Designing With Web - Part 3: week 1

Enable access to basic services and natural resources to the poorest population

Group 26

Thelma GUYOT : Mindmap link
Louis Raviot de Saint Anthost : Louis Mindmap
Manon PATROSSO : Mindmap link
Fanny KINGUÉ : Mindmap link

Project 1: Volunt'here

Context

when? where? who? why?

There are more than a dozen associations in Paris which help the homelesses by carrying out various missions. Among the best known are: la croix rouge, les restos du coeur and l'armée du salut.

These associations require a great deal of mobilization from volunteers to be able to deploy at any time to help these destitute people and sometimes they lack the resources to do so.

The aim of our project is to put individuals that have time but maybe not the envy to engage themselves in a long-term program in touch with these associations on an ad hoc basis by geolocalising in real time the missions in which they can participate near where they are.

Target

for whom?

We want to reach targets on two levels: on the one hand, citizens who wish to help on an ad hoc basis when they have the time and according to the mission rather than committing themselves on a regular basis to a particular NGO, and on the other hand, associations that would put their needs for each mission in real time.

Service offered

what? how?

With the application Volunt'here, associations will be able to post in real time their volunteering missions and their location as well as details of the mission. Volunteers, for their part, will be able to chose among the daily-updated missions near them which are the ones that matches the more to their envy and time.

Identity

Pick images to describe the universe around your service (context, users, places, techs, …) and name your service accordingly.
Don't try to illustrate the final service that you may have in mind but instead its context.

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project

Homeless Plus: Homeless Plus is a free mobile application that allows the geolocation of homeless people in order to provide them with direct help. This application aims to fight against social exclusion. The principle is simple: whether you can donate or not, just getting close to a homeless person, geolocating them with their agreement, will enable people in the neighbourhood, associations, shopkeepers and communities to help them.
The difference with our application is that it is the citizens who locate the homeless but it is the associations that help them. Our application, on the other hand, arises from a need of associations for particular missions in which citizens can participate.
Entourage: This application enables citizens wishing to participate in the social inclusion of the homeless to propose and participate in specific solidarity missions.
The main difference with our application is that associations do not intervene in this approach, only individuals propose these missions to other individuals.

References

books/films/articles/...

See this article This article points to the attitude we adopt when we come across a homeless person: ignorance. Whether it is due to a lack of time, because we do not know how to help or because there are too many requests to be able to satisfy them all, it is more than ever necessary to develop an application that facilitates and frames the help to the most deprived people.
See this video This video follows the journey of a student who created the association "une couverture pour l'hiver" (a blanket for the winter) to help the homeless during the winter period by distributing objects necessary for their survival. She insists on the fact that ignoring these people is a profound lack of respect and solidarity and regrets that her action cannot be deployed on a larger scale. With our application, volunteers could help her to deploy her initiative more widely.

Project 2: The Hope Market

Context

when? where? who? why?

France had 8.8 million poor people in 2016, according to INSEE. In other words, 8.8 million people were living below the monetary poverty line - which therefore amounts to 1026 euros per month - in 2016. In 2016, the poverty rate was 14%, down 0.2 points from 2015. Therefore, our project's aim is to help this part of the population with basic services such as hygenic protection and natural ressources such as food and beverages.

To implement this, we want to create a website that serves as a platform for professionals and individuals so that they can regularly offer food baskets (and other daily products like hygiene goods) to associations that would redistribute them.

Target

for whom?

Even though the final user is a person in need, the real targets here are the non profit organizations that will get what they need to provide help.

Service offered

what? how?

With this website you will be able to give baskets according to your location, your availabilities and your time. All this information will have to be completed by the giver in order to make the system work, so organization can get what they need the most at the right time, in the right place.

Identity

Benchmark

List concurrents / relative projects and describe how they relate/differentiate to your project

Hop Hop Food : offers an anti-food wastage solution by providing a platform for bringing together private individuals or professionals with surplus stock and people in need. The association also promotes healthy and complete food for people with limited means.
Main strength : complete food, partnership with big companies.
Difference with our project : no hygiene product proposed.
Benenova : offers the opportunity for private individuals to give meal baskets to people in need. Donations can also be hygiene products or even tools, electronical goods, etc.
Main strength : complete baskets with hygiene products.
Difference with our project : no help from big companies such as supermarkets.
Ulule : offers meal baskets to people in need and medical staff by collecting founds.
Main strength : meal baskets can also go to medical staff to support them during the crisis.
Difference with our project : individuals can only give money and no actual food, it is then handled by the association.

References

books/films/articles/...

Especially during the crisis, people tend to show more solidarity to people in need and people that are the most affected by the pandemic and its consequences. Different actions can be lead : doing tutoring sewing masks, preparing meals, finding clothes, calling isolated people, buying hygiene products. The idea of giving parcels to people in need with everything they struggle to have these days is something in the spirit of the times. People, especially individuals, actually want to help and seek for means to do so. See this article (marcelle.media).
Hygiene is a basic service that lots of people lack of. However, it is very important in order to be healthy and socialy integrated. This is why giving health and hygiene products to homelesses people is a mean to help them escape poverty and to stay healthy. See this article (donsolidaires.fr).
Testimony of a homeless man. It shows how precious goods (hygiene products, but also clothes, his phone, ...) are to him. See this video (brut.fr).