Week 2 Deliverables
Who are you clients/users?
5 separate parties - Worker, company, agency, sending country (Country A), receiving country (Country B)
What is your product’s value proposition?
- Standardized contract process for international migrant workers. Transparent labor contract terms provided to recruitment agency, government agency, and migrant workers.
- Future applications mean measurable and transparent remittance (on blockchain)
- In-line with economic development goals of origin country (remittance) and SDG 8 of United Nations
For workers: Consistency of contract, safety, entitlements, rights, can trust that contracts are legit and placement fees are paid and received, and that there will be a log of them
For Sending Country - Protection of worker rights and entitlements, including wages, positive effect on remittances
For Receiving Country - Standardised and protected contract for multi-national immigrant worker populations
What is your distribution and go-to market strategy? Who can you partner with?
We can partner with Migrant Workers’ Rights Associations, Home Governments and Agencies. We will start by providing a use case with agencies that are already being ethical (mostly NGOs and non-profits who may not be getting that many job orders).
What are the risks associated with your solution?
- That we don’t solve the underlying problem of workers being forced into these jobs away from home.
- That agencies avoid the terms of their contracts in real life and coerce workers into not reporting it.
- That technological barriers-to-entry prevent the widespread adoption required for the solution to help migrant workers at scale.
- That focussing on a middle-income country prevents functionality from being useful in low-income countries due to substantial differences in infrastructure.
What is the impact of your solution? How will it be measured?
Migrant workers will not end up in situations where their working situation differs significantly from what they initially signed up for. The processes surrounding applying and travelling for work will be increasingly transparent. Recruitment agencies’ demonstrate more accountability for issues with labor contracts due to their publicly visible on-chain reputation.
This in turn increases accountability and ethical behavior by the hiring organisations, as they try to only work with well-reputed recruitment agencies to avoid legal/social/media kickback.
Define technical specifications and development roadmap
Components & Actors
Job seekers have uPort app on mobile.
Corporates and recruitment agencies have uPort app on mobile too. Can complete 2-way link with LinkedIn or Twitter profile, or company website even? If we require this, we prevent Sybil attacks when companies have bad reputations and just create new identities.
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