DisasterFix

Video of the example
the way DisasterFix works
The definition of the disaster
The do-s and don't-s
The evacuation procedures
One of the Examples, Cyclone
Recommended emergency supplies
Some precautions

Inspiration

In our community, when a disaster strikes any area, most of the people don’t know what exactly they should do at that time and How should they get prepared for worst case scenarios.

Seeing the number of victims after a disaster happened, we want to make a platform where people can learn more about disasters and learn how to respond to any disaster.

DisasterFix is a social initiative to train people what should they do in case of any disaster. While many relief efforts are focusing on rebuilding the physical damage, DisasterFix makes people always ready in case of any emergency. Furthermore, It aims to reduce, or avoid the potential losses from hazards and ensure an effective and coordinated way response to disasters. All proceeds will go to relief efforts to make this a necessary part of education in schools.

People can independently signup, governments can make it mandatory for employees and schools for students.

What it does

Disasterfix is a mooc bases platform that can be leveraged to train the general public about how to prepare and respond in case of an emergency. It contains modular information about specific disasters. Information such as precaution, evacuation procedures, emergency supplies, do-s and don't-s, etc. After the user complete a module, they will be awarded a certificate and points to bring about gamification and excitement in learning about survival skills. A good example of this type of initiative has been undertaken by the japanese government to train kids about how to respond in case of earthquakes and tsunamis.

There also is a mobile app that indicates nearest relief camps and food /supplies availability. In further releases, there will be an option for emergency broadcasts to nearby personnel via sms similar to an amber alert.

How we built it

Text SMS: Twilio Website: React Backend: Express Mobile App: Kotlin

Challenges we ran into

Coming up with actionable ideas that have the potential to reach billions of people. Most ideas were local or subjective to a tiny subgroup. This mooc platform is extensible and can be used by government, educational bodies and local municipal bodies to bring about awareness in how to tackle disasters should they occur.

Limiting scope to build what is relevant.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Building the UI for the website, a deck to convey our idea and motive, and a mobile app to indicate food availability. Hosted the application on Netlify Sent SMSes via twilio

What we learned

We learned how to use twilio, how to put together an MVP and deploy in record time. We learnt that the lowest hanging fruit to most solutions can be achieved in under 48 hours

What's next for DisasterFix

We will update and add more content to disaster modules. We will build together a tenant based authentication system to allow people to whitelabel and use this to upskill their personnel/students/public and everyone else that's interested. Extend the backend to support uploads,authentication, certification generation, gamification and so forth Roll out the mobile app to the playstore.