Technovation Challenge pitch presentation

1. SUPERBRAINS
TEAM
Presenting
The MakBoard App

2. Team Members
Nakwanyi Bridget
Nalubega Cecilia
Muheki Medrine
Nansamba Salmah
Kaliisa Thatcher

3. •There are approximately 40,000 students at Makerere
University .
•Notice board to student ratio in colleges is about
1:2000

4. Notice boards are an inefficient tool of
communication due to;
Over crowding of students at the notice boards
Lack of information security
Shortage of notice boards

5. Product Description
•Information from university college administrators in
most universities is shared mainly through notice boards

6. Some noticeboards in
Makerere

7. Product Description
 MakBoard is an Android mobile notice board app
designed by the SuperBrains company.
 It is a college-wide based app created to tackle
the problem of inefficient information delivery
in Makerere University.
 The app seeks to bridge the communication gap
between the students and their college
administrators and student leaders.

8. Survey per college shows that;
75% of students don’t know their lecturers’
offices
4 out of 10 students don't check notice
boards regularly
45% of students have missed deadlines
because they missed information that was
pinned on the notice boards.
This shows that the university is in dire need of a
better communication system.

9. How It Works
 The user signs up for
the app when they
use it for the first
time.
 After which the user
logs into the app.
 The user is then
taken to the main
screen where they
select the kind of
information they
want to know about.

10. This information
includes;
 Academics
 Events
 Adverts
 Offices
 Career
 A forum
 Posts

11. The user simply clicks
on any of the
categories to be able
to view whichever
information there is
under the given
category.

12. Market Analysis
 Students of Makerere University are the target
customers of this app.

13. Market Analysis
 Main Competitor
 MUELE ( Makerere University E-learning Environment)
Features MakBoard MUELE
Information
Diversity
Yes No
Advert platform Yes No
Academic Forum Yes Yes
Updates from
lecturers
Yes No

14. Financial Analysis
 A freemium model will be adapted for the
app
 The additional features will go for $0.99
available on Google Play Store
 Google AdSense for mobile will be
integrated into MakBoard to facilitate
advertising

15. Financial Analysis
 In the first year, we estimate sales of about 1,000 to
1,500 dollars
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Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Year 4

16. Strategy
Our app awareness will be created through;
 Social Networks such as Facebook, Twitter etc.
 University newspaper
 Student leaders
 One on one interactions with fellow students

17. Future features
 Push notifications for subscribed users
 Reminders
 Provision for downloading academic notes
posted by lecturers