Concept

Whive.com is a Social Media Tools Aggregator that offers a platform for SMS, Facebook, Twitter and Mobile Applications that are built for local use in Kenyan and African settings. Whive offers a variety of services, namely:

We have SMS, Text and Banner based social advertising products for our subscribers on our Web, Mobile and Native applications. Sponsors advertise their products on each SMS sent on our network and our users send this SMS for free.

We have prepaid Credit purchases for Bulk SMS Services for SMS Termination and Origination. We are looking at mobile operators payment API’s to develop mobile payment solutions on our platform.

Whive differs from other platforms because we are localizing our mobile applications to all Kenyan communities by making the available in local languages. Starting with Swahili, Sheng and English Whive is seeking to initially target the Kenyan youth with our classifieds application. The classifieds currently offers jobs and other essential information to this cohort that has been largely ignored by existing applications.

These applications will also form a basis of lingual translation services of key Kenyan languages for up to 10,000 Words. This will ensure that we continue to preserve our rich cultural heritage presently.

We hope to roll out this application to most of Kenya’s 42 identified cultures throughout 2011- 2012. We expect to achieve this through crowd-sourcing the language translations.

We have identified this mobile space as a crucial one for Africa and we already have support from Nokia who have provided their Ovi store as a distribution platform for our work.