Breaking Borders

Breaking Borders| Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Where There’s a Link, There’s a Way

Since the COVID-19 pandemic began, there has been a proliferation of websites and portals developed to share resources about the topic. Your challenge is to find innovative ways to present and analyze integrated, real-time information about the environmental factors affecting the spread of COVID-19.

Summary

The challenge of our project is to bring information in an innovative and simplified way about the environmental and social factors that affect the dissemination of COVID-19. For every piece of information left out or passed in the wrong way can cause several negative impacts, such as a greater spread of the disease. Thus, it will seek to fill this existing information bottleneck, providing trustworthy, safe and open content about the pandemic and its effects in general.

How We Addressed This Challenge

The project proposes the creation of a web site that consists of taking the information in real time referring to covid-19 in a centralized and clear way; so people will have access to information and gain a greater understanding.

This makes the environment in which they operate more secure, as it prevents the spread of so-called fake news. It will also make them take the right actions, preventing both themselves and their surroundings.

Our challenge - 03 where there is a link there is a way - proposes to take the information on environmental factors for the dissemination of covid-19, in an innovative way. Taking into account that the environmental factors are different for each type of community, we understand that taking this information in a timely and understandable way to everyone, would be the ideal solution for the population to be well informed and live more safely in the face of the entire global scenario

How We Developed This Project

The team's main inspiration for choosing this challenge was to be able to contribute and to support the global population in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the main purpose of using the knowledge of all members of the group, uniting different areas of knowledge and applying them in order to obtain a scalable and replicable prototype.

We used the division of tasks development approach with project management methodologies so that all members could demonstrate their knowledge and contribute to the project.

The agencies' data were used to obtain data that will be transformed into information that is easy to access and understand for people without technical knowledge and in depth about the data provided by the agencies.

Regarding the prototyping of screens, we decided to use https://marvelapp.com/ and also illustrator to obtain a better visualization in relation to the User Experience (UX), in addition to a simple and objective language for understanding not only to people with technical knowledge. As for the construction of the system, we intend to use PHP and MySQL to treat the data and filter it for presentation to individuals who will be using our platform.

We had some difficulties / problems in relation to being able to prospect the real impact that would be generated by our system in order to encompass and attend several different perspectives among the global society, however after making more detailed analyzes and with the help of the mentors we were able to glimpse in a real way and aim our impact on society.