From my two weeks experience. You can build your network by joining some groups on whatsapp or telegram.
With my two weeks i have met great people and also built a few network although small but they helped me to win this contest that gave me 150 doge coin
Congrats! I am in Thailand and don't use a phone for work - just a laptop - but I'm glad you found good places to network.
The speed of my laptop is very slow and am very careful the sites i visit as a person learning web design. I got ideas on that and my antivirus assist me also.
Thanks once again