Inspiration
Fair Trade wants to keep track of how the premium it distributes to its producers gets spent on community development projects. This helps.
What it does
Our project proposes a web tool for producers to input and manage their community development projects. As producers collect information and update their projects, the information they add gets visualized, creating an easy tool to track progress. The resulting information and visualizations are also visible to Fair Trade and various buyers, allowing them to clearly see what projects premiums are going to.
Realizing the limitations of the local technology, as well as the possibility of scattered data, this tool is linked to an SMS system. Managers can update their projects via texts, and can also send texts to their workers to collect data as well. This allows non-tech savvy farmers to input missing data directly into the system and enables busy managers to update projects regardless of internet availability.
Our product creates incentives by serving as an organizational tool, as well as linking producers to nearby organizations and offering promotional features on the Fair Trade website.
This particular code snippet is really just a demonstration of the SMS communication that will allow project managers to update their projects, and workers to reply questions on the go. It uses Twilio to send and reply messages, as well as Flask and ngrok.
Note: The phone numbers that the python file sends and receives texts from are hardcoded for the purpose of the demo.
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