EasySites is an exiting new programme that enables you to become a web designer and start your own business with full professional support and training.

EasySites will offer you the opportunity to participate in the EasySites Training Course and start your own business in web design as an EasySites Licensee.

As an EasySites Licensee you will have access to the specially developed online EasySites Builder Platform, which allows you to operate your business from your own home, workstation or internet cafe.

As an EasySites Licensee you will benefit from a Support Package that includes the large client network and marketing channel of Mountbatten Ltd, as well as customer care service, promotion material, business planing, accounting, training and backstopping sessions.

Below you will find a description of the groups of people that will be involved in the EasySites programme:

EasySites Trainee
If you are an EasySites Trainee, you have successfully passed the intake test and second selection round, paid your training fees and you have started participating in the EasySites Training Course. The minimum number of trainees per course is 20 persons.

EasySites Licensee:
An Licensee is a candidate who has fulfilled the Easy Sites course requirements and has agreed on the terms and conditions of becoming a Easy Sites licensee (signed the Memorandum of Understanding). Mountbatten aims to issue a minimum of 20 licenses in the first operational year. The licensee will be entitled to sell websites made with the EasySite Builder, domain names and web hosting and sell this as a total package to the end-customer and make his own profit. The licensee will actively search for leads (potential customers) and has to support the end-customer with deciding the type of website, ordering a domain and using the mailboxes.

Licensor:
Mountbatten Ltd. is the licensor and owner of the EasySites product and platform. Mountbatten will contract licensees and in return provide them with training, an optimal working EasySites platform, marketing, support and customer care. Mountbatten in return will generate income through the web hosting contracts that licensees sign with their end-customers. The licensees will pay Mountbatten a fixed license fee per website / web-hosting contract. Mountbatten will conduct regular quality controls on the end-product.

The end-customer:
The person / business / NGO who buys an EasySites website from the licensee in order to market his product on the internet is refered to as the end-customer. The end-customer will have to provide the licensee with the requirements for his/her website (logo, target group). This will take place during an intake meeting. The end-customer gives feedback on the satisfaction of the end-product. The end-customer signs a contract with the licensee in which he/she agrees with the terms and conditions for web-hosting and building of the site.

The end-user:
The end-user is the target group of the website. The person who searches for a product through the Internet with a search engine (Google for example) and finds more information via a website (EasySites website) on a product he/she might buy. This person needs a website that is easy to understand, read and get the information needed quickly. The end-user is the person that clicks through the EasySites website and considers to buy the product from the end-customer.

The EasySites programme is designed in such a way that all key players in the EasySites Programme benefit through the creation of a win-win situation.

For the trainee/licensee EasySites provides:

• Training and practical work experience for young graduates who often have generated a lot of theoretical knowledge during their studies, but lack the expertise and the network that is required to find a job.
• An opportunity to start an own business in web design with professional back-stopping and support service of an experienced company as Mountbatten, and by doing so, generate an income and improve their livelihood.

For the end-customers (the party that requests for a website) varying from small- medium scale enterprises, the tourist industry, to NGO's and service providers in Kampala and surroundings, EasySites offers:

• The opportunity to market and/or advertise their products and services on-line through the internet and expand their clientèle through better Trademark positioning an a larger outreach of the world wide web.
• A guarantee for a high quality website with fast and reliable web hosting, domain name registration and email service against an affordable price.

For Mountbatten Ltd. (the licensor), EasySites provides:

• An improved access to the expanding market for web hosting and domain name registration through the EasySites Licensees, who will be acting as 'local representatives' and create a lower entry barrier for potential web-hosting client.
• A means to keep the market for relatively cheaper websites for the lower end of the market segment within the own clientèle network. This market segment does not fit the current target group of Mountbatten, that focuses on highly advanced, database driven websites.

For the Ugandan society, EasySites offers:

• A positive contribution to economical growth through job creation and providing a livelihood and increase in income by 50 to 100 percent of more for a group of 20 young Ugandans.
• An opportunity to stimulate use of the internet within Ugandan society and daily live of people with the aim not to be excluded from the digital era that has also reached African Countries. EasySites, and a more accessible internet in general, will enable Uganda and Ugandans to play a more active role in knowledge sharing and exchange through the World Wide Web.
• A contribution to the knowledge level of Ugandans with regard to business management, communication and IT.