Inspiration
Because of the Coronavirus, the tourism economy collapsed. For some countries tourism is a main part of the economy (ex: 15% for Tunisia). Small traders are close to bankruptcy. Some countries voted compulsory to be negative-tested to cross their borders: Tunisia, Morocco, China, Madagascar, Iceland, Denmark and many others.
Our goal : to create an atmosphere of trust and safety.
How can we relaunch tourism if countries are afraid of tourists and tourists are afraid of being contaminated?
What it does
The problem: tourism can’t restart without countries reopening their borders and tourists booking.
During this hackathon, we created a standardization of the thousands of certificates that exist for coronavirus in the world. Now, by a simple scan on a QR-Code, we can verify a user, even if we don’t speak the same language.
How can we reassure both countries and tourists?
To encourage countries, we propose a non-contamination certificate
To encourage tourists, we provide a support for the passenger.
Support: an insurance (already available) for Covid-19, Destination benchmarking, a travel charter
There are three platforms: an app and two websites.
We really want to insist on the security aspect of our solution: there are two verifications in order to receive our certification, they are below.
The principle is simple:
The user goes to our web-site link and create a SafeVisa account.
Once he registered, he can find the nearest partner laboratories.
He downloads the application, and he can access the scanner by logging in with his Safevisa account.
He takes his test 48 hours before the departure in one of our 1100 partner laboratories.
These laboratories registered on a platform dedicated to them: link https://corolabos.com; (the only website we coded before the hackathon). On this platform, we deliver to each of them a specific QR-code for them to display in their waiting room.
The user after taking his test scan this QR-code to indicate us that he went to this laboratory at this hour. This is our first verification: the physical one.
Once he receives the results of his test, he uploads it on our website: https://safevisa.org. This is our second verification: the online one.
If he is negative-tested, he receives a QR-code-Visa Safevisa certification by E-mail (the one he put when he registered).
Authorities only need to scan the QR-code with the Safevisa application to check if the user is Corona-free: it is easy to implement.
We propose a universal scanner: Authorities, users, everyone can use it.
How we can make some profit ?
We offer an insurance for covid-19 and we take a commission of 15% on it.
How we built it
Where you can find our solution ? link : this site is where the client registers and uploads his certificate (we posted it on azure sunday night) link : this site is for the laboratories that work with us to register and print their QR Code The application SafeVisa: we published it sunday night on the stores, waiting for validation. You can see some screen videos on our presentation video.
This hackathon was intense for Mamadou, he coded everything (the application and the site link)
The security:
We really want to insist on this aspect. Mamadou coded during this hackathon our database, and secured it with the algorithm used in blockchain: all activity is traceable.
The architecture:
-There is one application: SafeVisa -and two websites: https://safevisa.org and https://corolabos.com
Language:
-He coded the app in ReactNative (it will be published tomorrow in the stores). -He used HTML, php3, some API (like google maps and others), and coded a QR Code generator code in HTML and PHP. He coded a qr code scanner in ReactNative.
Challenges we ran into
We are three young engineers.
We have a challenge: How to be taken seriously by governments and companies?
That’s why we participate in the Travel/Scrum Hackathon. If we win, our solution will be certified and recognized thus we will have the confidence of our partners.
Because we know our solution to be trustful:
We have 1 100 laboratories (30% of the market in France) and, thanks to Eurofins, our partner, we have 600 laboratories in more than 45 countries. We learned how to contact Big companies and governments
Indeed, we contacted laboratories, the government and ministries of France, foreign tourism offices (Tunisia, Morocco, Greece, Island) and main actors of tourism.
Accomplishments that we're proud of-Proud
Our greatest pride is to have produced marketable software in just 3 days during this hackathon. Then it is to have some touristic firms that trust us:
Cruise brands: CroisiEurope, we had also some advice from Cruiseline
Hotels: The hotels the most upscale in the french islands: “Les grandes maisons de Corse”
Tour Operators: Directours, Fram, Ollandini, PromoSéjours want to implement this solution with us.
Others: Assurances like Chapka (we are actually collaboating a solution for covid-19), and some travel agencies like 3B Voyages, one of the agency of Selectour.
We are proud to have:
1100 laboratories working with us. (30% of the market in France)
To have our first customers : CroisieEurope, Tour operators, cruisers and countries -We are working to implement our solution with Tunisia and French islands.
They said we could present our solution in Tunisia to the minister of tourism (Mohamed ali toumi) if we prove our worth.
-we are currently working with ** Ministeries ** of France: Ministery of foreign affairs, health and French Islands to implement our solution worldwide.
-we had some ministers and the secretory of department in zoom.
What we learned
This Hackathon was fulfilling and rewarding for us: we designed our MVP thanks to advice of our mentors.
Mamadou manage to code everything in three days (the app and the site https://safevisa.org). It was a tough challenge and he succeeded.
Discussing with mentors exposed our weaknesses and we learnt: First, to show you how much this hackathon changed our project, you must know that we even changed our name from "corovisa" to "safevisa", to make it a visa for every pandemic that could happen in the future.
How to optimize our MVP (use the website the more possible, because the stores are demanding)
How to organize a great work in a very short time: each of us had specific tasks. Mamadou code, Guillaume made the video, Antoine made the pitch and wrote the script.
How to communicate and to deliver a message as clear as possible.
Students at an engineering school, we learned how to react quickly and contact many big influencers and deciders. We learned also how to adapt and survive.
We hope we learnt to hack the covid.
What's next for CoroVisa
We want our solution to become worldwide . Now that we have our minimum viable project, we can start to place our product on the market.
Firstly, we will contact as many laboratories at the international: firms like Cerba and Synlab have thousands of laboratories in the world.
Secondly, if we win the hackathon, Tunisia will want to implement our solution on their country. If we don’t, we will do our best to implement in Corsica, a French island, to prove our worth to the other countries.
Finally, we hope that we learnt how to hack the covid, and protect the tourism for the next pandemic thanks to our SafeVisa worldwide Certification.
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