SmalApp

Africa has a learning crisis, 97.5million children and youths are practically out of school[UNESCO, 2019], reasons are linked with poverty, lack of infrastructure, and little or no political will. Apparently, students’ study and note-taking habits has been linked with student’s performance (see “International Journal of Education and Research Vol. 2 No. 6 June 2014”). By implication; knowledge acquisition can be improved through effective remote study habit and note taking in our learning centres.

Current technological engagements of African youths on social network platforms, is being harnessed positively to aid and rebuild our learning environment for relevance and effectiveness.

Our proposed application (SmalApp) is providing technological solutions to address these key areas of improved & expanded educational platform, with key specific features to enhance easy access, effective study and note taking habit for a concerted effort in human capital development and global relevance.

African learning community is being greatly devastated, critical challenges surrounding this menace include;

• Systemic corrupted educational systems has led to a low-morale, less motivated teachers; affecting the quality and relevance of the knowledge delivered.
• Poverty has greatly affected knowledge seeking youthful population in Africa from easily accessing quality learning and relevant education.
• Effective note-taking; a precursor to active knowledge impartation is greatly being challenge with little or no time for direct contact with person-to-person in-training, due to the global pandemic, crisis and threats.
• cybercrime rate in Africa had really post a threat to the positive impact of technological development in this part of the world, creating a governmental phobia which is leading to threatening policies and developmental set backs.

"Slidenote" is a unique feature on SmalApp platform with a blend of social, informative and learning engagements.  It enables all users to have paid access to lecture/training notes uploaded in app customized-slideshows with distinctive voice note explanations which can be rendered in a desired language to drive effective learning. This is jointly marketed with instructors/content creators who earns 70% of the token paid per module. Its unique social and learning blends provides all users ease of access, using online generated activity incentives to pay for their slidenote access per module. These multiple blends will enhance product flexibility for sustainability and growth.

We are providing a platform were both teachers/instructors/trainers [users] and students/learners/trainees [users] are well motivated; sharing from platform online revenues to close the poverty gaps in accessing quality and relevant educational training; we are achieving this through “slidenotes”, a unique SmalApp feature that builds realities into virtual learnings, recreating a new image for technology in Africa, and an impactful technological inclusion for the world at large.

SmalApp is serving the knowledge & skill seeking youths/Adults of age 11yrs - 45yrs, who are internet users. This population is virtually localised online and physically located in our learning institutions. Due to bad policies, poverty, global threats and pandemics; access to effective, quality and relevant training have been challenging. With SmalApp slidenotes which are indirectly sponsored; instructors are motivated to build quality and relevance in their trainings, mobility and portability is built into the system to aid easy and continuous engagements on the platform, more practically also, knowledge distribution is not limited by language barrier any longer. This provides a robust, expanded and relevant learning environment for teachers and students anywhere.

At specific stage of the model development, prospective users are being engaged to understand their plight; here we encounter less motivated instructors whose lecture note are never reviewed to meet up with relevant demands, and discouraged learners who feels their learning is too obsolete and still cumbersome for understanding and assimilation. A simplified portable access note idea sold to them seems quite relieving, especially since they are use to a mobile device, issues around service charges raised were silenced by the incentivized systems built into SmalApp.

SmalApp features such as the customized slidenote, its interactive real-time chatroom, it's inbuilt community of interest room and its uniquely activity generated incentive structure, is seamlessly galvanised together to address learners needs of access to a unique hybrid, portable and remote learning community. This ultimately increases learning engagements, remote parental access to wards' performances, class interactions with private and personalised study using real-time voice explanations of their instructors rendered in their preferred language of learning.

We are currently on the prototype stage of the project development; this is because, having done all necessary company registration for Softwallet Company Ltd to operate legally in Nigeria, we have also perfected our business & application model over the last few years, we are currently proposing a roll out of the prototype as our first phase of product launch of SmalApp via direct market to our targeted market and demography.

Since the introduction of the technology of the internet of things, many internet platforms, has created multi wealth systems. While such generated revenues are shared within the company shareholders, some companies have accommodated their users in the frame of profit share holders, examples of such are content creators on platforms such as the "YouTube". At Softwallet we are improving on this same model through SmalApp to direct online earnings and incentives to close the gap created by poverty in accessing quality and relevant training programs. This unique feature is built to motivate both the instructors and the learners, ultimately improving and expanding educational systems in the sub region of Africa.

Currently; 0[yet to launch]

1year; 1million users Projection

5years: 250million users prohection

Our research revealed a huge market for SmalApp in Africa, and concurrently our surveys with prospective students and instructors alike raises our hope of product launch.

For our first year of operation with a committed huge effort of our marketing team and average of 300,000users per quarter have being marked out as our indicating milestone, attractive incentives and quality service provisions have been built around our product to generate this expected result.

Increase number of users, is a key indicator for us, and within our first year of operation we will stay committed to this task by responding smartly to our market feedbacks in any case of product modification need, and aiding all content creators on SmalApp to increase their reach, this focus is key for us, within our first year of operations.

This indicator is reflective in our daily rate of downloads and friend's invites. We are also leveraging or instructors' market to help increase our users' engagement monthly on SmalpApp.

Secondly our rate of conversion of users to either instructors or learners will also be prioritised, we believe this is also key in actualising our organisational goal. This systematically incorporated through promotions, and incentives for effective motivation of users' engagements.

And lastly we hope to harness users activity engagements to interpret their market need for apt service delivery, if effectively managed we will be able to assess the appropriate timing for feature introduction for users' need, a unique milestone for futuristic approach to users' need.

Full-time: 3

Contractor: 1

Dolapo Opekun: 

A graduate of political science whose business interest drove him into technological operations and marketing, his understanding of human behavioural patterns had greatly help in excelling in product positioning and marketing.

He joined our team early enough to understand the depth of our concept, vision, and our projected future product preposition and many other details. His depth knowledge of "SmalApp" earn him his current position as the head of Softwallet marketing team. 

Working together with the team; he developed a road map for our product delivery to our target market at the barest effective cost per time. 

Femi Ayodele: 

A technical professional and a graduate of computer science from the University of Ilorin Nigeria. Femi has greatly upgraded his skill in technologies since after his first degree, he is practically skilled in software development and management. Prior to his role with Softwallet, he had worked as remote staff of major technological company based outside Nigeria.

He currently head out technical team at Softwallet Company Ltd.

Femi Sam-Adeniyi:

A graduate from a Nigerian University, with early business career in product marketing and territorial coverage. He developed is business development skill with a pharmaceutical establishments in Nigeria, he successfully led a sales team to deliver organisation deliverables in Kogi state; a Middlebelt state in Nigeria. There he learnt and developed apt skill in customer relationship, product development, business expansion and market feedback interpretation.

He is serving as the managing director of Softwallet Company Ltd at the moment.

Our approach to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive leadership team is vital to Softwallet management team. We believe learning is progressive, and that knowledge acquisition is continuous, therefore creating a long-life sustainable learning environment is our priority. 

To achieve this, our management has built, through our organisational policy and culture system an institutionalised model for team growth and leadership, effectively addressing issues around any form of discrimination either by race, gender or colour. 

More also our staff management policies provides all team members a safe and convenient working environment for all staffs and intending staffs. More are also included in our staff retention policy.

We are applying to solve because we believe our solution on education will qualify to access the funding grant availble for creative innovations. This grant will greatly help to set up our solution for a roll out and ultimate benefit of our community.

We also desire to learn from the pull of wealth of the solve team, in areas of business management and entrepreneurship. This we hope to access through any available mentoring and coaching program available in Solve

Our solution SmalApp practically promote remote learning, with tailored voice note rendered in a desirable language; this unique feature directly brings any refugee closer to any instructor from any part of the world.

We believe poverty is a major limitation for African to access quality and relevant  education, SmalApp provides unique solution that provides easy access to quality trainings; closing the poverty gaps created by the corrupted systems.

This indirect tuition sponsorship is uniquely built with fun and well structured for sustainability.