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Solution Overview

Solution Name:

Market Place for

One-line solution summary:

Digital MKT Place for local producers

Pitch your solution.

Remote areas around cities and countryside has a enormous number of small land producers or people that lives with handmade products that has no source of revenue in times of pandemic. These people has no support to sell their products except on physical markets or streets. How a vacine is quite far globally this idea is made to help who wanna sell or who wanna organize the market place around your communities.

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What specific problem are you solving?

This solution has propose to create an environment for people who lives from the goods provided to the land who actually are stoped to generate revenue without get in danger due the pandemic situation.

What is your solution?

It is a market place made on wordpress platform that will connect people around the area. In my case, im located in São Paulo in a extreme south area around the environment preservation areas.

For those who wanna be mkt placers the idea is to create WITH these people a platform like this (https://namata.org/loja/). For those that wanna sell their goods the objective is facilitate the connection between their products and consumers teaching them how to expose these goods online in their local platforms.

Actually the example above is not finished cuz it is a PVT and we are applying to get it operational looking how to cover costs such: training and create a newtwork of producers (local farmers and handmade workers), logistic and digital expenses

Who does your solution serve, and in what ways will the solution impact their lives?

The target are people who has no access or poor access to the internet (around 48 million people AT LEAST).

From 3 months ago i moved to a area classified to countryside where people under these conditions lives to learn with them, i get closed to community associations, photographers and video producers (as my previously background), TI professionals and farmers.

To engage in a deeper way im learning with the community kand with professional facilitators.

Which dimension of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Enable small and new businesses, especially in untapped communities, to prosper and create good jobs through access to capital, networks, and technology

Explain how the problem, your solution, and your solution’s target population relate to the Challenge and your selected dimension.

The challenge for these small business are to create revenue, encouraging those people to stay safe at home.

These people has no access to internet (or poor access) and public transport is completely chaotic for them. Also their crafted production or organic products has been sold for a penny to big stores creating a circle of poor remuneration, forcing those people to expose and work more than the regular basis.

In what city, town, or region is your solution team headquartered?

São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

What is your solution’s stage of development?

Prototype: A venture or organization building and testing its product, service, or business model

Who is the primary delegate for your solution?

Yuri Campos - linkedin.com/in/yuri-campos-9809161b