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first collaborative and fair trade platform between users and businesses 1km around.
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Inspiration
we want to support every kilometer of the planet to revive the economy
What it does
Our platform supports giving visibility to all businesses close to users, supporting small businesses to reactivate their sales, thus preventing them from going bankrupt and large chains being the ones to keep these revenues. Focusing on the collaborative economy and fair trade
How we built it
A group of Ecuadorian entrepreneurs developed a platform to connect the owners of commercial establishments with their clients. They are: www.todosmascerca.com Ricardo Mancero and Andrés Dueñas, project leaders have been working for several years in the development of digital projects and during the quarantine process due to Covid19; They looked for a technological solution to help those most economically affected by the crisis. The premise is to prevent people from crowding into supermarkets and help revive the economy of small and medium-sized companies, which have been forced to close their operations due to a lack of customers.
Challenges we ran into
Revive the small business economy. Avoid crowds. Digitize small businesses. Connect 1km around users with shops. Connection facilities between businesses and users through a webapp. Visibility of small businesses due to scarce advertising resources.
Accomplishments that we're proud of
This Startup has been very well received at the international level, being chosen by Unesco to spread it worldwide within its #YouthOfUnesco program. On the other hand, the Inter-American Development Bank in its IDB LAB platform has placed the project within “COVID-19 Map of Innovators of Latin America and the Caribbean”. In Mexico, the venture was chosen as the winner in the call "Hack The Crisis Mx" among more than 400 proposals. He was chosen winner in the economic reactivation category in the "Hacking Covid" call organized by the government of the Canary Islands-Spain. Currently the project is as a finalist in the call: "Ecuador Post-Crisis Hackathon" and as a finalist project in the "Ideas for Our Mexico" contest with which they have managed to reach the final among more than 1500 proposals.
What we learned
We learn to get to know people closer, understanding their needs and anxieties, and we continue learning as we want to reactivate the planet's economy.
What's next for todos mas cerca
1.- The next steps is to have a multichannel bot that connects users with businesses 1km around. 2.- implement payment gateways, so that the user can buy through the platform 3.- Develop an ERP for the inventory of shops, so that when a user wants to search for example nutella, they can see according to their geolocation which store has nutella. 4.- create our own delivery app 5.- connect farmers with businesses to generate fair trade 6.- We have a fremium model, which means that any business can have an ecommerce website if they wish, we want to democratize electronic commerce.
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