SITEWORX

1. The Solution is committed to solve the problem of irregular employment, lack of verifiable skilled artisans to guarantee project continuity and one-stop shop access to building material merchants.

2. The solution is to build up a reliable database of verifiable skilled artisans and develop a construction e-commerce platform that provides market information and job placement. 

3. The solution positively change lives by providing a scale-able marketplace for Merchants, Artisans and Project owners to interact, transact, improve and sustain the economy

Our solution is to solve Challenge 3: Jobs are quickly disappearing, some temporarily, others permanently.

Siteworx seeks to address the shortage of skilled artisans and lack of consolidated online construction and building materials marketplace for goods and services. This will help solve the problem of economic instability and lack of job security faced by workers with low and middle-level skills in the construction industry.

Nigeria’s labour force was 69% (138m) as at mid-2019. 20% of that population is unemployed and majority of them are youths who have basic literacy skills.

Factors contributing to the problem:

• Seasonal nature of construction jobs
• Poor workmanship in the buildings being constructed
• Lack of interest in vocational skills among the youths
• Lack of interest in training and retraining among practicing artisans
• Digital divide among the target group
• Inadequate technological infrastructure

The Solution will focus on:

• Development of database of digitally-compliant artisans who can operate the platform
• Deployment and on-boarding of artisans and other partners on the platform

How it works:

• Siteworx provides a one-stop shop for building and construction related issues by deploying technology towards data, information, payment infrastructure and monitoring/tracking systems.
• Construction Labour Market and Building Materials Market uses technology to link construction artisans with jobs as well as building materials suppliers with buyers by deploying its database, geofencing, monitoring and payment systems towards facilitating exchange of goods and construction.  
• Customers can search product and service catalogues, request specific/bulk products/services, track delivery and make payments online. Customers also engage with Siteworx to find review and make purchases for building materials supplies and building/construction related service.

Our Technology

1. Artisans Database/ Database Management

2. Geofencing

3. Detailed Artisans Catalogue

4. SMS Short-code Service

5. Payment Process Platform Integration

6. Artisans Quality assurance and certification System.

7. Logistics and Order Processing and Management

8. Customer Service Management

• Customer Care/Help Line
• Integrated Chat System
• Service Assessment
• Subscription Plan
• Quantity Survey
• Customer Support
• Onboarding Assistance

9. Large-scale Labour Outsourcing

The target population for this Solution is mainly under-employed/unemployed skilled or semi-skilled construction artisans within the age bracket of 18-35 years.

They are:

• Artisans (masters and semi-skilled)
• Construction Project owners
• Building Materials Merchants

To understand their needs:

• We have been involved in providing training to both new entrants and upskilling of semi-skilled artisans over the past 5 years
• We are currently providing support to the awarding for assessment (skills gap, formative, summative) and certification of apprentices in the construction trades.
• We are administering a needs assessment to developers and other employers of artisans.

The solution will:

• Provide artisans access to jobs on a continuous basis
• Democratize access to building material merchants through a scale-able marketplace to sell their products
• Outsource trained and verified artisans to Project owners (individuals and corporates)

The target population is mostly youthful and upwardly mobile, yet they form the greatest percentage of the unemployed and underemployed in the country.

The solution, being a digital platform is such that the target population can easily operate to access the pool of jobs that would be provided on it.

It will be the first of its kind Market-Place for construction sector in the Country.

Construction work hinges on several key factors three, which are both mobile and flexible, are building materials supply and labour supply and Estate Service providers. 

Siteworx creates an online market place using e-commerce technology thereby solving the problems of variety of customer/client options and speed. 

Siteworx uses technology to match customer expectation and budget with a wide variety of product/service options and quality.

Operations: 4

App Development (Consultancy) 2

Support 2

Total :8

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