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Refugees Position & Donations Management during periods of Crisis

Challenges Entered: 

This project's aim is to provide refugees the possibility of giving information of their position through easy web mechanisms, using webforms in html, chtml, xhtml-mp and wml. This will cover all the used markups for accessing the mobile web. Also, in order to help the ones without the chance of browsing the mobile Internet, a SMS system might be useful to be developed.

But the core of this idea is to provide the relatives of those refugees ways of retrieving that position data in a easy way. This will mitigate their stress, because you suffer a lot when a relative is lost in the middle of a crisis. So because of this problem, this idea wants to provide efficient ways of at least knowing that they're alive and safe.

Also, I want to provide tools to coordinate and manage the donations given by the donors. That way, they will know that on a certain spot are needed certain type of things, so they might distribute goods according to the actual necessities.

Another interesting point of this idea is that this software will contribute to track and trace the path of the donations, so if it "vanish" at any point of the chain (or if there are delays in the delivery times), that place will be properly identified. The idea is that people knows that the donations are being traced, it will reduce robberies to precious material that refugees absolutely need.

And in order to do that track & trace in an efficient and easy way, mobiles will be employed. So beyond simple webforms that gave possibility to gather information, the possibilities of employing qr codes and datamatrix codes will be developed. In theory, this will be helpful, because only with a photo shot of a mobile, the data contained in those bidimensional codes will be inputed in a fast and easy way, which results in a more efficient time management. The only downsize of this idea is that only the most moder devices count with a camera, so this might be a problem if we do not provide other ways of inputing the information.

Project Assessment
Financial support: 
No
Sustainability Model: 
In order to properly develop this idea, some funding will be required, as mobile programmers always charge for their services (there are not enough of them) Also, despite the idea being released with a CC license, servers needs to be paid, advertising needs to be done... like every project with ambitions, although that some work might be done on voluntary basis, there are always expenses to be done. And of course, full accountability will be given of every penny that this project might receive.
Expertise needed: 
Management Expertise: Although I think I have a clear idea of what I need to develop, I'd like to obtain feedback from those who actually do crisis management, in order to properly translate their needs of crisis management into a mature web application.
Marketing/Media Expertise: I'd need to obtain the expertise from those who actually knows people that works in the crisis management field, in order to show them the development, and make its usage a truth. Because otherwise, this idea will remain a state-of-the-art concept, without real usage (and the idea its quite the contrary)
Technical Expertise: As this is a complex project, I might require some technical aid from mobile web programmers, in order to develop it in a proper way. For example, I will certainly add to this webapp mobile device detection... and as far as I have a few ideas about how to develop it, but I would prefer to discuss and exchange ideas with others, in order to "brainstorm" the way we do this. This way, my purpose of "keep it simple" might be achieved, because two or more heads thinks better than just one.
Project goals: 
1) Field Research In order to know what we need to develop 2) Concept Development The Webapp will be drafted 3) Programming the Beta Before the release of the code, a beta will be launched 4) Feedback A survey for potential users will be done, to enhance the Webapp 5) Releaseing the Code Through open code repositories, the code will be released 6) Usage Campaign To help this initiative get to the field, an online campaign should be done, in order to make the webapp a useful tool to those who handle crisis
Identified Obstacles: 
The potential obstacles that this project might have are the risk of finding old devices in the field. Because of this, the webapp must be developed including old programming markups. Another potential obstacle is the usage of the SMS tech within the webapp: as this might depend on the telecom infrastructure, alternatives through mobile designed webforms must be developed. Also, because not every mobile is capable of processing bidimensional barcodes, ways of introducing data must be achieved.

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