LIFE3 - MWB owned Digital Advisor

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Inspiration

Support successful application of technology to support minority women owned businesses

What it does

Connect minority-women owned businesses, within NYC, to junior developers and designers, free of cost to them, to meet needs for webpage design and development

How I built it

We used Watson Assistant, Watson Discovery, Watson Knowledge Studio, Trello

Challenges I ran into

Integrating Watson Services

Connecting Watson Service to Node Red

Finding a reliable data source for minority owned businesses

Training Watson AI using Discovery and Knowledge Studio

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

Building an application that demonstrates how to align local business needs to capabilities provided by entry-to-mid career professionals

What I learned

About the needs to help support underrepresented groups in need of digital business services.

What's next for LIFE3: MWB-owned Digital Advisor

Providing similar services nationally across the US

Built With

Submitted to

MinorityProgrammers: Black Lives Matter Hackathon

Created by

I worked on integrating IBM Watson Services with each other and focused on the front end aspect of the project.

Tewodros Amare
I was the UX Researcher. I did research around the problem and created proto-personas.

Sabine Salandy
I worked on Node-red and integrating IBM Watson services with node-red. It was challenging or me because it was my first time using Node-js.

Estephanos Bekele
Omar Duran