KidzByte: Providing India’s first News Application for the Kids
Having knowledge about the latest news and events is really crucial to stay relevant in today’s competitive world. Not only adults, but even children need to be well aware of the current affairs – national and global – which will help them run parallel with the changing time. However, traditional newspapers, news portals and other sources are mostly neglected by today’s technology-driven generation. Hence, children are looking for more of a digitized version which will not only help them learn but instill enthusiasm through various funfilled activities and tasks.A company that has been revolutionizing this sector is KidzByte. The company with its unique, never-before approach has been towards providing children of 4th to 12th standard with India’s first short format news application, which is inclusive of various fun-filled “Do-it-Yourself” activities and tasks. They focus on a broader picture than just delivering curriculum based learning by providing children with real-time news and other articles related to crucial current events across the Globe which will help them in making themselves future-ready in this rapidly changing world.
A Unique Approach in Delivering News Updates
With an expert content team, KidzByte provides much simplified, children appropriate-news contents, which comes in three different formats, i.e. reading content, audio or more advanced video based digital news channel. This Digital News channel is similar to a physical news room with specially designed characters who reads out news to the children. Furthermore, with a unique combination of well-edited content and technology, the company provides their daily news updates in fifteen different categories, from India & World, Fun & Learn, Education & Career, Science & Discovery, Technology & Gadgets, Health & Lifestyle, Sports & Entertainment, and Weird & Wacky, among others. This application further enables children engagements through Quizzes to test their knowledge, and in turn, they
can earn points and win prizes on a daily/weekly basis; thereby gamifying the whole process and making this application more exciting for children to engage with.
A Platform for the Kids and by the Kids
One of the recent category and also the most important category which KidsByte has added to empower children to form their own opinions and, voice and debate their point of view effectively is - Junior Journalist. This one of a kind approach will undoubtedly set new standard on how kids can leverage these kinds of applications.
Junior Journalist is just what its name suggests. Children can write contents on any given matter such as school activities, poems, stories, artworks, among others. This content then gets published in the application with their name attached and the school that they belong to. This will help children in further boosting their morale and help other users as well, as it can be viewed by everyone, and therefore creating a spark for other kids on doing the same. Hence, Junior Journalist will undoubtedly be a one of a kind platform for the kids, which will be run by kids themselves.
“We are looking at investing in more technologies, and currently this application is available on the Google Playstore, and soon it will cater to the users on iOS platform as well. We are catering with English as a primary language, and we are also looking forward to introduce more languages - Hindi and other regional languages - so as to cater to the wider masses,” concludes Chetan D’Souza, Co-Founder, KidsByte.
A Platform for the Kids and by the Kids
One of the recent category and also the most important category which KidsByte has added to empower children to form their own opinions and, voice and debate their point of view effectively is - Junior Journalist. This one of a kind approach will undoubtedly set new standard on how kids can leverage these kinds of applications.
We are looking at investing in more technologies, and currently this application is available on the Google Playstore, and soon it will cater to the users on iOS platform as well
Junior Journalist is just what its name suggests. Children can write contents on any given matter such as school activities, poems, stories, artworks, among others. This content then gets published in the application with their name attached and the school that they belong to. This will help children in further boosting their morale and help other users as well, as it can be viewed by everyone, and therefore creating a spark for other kids on doing the same. Hence, Junior Journalist will undoubtedly be a one of a kind platform for the kids, which will be run by kids themselves.
“We are looking at investing in more technologies, and currently this application is available on the Google Playstore, and soon it will cater to the users on iOS platform as well. We are catering with English as a primary language, and we are also looking forward to introduce more languages - Hindi and other regional languages - so as to cater to the wider masses,” concludes Chetan D’Souza, Co-Founder, KidsByte.
