They say it’s not the idea that matters, but the execution.
When we presented our Green Mission 2025 to the ReFi community as part of the Gitcoin Grants, the Greenpill Côte d’Ivoire Chapter received a strong vote of confidence. The community believed in our vision.
Today, months later, that trust has turned into a responsibility: to take action, to deliver, to make it real.
The work has begun. La Ligne Verte is officially underway.
We spent the first few months refining our vision, taking into account the feedback from Gitcoin and the realities on the ground.
Greenpill CI came to a clear conclusion: La Ligne Verte must be simple, visible, and understandable by all layers of Ivorian society in order to ensure smooth adoption.
That’s why we chose a powerful, local slogan:
“Rends ton quartier zo, et prends tes points.”
In Ivorian slang, it means: “Make your neighborhood beautiful and earn points.”
But beyond this first reading, “earning points” also means being valued.
The message is clear: even if our project is built on ReFi principles, we aim to avoid crypto jargon and speak the language of the people.
Our solution takes the form of a chatbot available on Telegram (and soon on WhatsApp), allowing contributors to report trash-filled zones in their neighborhoods.
In return, they receive points — with bonus points if they take action to clean the area.
All collected data feeds into an open source, open data map, which can be used by our partners, institutions, or fellow innovators.
With the ideation phase behind us, we started pitching the solution to various communities including Habitants d’Internet, Celo Côte d’Ivoire, and Tech Republic.
The goal: reach as many people as possible, from crypto bros to tech bros, to the everyday normie.
We then moved on to prototype building through vibe coding.
After months of work, we achieved a stable version, currently being beta tested via our Telegram bot.
It’s with this bot that we entered the project call / hackathon organized by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Côte d’Ivoire, under the theme:
“AI and Biodiversity Protection.”
Our challenge: finding a way to authenticate user-submitted images through AI.
And guess what?
We won.
The Ligne Verte project — the one you believed in — is now partially funded by the United Nations, and we’ll benefit from their structured support and mentorship.
What’s next?
In the coming months, our focus will be on:
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Deploying a smart contract to securely store collected data,
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Finalizing automated point attribution,
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Improving our AI model,
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And launching our first field actions.
To do this, we’re counting on the strength of a growing, dedicated community that we’re building one step at a time.
Huge thanks to Regen Coordination and the Greenpill Network for their trust and support.
We hope to carry this mission all the way and show what Africa can build — when it’s trusted and empowered.
Abraham Coulibaly
Chapter Lead – Greenpill Côte d’Ivoire