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Let's enable Pakistan, Let's enable Earth!
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Decision Support System Xpak is a DSS that utilizes Human Interaction and Telecommunication Networks to Update, Query, and Maintain a Data Base of all publicly accessible physical infrastructures in a certain area (Pakistan/KP/Peshawar/Hayatabad) What's the issue here? How does it work? How does XPak deliver? XPak combines Intuitive User Input / Querying with Telecommunications Network to provide a DSS for Policy Makers and End Users alike - i.e. for Anyone and Everyone Analyzing Stakeholders XPak Professionals Individuals Groups Organizations Institutions Agencies Governments Alleviating the burden Innovative community-based mechanisms can alleviate the burden on the government (The Economist, 2014)
Enter XPak XPak - Let's Enable! What is Accessibility? Defining 'Accessible': providing access capable of being reached being within reach easy to communicate or deal with capable of being influenced : open capable of being used or seen : available capable of being understood or appreciated Accessibility refers to the design of products, devices, services, or environments for people with disabilities . An estimated 1 Billion people, or 15% of the world’s population , are living with disabilities. (Source: The Economist Intelligence Unit Limited 2014) Disability, Accessibility, and us Weak legal framework for protecting the rights of persons with disabilities A single law , the Disabled Persons Ordinance 1981 : employers with 100 workers or more must ensure that at least 2% of their total workforce consists of persons with disabilities, or pay a levy . Weak monitoring and implementation of this law Many large, private companies and public agencies are not meeting this requirement Lack of Parliamentary Representation UNCRPD Ratification User Input OR Request for Information (Query) GPS Coordinates, OR XPin (A unique identifier), OR XCall to XPak Hot-line Interface A Graphical User Interface Android OR Smartphone OR Personal Computer / Mac OR Any Internet/Web Browser OR a simple SMS / Voice capable cellular phone OR a Land line Channel / Medium Internet / World Wide Web Cellular Networks SMS 2G/3G/4G XCall Landlines Accessible Data Base XDB Database Containing List of Publicly Accessible Infrastructures each with Indicators of Accessibility Each Infrastructure is uniquely identifiable - XPin Query Processing by XPak Query / User Input is processed by Algorithms involving geo-coding DB Mgt Software (DBMS) User moderation (in case of XCall) Feedback from XPak User receives Feedback based on the Level of Accessibility (LoA) of the requested XPin / Coordinates e.g. Directly Accessible Indirectly Accessible Etc. Acknowledgments Almighty God Our FnFs, and especially our Partners in Kind: Basecamp and Peshawar 2.0 Primary Implementing Partners of XPak for Primary Data and Research Phase including Friends Of Paraplegics (FOP), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Development Network (@KPDevNet), and Sync IT Solutions (SITSon) Paraplegic Center Peshawar IM|Sciences Teachers & Alumni Google and Microsoft Prezi.com Peshawar (2.0) - The City of Magnificence Govt. of KP, and The Islamic Republic of Pakistan Let's water the seed that is XPak Let's
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Enable Everyone Let's Enable Earth Let's build XEarth XPak - A tool for Social Accountability “Grandvoinnet, Helene; Aslam, Ghazia; Raha, Shomikho. 2015. Opening the Black Box : The Contextual Drivers of Social Accountability. Washington, DC: World Bank. © World Bank. https://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/21686 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”(2015) Goals and Objectives To improve Accessibility To reduce Poverty To improve Governance To contribute towards achievement of MDGs (lacked the inclusion of Disability issues and Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) To improve negative attitudes and systematic discrimination towards PWDs By creating temporary and permanent posts for addressing the primary data collection, quality improvement, quality maintenance and sustainability components of XPak By mobilizing the major State and Civil Society elements, thereby increasing access to publicly accessible goods and services for all, hence increasing the total workforce of Pakistan/World By acting as an innovative and authentic mechanism for accurately identifying inaccessible/poorly accessible public places - reducing the cost of site surveys and feasibility reports By providing a Social Accountability Mechanism / Tool for all By acting as an interface - a shared boundary - allowing for Citizens / Netizens (Digital Citizens) and Governments to interact XAsia
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XAmericas Let's Enable Us Let's Enable Earth. Accessible Pakistan, Accessible Earth X E a r t h x x x x x x
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