start-ups on a mission KUBATANA MAGAZINE | OCTOBER 2022
WHAT PROBLEM IS YOUR STARTUP TRYING TO SOLVE? GoGo Play is the first South Sudanese monetized entertainment platform based on an online ticketing system, music and video streaming. GoGoPlay’s mission is to expose, promote and market local content creators within South Sudan and to the globe; our vision is a one stop destination to all South Sudanese entertainment. Statistically, only about 5000 content creators in South Sudan use social media platforms to share their contents because we do not have digital platforms to do so. Even YouTube does not recognize South Sudan which makes it hard for our contents to cross borders. Also, content creators shoot and record expensive contents but do not get any money out of them. I have come up with GoGoPlay in order to contribute to solving some of our challenges from within; for content creators to earn out of their contents,
WHAT MILESTONES HAVE YOU ACCOMPLISHED SO FAR? The milestone taken is the starting of the website ( www. gogoplayssd.com ) where creators can post and people can feel, view and experience.
get exposed and market to the world what we have as a nation. Furthermore, GoGoPlay is for consumers to get quality service and enjoy the goodness and value of pure entertainment. WHAT CHALLENGES ARE YOU FACING IN ACCOMPLISHING THAT TASK? The challenges I faced and still face are financial, especially in relation to developing an app. But I had to start with a website. WHAT ROLE HAS THE HUB PLAYED IN INFLUENCING YOUR STARTUP? Koneta Hub played a great role through providing advice, mentorship, skills development, networking in vast platforms, teaching of workplace culture and problem-solving skills which built more confidence and support for the project to kick off.
RACHEL HAKIM FOUNDER GOGO PLAY • SOUTH SUDAN SUPPORTED BY: KONETA HUB
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