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The difficulty of local small and medium-sized enterprises, that of unemployed populations who either have informal activities to promote their skills, activities, and businesses are different obstacles to propel the local economy in developing countries, a disadvantaged area thus creating household instability and an increase in the unemployment rate each year. Making it difficult to access employment and stable entrepreneurship

A collaborative economy and jobbing platform for connecting individuals, companies, start-ups, and self-entrepreneurs in different sectors with business management and marketing tools in the form of a business marketplace will help create an ultra-connected network. free trade

Allowing all sections of the population, especially the disadvantaged, to exchange goods and services and have access to decent and stable jobs, publicize their activities, skills by keeping the management of their activities with stable, reliable and diversified

In the employment and labor sector, economic crises have degraded Africa and underdeveloped countries around the world. In Africa 282 million workers are in vulnerable employment, around 66% of the active population, causing an increase in poverty, limiting access to decent work, and a stable salary despite the skills developed over the years.

The repeated wars have weakened the economies; small businesses and activities have become almost absent on the market, many now working in the informal sector find it difficult to manage their activities, to get started safely while the majority of informal work, around 70%, is work independent. In DRCongo, the informal sector is 75% involved in economic operations and remains the main employer with 77.1% of jobs in the entire productive sector of urban agglomerations. With the difficulty of coming into contact with customers or consumers in need, many populations were forced to abandon their activities and the health crisis of COVID-19 came to weaken these activities, prompting many to close outright.

The very high marketing cost, the lack of a website to stay reachable, to present its goods or services to consumers are a handicap to get in touch with potential customers or companies in need.

Deal Business is an interactive SAAS (software as a service) web platform, which connects individuals, companies, start-ups, and freelancers to exchange goods and services via digital

Users have the option of creating business pages to present their activities (it may be goods or services) allowing other users interested in goods or services from a business, a self-employed or of an individual to keep a permanent contact in their exchanges thanks to the tools of company management of the different sectors, the users can see in real-time the evolution of their activities, services, transactions, recruitment, contracts with different ways of payment available from local means present in different countries such as mobile money to international payment to help supports transactions.

Based on Cloud Computing technology in Progressive web app accessible via a web interface which is deployed on several terminals responsively (mobile, tablet, desktop) from a simple web browser, not requiring a download and with the artificial intelligence, our Chat bot systems make it possible to offer interactivity between users to guide them towards appropriate choices based on their daily needs.

We target the disadvantaged populations among other peasants, market gardeners, farmers, traders, job seekers, individuals, entrepreneurs, managers of informal activities, and also businesses. Most of them are looking for jobs, others are positioning entrepreneurs or civil servants with additional activities on social networks.

Through training on entrepreneurship and series of surveys, as well as discussion forums during which we exchange with each actor from different sectors we understand their difficulties and needs but also the functioning of their activities, which allows us to define the functionality of the platform and user interactions. This will help

1. the regulation of informal employment, and income stabilization, to provide a secure framework for the exchange of goods and services
2. Slow down the immigration flow of Africans outside the continent and facilitate the inters exchanges between different economic zones
3. Promote a smooth transition from informal employment to an almost formal or fully formal declaration of activities
4. Bring more guarantees to banks and microfinance bodies to grant credit or financing to these companies
5. Push more people to turn to technical training to create jobs and skills that will be useful to businesses and individuals in need.

To allow their activities to flourish, Deal business will help reduce unemployment, allow exchange of goods, services and skills which businesses, entrepreneur, consumer need in their daily lives creating a form of complementarity between jobs in different sectors, manage their activities, staying in touch, regulating, digitizing their business.

An individual needs the services of a company X, which will request the service of a merchant Y specializing in the sale of and will find freelance Z who has the required skills, all managed and monitored on the platform from booking to payment of the service over the entire work chain

Our solution is innovative due to the fact that most of the websites that offer companies the possibility of being displayed only offer simple static directories without accompanying tools whereas our solution is a market place offer accessible online software tools. to everyone and at a very low cost. Offering the possibility of managing your business with interactive and dynamic pages with several features and a market place. Many sites do not offer the possibility of linking for services. 

 Many of the competitors like Buzcongo or Moncongo do not offer the possibility of management, some like Wiikko are just simple sales sites. It is nothing other than exposure like a lot of e-commerce. 

 Our solution goes even further, beyond the dynamic pages, users have access to functionalities such as accounting, reservation, personnel management, a Bot assistant with AI who continually dialogues with them to help them in their research thanks to the SaaS Cloud Computing PWA technology 

Our solution already offers at the outset a mode of installations without downloading or updating with PWA technology, a possibility of working in offline mode, and data synchronization, a SaaS mode at low cost.

Our solution is based on SaaS (Software as a service) system technology based on cloud computing with the PWA (Progressive Web App) consists in offering a complete software which embeds the management tools in the form of a dynamic web interface hosted online. thanks to a single subscription and accessible everywhere on different terminals with the possibility of connecting to other platforms via APIs

In fact we have mixed 3 types of new technologies to have an ergonomic interface which gives the user to navigate with the same user experience as on a native mobile application without the need to buy a fairly costly business management software or to download other hundreds of third-party applications that would play roles such as an online store, or ask other

With the Cloud we don't need to clutter up our hard drive with a lot of files, we just need to store it on a Cloud and use it as needed, in case of loss of documents, computer, data we can find all these files intact. The Cloud connects data in real time, and operates change and update directly

Salesforce.com : Arguably the best known SaaS application. A real engine of the cloud computing revolution, this software offers new customer management solutions. This cloud-based product helps organizations collect information about their customers and prospects and use it for their own benefit.

Another example of software in SaaS mode, Slack, the famous instant messaging solution. This solution is mainly used by companies for collaborative project management. Slack allows file sharing and facilitates exchanges between collaborators of the same team, alongside private and secure messaging functions.

With the economic crises and repetitive austerities as well as the pandemic of Covid-19 we will observe more and more a development of entrepreneurship on the African continent and underprivileged country and especially with employment and informal activity which will push many people to turn to all in one solutions to have stable incomes but also in a first both the current unemployment rate with the health crisis of Covid-19 and that of employment and informal activities

The high cost and complexity of management software infrastructure which is not within the reach of small and new businesses often pushing them not to have access to a cheaper offer which does not require an infrastructure installation. and maintenance is a rather colossal boost

More and more people prefer to opt for social and interactive platforms with a connotation in order to exchange with their communities, and especially relatives and do business on a platform that offers you much more than a simple directory or Marketplace pushes to create a real business network

The investments of the diaspora in their developing countries will allow the solution to have a major impact because the latter lack the regulatory frameworks for development in their countries of origin
By involving governments and non-governmental organizations in different regions we hope to have the support of economic actors in order to offer a free trade area

We conducted studies with the population between 2018 and 2019 to understand the difficulties of entrepreneurs and those working in the informal sector and have collected data from 300 small businesses which demonstrates a lack of infrastructure for business management and had developed an entrepreneurship training program aimed at helping 3000 entrepreneurs as pilot projects with 300 entrepreneurs. The continent's need is growing for significant economic development, especially oriented towards local content. In Africa, the informal sector accounts for around 40% of GDP on average for low-income countries and 35% of GDP for middle-income countries. More than 500 million informal workers live in conditions of extreme poverty, on less than $ 1.25 a day.

Deal business is currently not serving anyone since the platform has not yet been made available to the public except for beta testers
We expect to reach nearly 3 million users who have formal or informal activities by the end of 2021
In 2025, we will reach nearly 35 million active users for around 10 million activities consulted on our platform

By the end of 2021, we plan to operate in at least 30 African countries, through partnerships with the ministries of employment, and the national labor offices as well as banks in the various countries to enable both urban and rural populations to have access to the platform and reach at least 3 million active users
Work with telecommunications companies to make the platform accessible for free under certain conditions

By 2025 we also plan to operate in countries outside the African continent where the African diaspora is dispersed in order to allow
We would like to imply each government to regulate and recognize the informal activities of the users who by certification after fulfilling conditions are recognized by their governments and in order to facilitate free trade between different countries of the regions, also serve as databases of workers and employees as well as entrepreneur

We are limited on the difficulty of financing, we had a first grant which allowed us to carry out market studies and the development of the prototype, but in addition, we need other additional financing for distribution, marketing and the presentation of the solution.

A launch plan has already been established, except that funding is needed to present these beneficial technologies that are little known or almost unknown to people in disadvantaged countries because they are too often expensive and reserved for large companies.

The other barrier is the legislation of the different regions and the accompanying labor laws varying from the different countries, because we would like those who practice activities via our platform to be recognized and protected by governments. of the countries where they are active and make the certification of accounts in a legalized process

For the coming years, the barriers will be at the deployment level, it will be necessary to strengthen security concerning data protection and to offer better cyber security services.

We are already funding the development of the solution on our own funds while continuing the search for funding unfortunately blocked by the Covid-19 pandemic
And we opted for the development of our own marketing supports in all that is branding in order to launch the solution at the continental level with already a direct impact of visibility but we also work with a non-governmental organization and a foundation which work on the across the continent to spread the word about the solution to their communities so that at launch we can already have a large database of users
On the legislative level we are already developing contract models carved out of several laws of African countries and also based on OHADA law which governs the African economic system via the African Union

Full-time: 2

Part-time: 3

The team is made up
-CEO and Founder of the Start Up Deka Innova, and manager of the Deal Business project, with 10 years of experience in the field of computer graphics, as a graphic designer, web designer and UX designer, and worked on the development of several digital projects and also the study of user experiences
Coach in entrepreneurship he had a lot of discussions with traders, people working in the informal sector, entrepreneurs and project leaders, also brand ambassador of the Tony Elumelu Foundation which deals with entrepreneurship in Africa between 2018 and 2019. Grew up in the RCD war in the Democratic Republic of Congo, he has a lot of knowledge on the difficulties of disadvantaged people or those living in conflict zones
Passionate about new simpler and more autonomous technologies, I have researched the technologies to be used for a long time, and this for almost 5 years
- Two IT specialists who already have almost 15 years in the IT field as a developer, especially using new front end infrastructures and back end security solutions, like X-Cash solutions of Fintech platform
- From a marketing and customer research officer we understand more and more how things can evolve
A flexible and above all creative team with architects and IT specialists, we are looking for innovations more suited to disadvantaged countries
- A social relations and product development manager who creates simple mechanisms for the user experience

Tony Elumelu Foundation with its 10-year entrepreneurship program for fundraising and grant funds, as well as the entrepreneurial capacity building necessary for the team and networking of other start-ups
FAFEDE Foundation which is a network of several entrepreneurs, traders, project leaders, market gardeners, farmers, investors, economic actors for the constitution of a database and the deployment of the solution through these networks of economic partnerships

We work on populations in disadvantaged countries where the penetration rate is initially low, and internet policy is still a luxury for many concerning software and IT infrastructures. We offer a platform with services that the user can use in turn to manage their activities and get closer to customers.

We are based on a premium subscription model starting at $ 1 and freemium, with the possibility of customizing the functionalities.

2 types of user segments : -consumers who need the benefits and goods

-companies of all sizes (from formal to informal) that offer goods and services
The added value is that platform is modular, each user segment can set up their own business as well as not doing so with certain restriction. For reliability, the validation of different users type is done by providing proofs material such as identity documents, photo proof, and administrative documents, we then check with the competent bodies

User subscribes either to a subscription starting from 1 $ or uses freemium, in the majority of the cases the need to personalize several modules is paying too, to have access to the management services of accounting, storage spaces, management human resources, marketing management to clients, content sponsorship, affiliation, having a page with several marketplaces of cicursales
Access to the web platform is free
The targeted segments above all need a sales infrastructure and services more visited and full, to have an eye on business management without having to leave the market place, dealer becomes simple and accessible to all

First of all, the platform works on two models (freemium and premium) as well as a system of modules to be personalized.
We have 3 types of Premium Start, Business and Enterprise subscriptions with different levels of personalization and modules that can be deactivated at any time.
Subscription to a Premium Subscription starts from $ 1 to $ 50 depending on the different customizations for each type of business you want to set up on the platform
Subscriptions are compulsory for service requests and are quarterly, semi-annual and annual, and payment is also made
A user can renew or not his subscription and it is therefore not automatic and relaunch it without losing his data,
Certain external modules to be personalized are paid separately such as the purchase of prospect data,
Content sponsorship (advertising) starts from $ 0.5 up to $ 15
With our model we aim to reach a turnover of around $ 3 million by the end of 2021 with more than 2 million users
In addition, we are already preparing a fundraising of $ 250,000 to set up infrastructure.

Parce que nous recherchons des financements pour lancer notre plateforme, une visibilité internationale pour faire connaître la solution avec impact et toucher d'autres régions des zones défavorisées.
Des financements qui nous permettront d'entamer la phase de lancement mais aussi de renforcer l'infrastructure informatique de la technologie que nous utilisons
Aussi nous misons sur les objectifs de développement durable pour réduire la pauvreté, offrir un travail décent, et faire connaître les activités informelles afin de régulariser l'économie des pays en développement.

Technology for improving cloud computing infrastructure, upgrading the progressive Web App, acquiring international licenses

Our solution provides for connection on terminals such as POS for payment supermarkets in catering but also for the delivery of user products which will have premium and consumer accounts who who would like to receive packages of their order

En relation avec l'amélioration du modèle économique que nous avons mis en place, pour le mettre à niveau et l'adapter ou aux conditions du marché des entreprises dans le monde

puis une visibilité internationale à travers la presse à travers différentes formes de salons d'expositions technologiques et bien d'autres, pour donner un coup de pouce par rapport à tous avec nous que nous faisons en tant qu'action mais aussi pour en attendre plus des zones défavorisées par la publicité marketing international

IBM Microsoft: pour l'intelligence artificielle

Faculté du MIT: pour le soutien aux nouvelles technologies et le développement

IOT: pour une structuration faible des travailleurs

Telecom compagnie: Orange, MTN, Vodacom, Airtel, Glo mobile

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Our solution uses artificial intelligence technology to create a conversational interaction between the platform which is provided with boots which allows the user to communicate more orient the user to make choices in relation to his daily research habits transactions and to guide it also in the choice of providers in relation to needs and even anticipate the choice of user
the investment fund that we will receive will allow us to improve the infrastructure of the chat bot by increasing ethnic data in relation to the different regions and knowledge of economic data in relation to the markets

Our solution use a TAM or millions population workers and the problème ils crucial 

We will use the investissements to deploy solutions in Rhode countries