewriter instead of printing, then some come from the generation. The acceptance and acceptance of these 4IR technologies would have increased if the government fully understood it and its potential.
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