BRICS Solution Awards

TheConnect Africa

Problem and implemented solution

PROBLEM: There is a need for an African owned trade e-platform that will understand African people, business owners, professionals, and the unique problems that they face in the technology and socio-economic environments that they trade in and have solutions that are tailored and designed for their specific and unique needs. They need a safe, affordable, and easy to use solutions to sell, advertise, and network online, Our e-platform is a one stop for all of these needs. SOLUTION: The solution is to create a safe, affordable and easy to use platform where it would be affordable for business owners to have online shops, to advertise, to post events, and to post their own job listings. As well as a networking platform for businesses and professionals. A one-stop shop where you can: post listings, post events and sell tickets, register an online shop and sell online, post job openings, advertise on special ad space, join our directory of businesses and professionals for networking

South Africa (SA)
Nomination

Artificial Intelligence And Digital Services

Topic

Distributed registries

Estimated duration of implementation

It has taken me 18 months to build and fine tune the platfom.

Implementation geography

South Africa and the greater Southern Africa with plans to expand to the rest of Africa and the world in future.

Description of competitive advantages

Our biggest market competition are international media platforms that have already been in the market for long: Facebook and Linkedin. Facebook provides a platform for advertising, networking, and having a market place. Linkedin provides a platform for networking with professionals and having a job board. An advantage of our platform is that it combines these functionalities and puts them into one place in a safe, affordable, and moderated platform that is geographically relevant. Other competition is Takealot, YAGA, OLX, Gumtree, Indeed, and Twitter or X.

List of awards and prizes, media articles about the organization/individual or the Practice

None

List of scientific works and IP connected with the Practice

None

Contacts

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