RE: Get Unlimited Lite Data Plan To Access Steem Block Chain From Nigeria For 30 Steem Dollars/Month.
Glad to see you here, @greenrun. It's true that 30 SBD is much for the average Nigerian, whose minimum wage is only N18,000. There are ways to overcome such things. I like to think solutions.
POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS
In a family, there are usually about 7 members (they could be more or less). These could come together to use the internet in turns, pool resources together to pay for subcription. Alternatively, there could be a group of 10 steemian friends residing in the same area. They could contribute N1,000 each/month to use the internet for 1 hour/day .
Regarding epileptic power supply, a possible solution is found in a post, which I wrote 2 months ago titiled- How To Evolve With MTN Lumos Mobile Electricity Kit For 150 STEEM OR STEEM BACKED DOLLARS (SBDs) .
Thanks for the appreciation, dear. God is the provider. We thank Him for life and providence.
That internet pool looks like a solution that could work. Saving 1SBD daily also is a wonderful suggestion. Most that could afford to do that should as a matter of urgency do. I just wish Smile Network had covered Nigeria the way MTN had. Smile would have given them a run for their money.
I was discussing with a newbie that only comes online when the brother returns from his sales job and shares his internet via WiFi. So a group of young steemians could actually pool resource together and data pool same way people going the same direction carpool.
All they need is a WiFi hot-spot and they could easily share the cost. Nice suggestion.
About Lumos, I think it could help the power side of it. The green in my username has something to do with alternative energy as a solution to Nigeria's problem. I would still delve deeper into that. But Lumos is a laudable project, at a time I wanted to partner with a friend to import something similar but when we did survey we got the same response I get now when I tell people about Lumos, "It is costly."
I'm glad that you like the suggestion of data pool/pool of funds for resources (internet). It can also be called a hub. Back in the days, at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, when I was pursuing my masters degree, there was AFRIHUB on campus. Students went there to surf the internet and paid a token of N100/hr. So, forming steem-hubs would be great. @gloglo also buys the idea. Please, read her comment.
Beautiful, that is good to know. So green is for green energy/renewable energy. Please, do well to delve into it. The more people providing clean energy in Nigeria, the better.
Whether we like it or not, foreigners will not be able to help us fix our problems in Nigeria, if we are not prepared to think out of the box to proffer long lasting solutions. Can you find a way to make energy cheaper for the average Nigerian? We began to witness beverages like peak powdered milk, choco, bournvita packed in satchets when the companies (e.g Nestle & Cadbury) producing them understood that the average Nigerian couldn't afford to buy a tin of milk for N50/N60 then.
Do you know that you could create a solar energy product backed by SMT tokens? I have tons of ideas in my head. IDEAS=MONEY. There is a plan I am working on how to better the Nigeria health sector by providing a working product, which would be backed by both Steem #SMT & fiat currency (Nigeria Naira).
You are right, AfriHub the ICT people, they are in every school I think. Ideas are just limitless on how to apply SMT to solve a lot of problems. I am eagerly awaiting its launch. Thank you.