AreaBuzz
Areabuzz is a business set out in a bid to providing Nigerians and hopefully the whole of Africa with localized information and helping local business owners with more visibility locally. Again help provide localized emergency alert system. All these we hope to achieve using our mobile application AREABUZZ which uses users GPS location to do this.
Again we are trying to use this same medium to foster trade by providing local businesses with online visibility so people within their location could access their goods and services easily.
In most African society we lack emergency service contact like 911, people rely personnel contacts in different locations which tends to become useless when they change location. Emergency feature of our mobile app allows users to reach out on emergency cases easily and is more efficient for emergency unites to easily track and located emergency location.
- lack of localized information source for small town and cities in Africa
- unavailability of localized businesses on the internet
- lack of unified emergency contacts in many areas
AreaBuzz will basically serve individuals with access to the internet and smart phones and tablet
- Easiest and Prompt way to disseminate / share information within a geographical area
- host local business and give them visibility online. i.e. easiest and fastest way to find products within ones space
- Easy connect with various emergency services and better response
- Make government and other institutions more accountable, transparent, and responsive to citizen feedback
- Create or advance equitable and inclusive economic growth
- Prototype
- New application of an existing technology
the ability to track people's GPS location and group users based on location to provide various services to them using one platform (mobie app)
- Internet: the internet helps us to provide this service from our rich information source
- smart phones GPS: we use this to track a users location within our geographical fences
- Internet of Things
- Indigenous Knowledge
- Social Networks
This is first because areabuzz build people as communities on the internet, provide them with common database
- Women & Girls
- Peri-Urban Residents
- Urban Residents
- Low-Income
- Middle-Income
- Minorities/Previously Excluded Populations
- Refugees/Internally Displaced Persons
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- South Africa
- Ghana
- Nigeria
- South Africa
we are currently testing with less than 10users. but will soon lauch a location with 5.5km sq size with a population of 306,000.
In a year on full launch in Nigeria we hope to have up to a million users
We hope to chiefly establish in all Nigerian location with population of 10,000people minimum.
Our user aquisation model is through marketing. We lack the money to pursue this as fast as possible.
To overcome this barriers we hope to move from one location to other using income from already established locations to build-in others .
- Hybrid of for-profit and nonprofit
contractors: 2(two)
full time: 4 (four)
we provide our various services through our mobile application for individuals who use mobile phones
We hope to generate revenue through
- Local advertisement
- Store charges
- Google admob
- Premium subscription
To meet up with our user expectation of 250,000. We need raise money for costumer acquisition.
- Business model
- Technology
- Funding and revenue model
- Talent or board members
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Other
media companies
our moderation of people's upload is manual and expensive. We hope to be able to leverage on AI to verify uploads. Again we hope to use AI in identifying faces to avoid fraud on the platform
our forum on our platform allows for individuals to raise topics for discussion in their communities. This therefore gives voice to the low in each location.
It will also help for individual inclusion as people will now be very aware of the environment and neighborhood
Refugees can easily be integrated into their new environment through this medium and they would also have a voice in their new environment. It will also help them familiarize with their new environment
we would use it to further foster community inclusion by launching into many other locations
