REFUGEE ACHIEVEMENTS

Refugees share successes and get hints: let a mother share achievement like “Hey, I found a soccer club for my boy”. Web engine records time/location, categorize achievements and propose to others.

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Inspiration

Idea name: REFUGEE ACHIEVEMENTS FOR WHOM: for refugees who crossed border, have been picked up by someone and spend few days, then pondering what to do next. Preferably mothers with children, looking to put children and themselves in new country reality.

What it does

CONCEPT briefing: let a mother share achievement, like “hey, I found a soccer club for my boy, or a dance club for my daughter”. System will record time and approximate location, categorize the achievements and propose to other people in a similar way the ATMs or gasoline stations are proposed.

HOW: let refugees continue to use communicators they used to use before (telegram, whatsapp, etc.), make it lightweight (rather just a website/web app, not a phone app)

How we built it

TECH: use NLP to recognize comments with achievements, categorize them, enable matching with approximate geolocation neighborhood and message feedback with suggestions, proven already by other refugees

platform: web front-end like reddit, key-value storage, preferably scaled using AWS, can be used voice / translation mechanisms (option for the future)

Challenges we ran into

Scarce contributors, effort used for sharing concept counts against availabe time for coding. Thus not enough time to arrange a platform to test - few days more is needed plus data to feed the engine.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Discussion on positive final IMPACT (result should have impact to people in need, not just passive observation)

What we learned

Communication is the key.

What's next for REFUGEE ACHIEVEMENTS

coding, prototyping, uncover the World as the better place

What we could implement:

  • Map that shows important locations for refugees based on previous data uploaded to platform
  • Data is categorized by keywords that are extracted from each new post
  • Main classes for data are: Medical Accommodation Supplies And category for other

Platform would provide easy and efficient way for refugees to integrate themselves better to new environments and get on again with normal life. Unluckly had some technical issues trying to host app

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