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Exploring Solutions
Submitting your own solutions
Filling up project proposal
Landing Page
Admin Dashboard
Teams, each Team hosting a different project

Inspiration

Social issues such as income inequality and climate change are complex, notoriously hard to solve, and pose a great challenge to future generations. Fortunately, there has been a growing awareness and concern among individuals and organizations about the need to address these problems. However, the key challenge is “where do I start?”

Where can I find a mentor
What social issues can I work on?
Is my idea viable
How should I receive funding?
And so on...

Collaboration platforms such as Discord have the potential to bring people with different expertise to work together and innovate, but we believe that there is a gap in the market for collaboration platforms specifically geared towards bringing like-minded people from different backgrounds and countries to work on solutions to address social, economic or environmental problems.

We propose a platform for people to

Learn about social issues to work on and innovative solutions
Propose innovative ideas or find like-minded teammates with the technical competencies
Have their ideas follow a stringent minimum requirement or learn how to start a project
Projects with potential are promoted and can be mentored.

Unique selling point

Speed of collaboration - users can just hop onto the platform to learn more about the trending social projects People can find like minded teammates with the required technical competency or expertise Culture of innovation - people can bring radically different ideas.

Our sources of inspiration:

Discord is a source of collaboration, because it promotes rapid brainstorming and evaluation of ideas. We thus employed the use of an open-source, Discord-like platform for our prototype, making full use of its extensive integration features

What it does

Our projects aims to have the following main features

Main Website

Showcase all problem statements, allow for solution exploration
Showcase all trending projects, and allow joining of
Allow to “sign a pledge”, (which provides access to the Mattermost)

Mattermost

Main Team showcasing all projects
Like a discord server (general chat, faqs, etc)
Option to start playbook for project submission. A playbook is similar to a
Accepted submissions get their own Team, where users get to manage. Is also showcased on the Main Website to invite other contributors.

Admin Dashboard

Manage all project submissions
Manage social problems list

Workflow for users

Create project / Choose an existing solution
Submit project proposal
Browse existing projects
Discuss and collaborate with others

Workflow for admin

Approve projects
Moderate the Mattermost server

Example usage

John is a scientist who has an interesting solution to restore the coral reefs in Australia.
Bernice is a businesswomen who is seeking ideas to start a company to promote employment for women who have less social mobility.
Yi Kang is a student who wants to learn more about social issues.

On the main page, users can learn more about the current and emerging social issues and learn more about solutions to solve them. Users can show their appreciation for existing projects by pledging their support.

Through Mattermost, users that have their proejcts approved get a segment of the platform dedicated to them. They may customize it to attract other developers to work on the project together, as well as act as a Home Page of sorts for their project