User:Kijjo Simon Peter/sandbox

somanetugx.com Connected to: Oriteq Systems Ltd From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Soma-Net Type of business E-learning,Retail, E-commerce Available in	English Founded	2019 Headquarters	Kireka, Kamuli, Uganda Owner	Oriteq Systems Ltd Founder(s) Kijjo Simon Peter Chairperson	Mukuye Roy Industry	E-learning, Retail

Employees	20 (September 2021) URL	https://www.somanetugx.com

Launched	2020

somanetugx.com is a Uganda e-learning and e-commerce company founded in November 2019 with headquarters in Kireka, Uganda. It’s a three sector web platform that offers online courses and educational material to the professional adults and students at the Higher Education level under the NCHE in Uganda via an e-library sector called e-doc, direct retail shopping sector called s-MART spanning various categories including consumer electronics, fashion, home appliances, Furniture, children's items, computers & accessories, phones and tablets, health care and personal care products. The Platform also habours a Leisure sector which enables users to chill off and relax their mind with entertainment in several ways with provision of games,music, movies and recommendations of lucrative tours, eateries,and several chill outs to customers. History soma-Net was founded in November 2019 by kijjo Simon Peter with 2 staff. The site initially functioned as an online library (e-doc) with about 77,000 digital documentations of which over 80% were free of charge with major emphasis on kyambogo University faculty of Engineering.Later on in the early 2020 an online shopping sector (s-MART) was added to theplatform so as to add value and ease the shopping experience of the students but still products where less with a total being as low as 1,000. Later at the end of the year 2020 several product stores were put up and the quantity increased to over 2400 different products among these was furniture and sexual health products. This expansion may have been a response to soma-Net's faced competition from all angles. It should be noted that as early as 2021 January, a leisure sector was added to the web platform having seen the necessity to create an all round self sufficient learning environment to the students and other associated beneficiaries.This provided recommendations to Entertainment content, discounted Tours and meals from several eateries within the country. Competition Soma-Net faces competition mostly from other dominant Ugandan digital commerce platforms, such as Jumia, Kikuubo online, Kikuu and even recently founded e-commerce platforms such as Nofeka ug,Tilyexpress, Gadgets Boss Uganda due to the been niched product, location and a strong agency networks these platforms have.