Suapon - connecting tertiary students for idea sharing.

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Describe what makes your solution innovative.

Social media has been in existence for a while now but Suapon leverage on social media technologies to target tertiary students

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

Our solution uses social networks with a new business model.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

• Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

Our main target group are tertiary students across the globe and we know these students like our product since the beta version is currently been used by 521 students in 7 tertiary institution across Ghana. Again upon our market research, it was established that 78% of students are willing to use the product if it becomes available.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

• Peri-Urban Residents
• Low-Income
• Minorities/Previously Excluded Populations

In which countries do you currently operate?

• Ghana

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

• Ghana
• Nigeria
• United Kingdom
• United States

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

We are currently serving 521 students in Ghana and we seek to scale to reach 100,000 students across the globe in the next one year and 20 million in the next 5 years.

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

We seek to help students from underprivileged societies connect with others. We seek to create a global community where students can learn new things and new cultures without paying high fees and travelling long distances.

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

Our current challenge it that we do not have the capacity to market our product to penetrate other markets. This is key in our goal to reach all tertiary students across the globe.

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

We seek to overcome this by forming partnership with the various tertiary institutions and stakeholders to make sure this solution reach their students.

https://suapon.net

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If you selected Other for the organization question, please explain here.

suapon is a subsidiary of Pesewa Websoft, a software development company that seeks to solve the sustainable goals using technology.

How many people work on your solution team?

9

For how many years have you been working on your solution?

2 years

Why are you and your team best-placed to deliver this solution?

Julius Asante Kyere, the CEO is a Computer Engineering degree holder with 5 years experience in software development. Julius was part of 1,000 people selected across the globe by Udacity and Facebook for their Pytorch Scholarship Challenge. Julius has an extensive knowledge in six programming (PHP, JAVA, C++, C, Python, Javascript) and awarded certificates in Fundamentals of Starting and running a business, Design Driven Entrepreneurship, Fundamentals of grant writing, Management Strategies for People and Resources, Workforce collaboration and development, Strategies for personal Growth and Development and Basics of public-private partnership by the Young African Leadership Initiative (YALI). 

Osborn Amankwah Yeboah is a Business Administrator with 3 years experience in helping start-ups scale.

With what organizations are you currently partnering, if any? How are you working with them?

We are currently partnering with the students representative council of 4 institutions in Ghana. They help us get an audience to advertise our solutions to the students.

What is your business model?

Our main target group are tertiary students across the globe and we know these students like our product since the beta version is currently been used by 521 students in 7 tertiary institution across Ghana. Again upon our market research, it was established that 78% of students are willing to use the product if it becomes available.

Most of our revenue will be generated through advertisement. Businesses will pay to advertise their product on the platform since it will be a great avenue to showcase their product to the world. Online advertisement now accounts for 65% in advertisement (worldstream.com) and business are willing online medias for advertisement space.

What is your path to financial sustainability?

We seek to generate revenue through advertisement

Why are you applying to Solve?

We believe solve will give us the platform to reach our target audience

What types of connections and partnerships would be most catalytic for your solution?

• Business model
• Distribution
• Funding and revenue model
• Talent or board members
• Monitoring and evaluation
• Media and speaking opportunities

With what organizations would you like to partner, and how would you like to partner with them?

MIT, 

harvard, Caltech