Criptogene - Blockchain for Africa

A Multi-platform blockchain hub for developing countries built on the ethereum blockchain

Introduction

The Cryptogene Project Targets Africa as its Base But is Open to All

At Cryptogene, our mission is to provide blockchain-based solutions, especially for African countries. The project targets Africa as its primary base and seeks to create better integration and development using the plethora of advantages the blockchain technology offers. We intend to bring cryptocurrency and blockchain technology mainstream on the continent.

Cryptogene is building a hub which would bring blockchain technology mainstream in Africa through education, awareness creation, and implementation of blockchain-based services. This, the Cryptogene project aims to achieve through the application and use of blockchain tools by producing quality products and end-user services valuable to enthusiastic and engaged individuals.

Blockchain Multi-Platform Hub

Information and Knowledge sharing has always occurred consistently, but in recent years, the development of digital technologies by and large and the Internet specifically, have changed the way knowledge is shared.

The Issue​: Knowledge abounds in Africa; knowledge that, if all who have acquired them imparted to young amateurs, policy makers, program implementers, and the general African public, would contribute to the battle against need and poverty. In fact, a considerable amount of resources is spent on creating awareness, organizing learning, and conducting training and research, which ordinarily, just winds up on library racks, not just out of reach to the aforementioned groups, but also in highly technical and indigestible forms. (2).

The Internet is still a far cry from the day by day reality of numerous African individuals. The reality demonstrates that the utilization of the Internet as an information sharing apparatus stays constrained. Issues emerge ranging from physical inaccessibility, and poor network. Again, connectivity and electricity issues are common features in many African rural areas and urban slums.

In many African territories and urban ghettos, network and power supply are unstable, many needy Africans are ignorant or have English language difficulties, and as a result, have only limited content-based knowledge they can specifically digest and utilize. Despite these challenges, a few individuals are able to come off the shackles and find their way up to the top.

Many organizations in Africa only appear to utilize the Internet as a tool for marketing or promotional purposes; And the reach and use of the Internet and ICT as a knowledge sharing tool will continue to elude many poor Africans if new and effective methodologies are not adapted to suit and/or mitigate these constraints. The reasons for this are not far-fetched;

1. Many organizations (CSOs) in Africa often work for groups which do not have the infrastructure, capacity and facilities to exploit the benefits of the Internet and ICT. To reach these groups more traditional methods of knowledge sharing need to be used such as face-to-face meetings, public seminars, outreach groups, radio programmes and paper publications (1) (2).
2. The capacity of these groups to apply, promote and monitor the use of online knowledge sharing tools is often still relatively low.
3. The use of the Internet as a knowledge sharing resource is often further hampered by the cultural and social, and stereotypical perception of most recipients in Africa (1) (2).

The Solution​: As a result of lapses with information dissemination, knowledge sharing, monetary integration, economic impediments and other socioeconomic disadvantages common with African nations, Cryptogene aims at a multi-platform hub that supports cross-border learning, usage, and development of blockchain tools for individual and organizational goals. These it aims to achieve via the following tools:

1. Physical offline awareness via Summits, Seminars, trainings, and User oriented programs, like the Cryptogene Ambassadorial program.
2. Online awareness via Cryptogene-Learn (DIGEST) and Cryptogene-Talk (Spiel)
3. Mass media information dissemination channels such as Radio, Newspaper and Television
4. Information sharing via other channels such as Schools and other institutional bodies
5. Business support, and development and integration via Cryptogene-Build (SILK), Cryoptogene-Mart (BlockMART), Cryptogene-Ex (HAVENE) and Cryptogene-token (CGT).

The Cryptogene Multi-Platform hub will be tokenized to elicit commitment and keep interest alive among users. The Cryptogene Token, CGT will be the base currency.

Concepts

The Cryptogene team will continually work together to provide various use cases for the

CGT token. However, our initial use cases will include but not limited to:

1. Cryptogene-Learn (DIGEST)
2. Cryptogene-Mart (BlockMART)
3. Cryptogene-Ex (Havene)
4. Cryptogene-Talk (Spiel)
5. Cryptogene-Build (Silk)
6. The Cryptogene Token (CGT)

Token Launch

There'll be a total of 50,000,000 CGT issued. Out of which 25,000,000 would be sold during the ICO phase. We chose waves as the platform on which we would launch our crowdsale, while we implement our smart contracts on ethereum. Our goal is to raise a maximum of $2.5 million USD and a minimum of $1 million USD. Some of the numbers may change with Waves/USD exchange rates and volatility. Pre ICO starts August 10th 2017, and would last for 2 weeks. There'll be a 50% bonus for all pre ICO tokens. ICO starts a month after the end of the pre ICO and will last for 2 months.

Token Distribution

Out of a total of 50,000,000 CGT issued,

*50% of which will be distributed to the public through an ICO

*20% will be reserved for founders and core developers

*20% will be reserved for future stakeholders

*10% reserved for marketing

ICO structure

Pre ICO: During the pre sale, Cryptogene will be raising funds for the marketing and

development of the Cryptogene project. The Pre ICO will last for 2 weeks starting from

August 10, 2017.

Details:

- Token name: CGT

- Represents: Proof of Interest

- Token price: $0.05 (50% Off)

- Tokens amount. 5,000,000 of total 25,000,000

- Platform: Waves

- Pre ICO launch date and time: 10th August, 2017

- Pre ICO time frame: 2 weeks (14 days).

ICO: During the crowdsale, cryptogene will be raising funds for the marketing and

continuous development of the Cryptogene project. The ICO will last for 2 months

starting 1 month after end of pre ICO

Details:

- Token name: CGT

- Represents: Proof of Interest

- Token price: $0.1

- Tokens amount. 20,000,000

- Platform: Waves

- ICO date and time: 22nd September 2017

- ICO time frame: 2 months (60 days)

Budget Allocation 

Cryptogene​ ​Products:​ ​40%​ ​of​ ​total​ ​budget 

This financing allows for the rollout of the Cryptogene project. Starting with Digest and moving to other products as our roadmap highlights 

Administration:​ ​10%​ ​of​ ​budget 

Will cover costs of security, legal, accounting and other associated administration costs, marketing, growth-hacking, PR, partnerships, affiliate programs and more. 

Marketing/Advertising:​ ​20%​ ​of​ ​budget

Marketing will focus on creating awareness via advertising, running costs of the Cryptogene Ambassadorial program, the bounty program as well as maintenance of the community. 

Contingency:​ ​5%​ ​of​ ​budget 

Set-aside for unexpected costs. 

*25%​ ​of​ ​total​ ​budget​ ​kept​ ​for​ ​investments​ ​and​ ​future​ ​projects

RoadMap

In the order of the proposed roadmap, the Cryptogene platform will be developed in the following stages: 

-Smart Contracts Development (July – Dec 2017) 

-Token Creation and Allocation (July – Dec 2017) 

-Exchange Integration (July – Dec 2017)

-Cryptogene-Learn (Digest) Launch (Jan – April 2018) 

-Cryptogene-Talk (Spiel) Launch (Jan – April 2018) 

-Cryptogene-Mart (BlockMART) Launch (May – Aug 2018) 

-Cryptogene-Ex (Havene) Launch (May – Aug 2018) 

-Cryptogene-Build (Silk) Launch (Sep–Dec 2018)

Our Awesome Team

The Cryptogene team comprises of highly skilled and intelligent individuals who constantly work towards making the platform a standard hub for community members to understand the essentials of the technology, provide an establishment to investors and traders and also deliver a platform which would assist members to easily develop or incorporate blockchain in their businesses.

For More Information :

Website        : https://cryptogene.co/

Whitepaper  : https://cryptogene.co/assets/files/Cryptogene%20White%20Paper.pdf

My Bitcoin Address Link : https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?action=profile;u=1210304