hivisasa

Hivisasa is a Kenyan news site with 1.2m monthly readers (JAN 2017). Hivisasa a local news website tailored for the mobile web. It brings free county-level news to any internet-enabled phone. It sources all its news stories from local citizen reporters (i.e. anyone wanting to report the news) who are paid via mobile-money for each published article. Hivisasa.com is one of the most far-reaching and cost-effective media models presently available in Kenya. Hivisasa.com helps involve and engage a more diverse, more connected, and more mobile audience into news gathering and reading. Streaming directly from the source to the news room, thereby amplifying news content otherwise unnoticed or suppressed. Hivisasa.com was piloted in 2012 by the seed fund 88mph, then officially launched in January 2014. In June 2015 we welcomed 2 new investors; the Omidyar Network and Novastar Ventures. https://www.omidyar.com/investees/hivisasa http://www.novastarventures.com/#portfolio