Guild in the spotlight: Sankore 2.0 – bringing forth Web3 and Open Web technologies to Africa
Africa is a developing continent spearheading real-life applications of crypto, blockchain, and Web3 technologies.
Sankore 2.0 (S2) – headquartered in the city of Nairobi – is one of NEAR’s most successful guilds. S2 is an Africa-focused community integrating the NEAR blockchain and adopting Web3 technologies to launch projects and solutions by Kenyan developers. Some of which include enterprise and institutional blockchain development, IoT, smart agriculture solutions, digital infrastructure, food and water security, and the creator economy.
One example is Sarafu, an online real-time payments platform built on NEAR Protocol that enables the rural farmers in Kenya to accept crypto as payments and use it to buy their basic needs and other agricultural supplies.
Just recently, Sankore 2.0 kicked off NEAR-MEET and will be touring five cities in Kenya to introduce NEAR to a broader community and highlight the opportunities in the NEAR ecosystem. The team has visited two out of five cities – Mombasa and Kisumu – and has created hundreds of new NEAR wallets, onboarded new talents, and welcomed new community members on Telegram and Discord channels.
One of S2’s goals is to expand its presence to the other countries in Africa and bring more Web3 applications running on NEAR to the rest of the continent.
Join us and start your own guild to make a change within your community (or even the whole continent): https://near.org/start-a-guild/
The OWS Team
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