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Inspiration
We wanted our solution to be focused around increasing the amount of resources available to everyone instead of erecting barriers that shut out a certain demographic from having access to those resources.
We asked ourselves 3 fundamental questions.Firstly, what is the biggest gap within the context of youth employment,secondly,how will we know that our proposed solution has been effective in the most efficient way.thirdly,how do we solve the biggest dilemma in business,which is connecting people who are most affected by a problem with the people who come implement solutions to remedy those problems(Which are the business in essence)
Here are our answers:
1-We build a platform that will increase the level of cohesion between government,the private sector and public participation
2-At the end of it all, our solution would have relieved the frustrations of both government and most communities that are plagued by unemployment .One case of this is decreasing the occurrence of service delivery protests and improving the efficiency of government in allocating resources
3-By notifying community members after a solution has been proposed,all community members that were affected by the problem have a direct communication link with the company that's solving their specific problem
What it does
A platform that allows users to post grievances about shortages in services that are available in the community on the feed and it also allows users to come up with business that address these shortages.For example after a user posts their frustrations about a tap water system that has been blocked for the past few years,users who have experienced a similar problem clicks the pledge button to serve 3 functions.Function number one,by clicking "Pledge",a user acknowledges that they are also affected by the problem.Secondly,they are pledging their full support to anyone within the community who establishes a business that will address that problem.Lastly,by "pledging" you donate your money to the company in exchange of the product or service that the company offers(similar to many crowd-funding schemes)
How we built it
We built our app using PHP, HTML, CSS, with regards to things like AI we thought that data is always too mathematical and doesn't tailor to the biggest and profound reasoning that sentiment is a driver of service delivery
Challenges we ran into
getting the Geo-spatial data, so that the solutions we optimize the feeds for specific communities, so that it tailors to their grievances. another challenge that we ran into to was the general monetization of the management system, on how we actually select the proposals that are uploaded by community members, i.e if we have 2000 proposals but it turns out that none of them offers a viable solution then how do we approach that, so the solution would be have an automatic guideline generated so that people can comply to our standards. other thing was preventing unintended consequences such as having a government official trying to manipulate the system for their own benefit(Playing the devil's advocate), as a result we saw that it boils down to ethics and policy set up by the company itself this includes transparency.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
that in less than 3 days we were able to cover so much ground into understanding this problem of participation at a fundamental level.
What we learned
we learnt that the simplest solutions to community based problems lie in the solutions that include the participation of the community, because when you have the governments need to provide service delivery with the public buy-in of the community and private sector buy-in, we are able to solve problems faster and in a cost effective way, because the government spends less money in research because a proper sentiment of problems is given by the people of the affected communities, because we also have to keep in mind that the needs of communities are different and with this pledging app we are tailoring to the specific needs of each community.
What's next for I-pledge
making sure that our application is used in all communities of all 9 provinces of the country and actually moving in the direction of the forth industrialization by i.e by using a block chain system which would lead to this operating on it's own cryptocurrency, and potentially be a stock market of its own growing businesses in countries through the solutions of service delivery problems.
