Sri Lanka schools’ sports update – Sri Lankans’ Loyalty towards their schools taken to another level

Sri Lankan culture is carved with patriotism. Unlike in any other part of the world, Sri Lankans’ loyalty towards their alma mater is remarkable. Sri Lankans spend quite a lot of time in admiring, gossiping, benchmarking and of course the passionate banter involved between rival schools. But unfortunately this loyalty lacks in persistence in terms of awareness & the instant availability of information. 

As a result Cheerurteam.com was formulated to cater to the busy individuals who love their alma mater and eager to get updates of the latest happenings at schools and in the school sports arena.

This ‘school’ application will update the subscriber with the latest sports scores of their respective schools. Users can subscribe to the application by their school name or by any particular sport or all schools and all sports, according to their preferences. Another fantastic feature is; if a subscriber wants to get a match update of other schools, the request can be treated on demand. Eg: If a user has subscribed to Ananda College and wants to know what happened at the Royal-Thomian big match; he will just simply have to send an on demand text to 4499 on Etisalat.

Developing on AppZone is easy as developing other applications. If someone has prior experience in working on APIs and iPhone or Facebook applications, it will merely take a few hours to develop an application on AppZone. We used PHP to develop this application.

School Match days consist of 10 matches taking place in various sports. So, if we are to start sending all match results of all schools to subscribers, it could put them off as most of it are irrelevant. As most people are interested only in his or her school and not all the schools in the country. Therefore we needed appropriate technology to filter the data before sending to the subscribers. In fact, we approached other mobile service operators, but they were not interested in moving forward with the initiative forcing us to halt the idea at the time

Then comes AppZone. This is a perfect platform for our requirements. We are thrilled to develop applications and publish them on AppZone. Another fabulous opportunity is that Etisalat offers us a big piece of cake for the developers where as other established operators were to keep a big piece for themselves.

This is a new revolution in the mobile industry. Now it’s our duty to support this initiative. Forget about how much we will make but look at how we can help them to grow. Every application developed by each of us will motivate them and help them to build more sophisticated products to the market, whereas, it helps you and the society at large.

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