An online talent hub, SAKORAH.COM has been launched in Ghana for discovering amazing talents in various areas of endeavour.
The launch, which happened at the plush Movenpick Hotel saw the amazing web and mobile app portal introduced to the general public for the first time.
Speaking at the grand launch, founder of the SAKORAH, Bulley Jerry Kormla explained what the whole idea was and how this rare platform will help unearth several talents.
“Sakorah.com is a web and mobile app portal where talented individuals can upload or post their videos, audio and pictures of their talent and wait to be discovered by agents, producers, C.E.O of record labels or any other individual seeking new talents. It offers a platform for talents and talent managers to find one other and easily bridges the gap between opportunity and talent. it also creates a career or job platform for talent agents, scouts, managers, voice coaches and mentors. Sakorah.com also provides a lot of talented personnel for the entertainment industries.” Bulley noted.
Adding on to it, co-founder of SAKORA.COM, Calvin Doe stressed the processes involved in the using the platform effectively.
“Sakorah.com is a very user friendly,time saving,cost effective,well categorized for identification and all categories are included and treated the same. Sakorah.com has 5 features that makes it effective and a well structured platform. Its first feature is The CHALLENGE. This is the flagship feature of the platform which allows participants to submit their videos,pictures or music for national competition on monthly basis.
“The second feature is The SCOUTING. This feature helps record labels,scouts or agents to organize talent hunts on his or her private portal. The third feature is The CATEGORIES. This is where the talents are arranged and divided into various popular talents in the world. Examples are boxing, dancing, rapping, singing, make-up artist, photography, event planners and others.
“The fourth feature is The PRIVATE CHAT. This feature is a private messaging tool that allows chat between the users (the talent and agent) on the platform. It helps the scout to easily reach out to the talent. The fifth feature is The AUDITION. This feature provides the lastest updates on any upcoming audition events within a particular geographical location. The public gets to see all the buzz and hype about upcoming audition shows.” Calvin explained.
SAKORAH.COM seeks to use technology to empower fellow Africans as the internet usage in Africa has reached 400 million users with smartphiones users at 320 million.