SkillMosaic

Inspiration

My inspiration is these sharing skill apps such as “SkillShare” and “Zoom” because you can share information and talk to people all around the world. But I asked myself, “Wait, you need to pay for skillshare, and for Zoom it’s a hassle to use and it’s a one time thing” then my brain started to think and it came to SkillMosaic.

What it does

SkillMosaic is an app where people can go on 1-1 tutoring and share their skills to someone who might need it, such as art, life skills or maybe some simple math to anyone in the world, despite your circumstances or background. However, that isn’t it! After their tutoring, their lesson can turn into a digital “tile” in an active, updating, real time digital mosaic filled with past lessons from any part of the world. You can view a past lesson between a retired chef in Italy teaching someone in Kenya how to make pasta and the student can adapt his own hometown specialty.

It has many ways to store info such as instructions, videos or even some recordings of the meeting they had and you can learn yourself! It also uses AI in order to translate different languages, bypassing the problem we have: Communities are diverse (Language barrier, etc) but we don’t know how to connect them properly!

How we built it

I didn’t build it as I chose to do an innovation pitch, however the apps I did use are Canva, as it is one of the apps you use for an innovation app.

Challenges we ran into

Some challenges I went through are:

-How could I make this more secure? After all it’s a global app where you can view past tiles? And what if some people decides to add inappropriate stuff etc?

I fixed this by adding the concept of encrypted end to end chat, using your legal documents in order to reduce bots, impersonation etc. I also added another concept of adding a reputation system where you know if the tile you viewed is made by a trusted person on the app.

-How could I make this more fair? After all, can’t we all just view the past lessons? How could I encourage people to start to teach?

In order to make it fair, I added SkillCredits, digital coins where you can earn through tutoring, and you can use it to ask someone to tutor you on something. This way, I can encourage people to start tutoring people and create a domino effect of teaching and exchange.

-How do I overcome language barriers? After all, If I want to make global learning equal to everyone, how do I start with communication?

For this hurdle, I decided to use AI as my main solution. It will use artificial intelligence in order to translate languages smoothly in order to maintain equal communication.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Since I didn’t code, I can’t really demonstrate the technical parts, but I really am proud at my unique concept knowing how game changing this is to connecting different communities and cultures through learning and exchanging.

What we learned

For this journey I have learnt so many different things about not just problems around the world but also how to use technical components (AI, online meetings etc) in order to fix this problem.