Another year done and dusted! Looking back at 2075: it was a huge and amazing year here at Sparrow SMS. We upsurge our fantastic team to provide more value to our customers. We were purchased by the Bangladesh Ride Sharing partner, Pathao, Department of Transportation Management (DoTM) and many BFI’s and Government agencies. 2076 looks to be even bigger, better and more exciting! We are planning for loads of new and thrilling projects in the pipeline for the year. We are eager to upgrade our tools, features, and services all to improve business communication experience. With the continuous growth in mobile penetration rate in Nepal, industry experts are saying that ‘This is the year of Mobile’. Businesses are investing more capital in mobile marketing to reach more customers and enhance the user’s experience. Many businesses and leaders are also talking around customer experience and the ways to improve them, which seems to be the hot topic of 2076. Integrating SMS service with client servicing can help in support handling, delivery updates, appointment, reminders and other communications. This will not only improve the value of support but boost amazing customer experience. Bulk SMS service in Nepal is getting a huge upgrade and step forward in its capabilities with amazing open and response rates. So, this year is set to be another amazing and exciting year for SMS marketing and Sparrow SMS. We have the perfect team and support to help us build, develop and improve Sparrow SMS. Thank you for your custom in 2075 and we are all looking forward to working with you in 2076.
A day after the World Startup Report event at King’s College, another remarkable event was organized by Sparrow SMS in collaboration with Biruwa Ventures. The event organized on 28thof April at Baber Mahal Revisited was aimed at bringing the people from tech world in Nepal at a single venue for the exchange of knowledge and information and also to present an overall picture of tech culture in Nepal. For everyone who wondered what the IT scene in Kathmandu looks like, this first Tech Mashup showed that there are many more players in the arena than one would assume and there is much more innovation coming up than one would expect. The first Tech Mashup introduced 15 start-up ventures and developer communities to a crowd of about 300 youngsters. Most of the guests were surprised and inspired by seeing these many like-minded tech enthusiasts ready to contribute their knowledge and skills in a sector that is often underestimated in Nepal. Companies like Grepsr.com, f1 soft and cloud factory showed that building a successful IT-based business is indeed possible here. The communities like Google Developers, Wikimedia, and the Open Source developers attracted bulks of potential supporters to their stalls as did Karkhana with their prototype robots. The special guest of the evening was Bowie Gai, who is traveling to 36 cities in 29 countries to explore the tech startup the scene and report about it on www.startupreport.com. The Silicon Valley entrepreneur was busy answering an abundance of questions and connecting with ambitious Geeks. The overwhelming number of participants showed the huge interest in events like this. As Abhinab Basnyat of Biruwa Ventures puts it, “This event came at the right time. It is amazing to see how the sector has developed in the recent past. Now the need is to link the IT community up with management and marketing students so that all those proto-types get developed into actual products and businesses”. The organizers of Tech Mashup will certainly be up for the challenge to now also spark more networks even beyond the IT sector.
We are really excited to announce that Sparrow SMS has completed amazing eight years of its journey today. We feel it was just yesterday when we introduced Sparrow SMS in the market. It was initiated by Janaki Technology in 2010, with the tagline ‘Power of Text’ with an aim to provide easy access to information to every individual of Nepal. When we started, we were quite skeptic if people would even use bulk SMS technology. Back then people did not have access to internet and information. But, mobile penetration did the magic, which turned our dream of providing important information via SMS into reality. Coming this far, Sparrow SMS has grown as the market leader in mobile messaging, and now powers mobile campaigns for some of the most well-known brands in Nepal. In 2014, Sparrow SMS was honored with mBillionth Award South Asia for the service, Labor Permit, that provided migrant workers in Nepal with information about their status of labor permit and actual details of processing cost, thus stopping brokers who used to give fake information on recruitment leading to trafficking. In the devastating earthquake of 2015, Sparrow SMS team came up with an online app portal through which people could offer and ask for help via SMS, which could be mapped in Google Map. With this mapped informations, volunteers could dispatch relief distribution programs accordingly. Elated by such amazing reception, Amit Agrawal, CEO of Sparrow SMS shared, “We wanted to bring easy access to information to everyone in Nepal, be it a remote mountain or a small village in Terai. What keeps us alive is stories from millions of users who use Sparrow SMS. This adds meaning to our everyday work and our purpose of making a difference and impacting lives of people in Nepal keeps us motivated to work even harder in days to come. Today as we celebrate our 8th Anniversary, we are obliged to all our users, friends & family, supporters and well-wishers and everyone who believed in us and have been by our side in our journey – without your involvement and support, we would not have reached where we are today.” Sparrow SMS provides daily crucial information and alerts to public via SMS in Nepal. Some of our crucial services are National Exam Results, Safe Migration Labor Permit Status, Election Updates, Human trafficking Vulnerability SMS reporting, SMS Based Disaster Response Management System, Blood donors search, SMS Based Livestock Management & Reporting System, Health Report, Agro-Market Info, etc. Sparrow SMS currently receives more than 20 million Inbound SMS per year. We are extremely overwhelmed by such an amazing support from users in both rural and urban areas. Coincidentally, March 20 is also World Sparrow Day, World Happiness Day and today we also officially celebrate the start of Spring, a season of new beginnings. We wish you all World Sparrow Day, World Happiness Day, and a happy and fun Spring! Expecting a similar type of love and support in the days to come!
To more information about Subisu CAN InfoTech 2018: Type CAN and SMS to 35001.To know Subisu CAN Info-Tech 2018 Stall details: Type CANSTALL<space> Stall Number and SMS to 35001. CAN Federation is hosting CAN InfoTech 2018 since 1995 with an aim to promote Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Industry of Nepal and make Nepalese aware about the development in the sector technology. The 24th edition of Subisu CAN InfoTech 2018 has started from today, 25 January 2018 (Magh 11, 2074). This event was developed to make people aware about the technologies but now it has developed into platform for various national and international ICT companies to exhibit the latest technologies, launch new products, and bring out the offers that consumers are attracted to! Subisu Cablenet Pvt. Ltd. is the title sponsor this year. A total of 222 stalls have been made at the event, including 49 Branded stalls inside the main hall, 5 branded stalls outside, 144 stalls at the truss, 14 open spaces and 10 food stalls. The entry fee has been fixed at Rs 100 for general visitors, whereas for students it has been set at Rs 50. We are proud to be associated with Subisu CAN InfoTech 2018 as SMS Partner. To more information about Subisu CAN InfoTech 2018, Type CAN and SMS to 35001 and if you want to know Subisu CAN Info-Tech 2018 Stall details, Type CANSTALL<space> Stall Number and SMS to 35001. Are you excited about this event? Khalti is also coming up with Three mega offers and announcements during the event. See you there at the CAN Infotech beginning this January 25. To more information about Subisu CAN InfoTech 2018: Type CAN and SMS to 35001.To know Subisu CAN Info-Tech 2018 Stall details: Type CANSTALL<space> Stall Number and SMS to 35001.