Connecting our Community Through Technology

Ensure that you use core principles of ICF methodology (Connect, Sustain, Include, Engage, Innovate, Works) - under both workforce and social/cultural inclusion, develop sample apps and cultivate ideas to drive app modernization and digital transformation to solve problems that have arisen due to COVID19 connect urban workers with farmers who need help with harvest, such as:

• Link supplies of food with food banks and communities in need
• Quickly answer questions about short-term work benefits
• Match and connect people in search of employment
• Rectify and match supply and demand of critical medical equipment
• And sync people who are ill or isolated with loved ones and community

Food security exists when all people have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food that meets their dietary needs for an active and healthy life.

• Propose solutions that may have production value so as to ensure that all people, at all times, have physical, social, and economic access to sufficient, safe, and nutritious food that meets their food preferences and dietary needs for an active and healthy life.
• Initiate collaborative projects with engagement from academia, government, private sector business and civil society organizations who are working together to better understand the potential causes and outcomes of catastrophic food systems failures on people, ecosystems and economies.

Cultural and Social Inclusion is defined by an ability to foster intercultural dialogue by building connections between newcomers and longer-term residents to strengthen relationships and communicate shared values.

• Since most of us work remotely, we are expecting a communication app or software that can keep conversations organised and easy to follow, as opposed to sifting through long email chains that only some people read and even fewer respond to. It should also enable us to see how employees are utilizing their time, and empower them to solve problems faster.
• The entire world has gone remote right now and virtual availability is the need of the hour. What can bring people together virtually, keeping social distancing in mind? Come up with ideas that can help working from home be fun and interesting, while maintaining productivity.
• Align outcome with corporate innovation strategy of the organization

As the worldwide shift to online learning, teachers are struggling to motivate disengaged students remotely. We are looking for innovative solutions to tackle these challenges and improve remote education experience.

Designing a new and innovative product can be a challenging process filled with uncertainties. From an educational perspective, you need to explore and keep at the forefront of what is happening in the world, search for unique opportunities and listen to the learner's needs until you discover a meaningful solution.

• Design applications which would improve and lift up the educational sector of the nation and encourage people to learn new skills by developing applications on improving the skills rate.
• Develop a distance learning applications or online educational tools for remote learning and allows users to real-time interaction and a “classroom-like” feel that can continue without disruption even in events like snow days, natural disasters or the COVID-19 pandemic, that force schools and universities to close down. Make features that are easy to engage in a virtual classroom allowing you to connect with a few simple clicks.
• Propose and execute moonshot ideas to help learners of various universities and research institutes across the world to learn online.
• Build a platform for virtual learning that can help inform people about current situations and suggest tips to follow on a real-time basis.
• Enhance virtual meeting tools in an innovative way for work-life balance.