Our challenge was mostly the centralization of knowledge in academic circles and how most people all abroad cannot access nor understand scientific language. At first, we wanted to make informations regarding coronavirus impacts easier to understand and this is why we designed our app in a ludic way, used storytelling and even made a page about “Why is COVID-19 serious?”. However, after searching testimonials that could show our users struggles found by a lower economic class population, we realized how important it would be to also provide possible solutions for the problems people are facing, as well as a discussion forum to let not only us, but also all of our users, propose innovative ways of helping others and the United Nations (UN) to achieve all 2030 SDGs. We used many data available on UN Organizations, specially those related to coronavirus and SDGs, to propose possible solutions for SDGs, as well as to explain why COVID-19 is considered a dangerous epidemic not only for everyone’s health but also to the SDGs. Through open data from NASA and JAXA regarding, respectively, NO2 emissions and precipitation rates, we were able to analyze the impact of COVID-19 in the SDG6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) as one of the actions taken to decrease its propagation was the social isolation, which lead to industries closing and, consequently, to a lower level of pollutants' emissions, possibilitating the water vapor to precipitate better than it would in a polluted air, also improving the water cycle that has been suffering interferences due to the high level of pollutants in Earth's atmosphere, specially NO2. Consequently, by analyzing our data, we are able to realize the real reason why water access has decreased during the quarentine: not because of the coronavirus itself, but due to the social isolation that caused a worse collect and distribution than the ones available before. As a result, we were able to find the real problem behind the deterioration of SDG6 and idealize na app capable of incentivizing people’s empathy so we could all think about a possible solution that may help those who are struggling more than ever in this hard time.
The use of technology like applications applied with communication skills like storytelling improve understandings of informations, also incentivizing acts of empathy and solidarity from our users once all stories will be based on real testimonials, being introduced in a video format after each story together with other written testimonials. Furthermore, we will also provide our users a page with possible solutions for each SDG and a discussion forum where they will be able to share their opinions, doubts, and ideas, which may even be applied in real places as a way to solve a problem regarding a SDG. Finally, through the stories we will introduce a point of view representing that of many people all abroad, while collecting data from our users: SACI (not only our app’s name but also 2 / 6 our narrator’s) will be, through the story, asking whoever is using the app about their point of view on themes discussed previously (options will be given to the user to choose). This way, we plan on collecting even more data regarding coronavirus impacts and people’s opinions when it comes to how dangerous COVID-19 is, how it was like for them before and after the quarantine, what was their first thought regarding the coronavirus possible impacts, and many other. All this data collected, including a short questionary in the beginning (age, adress, gender and related), will allow us to keep improving our app, as well as to analyze different struggles, inequalities, thoughts, and innovations capable of becoming solutions.
We created an app prototype based on a storytelling system, a frame-based process that develops a “narrative”, which is going to be based on real testimonials as a way to show a global situation, incentivizing empathy and solidarity. We used thunkable, an online platform, to develop the app. We created a interface with python language using Kivy library and posteriorly we will use the same language to finish the app. The storytelling is based on a narrative which uses tools of language to involve the user, using conversation balloons and a mascot to bring charisma: Saci (our narrator) is a Brazilian folklore character. Saci will also directly interact with our users, asking them about their difficulties, opinions and ideas. These answers will be turned into open data to be used for studies regarding coronavirus impacts on: opinions, ideas, feelings and others. The data used was already detailed in our previous answer, so we will not specify it again: the most important is to state all the data extracted from NASA, JAXA, United Nations, and other, was essential for us to analyze the impacts, come up with possible solutions, and make easy explanations in our app. In general, each storytelling has objective questions and according to your answer you may be redirected to another page. The data collected from users' answers, connected with a short personal questionnaire in the beginning, can even be used later by researchers. Furthermore, the app will also contain a discussion forum for our users to share their opinions, doubts, and creative ideas. Finally, we will provide after each story some testimonials (in which the story was based on) in video or written as a way to connect more easily our users to people who are being directly impacted by the coronavirus and the quarantine, incentivizing empathy and solidarity: we will connect the numbers with actual faces and names.
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