This report covers the research and implementation of a poverty elimination software platform. First, social service workers from multiple countries were determine how technology could aid antipoverty efforts. Based on those findings, we designed and developed a mobile application on behalf of a nonprofit named Fundación Paraguaya. The application that we developed helps social service workers track a family’s status and works both offline and online to support fieldwork in rural regions. Social workers are now using this tablet application in countries throughout the world, including Paraguay, Argentina, Colombia, Sierra Leone, and the United Kingdom. The project has since been open-sourced to attract contributors and to keep the platform on the cutting edge of poverty elimination.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Hassan Elokda, Mona Maamoun
• Tacescu, Alex Cristian
• Hylak, Benjamin Lourdes

Subject

• Computing
• Well-Being
• Health
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-091118-194115

Keyword

• Equality--Social aspects
• Mobile apps
• Community development
• Application software--Development

Advisor

• Beck, Joseph E.
• Traver, Robert W.

Year

• 2018

Center

• Asunción, Paraguay Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Bridget Hylak
• Sodep
• Come Alive Communications
• Fundacion Paraguaya

Date created

• 2018-09-11

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright