Afro Emotikon emoji

Am Nzewi Uchenna osita  a male age 40 years over 5 feet tall,the founder of Afro Emotikon an emoji company used in making comment and chatting online,my role as curator of Afro Emotikon are in the management team,Curator: The keepers of the artistic works and graphics documentations are done like book keeping but know is an Intellectual property, he is in charge of early adopters and exhibitions.

Past experiences on system engineering field with MSQL Server2000 to pool the following together;

Graphic manager: The new trends and designing of animated sticker characters are done by him, he is in charge of new emoji concepts.

Afro emotikon is alleviating racial diversification of emoji, smiley and emoticon through selling of patented fast moving consumer goods with fast moving consumer electronics.

The customer base is users of fast moving consumer electronics are chat messengers or mobile communications. 

The solution to problem identified is printing of Afro Emotikon emoji on cups, key holders, T-shirts offering them for sell in retail shop. The solution has a secret sauce due to the diverse color code used in the production of emoji representing Afro black Negro communities. 

Afro Emotikon is solving the communication with aid of emoji in internet,cellphone,mobile phone communications.

The scalability of Afro Emotikon as a racial diverse emoji company is use of dark skin emoji as black race color of skin in chat and comment box panel in cyber world.

The people effected are over 1 billion internet user around the globe, more than 500 million people connected to facebook,whatsapp,telegram etc and daily SMS users including over 1 million blog companies comment box.

The  factors contributing to the problem are the following:

Government Policies of OTT and OTA ; Over The Top and  Over The Air respectively 
Copy right laws:Emoji as intellectual property has right protections on the graphics used in communication that represent our emotions.
Coding:Robotics and programming languages availability of Unicode consortium high level program API documentations.

Afro Emotikon Project are stickers,emoticons called emoji used in to chat and comment online it represents our feeling,actions and activities beyond imagination.

This is how Afro emotikon works:2 people chatting online on a messenger application,and each of them to want to personalize his thought with graphics animated cartoon character associated to what they are typing on the message box to express themselves in a means to have understanding in what they are trying to illustrate .

Afro emotikon also does a great deal help in blog comment box for readers of blog and bloggers commentary panel it is very necessary in blogging that after blogging people drop commentaries they comment are expressed with graphics like Afro Emotikon emoji as expression of like or dislike  to a particular story and news.

The project serve the netizens users of internet,mobile phone and chat messengers including bloggers,the life Afro Emotikon is working to directly are users of Facebook,whatsapp,telegram,Instagram,twitter etc to improve their mass communication coding and encoder algorithm on-networks while making communications and typing messages online.

Afro Emotikon project of emoji is working program to illustrate and manipulate every picture and graphics to enable messenger users to elaborate their actions online is more advanced technique called emotions and sounds as emotisound.

Afro emotikon is engages the OTT and OTA as  Over The Top and Over The Air respectively via promotional activities with Fast Moving Consumer Goods FMCG to build smart city life.
The project is addressing their needs in area of combating fake news as use of Afro Emotikon by bloggers in comment box line messages will help to stop spread of fake news.

The graphics will change people altitude through accurate news reporting and event,where by emoji can help to stop fake news.

The idea to have Afro emotikon was conceived  2015 on taxi as i was going to my office in Port Harcourt Oil city Nigeria i was then in business of mobile phone store retail shop.

The concept was to have emoji with color of black negro race which can be used in mobile communication and chat messengers including blog commentaries.

When i started developing the idea i contact few friends i grew up on how i can have my own sticker use of chatting in our colors of skin as Africans.

The conceptualization was done by a Graphics Artist name  kanayo ume  who i sent links and notes of what i want to change in communication world as new innovation he saw it as breaking new ground in the market full of yellow emoji on internet,he did a great work with artistic understanding applied on first set of emoji he delivered to which was more than a dozen.

It became an android app through a Chinese contact that packaged the graphics for me on Google android APK the name of the programmer was Wu Peng.

Am passionate about Afro Emotikon because it can be used to combat Fake News on blog commentaries.

what motivated me in pursuit of the work and project Afro Emotikon is was to have black African skin colors on emoji through Unicode consortium then in 2014 there is no Fitzgerald o Fitzpatrick color code on Unicode table in world wide web consortium.

Afro Emotikon has a personal connection to particular geography  and communities as issue of Tribal marks in faces of people in Sub Saharan Africa which has no emoji in Unicode consortium till date ,I pioneered the use of smiley with tribal mark called African tattoo.

The skills background and experience that made me unique to deliver Afro Emotikon and solve the problem of fake news with emoji are;

Management team consist of graphic manager that draws the sticker animate character emoji and Business Continuity manager that is in-charge of retail outlets of physical finished products. The curator is the keeper of the artistic works and documentations of Intellectual property rights.

Programming language with skill on MYSQL server 2000, am positioned to understand Oracle programming language and java Script which are important computer algorithm to codes and set up comment box plugin including chat messenger applications on android  software development kit.

My ability to overcome adversity was when my Unicode Consortium documentation of the graphics was in ESC mode where by the standard for emoji in Unicode panel is smaller in dimension to what is obtainable in android studio.

In the chat panel where emoji propagates for an individual to insert it in message line the dimension is smaller 8x8  pixels inches to compare with larger dimension up-to 512x512 pixels inches  to android SDK suite,the tribal marks on the emoji will not be significant on the displayed UI user interface.

I have to preserve  despite the setback to insert the graphics as Joomla formerly Mambo  plugin commentary folder Jcomment in Linux server because in 2014 Unicode as no black emoji but created their own later out of my Afro Emotikon project placed on ESC mode.

The leadership skill was the  year of Afro emotikon when i have to pay the bill fro graphics and programmer.

Then i have no money my mobile phone retailing company was in bad deficit,i have conceptualize the work shared with some people now those people i told about the emoji business i want to do have the cash to have their while i have no more to pay for the set graphics which was more than a dozen and any thing you are working with emoji,smiley or sticker has to have a complete set of characters that can convey a message to have meaning the receiver and sender wanted to know and understand.

The 1st graphic company i that sent a pro-forma invoice to was very high that i have to drop and stop the project including the programmer that will code the android app for chat messenger all was up to $8 ,000USD. Already i have invested and the project of Afro Emotikon was IP Intellectual property meaning if i don't get money to actualize the dream,As time meet opportunity i contacted my teenager friend who was professional artist he slashed the price of graphics  to $5USD per emoji.

Competitive landscape that differentiates Afro Emotikon market share are in the business of cartoon characters which has FMCG on fast moving consumer electronics on video arcade game.

 My solution address the problem that is unique through Fitzpatrick and Fitzgerald color code for skin type that reflected on the emoji IP patent, the competitors maintain light skin emoji in their market share which good market share is still open for Afro Emotikon

The feature focus emoji development is very necessary in the sticker market for fast moving consumer goods because people need more expression to their chat messages and conversation online so adding more cartoon character to emoji patent will generate more customer traction.

   Afro Emotikon features to secure early adopters against the competitors they following help line are from and within mixed families as per the color code the brown skin Afro American black families.

The barriers to the entry is that you can’t market to one racial colors by adding new features about mixed families the jinx of the competition for light skin European color code will be broken.

Go-To-Market Strategy

Promo packs are very good market strategy for Fast Moving Consumer Goods, as when running promotion the items cup, key holder-shirts printed emoji graphics on them will be offered as gift materials.

Afro Emotikon plan to scale the business are through advertisement on social networking sites, print media and retail shops outlets.

Buy shirt and shoe printed emoji and get 1 headscarf free as promo pack.

Discount buy any of Afro Emotikon Fast Moving Consumer Goods at rate of 20% Discount Easter Promo, Christmas Promo, Black Friday and Halloween Day, Valentine 30% Love pack for android app Fast moving consumer electronics.

The project is serving 100 to 1000 people on Google android play store,the next one year we are projecting we are projecting to serve up-to 200,000 people both in android mobile phone OS Operating system and Joomla comment template plugin for bloggers in the next 5 years it will 1 million users of Afro Emotikon emoji . 

My goal within the next year is to have a Content Management Software plugin app for Joomla CMS or WordPress  template for web based comment box panel.

I plan to achieve the my goal on CMS server for plugin comment box emoji or emotisound by becoming Joomla or WordPress developer just like android developer which i can also partner with a company that has interest or organisation that can accelerate the goal.

The barrier that currently exist;

financial: Emotikon need more capital and fund injection up to $50,000 USD 

to develop new emoji characters and animation including acquisition necessary technical  documents for web CMS plugin comment box panel.

legal:More IP intellectual property registration of graphics with copyright commission.

Cultural:Creating awareness for dark skin emoji through fast moving consumer goods FMCG like face-cap,wrist watch,footweI ar,T-shirts etc.

I plan to over come these barriers by acting on the following resources;

Financial:

Monetizing Afro Emotikon stickers:

The patent can be sold through 3rd party protocol: The emoji sticker can be sold out rightly on Intellectual property IP Laws where by the manufacturers of fast moving consumer goods can bid for each character to make a product they can resell in the market via retail shops like coffee mug, pendants, biro etc the IP contract can last for 2-3 years which is renewable.

Afro emotikon currently partner with Small-World .Co Ltd China, i work online with them.They are development partner in terms of Google android application packaging

Afro Emotikon Business Model & Funding:are branding UX/UI on web contents blogging and articles.
Afro emotikon key performance indicators are:
Sales
Human resources
Customer care
Marketing
 Online stores 

Afro emotikon path to financial sustainability;

Web contents:Developing and sell of message board for blog and newspaper articles with user experience and user interface.

Show room:Building show rooms for retail outlet and shops for fast moving consumer goods

discount offer :Discount offers on online shops 

 Seasonal and festive promotions: promo offer and promo tickets

Afro Emotikon has received grant from Tony Elumelu Foundation the amount was $5000 USD in the year 2015;when i received the fund their was too many challenges i used part of to relocate from Port Harcourt Rivers state Nigeria to Nnewi Anambra state Nigeria,during that period i did branding for T-shirts.

Afro Emotikon seek to raise fund for Afro Emotikon by selling website Content Management Software commentaries 
and building of Show room for retail show fast moving consumer goods;to sell T-shirts,pen,Biro,footwear branded
emoji Afro emotikon singlet,key-holders,opener,cup etc.

Afro Emotikon estimated 2020 expenses for 2020 is $50,000 for minimal viable products on fast moving consumer goods then vibrant website for online shopping. 

Afro Emotikon is applying for Elevate prize;To have technical partner in development of plugin for web service commentary emoji and stickers including smiley.Just like android app development for chatting.

Funding and revenue:Afro emotikon will like to get fund as grant,seed or capital to develop minimal viable products in other to maintain market lead in the sector of emoji industry.

Legal and Regulatory matters:The use of branding material are intellectual property which are regulated on the way they are used and licensed so that it will not get into wrong hand.

Marketing Media and Exposure:marketing materials are to be created for show rooms and retail outlets the exposure in international market is highly needed and welcome by Afro Emotikon to audit bureau of circulation for branding and content management.

Afro Emotikon will like to partner with Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT;I would like to partner with them on software development kit SDK suite for web service website plugin extensions for commentary in Newspaper article,blogs and magazine commentaries for readers and Content management software CMS for WordPress and Joomla extension 
services.