If we want to get Millions of new users from the developing world, we should start with Africa, and to get Africans on Steemit, we need to help get them better access to Smartphones, Solar Powered Battery chargers and the wifi and 3g/4g mobile internet will follow once we help create new users/customers/consumer base! Solar battery chargers are an ESSENTIAL tool for getting Africa Online and I just got a few in the mail and will be shipping them to @ortigas100 to use and document nd tel us if it helped him and if these devices can be distributed across Africa via Steemit networks!
Users like @xpency @tj4real and now another user @gavvet has been brought to my attention talking about how Africa LEAPFROGS with technology! https://steemit.com/africa/@gavvet/the-african-leapfrog
So while the west spends years and billions on buying new generations of iphones and getting costs down, the African Continent gets to inherit perfectly working androids and a whole software ecosystem, basically allowiung Africa to SKIP AHEAD alot of steps western nations had to go through! Similar to how China just goes though 100 years of industrialization in just 20 years!
Here is a post where I suggested we buy some buy solar powered battery chargers to send to our African Steemit users....
https://steemit.com/technology/@ackza/solar-powered-battery-chargers-for-usd9-and-free-shipping-can-help-steemit-users-in-developing-countries-stay-online-inside
So you can see I made a post addressing this problem after seeing this post by African Steemit User @ortiogas100 about how he wishes he had a way to have electricity when he goes through parts of the country without electricity. https://steemit.com/photography/@ortigas100/nature-always-present-something-different-when-you-least-expect-it-s-beauty-3-days-out-without-steemit-its-like-hell-2017628t113914864z
And so I thought to myself, its a shame that he DOES have mobile internet, he DOES have a portable android computer in his pocket in the form of a smartphone, and I thought how much of a shame it is that the ONLY thing this man needs to stay on steemit longer, is a small solar powered battery! And so i found some for only $9 with free shipping on ebay from Malaysia!
LINK TO THE EBAY ITEM: https://www.ebay.com/i/111952495906
(and if it becomes sold out simply ebay search "Solar Power Battery Charger USB) and youll find them!)
Well i used some money from my Steemit Upgrade Africa posts and a package just arrived today and I recieved 3 Solar Charging battery USB phone chargers Units (or whatever we want to call them, i should place Steemit Logos to Brand these Steemit Solar Battery Chargers and a little logo of Africa and Steem Blockchain with the Sun and "Operation Upgrade Africa"
(See how the blue LEDs turn on as soon as any sort of light hits them? very cool to see a small solar panel work instantly like that to activate the blue charging LEDs, I only hope the battery charges up on a full day of sunlight, and that they work as cool as they look! I REALLY hope they work well because they look and feel so high tech very functional toys that actually do a very helpful magic trick! Get electricity to charge a smartphone from the sun! Makes TOO much sense to have everything solar powered! You start to see all the sunlight we DONT use as wasted electricity!!!
Ill be using one for myself to test and Ill ship 2 for now to the Steemit Users I had promised to send these to to help with their issue of going through electricity dead zones where they cant charge their phone BUT they have access to mobile cellphone internet, they just need more of these little solar powered battery charges which only cost $9 with free shipping! I only ordered 3 to test them out first. Even if the solar power doesn't work very well it still is useful as a simple battery you can charge up with USB, and If these work well I will order 10 more and ship them to our African Steemit representatives to sell a few for a nice profit to make nice steemit posts about it AND to hand out others to people who NEED them to stay online at night to keep posting on steemit!
@appiahgyan @tj4real @xpency @ortigas100 @kwabkess @mcsamm @othniel @benimahmud @foreigner
Im tagging you all to get attention to this project I have for #OperationUpgradeAfrica so we can figure this out as we go along (in True African style ;) )
Shot of the Back
And look they even have a small LED on the side so you can use these as a small solar powered flashlight!
So now we can start seeing how well these work in africa! Give these another week or two to reach @ortigas100 who had posted about how he cannot stand having no electricity how its like hell for him to be away from steemit! lets help these people STAY ONLINE!
here is a MAP of steemit users in Africa with West Africa being a Hotspot for both Bitcoin AND now steemit!
Any money i raise from this post I will use to buy and ship more solar panel battery chargers to Africa! i will now be shipping these 2 solar chargers to @ortigas100 and we will just keep shipping these to Africa untill more nd more african Steemit users have them a small but usable source of solar power!
That is the dream! A world where even someone considered "poor" has access to Internet, solar power, and a simple android smartphone which will allow them to watch all sorts of educational and culturally enriching and entertaining Videos or engage with others sharing their local customs on Steemit and social media, and imagine a world where anyone can order items they need using drone delivery, and everyone can contribute using the internet as a way to enhance everyones lives, we can get billions of new users online over the next few decades and we can get them ALL to join steemit!
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NICE $44 Now i can buy like 3 more and pay to ship a couple to africa directly. Im going to just ship the ones I have and order more, see if they arrive safely directly from ebay sent from malaysia or if theyre faster or safer sent directly from US ...
i assume it will just work better if i send directly from USA to Nigeria or to Ghana now! I have ortigas address i will send him it and ill order some more and ill see who else needs one, and ill start sending android buy ANOTHER phone to help ANOTHER person who needs a smartphopne!
I dont mind sending smartphones to Africa even if we cannot PROVE that whoever i send it to gets on steemit and starts posting, well worst case scenariop is that it ends up being stolen and resold, to someone, biut at least SOMEONE in africa will end up with the phone!!!! But if we get these smartphones in the hands of POTENTIAL african steemit users, They could even make enough money to he;lp pay us back for the android phopne, but i would not keep the money no i would use that money to buy MORE phones for MORE africans ...just think of places we could distribute free android phones, schools maybe, or to anyone who you know in africa who you think would be good blogger if they just had a smartphone with built in camera and with that tol they can become a worldclass photographer from just their smartphone!!!!!
I will then
So thoughtful of you. Can you give the link to ebay item. I would love to get a couple of them too.
Hey @infovore, I see you haven't posted in a while.. Just wanted to thanks thanks for the upvote on one of my comments. Very nice of you. I just found it funny, you upvoted my comment on my blog post, but not the post itself lol! Anyways, I think it'll be cool to engage with you over chat if you ever want to.
You should post again by the way, I will be looking out for you posts.
genius idea!
Go buy some more of these Steemit support devices, more batteries for Africa
Hie i am @tinashe from Zimbabwe.This is a great initiative that will change life for african steemians in here.I really hope the steemit community will support this initiative.I will share this post with SteemitZeembabweans.Thank you
oh nice awesome yes go look at #zimbabwe its easy http://www.steemit.com/trending/zimbabwe and make sure every simbabwe person on steemit uses that hashtag for #zimbabwe and yes go follow @tj4real in Ghana and @xpency in Nigeria and the #Africa hashtage at http://www.steemit.com/trending/Africa and you can get p[id here by gettoimg steemit users on steemit from ziombabwe and posting their photos and proof they signed up and u will not only get THEM as followers but u can then make sure make a REPORT Post where u just show all the peopel u signed upo in your local area, and u will be get more than $1 per peraon i mean TJ and xpency were getting hundreds even thousands of dollars on a single post when they started hsowing how many people they signed up like when xpency did a talk to 200 students at his school showing them ALL steemit printing up a steemit logo which is important to show so people know immeidtaly ttjat your with steemit! it will let you start making like $10 per post maybe even $100 a day if you canposrt everyday and work hard! its VERY possible for you to make $100 a day if you can soend a few hours a day on steemit and if u actualy have the time to spoend 8 hours a day EVERYDAY on steemit 5 days a week and even a few hours on the weekend, you could easily startt making MORE than $100 a day ...and im not just saying this...its TOTALLY realistic! u have to hust kep postionG! and NETWORK with your fellow afr8icans because Steemiut is the KEY to increasing Africas GDP by 1000 percenthaha i mean it u could DOUBLE zimbabwe GDP and allow Mugabe to se potential in Steem as a national reserve currency to help with hyper inflation! he iwll LOVE steemit! (and he cant stop it so he may as wel support it haha) bitcoin is the solution! it came at the perfecty time for your country! its all in Gods plan! it realy is a miracle for africa, crypto currency and now Steemit to enavble ANYONE to use crypto currency! SOON we will make a version of steemit FOR THE ILLITERATE where they can simply click buttons with pictograms for sending and receiving steem, for making a post which will let them talk and it will automaticaly write the words using voice to text AND it will also let them easily take phptos AND a video where they can juist TALK into the camera and Post it on stemit instantly, and it will ALSO read the steemit posts to people, for those who cant read
i think this would be a greattool even for children qho want to participate ion steemit but who may not be able to read yet, but we can STILL have them particiapting and even without reading they can make money and participate in the glovbal economy!!!!
Steemit is a HUGE part of God's plan for Africa....all of Africa;'s hardships will make for EXCELLENt stories for the Grandchildren of todays Africans~! The africa of the futuie, in just 209 years, will have no hunger NO poverty no hoimelessness, no warm it will be as wealthy and developed as the USA is today but better because it will be the future! leap frogging trechnology! Youll get to CHANNEL AL that strife and poverty from the past, all that hardship your whole CONTINENT experienced into AMAZINg art AMAZING TV shows INCREDIBLE culture and entertainment for africans and the rest of the world, Nollywood will become a serious movie making enterprise creatying imcredible natuire documantrris and human intertest stories and just amazing dance video and music videos and the art of africa will inspire the world liek it ALWAYS has!
Africans need to feel better about themselves when it comes to their contribution to world music and culture, they inspired the world to create Jazz and so much of todays music, The world dances to an African Rythm to this day with ELectronic Dance Music, and YOUTUBE has turned Dance and Music into a Multi billion dollar industry capable of supporting hgundreds of millions of people, africans can learn about entertainment and really create incredible art and peopel will watch it and youll get ad money and sel tickets foir live shows and musiccians and movie stars and film makers and song writers and dance chrorgraophers will be born ouyt of al of this turmopil africa has expeeirenced
great arty comes from hardship, so just see the african conciousness as a wealth of creativity
woow Thank you @ackza for the advice i will do like you said and Help our community grow.I am sure all the steemitZeembabwe and all africans would find this very helpful .We want financial freedom ,we cannot only rely on fiat ,its in short supply here.So crypto is the only solution,by next year this time we will be speaking a different story.
I would love to add you to our steemitZeembabwe whatsapp group and our chatroom on discord if you dont mind.
congrats on pushing the boundaries of accessible technology that drives increased communication across the world. It's neat to see all the Steem based community initiatives that come out of this platform. congrats @ackza!
yes yes boundaires of the cutting gedge yes yes yes
hey u shoukld ad a profile pic! it will help u! people are more willing tp upvote you iof you have a profile pic!
@ackza thanks for the suggestion. I've update my profile pic! appreciate it a lot! cheers,
@ackza thank you to for helping my fellow Africans <3
OMG. I am just finding this and I think it's PURE GENIUS!!!!!
You can definitely make this into an entire project!!!!!!
Let's discuss this at length to make it a BIG PROJECT.
It's completely worth it.
yes i will keep postong this and make it into a huge project where you can make a post and get all ur followers and whale friends to upvote it so we can get LOADS of these chargers in the hands of every steemit user in africa who might need one! and then also theres alot of people in developing nations who just honestly dont feel worthy to even blog they dont think theyre lives are interesting enough top blog but they are because theyre in other countriesand they get to have a big western audience so anyone in rural india or rural africa is going to win out and they wont believe it at first, and of course we wont be ble to get ALL of them onlione but we will get ALOt of them! its like we have jobs for so many people...in developing countries they only need a few bucks a day! and theyre grateful! and theyre living costs are much much lowerand they can easily get a few bucks a day on steemit and so we have the ability to sustain millions of peopel right now as we are, and we could sustain billions with a higher steem price and simply higher adoption
I was watching a video of @dan being interviewed by @jeffberwick and Dan basically admitted that steemit is al l done as far as the code and back end, and mayb there's some aesthetic and front end stuff and new features have to be created etc but the Blockchain prt is all done! its a HUGE accomplishment because most people dont even KNOW they're ON a blockchain! they just see steemits FRONT END , the facade, they see the steemit social network and think this is not new this is the same shit as facebook or twotter or instagram! and they move on!
the smart ones look deeper and realize that theyre on a bitcoin type network that allows everything to be deentralized so none can ban them that alone is huge
and then making money is realy just the bonus! it IS the main reason we all use it ...lets be honest...but the fact that it WORKS and pays people is just incredible..the fact that steem price is stable at all is a miracle! but its just great engioneering! its a solid system
and dan said something like "Now all the work needed for steemit has to do with getting more users and front end stuff" but the ability for dan to ad value is over, which is a good thing! it means the job is finished! or his backend evelopment job is finished
and dan is just a normal guy who happens to like bl;ockchains and he was un distracted enough and he was focused and in the zone enough to develop a bunch of WORKING bloickchain systems from bitshares to steemit to now EOS and they all work and (well EOS is on its way) and look openledger.io and bitshares thats allowed people to use a decentralized exchange with same ease as Poloniex or bittrex! steemit allows people top geton a blockchain and send and recieve money without any of the hassles previously associated iwth!
i keep repeating this but its So true and we never make enough ofa big deal about it but steemit is the EASIEST cryp[to currency to use pERIOD! No bitcoin or litecoin or ethereum wallet lets you just use a reakin Username! u cant just send bitcoin to a username like @ackza but on steemit u can! boom anyone can send and recuieve money SUER easy with steem and SOON we will have direct steem to cash debit cards and ATMs where peopel wont even NEED bitcoin anymore!
also bitcoin split could help steemit
we are still tied down to steem...we are very much intertwined wiuth bitcoin but we could totally become seperate from bitcoin so even if bitcoin crashes we will be fine!
omg yes but sory for long mesage but here watch this new coldfusionTV video about bitcoins this guy just mkes cool videos and he finaly made one about bitcoin
let's talk about making the SolarChargeAfrica project a reality.
oh it already is! I already have 2 solar chargers i bought using money i made off steemit and im gonan be sending them in the mail to @ortigas100 obce he gets back online and i can confirm a shippimng addres he can use to pick them up ...and i will just keep ordering more and have em ready for steemit usersin africa i can send em to @tj4real and @xpency and they can hand em out to peopel who he has signed up to steemit, i wanna actualy alow hom to give out a solar charger AND a cheap $40 android smartphone with 1 month if prepaid mobile ionternet so they will have EVERYTHING they need to geton steemit and start making money!
BUT YES lets do a whole campaign! i KNEW i could get attention of sopmeonelike u for a projct like this!
We could have a HUGE program going where we can raise $1000 in a SINGLE post and buy 100 solar chargers and send em to tj4real and he can distribute them to steemit users he signs up in africa as lieka BONUS to signup for steemit and you get a free solar charger! peopel will LOVE seeing it out there in their photos people shopwing how theyre only on steemit today because of a solar powered batery charger (eventually we put steemit logos engraved on them or laser ecthing or just stickerts for now)
and we could make these solar chargers so ubiquitos in africa! we canget people in deveoping countries to just take elecriocoty for granted and eventyually theyll just get used to solar battery packs and it will encourage the use of biogger solar systems, ity will be many peoples very first solar panel, and theyre so cjheap i feel its a crime to NOT ship these out!
im ordering a bunch more once i get some more rwards, someone justr sent me enough to order two more in my walet in SBD so that helps! ima just kep ordering me to my house and then shioping themn to africa, OR if they can ship them to africa directly from layasia or china ill do that to but the guiys in africa saud it would work vetter to ship em to US and THEN from US to afria it will be quicker too, and it only took a week to get from mayalisa to here with free shipping $9 and i bet ali express has em WAY chesper we can get em in bulk super cheap
yes yes this will be SO eawesome i alrteady ahve a framewoprk skel;aton of posts setup and i have the main idea down and we have the guys in africa who would be totaly ready tio take photos with the solar chargers showing them giving them to people and making posts aBAOUT giing outteh solar chargers, and peopel showing themselves USING the chargers
the next steo ius just getting more free wifi in more towns in africa because otherwise they have topay alot of money every month just to use ow quality mobile internet, but we could help them get free internet cafes to use, peopel just ned an inteenrt cafe to use for a few weeks or months until they can get enough money on steemitto buy thir own tablet or smartphone !
so many great wayswe can help developingf nationsget ionline because hats all they really need! they can help tejmselves once they just have a way to make a little bit of money online! were so luck to live ina time when we dont even need to get them computers ior laprtops anymore they can just use smartphones to do verything they need to online!
remember One Laptiop per Child program? it was a big sucess and really diod help get many milliosn of people online...and we can have another similar tye of program but THIS time u give the children tablets/smartphones with steemit so they can actuyally earn money online!
Cool! I wish you much succes. I wonder about gravity based chargers, they might be more efficient and work at night.
Gravity based>?? Like u talkin tesla tch ET alien free energy stuf or u mean like a Grandfather clock with a weight and as it is lowered it turns a gear which generates power? like that? and in daytime solar power cranks it back up to its starting position???
Grandfather clock yes! It has aleady been done with lights : ) Maybe on kickstarter?
I had no idea this was such an issue until I saw this post:
https://steemit.com/steemit/@ogoowinner/what-it-cost-an-average-nigerian-to-be-active-on-steemit
The mobile bandwidth costs are quite a hurdle, too! I hope everyone knows how to block image loading to save on bandwidth big-time.
I hope they help people. Nice job.
Awesome project, @ackza! I upvoted with 100%.
Hell yes you are going to be a HUGE steemit player soon just watch! you will have thousands of dollwers and you will have hundreds of thousands of dollars in steem by the end of the year
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Great post! Very happy to upvote!
yes thank you ! and you need to add a proilfe pic! peopel will be more l;ikely to upvote u with a profile pic!
Solar chargers are great, they can work well with small led lights also. Cheers.
I don't know your background, how you came to care or be so insightful about Africa but...you are right on in your views!! Africa IS VITAL!! It is so important that I guarantee major wars will be fought there in our lifetime. People like yourself, and belief in Steemit's platform to change energy into value are why I decided to get involved. ANYTHING we can do to reach and help Africa will reward us twofold, both as an investment strategy and as a way to reclaim our humanity from the wealthy elite. Thank you so much!
Hey look LOL
US Sends military drones over Africa LOL why cant we send drones with FOOD instead of missiles? OMG how abiout we make FOOD missiles !!! Air to ground food missiles, capable to firing 100 pounds of rice or modify cruise missiles and cluster bombs to drop food packets that just drop down onto the target area LOL
Ive had this idea before and wrote it all down and i can remember it all, its just the concept of taking out warheads on bombs and cluyster bombs and cruise missiles and MLRS Multiple Rocket Launcher systems and putting food andf MREs in tghenm to send food anywher in teh world hahah u could attack north korea with fod so the people would escaope out in tin places where peoppe are starving,m
and then we could have a free market soplution where the drones are PAID to drop food so people arent on any sort opf welfare addiction, we let people use theior Cellphones that are psolar powered or powered off the radio siognakls themselves and eh forests and just live ouyt there and we could supply them with arsm and food lol or just drop food anywhere peopel are ensvaled to allow them to tyopple thir government but yeah food drops could be strategicaly placved p
Love this work cracking, the @Steemit community slowly improving the world, amazing
Wow. A worthy cause @ackza. With improving technology and cryptocurrency #africa will get a chance of growing. Thanks for all the effort you're making. You made mention of @tj4real and @ortigas100, they're inviting lots of Africans to join steemit like crazy. @tj4real invited me to check this platform. If there is such a thing as ambassadors of steemit africa, I'll give it to these two guys.
Check out my post and resteem to help get to a wider audience.
https://steemit.com/africa/@muhammadalikatu/a-festival-celebrated-in-ghana-the-antelope-hunting