a mobile news service

1. Z-Mobile
A mobile news agency
Founder: Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Company: Z-Mobile
Track: General
App Prize: Most Innovative App

2. Z-Mobile
is a mobile news agency that will
provide street-level coverage and
analysis on everyday stories often
left out of the mainstream media’s
narrative in multimedia formats
including video clips, audio casts,
pictures and text. It is the Reuters
of the mobile phone.

3. Young Zimbabweans are wary of apps for practical
reasons - intermittent electricity, high broadband
costs, basic smartphones - YoungNation’s goal is to
explore how to distribute news in a format that is
seamlessly integrated in the messaging ecosystem.
92% literary rate
99% internet connections are on mobile devices
$1,2billion mobile money transactions
47,5% internet
Market Statistics
7,2million people under 40
Source: POTRAZ 2015
Market Needs
A ‘reliable’, ‘affordable’, ‘accessible’
and ‘relevant’ news service
Source: Customer Surveys

4. Syndication and partnerships
Advertising (sponsorships and native ads)
Public events/Workshops/Trainings
Revenue Opportunities

5. Competition
-Our competition are our potential partners
-Everyone and their brother are busy with long form
-State media and foreign press

6. Strategic partnerships
technical partners
in a global economy, efficiency can be achieved through collaboration
mobile phone operators
media companies
Potential partners
Consolidate strategic working partnerships
with US companies

7. Founder
Tinashe Mushakavanhu was born in Zimbabwe. He
read for a PhD in English and has been a Tow-Knight
Entrepreneurial Journalism fellow at CUNY Graduate
School of Journalism. In 2013, he was selected as one
of the 10 inspiring Africans under the age of 30 after
opening the first dedicated co-working space in Harare.