Mobile Impact

Team members: Timan Goshit, Holly Greenberg, Natasha Plotkin, Alia Whitney-Johnson

Team mentors: Shirley Fung, Aisha Walcott

Team Goals

We are developing an organization that aims to:

Fund appropriately designed mobility devices
Partner with local NGOs to provide services to wheelchair recipients who are beginning their own business or continuing their education
Empower individuals through mobility and a means to earn a living

Progress

Over the course of the semester, our team worked through many of the logistical and technical challenges involved in creating a web-based network that would allow donors to fund the purchase of appropriately-designed wheelchairs for disabled people in developing countries.

Team members Alia and Holly created a logistical flow chart that outlines the path of a transaction in the network, from donation to wheelchair production and delivery. The process was designed with the current setup of the developing country wheelchair industry in mind and takes into account issues of sustainability and accountability for chair production.

Team members Timan and Natasha created a system architecture for the web network that connects donors, local wheelchair workshops, and the people that need mobility aids with three interfaces that cover different functional requirements for each target group. They implemented the foundations of these interfaces, with a focus on developing the donor site, to give users a better sense of how we envision the network eventually coming to life.

This summer, we plan to work more on the legal and financial issues involved in establishing an organization that transfers money internationally, and we plan to create a more full implementation of the web network.

Mobile Impact

Team Goals

Progress

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