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Technical development for Poverty's Demise .Org or ("P-D-O")

www.povertysdemise.org

General Background

PDO can be thought of as a technological roadmap for sustainable child poverty alleviation that is a combination of “Facebook”, “PayPal”, and “eBay” Internet platforms…except PDO is -nonprofit- & -open-source-Donors & poor children each receive web-based user profiles (like Facebook)…  The Donor Portal is connected to a “Charity Account” that holds cash donations (like PayPal).   Then the donors can use the “Charity Accounts” to purchase specific social welfare related items from a simple shopping cart interface (Like eBay). The “Social Welfare Shopping Carts” represent the sum total of all the child’s possible needs for healthy development ( food, clothing, shelter, healthcare, education, etc.) In the future if every child born has a full “social welfare shopping cart” because of PDO tax deductible donations…

poverty will end.

Primary Beneficiaries:

  1. American children living in poverty ages 0-9
    1. NOTE: PDO is open-source therefore countries all over the world with localize versions of the PDO Charitable Transaction Platform
  2. Donors will benefit from PDO’s ease of use and 1 to 1 donation to recipient ratio

For a project overview please visit:
http://www.povertysdemise.org/shortbusinessplan.html

For an overview of the PDO Charitable Transaction Platform –prototype- please visit:
http://www.povertysdemise.org  (yellow mouseover panels explain how each function on the donor and recipient portals work.)

The challenge:

A Chief Technology Officer Fellow is sought immediately.   This project is on-going and there may be opportunities for Fellows to transition to full-time employment with PDO following graduation.

Short Term Duties:

  • Re-design PDO prototype website
    • one month time frame,
    • basic back-end functionality
    • no back-end database
  • Internal Network development planning
    • One month time frame
    • Back up, security procedures & communication protocols

Longer Term Duties:

  • SQL database development & integration
    • in preparation for PDO Pilot Program
  • IT related hr planning / recruiting
  • Technology Scaling
    • For PDO National Rollout of Services 
  • Negotiation support
  • User-interface design and implementation
  • Quality control planning

Qualifications and assets

  • Web development
    • Adept in web development (Java, HTML, SQL, PHP)
      • PDO currently uses “LAMP” architecture with 1 & 1.
    • Experience in collaborative online, open-source  programming environments
  • Management & negotiation experience
    • Experience with IT freelancers & subcontractors
    • Project Management & IT architecture planning
  • Network design
  • Likes children

Contact

MIT students interested in developing Fellowships around these ideas should contact Darryl Penrice, Executive Director, (734) 218-4632 (cell), darryl.penrice@povertysdemise.org