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Skynation Receives African Entertainment Awards Project

September 10th, 2013

Skynation is proud to be one of the contributing entities collectively part of the development of the African Entertainment Awards. While this awards show is quite arguably one of the largest events of its kind, its goal of uniting and engaging all Africans and the world through the use of social media and other technological methods gave Skynation a very wonderful challenge. The technological redevelopment of the company’s online platform commenced with the development of a voting panel, which would soon turn into something bigger. This meant not only allowing the awards show to reach an external population outside of the realm of the Toronto population who will be able to make decisions on what was happening during the show, it also meant that the awards show would be based on engaging a potential audience only existent online. While the 2013 event was a great success, with more funding, Sky Nation has begun work towards unveiling next year’s event as well as establishing the awards show as a dominant image with an influential presence online.

Lucky Lady IV Special Yacht Event

June 5th, 2013

Sknation decided to develop and brand the first urban Yacht event for the city of Vancouver. This would allow the company to create branding awareness within the demography they intend to design for and bring together Vancouver’s business network within a creative networking platform. The event would not only showcase the company’s capabilities with regards to software design and development as a tech company, it would also allow them the ability to create a truly social brand as a “nation”.

Lucky Lady IV not only went successfully with a turnout of over 500 individuals, according to the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Jerry Agudogo, “being able to create a marketing partnership with industrial giants such as Vancity Buzz, DIPT and Forty-Fourth Records only made this special event more magnificent”. The company stated that the goal of this event is to create a commercialised urban event where companies are able to showcase their capabilities and bring their brands out to notable Vancouver businesses. “The creativity put into this event by the marketing team allowed the success of the first event to create such a buzz within the community we’re in as well as those we hope to work with, that it was named Vancouver’s most anticipated urban yacht event”. According to Chris Elawa, Sky Nation’s Lead Designer, the branding of this event, as well as pre-and-post videography was something the design team had to have nailed down. The image of the company as well as what elements of our core values were to be projected through this event, needed to be apparent to the individuals checking out the website of the event, or looking at the posters or promotional material used.” According to Chris Elawa, Sky Nation’s Lead Designer, the branding of this event, as well as pre-and-post videography was something the design team had to have nailed down. “The image of the company as well as what elements of our core values were to be projected through this event needed to be apparent to the individuals checking out the website of the event, or looking at the posters or promotional material used”.

The company believes that software and design are becoming so intertwined, that the quality of any product should be judged by the cover of its application. We as a company do not intend on creating African products that are sub-par to any of our competitors since we hope to create products at world class standards. In Kayode Fatoba’s words, “Sky Nation’s journey has just begun, but the possibilities for success are starting to become more and more infinite with each successful milestone we achieve as a company”.

Sky Nation Attains Y-PAD Contract

May 5th, 2013

Having been one of the first companies that took a chance on Sky Nation, the Young Pan African Dialogue found themselves getting more than they could afford for a price that put a great smile on their face. Young Pan African Dialogue or Y-PAD as they are often called is a not-for-profit organization that aims to build a dynamic community that not only encourages conversations on issues related to development of the continent, but also promotes and stimulates ambitions to serve the continent and its people. According to the reference letter left by Y-PAD’s founder Thato Makgolane about SNS’s service, “Not only did Sky Nation act on the little advice offered to them by us, the company was quickly able to adjust itself to suit our specifications.” What came with securing this contract for Sky Nation was the direct ability to network with groundbreaking individuals whose collective influenced conversations between notable African leaders and diplomats. In a conversation between the C.E.O and Mr. Sunmonu, the Project Director of SNS, Mr. Fatoba states, “For us as a company to say that we want to make an impact within the continent and not be focused on understanding the socio-economical situation of that demography will not give us an edge as a start-up.” According to him, each of the contracts currently being selected and worked on at the company’s early stage are strategically meant to increase and optimize its potential and capabilities for the stage where SNS shall eventually have to compete. Y-Pad provides access to extensive research regarding specific and selective areas of the continent allowing for better understanding of issues in line with the focus of Sky Nation. This means that SNS’s interaction with Y-PAD does not just become as superficial as most relationships between the contractor and client, but a focus is put on strengthening the benefits that lie within the potential existing to grow avenues for learning and fostering real change.

First Networking Dinner

April 5th, 2013

Sky Nation Systems Inc. is a web developing company focused on African enterprises both small and large scale. It is aimed at giving business owners the opportunities of promoting their business through websites and other Internet platforms and customized applications. The main goal of Sky Nation Systems is not to take individual contract but rather to create a platform whereby people could go and build their own website tailored to their specific need and style. The platform is very user friendly, and will provide a round the clock assistance.

Giving where we are going to and also recognizing the energy required in putting our ideas into use, The board of directors had its maiden dinner On the 30th of March 2013. Among those that attended the dinner are people from the business community, aspiring entrepreneurs and those who want to mingle with entrepreneurs and business professional. As we climb up the ladder of success, we saw the dinner as a medium of networking and to acquaint ourselves and Sky Nation System Inc. with other business professionals. The dinner also served as an avenue to present our company and the driving force behind it. During the dinner, the CEO Kayode Fatoba gave a powerful speech on why the company was formed. He said “the goal is to put Africa online”. He also highlighted the tremendous difficulties governments and businesses in Africa encounter before they could build a standard website. South Africa is one of the country used as example; the government spent over $16 millions to build a website that cost approximately $40. With rapid growth in Internet subscription and smartphones in Africa, Sky Nation system Inc. has limitless opportunities to success.

Also in the dinner, Sky Nation Systems presented the concept of our business directory website called ASOROK. The website will host the names, addresses, locations and contacts of millions of businesses, organizations and government agencies mostly in Africa and other continents. It is one of its kinds, professionally built, with enormous information that will enable users to navigate the continent of Africa. It also gives business owners the opportunities to list their business, address and links to their personal web page. When ASOROK was presented on the dinner, it was well applauded and the idea was seen as excellent, with a potential of bringing huge returns if well marketed. ASOROK will be launched within the next weeks. Our team of professional web designers and programmers are putting a final touch on it.

It is important to know that we are still developing and harnessing the structure of our company so events like this is important to us. We are committed to building a sustainable web platform that will revolutionize the business world in Africa and also connect them to markets abroad.

President Jerry Agudogo speaks at ASA’s Africa In Dialogue Conference

January 30th, 2013

Mr Jerry Agudogo, President and cofounder of Sky Nations Systems, represented the company at the first annual African Students’ Association symposium titled “AID: The Bigger Picture”. The event focused on the development of the continent’s potential through an emphasis on entrepreneurship as well as initiatives focused on socio-economic changes custom geared to the continent’s specific problems. SNS was one of the few companies invited to engage the university community in this amazing symposium. According to Agudogo, the high unemployment rate of many of these countries only point to entrepreneurship as a vital component of Africa’s economic boom. An investment in technology is a direct investment in the continents’ economic success. There are so many individuals in this country with university degrees’ that it’s probably not that hard seeing masters student working at fast food restaurant, this isn’t because their degrees are not recognized. The symposium featured the other amazing individuals like Dr. Philip Mwimanzi of Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, Mr Craig Van Der Meer founder of Schools Building Schools, a charitable initiative dedicated to providing funds and resources for the construction of vocational (trades) schools in rural Uganda And Dr. Morten Jerven (Ph.D. Economic History, London School of Economics, 2008), an Assistant Professor in the School for International Studies at Simon Fraser University. Currently Dr. Jerven is working on linking the work on post-colonial economic development with the economic history of colonial Africa.