#1student1tree: E-Green Nigeria's tree-planting campaign at Bayero University

In August 2016, Digital Development Hub and Bayero University Kano launched #1student1tree, a tree-planting campaign on the university's new campus. It opened with over 300 seedlings planted by students and management, led by the Vice Chancellor, Yahuza Bello, towards a campus target of 3,000 trees.

The campaign's banner billed it as an ICT Driven Tree Planting Campaign, run by the university's Faculty of Earth and Environmental Sciences in collaboration with DD Hub on the faculty's premises from 8 to 13 August 2016, and powered by Data Crew and the BUK Environmental Group.

The campaign was part of E-Green Nigeria, a DD Hub initiative to mobilise communities, private companies, government agencies and civil society to plant trees sustainably, reduce the effects of carbon emissions and combat desertification. Its stated aim at launch was to facilitate the planting of 10,000 trees a year across Nigeria.

E-Green Nigeria was built around a simple concern: planting a tree is not the same as keeping it alive. DD Hub's Green Tracker software was designed to keep planters updated on their tree, and to send an SMS if its survival was threatened. Trees surviving one year were to be mapped and named after the people who planted them.

The launch was reported by African Newspage on 25 August 2016.