Food for Thought

Your challenge is to consider the journey of food to your plate, determine how disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic are affecting the food supply locally and globally, and propose solutions to address these issues.

Food Lucky Draw

Summary

A Lottery system give free food to people.Based on short or extra food status at present, government, organizations prepare food resources in advance and cooperate with local restaurants.

How I Addressed This Challenge

With COVID-19 pandemic, some people can't go outside work or even no local food supply. Food lucky Draw system prepare food for these area by calc resources in advance and let people able to draw for free food. 

The probability can raise range from 10% to 30% or even more based on resources scale and regional emergency, cover as many people as possible who need food. Unlike cash, people may buy non-essential items. Food, however, everyone need to eat. Just like COVID-19 infect small proportion people but make all people feel stressed. Food Lucky Draw offer 10% free food may make society feel secure on food.

Food Lucky Draw system also help local restaurant since they get paid for these free meal.  Resourceful restaurants can cooperate with gov, org for supplying more free food.

If COVID-19 outbreak on some area, the dining records will help gov to track. The data should earse for a period of time and need to be know by people who use the system. In addition, since people like free food, system can redirect people to safer area restaurants.

How I Developed This Project

Resources distribution is a puzzle. But since we are in pre-AI age. There is no need to fight for basic materials. With free from hunger, people can achieve more great things.

Using Eclipse, java language to develop a mobile app, a sever program processing data based on the model like GHI. Server propgram can put on cloud like amazon.

Project Demo

https://github.com/waily/FluDraw/blob/master/FoodLuckyDraw.pdf

People open App and click, if lucky, app will display the meal and navigation to the restaurant. Base on the resoueces everyone should have one chnace to draw. If not lucky, lock click button until next time period. 

Gov, org provide resources and register to server, set  parameters for calculating where, when and how many free meal for lottery based on the model like GHI. When people arrive restaurant, show app qrcode scaned by restaurant staff then connect to server for close this case.

Project Code
Data & Resources

https://www.globalhungerindex.org/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1878029615005551

Tags
#FreeLunch #FluDraw
Global Judging
This project was submitted for consideration during the Space Apps Global Judging process.