Submitted by Aviram Levy
The Challenge
Our mission is to build and manage a platform that will allow Africans to trade online. Within Africa and Intercontinental as well.The first challenge is to plan, design & develop the platform in a way that will be intuitive and easy to use also for people that use Internet for the first time.The platform will be on a web site and mobile applications.We are looking for developers, designers, marketing people, people that are well connected within Africa and everybody that can help making this amazing project work. The second challenge is to penetrate to the market. To reach business owners and people that want to build a new business - and to teach them how to use the platform.The second part of the second challenge is to get to the costumers and assure them the best service and the best quality.
We are looking for:
Developers, designers, marketing people, people that are well connected within Africa and everybody that can help making this amazing project work.
Background:
3G Internet technology is well spread in Africa. Even in the most remote places you can usually find a 3G signal in your mobile phone.
This means that the infrastructure is there already but nobody really use it for proper trading.
"There are pipes but no liquid..."
According to the world bank and other organizations the ground is ready for our project.
Case study:
Alibaba.com have done it in Asia. They have changed the way business is done there! Alibaba's estimated value is 120 billion $US!
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