koudjounini

The Koudjounini project consists of the creation of a bilingual website and mobile site for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, such as: scholarships, offers of jobs, internships and many others.

The Koudjounini project consists of the creation of a bilingual website and mobile site for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers of jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data to canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams.

We use as technology a robot equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) which is responsible for collecting all the opportunities posted on the internet, checking them and categorizing them for our different targets.

We use as technology a robot equipped with an artificial intelligence (AI) which is responsible for collecting all the opportunities posted on the internet, checking them and categorizing them for our different targets.

Information, in our era has become the safe bet and the key to success. Thus between a person who succeeds and another who fails, the difference lies in the relevance of the information. Nowadays it is certainly easily accessible via the internet but difficult to find. More than 50% of young people in the ECOWAS region (190.4 million inhabitants) do not know how to use the Internet wisely to find useful and constructive information through targeted research. Today, digital technology is an area of exponential growth (more than 24.4% in sub-Saharan Africa) which is essential for everyone. This sector, more than transversal, has become essential in our daily lives. 75% of populations around the world are interconnected thanks to digital technology. Unfortunately in this quest for opportunities, many have been scammed by the "Fake offers" publications of cybercriminals. Thus several platforms like OpportunityDesk, OpportunitiesForAfricans… and many others have emerged to help young people by centralizing these opportunities on the same site. Although they have notoriety, these platforms have some imperfections that we want to "correct" via our platform while taking into account their different strengths.

Far from being a national problem, unfortunately, this situation has plagued almost the entire sub-region. This is why our company Jeunes Emergents has initiated the Koudjounini project which means "Chance" in the local language, and which aims to be a sub-regional platform (first) centralized on ECOWAS then deployed on the other opportunity referencing country.

We have 03 different types of target populations which are:

1-Non-paying users: Students, Universities…As their names suggest, they are users of our platform. They do not a priori have the capacity to pay big for the use. Even if we thought of making them pay directly, it is not obvious that they do so.

2-Paying users: CSOs, Activists, Entrepreneurs, employees and Freelancers.These are members or organizations of civil society and entrepreneurs who can pay for our support services to apply for a competition thanks to our partners. And also the employees and freelancers on whom we collect commissions for having been intermediaries.

3-Paying customers: Opportunity launchers,Development partners (GIZ, UNDP, OIF, etc.), foundations, impact funds, venture capital, major universities, companies, etc. from all over the world are launching more and more opportunities and want them to be known in order to have more people.We therefore offer three types of services according to our customers, namely:

1-SMS alerts: These are SMS alerts of opportunities to which users subscribe

2-Support / Mentoring: subscription ($10.38 USD) and support against a percentage (10-30%) in the case of a final selection.

3-Data: It is made available to whistleblowers for more targeted communication. Our sectoral database of students, academics, entrepreneurs, CSOs, activists…might interest them. Indeed, navigation on the Koudjounini platform is a priori conditioned by a registration (small form) grouping the identity, the nationality, the profession and the theme(s) of interest.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, Yes we have researched our potential users, since 2019 where a survey was carried out with our target market on the subscription to a monthly subscription of our service and 71.8% answered favorably Yes.

Yes I had to do internships with local online media that do online SEO such as: Ocean's news, tech in Africa and Lfrii.
Yes we have young developers with whom we worked in the design and development of our solution.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, we are currently in the testing phase of the beta version of our koudjounini web platform with 100 young incubators aged 18 to 24 of the Nunyalab and CUBE incubators here in Lomé, Togo. We also offer them specialized, specific and targeted support according to their needs, their field of activity and the opportunities they have chosen while waiting for the development of our mobile application.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, the core technology we use for our solution is:

Verification and targeting of our digital opportunities by our robot equipped with developed artificial intelligence. This robot's role is to crisscross the Internet network to collect opportunities by theme and to make updates on our platform.
We also use technology via a USSD code to alert users on demand by SMS of notifications (newsletter) targeted according to the themes and sectors previously chosen by the user, follow-up support and mentoring (on demand) to apply for projects thanks to our network of Alumni partners from the various competitions and also the resource people we have.
And finally we also put a technological scoring system to note those who have been successful and have been selected for the various competitions on our platform (thanks to the follow-up we do) in order to be able to transform them into mentors for others and of course facilitate Koudjounini's visibility.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, our solution currently serves 100 young incubatees aged 18 to 24 from Nunyalab incubators (set up by the Togolese Ministry of Development at the base with the financial support of the UNDP) and CUBE (Urban Center for Business and Entrepreneurship) in the test phase and we plan to serve after our official launch 5,250,050 young people from 18 to 35 years old meeting our target criteria across the countries of the ECOWAS region.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, our impact objectives for the year 2022 are:

1-Set up a platform for referencing digital opportunities to fight against fake news, fake offers, scams and online cybercrime.

2-Save time and energy for our different targets by searching, finding, verifying, categorizing and structuring the opportunities for them, thus allowing them to be able to fully concentrate on the activities without hassle.

3-Offer effective support and specialized coaching to each of our targets, thus increasing their chances of success.

4-Be attentive to the needs of our different targets in order to quickly take charge of their needs, suggestions, recommendations and positive criticisms.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while combating fake news, fake offers and online scams, the specific and measurable indicators we plan to use to get an overview of the performance and the evolution of the project are:

1-The weekly number of visitors per country of the web platform.

2-The weekly number of users h registered or registered on the platform.

3-The number of registered users who become paying customers each month.

4-The monthly number of development partners who use our whistleblower service to be able to make more targeted communication.

5-The monthly number of mentors who join our specialized coaching and support unit for effective monitoring of our clients.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, the obstacles that currently prevent us from achieving our objectives in this year 2022 are:

1- Financial in particular: the provision of a working capital of 3000$ USD, the purchase of the artificial intelligence to be integrated into the robot which costs 2000$ USD and a start-up capital of 5000$ USD.

2-Technical in particular: the need to have qualified mentors and coaches, available and willing to effectively support our young clients through our specialized mentoring and coaching unit.

3-Commercial in particular: the need and the need to have a qualified and very competent communication & marketing unit in order to properly promote our offers and services.

4-Legal because the digital field is not yet 100% regulated by the laws in force in our country.

Our team is made up of 3 application developers, a database manager, a model and business plan writing consultant and myself, who is a very optimistic young Togolese woman, holder of a a license in Telecommunications and networks, alumni online session 11 of the Civic leadership program of the Yali Dakar regional leadership center, International volunteer at the 8th Games of La Francophonie in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, volunteer at the GHIYADA-AFRICA association and active participant in the organization of the Salon Africain du Numérique et du leadership Féminin (SANULF) 2019 edition, facilitator of socio-educational activities with the orphanage "Finally the smile", volunteer and participant in the event "Christmas for all " with regard to the children of SOS VILLAGE D' ENFANTS, beneficiary of the program '' The Tech company, from idea to reality '' of the Embassy of the United States of America in Togo, program manager of the Tchowrè association which works for the empowerment of women and gender equality, participant in the 2021 Internet Governance School and Forum, facilitator # IamRemarkable having to its credit to date 67 young people and women trained on the need to speak openly about their success as well as self-confidence and digital security trainer certified by Facebook Africa who has had to train 100 young people in face-to-face and 256 on WhatsApp on digital security and social networks. I am a digital, social and technology enthusiast and active member of Google's WOMEN TECH MAKERS community. What makes my team and I able to carry out our project successfully is above all our youth, our ability to identify the needs of our peers, our personal experiences in finding good opportunities and victims of cybercriminals, our common vision , our skills and our belief in success.

The Koudjounini project being a project which consists of the creation of a website for referencing digital opportunities collected, verified, targeted and categorized such as: scholarships, call for applications for national and international conferences and forums, offers jobs, internships and many others, with the main objective of helping students, project leaders, entrepreneurs, and Togolese individuals by making it easier for them to do their research and to have access to data for canvass whistleblowers while fighting fake news, fake offers and online scams, we are currently in partnership with the law firm Success Corporate which is responsible for ensuring the legal health of the company while respecting the country regulations of each country representation of the company and with the accounting firm LADATEMA which takes care of the company accounting and preparation of financial statements.