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SMME TV Open Business Plan launches
Mahala (South Africa) · 4/9/2007 17:57
Hi
WE NEED YOUR INPUT.
SMME TV is a South African multi-media publishing enterprise in development.
SMME TV will empower SMMEs by providing a platform for them to educate, promote, and interact among themselves and with clients, corporates, and customers in South Africa and internationally.
SMME TV will be distributed by all means necessary to reach its users, with high-impact video clips ranging across profiles, news, lifestyle, events, opportunities, education, matchmaking, entertainment and other topics, all designed to equip SMMEs with the tools and voice of bigger players.
SMME TV will be issued at first as a DVD magazine and via the Internet via www.smme.tv. The DVD will integrate with the website in development to allow interactivity for those with any connection (also via cellphones). SMME TV will also be available on plasma screens at varied service providers and outlets, and users will also be able to access SMME TV eventually via cell phones, bluetooth (for example, on university campuses), satellite, and, we hope, even commercial television.
We have created a proof of concept for SMME TV and completed a business plan. Now we really need the community to start weighing in. There is a mass movement building in SA, of SMMEs supporting the growth of SMMEs - and we want that movement to fuel this project.
It doesn't take much to imagine technological, social, and economic blockages to a project like SMME TV in a developing country. In the business plan, we have tried to account for those we could. Better solutions are welcomed with glee.
We are interested in any and all comments and inputs and are especially eager to find innovative ways to make this network function best across economic boundaries to create a diverse, vibrant, and communicative small business community in South Africa.
We feel the issues and solutions dealt with in this project can be applied to many important projects related to communications technologies in developing countries. South Africa poses a particularly interesting case study, due to its "first world-third world" radical digital divide among people, sometimes, living metres from one another.
Please have a look to read and/or edit the wiki for the SMME TV business plan, and let us know what you think.
Also please visit Mahala's own website, and if you like, please take our SMME TV survey.
Thank you for your interest.
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