Impulseats

A Medical Doctor, Entrepreneur with 3 years experience in Volunteering. A Tech Enthusiast and Cofounder of Impulseats. Through his work in Impulseats, he earned the Millennium Fellowship, an Initiative of the United Nations Academic Impact and Millennium Campus Network for advancing SDG 4 in 2018.

He volunteered as the Project Director of CHECK Medical Missions Incorporated a faith based NGO reaching out to the deprived regions of Southwest Nigeria.

IMPULSEATS give access through its online repository to University Students, Local journals to upload their research articles as either Open Access (for view and use by anyone for no cost) or restricted access for use after obtaining direct permission from the owner. This addresses the continuous burying of knowledge as most students end on the shelf of their Project supervisor or the waste bins. Students generally will have Access to research contents on the platform in form of abstracts with full content only accessible when the article is Open Access. In a case of a Non Open Access article, permission from the Journal or individual must be sought before a Full access.This will assist University Students keep track of their progress in research knowing what has been done, what ought to be done and what to build on.This will Undoubtedly foster  learning in institutions, strengthen collaborations between students, advance learning.

IMPULSEATS remain a Solution born out of the need to address the state of undergraduate research in Nigeria Universities which over the years end on the shelf of their project supervisors or the waste bins making it difficult to keep track of our progress in research. 

Most Students can't keep track on what has been done, what ought to be done and what to build on Teaching a bad research culture in Nigeria, Africa.

According to the Nigeria University Commission in 2019, about 60% of Undergraduates research works are plagiarized. In a digital world, plagiarism can easily be checked unlike when research articles are in prints. Impulseats offer training Services on research, research skills to develop students capacity to independently carry out research. Impulseats web/app digitizes research articles hence will help in tracking of research.

Impulseats is an EdTech Company addressing the continuous burying of knowledge in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria.

Through Impulseats web/app, students research, local Journals, libraries can digitize research articles and make it available to the globe.

To address the poor quality of research output, we offer training services on research, research skills like data analysis, proposal writing, research methodology. 

The training services in research will be focused on translational research, ways to translate research findings to actions and better the lives of the community where the studies were carried out.

This way, University Students will be equipped with necessary tools to solve problems identified from research and communities will benefit from their actions.

The training can be online or offline depending on the demand of customers. Customers can request for training Sessions on the platform by requesting in their dashboards and selecting location, type of training and either option of online or offline respectively.

The platform gives the skilled Students opportunity to monetize their skills by being the trainers. Following request by customers, they are paired with a skilled Student to learn while the student earn leading to breeding of a generation equipped with skills necessary for employment and Enterpreneurship

IMPULSEATS remain a Solution born out of the need to address the state of undergraduate research in Nigeria Universities.

University students, graduates, research articles are targeted for digitalization while Libraries can carry out retrospective digitalization of research articles 
and Local Journals gain online visibility. 

Students and graduates can get trained on problem solving research and research skills online or offline depending on 
preferred choice on the IMPULSEATS platform.

Local Journals which are still in prints will have online visibility hence increasing their coverage 

The Project is currently changing the narative of research in Nigeria. it pushes people to address problems identified from research. It also teaches the employment of technology to solve problems

IMPULSEATS remain a Solution born out of the need to address the state of undergraduate research in Nigeria Universities which over the years end on the shelf of their project supervisors or the waste bins making it difficult to keep track of our progress in research. 

Initially began as an advocacy with the theme I Must Publish a Logical and Scholarly research article for Exploration (IMPULSE) to propel students into innovative research and end the discarding of research articles.

Later, we realised that engaging stakeholders yielded less result then moved to designing a Solution and wrote a business Model to ensure its sustainability.

So beyond advocacy, came up with the idea of driving the solution with my knowledge in basic coding of HTML, CSS.

I have always been passionate about the driving change with my  knowlege in basic web development adressing specific problems in health, eucation.

Government is recently embracing digitalization of data, supporting Start ups with innovative solutions in technology. Recently, digitalization of processes of application of visas, passports and application into several Universities made me realised that the power of the internet.

I realized there is a limit to how much that can be seen when research articles are in prints hence my quest to make our knowledge findings accessible to the globe because there is no longer an excuse as anyone can touch anywhere on the globe at any location at any given time at low cost through the power of the internet.

I have a passionate team of 6 skille in research, web developlment, content evelopment.

adddopting Technology is ifficult as they are alreay use to the norm. isrupting this was a ifficult task.

It all Initially began as an advocacy with the theme I Must Publish a Logical and Scholarly research article for Exploration (IMPULSE) to propel students into innovative research and end the discarding of research articles.

I engaged College Research and Innovation management of my University through the project and was recognized by the United Nations Academic Impact Millennium Fellowship as one of the leaders making bold social Impact through advancing SDG4 in 2018.  

Beyond advocacy, I propel my Team to design the Minimum Viable Product in form of a Web/App and wrote a business Model to ensure its sustainability.

It earned Impulseats the Tony Elumelu Entreprenuership Program with Seed Fund of 5,000 USD which aid our early phase of operations.

1. Low level of adoption of technology solutions in Africa 

2. Low brand as oppose to existing players in the industry globally 

3. Poor access to internet and goal directed use of the internet 

 1. Cyber attacks 

2. Rejection of subscription by ijnstitutions 

3. Duplication of similar platforms 

4. Issues of intellectual property

 5. Low quality research output  which is why we will use a reviewer and offer training services in research and research skills  

 The weaknesses are opportunities to explore and turn the strength. With the knowledge acquired from branding, we shall strengthen service delivery. Converting Weaknesses to strengths 

We shall enlighten the schools on significance of embracing digital technology in managing research articles and tracking plagiarism. 

We shall advocate for strengthening of internet access and support groups promoting goal directed use of the internet.

 Threats can be managed by ensuring the use of a highly secured digital platform by using a premium hosting 

Also, only abstracts will be accessible to the basic users (except open Access articles which can be fully accessed)

 Use of back up to have another file 

1. Digitalization  of  research  articles:  Pricing  will  be  done  per  copy  of  research article  of  University  students. Pricing is market  based  and  very  low compared to  the  existing  players. 

Indexing  of  Libraries : libraries  will  pay  bulk  subscription  charges  for unlimited  research  articles  or  as  low  as  500  per retrospective  collation  of  research  articles  in  year one,  2200  in  year two  with Indexing  of  Journals or  2000  for  5  articles for Our  target  is  over  a  thousand over 3,000  in  year 3. :  

Journals  will  be  indirect  customers  as  Students, lecturers  publish  in  different  journals  locally  which  have  no  data  base online. 

Journals  will  pay  between  30,000  to  50,000  naira  for  indexing  on  our  platform, monthly  maintenance  fee  of  2000(24,000)  yearly  in  subsequent  years  we hope  to  index  over 24  in  year one,  30  in  year  2,  39  in  year 3. 

Training  on  research  and  research  skills 2000  to  3500  for  the  1 st and  2 nd  trainings  will  range  from  as  low  as year,  pricing  wi on  the  demand or import a nce ll  be  value  based  depending of  the  topic/skill.  From  year  three,  we  may  give incentives  for  trainings  to  promote  our  brand  and  entice  more  customers.  

Advertisement  (Much  later) Advertisement  will  be  base  on  the  coverage  of people.  Subscription  for  advert  on  our  platforms  can  be  short  term  or  long term.  E.g.  a  month,  2  months,  3  months,  4  months,  6months  or a  year.