findthem.network

Inspiration

We wanted to build something that could potentially be adopted by the general public working around an increasing social-issue. We think this kind of tools can generate impact among communities and help leverage the "mass-addaption".

What it does

findthem.network is a decentralized network for finding missing children. It gives parents and legal guardians an easy-to-use decentralized application for posting information and offering incentives to the network in exchange for help.

Main Features

Open new cases providing.
Support a case through donation. These donations are then used to extend the search reach.
Anonymous submission of hints that only parents can read.
Grant access to third-parties so that they can follow a case progress.
Approval or rejection of hints by parents.
Gas refund to collaborators on parents on approval of the submitted hint.
Sensitive data deletion when a case is solved. Only aggregated data remains in the blockchain for statistical purposes.
Approved collaborators can redeem the incentive or donate it to the network.
Automatic distribution of the balance to other geographically close cases.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Buidling a social dapp with real-world social impact.
Preserving anonymity of hint's provider.
Avoiding hint manipulation by third-parties.
Accepting donations to spread the word.
Increase collaboration by offering rewards.

What's next for findthem.network

We would love to see these concepts evolve:

Use push-notifications to notify all "subscribers" in the nearbys of an accepted hint location. There could also be incentives for people that help spread the word by sharing in other networks.
Obfuscate incentives amount to avoid misconducts of the users.
Encrypt hints to ensure privacy for the Finding Request owner.
Using a stable coin would be a good feature in order to preserve the value of economic incentives in the long-run.
A few things around centralization could be resolved with DAO tools.