We recently published a article that spoke of the Tablet created by 2 young South Africans, to better understand the plans of the creators and some relevant information to the Team of the Less Threads (MF) went to meet Sabelo Sibanda (SS) one of the creators of the Tablet to give us a interview about the product, it's worth reading only:
1. MF: Thank you so much for accepting our request, for a start would you like to tell us, how did you change the idea of a virtual tablet?
SS: We found that our target audience used phones to buy the products that we sold in our virtual store we had more customers to buy digital products reason why we decided to develop an equipment that could change the experience of the clients.
2. MF: It is true that the Tablet can be charged with sunlight ?
SS: Yes, of course, our Tablet can be charged with sunlight during the entire requirements analysis process, we understood that for our product to be relevant on our continent we had to keep in mind the infrastructure and the socio-economic environment in which we operate, hence the idea of photovoltaic charging.
3. MF: Are you an apologist that this idea can be used by other electronics manufacturers to create devices that work on the basis of sunlight? Do you have an idea how this could revolutionize technology in Africa?
SS: I believe that we should work more specifically with the developers of Apps (Mobile apps) for stimulate content creation on our continent, Africa accounts for less than 1% of content on the Web and the opportunities that our Tablet will stimulate are far greater than this percentage of the various existing industries.
4. MF: Everything is ready for the Tablet to be released later this month of June ?
SS: Yes, everything is well prepared for your launch at the end of June and at this point we have started to register some purchase orders.
5. MF: How do you intend to introduce Vuya to African students?
SS: A partnership with Governments and Educational Institutions will be the key for African students in many countries to have access to our Tablet, in the coming months we will embark on numerous trade missions to meet with Educational and Governmental Institutions in order to effect this partnership.
6. MF: I would like to work with Angolan Programmers to develop Applications for the Vuya ?
SS: Absolutely! We want to make sure that the Tablet Millbug Vuya speaks to the needs of Angolans too and I do not see any other way to achieve this goal but to collaborate with the Angolan developers, I invite you to embrace this challenge to develop applications more in tune with the Angolan reality.
7. MF: What will be the final price of the Tablet? Are you interested in getting partners in Angola to promote and sell the Tablet?
SS: The price ofTablet will be 140.00 dollars or 14.000,00 KZ and we are currently looking for Angolan partners from the public and private sector to promote and sell the Tablet, and in this context we request the support of Menos Fios to help us promote the product in Portuguese-speaking countries.
8. MF: Is Thulisile still part of your team in this project? do you have any short-term plans to launch a version of Vuya with 3G or 4G support?
SS: Thulisile and I work together for this success with our research and development team, we are currently working hard for the near future to launch Vuya with more functions.
9. MF: We are aware that there are several telecommunications companies interested in Vuya, have already signed a contract?
SS: We are in negotiation with several telecommunications operators there is still no signed contract we are balancing the proposals presented with our options.
10. MF: Do you believe that there are talented young people in Africa, and do not develop products or services due to lack of sponsorship and incentives?
SS: I totally agree! I believe that if they had the right incentive many young entrepreneurs in Africa would succeed on a global scale, it is one of our sincere ambitions to fortify the use of Vuya so that everyone can benefit from it and exploit its creativity.
11. MF: You are starting now with this project could tell us what is the vision of your company and how they intend to contribute to society ?
SS: Our mission is “Bring happiness to the most needy”. This can be applied or interpreted by the nature of our target audience, we are a profit-making company to help solve social problems and ensure that this can create greater opportunities for its expansion, we aim to have good roots and acceptance in Africa over the next 5 years as a result we will be helping Africa to increase its participation in the digital economy.
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For the developers of Apps interested in collaborating in this project to develop Apps for the Vuya with Angolan specificity contact our team for more details.
We thank the Sabelo Sibanda and we will continue to make efforts to support the project.
