E-Learning Platform for Afrocentric Craftworks

craftzone.com.ng is an E-learning platform where Afrocentric crafts educations in different categories are delivered through high qualitative, interactive and instructional videos with downloadable workshops and sales of materials, It aims to solve the problem of time, accessibilty and cost for women of all ages interested in learning crafts for business.

Craftzone.com.ng started out of a need to provide easy and affordable access to craft trainings given by popularly known industry experts in the Afrocentric crafting community.

It will solve the problem of many women who has the passion and desires to learn craft-works but are limited due to time/funds/availability of the training, easy access will be provided to women all over the world within the age of 16- 60 who typically would like to learn and expand their craft knowledge to start a business but find it difficult due to several restrictions like time/money.

It is an interactive platform that encourages interaction between crafters within the same crafting community both within the platform and special Facebook groups created for this purpose.

Currently we have a course on making traditional bride and groom cake toppers which were what we used to do the pilot; we also have in post-production stage a course on beaded jewellery and another on beaded flower vase.

A handful of women have been able to develop new skills or improve their skills through this video and this has a positive effect on their income generating power.

Challenges

Due to the high cost of equipment’s for video production and the human resource needed, we have not been able to extend to different kinds of craft to accommodate the varied interest of women all over the world.

If we are able to scale, we will be able to approach more industry experts in different craft categories and produce more videos, which in turn will be able to accommodate more women interested in the varied craftworks.

With a video production - studio, equipment and human resource of our own, growing the platform will become less challenging and we will be able to do more so as to reach more women.

Time: Women are hampered with other responsibilities that does not give them the flexibility of being able to go for a physical training.Our Video courses can be accessed anywhere anytime with a smartphone or a PC.

Distance:An otherwise inaccessible popular Industry expert is made available on our platform, the barrier of distance and unavailability is removed as any woman in the world will have access through Craftzone.com.ng.

Fund: Ordinarily, brick and mortar trainings are usually expensive but this problem is solved by craftzone as we are leveraging on our wider and larger audience to make it affordable to women.

• Currently, through our pilot video course launch, 100% of our users are women and we have several testimonials of how they have been able to improve their skills through watching of the video and practising.
• We also conducted a survey to know how many women are interested in learning craftworks to subsidize their income, how being able to access it online will help, and about 90% of the respondents are eager to learn from our platform.

• Many people interested in Afrocentric crafts all over the world, mostly women will be able to learn new craft skills and improve on any craft skills they had before through our online video courses, after the purchase of any craft training video on our website, the user will have a lifetime access to the video through our website www.craftzone.com.ng , It is accessible through the use of a smart phone or personal Computer.

The videos are available on the website ready to be watched after purchase - 10 video courses launched per quarter of a year

Track through purchase on the website - 10000 women interested in Afrocentric craftwork production all over the world learns through our platform in a quarter

tracked through the post course learning community on our platform and CRM application - 2500 new craft business influenced through our video courses are started by the next quarter

Our Platform is innovative because currently in Nigeria, there is no E learning platform specifically dedicated to the learning of Afrocentric craftworks and we are leveraging on using the recent boom and fast user acceptance of internet of things and Ecommerce in Africa.

• We provide Increased income to the Industry experts we partner with to produce the video courses, this have a direct effect on the economic power.
• We also give opportunities to women who purchases video on our website to learn new skills to make more money and improve their standard of living and become more independent.

We are deploying our E-Learning platform through our website and videos hosted on the cloud, Because our production to sales Model , is produce a video and sell for life , we have done a future projection of profits to make it affordable and as long as the user has a smartphone and an internet access, she will be able to access it.

From the sales of the video and materials, we will recycle sales made to manage human resources and operational expenses and produce more videos when we have capital injections or have anough saved to a a video.

• Functional internet provision and Access in Users Country of residence
• Reaching a legal agreement  and staying within the confines of the agreement with the Industry experts we partner with.

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To connect with industry leaders through Solve for Mentorship, training and financial inclusion so as to achieve my aim of promoting Afrocentric crafts as an income generating system for women all over the world.

None at the moment.Craftzone Creatives has solely been funded by its directors.

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