{"id":146329,"date":"2015-08-25T14:55:52","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T14:55:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=146329"},"modified":"2015-08-25T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T17:38:17","slug":"ghanaian-tech-firm-launches-skills-swapping-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=146329","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaian Tech startup launches Skills Swapping platform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Swappaholics Holdings Limited, an innovative startup that recently graduated from the TURN8 Accelerator program (Round 4) in Dubai has launched a skills swapping portal, a disruptive platform, modeled after the barter trade system that will allow professionals to connect and swap skills in a social setting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skillz (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillz.io\/\">www.skillz.io<\/a>) is going to be a platform that is going to be a game changer in the online freelance ecosystem by allowing professionals to trade without the use of money. A platform where your skills become a social currency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u201cWe are breaking the monopoly of money, and empowering everyone with equal trading opportunities\u201d says Francis Obirikorang, CEO and Co-founder.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skillz will allow people to trade skills, build up their portfolio, connect and interact with like minded professionals, rent their skills and also contribute their skills for social good.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skillz.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-146330\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skillz.png\" alt=\"Skillz\" width=\"720\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skillz.png 720w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Skillz-300x152.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">A website designer can design a website for a legal professional who in return will offer legal services in exchange for the website.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Currently, the main pain point facing many freelance websites is the need for money to trade, which is eliminating many people from trading due to little or no cash. \u201cEveryone has a unique skill set which can be traded\u201d remarked the CEO of Swappaholics. Its an ecosystem where everyone wins. With Skillz, your skills is your social currency.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Skillz is currently web based and the Android and iOS mobile applications will be launched by the end of 2015 to give users a multi channel approach to swapping their skills. Launched in Dubai, Swappaholics has plans of extending the Skills swapping portal to the other MENA regions with a global focus in mind.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">URL: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.skillz.io\/\">http:\/\/www.skillz.io<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Email: <a href=\"mailto:francis@skillz.io\">francis@skillz.io<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Source: turn8.co<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swappaholics Holdings Limited, an innovative startup that recently graduated from the TURN8 Accelerator program (Round 4) in Dubai has launched a skills swapping portal, a disruptive platform, modeled after the barter trade system that will allow professionals to connect and swap skills in a social setting. Skillz (www.skillz.io) is going to be a platform that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":146332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-146329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-dr-akwasi-osei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/146332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}