NACMACTP management platform and App.

The NCMACTP management tool is designed to enable authorities to monitor information on National, Regional, District and Constituency level in real time. It comes with a multilayered dashboard which gives extensive information about the virus spread. The platform also has citizen-facing applications which includes a USSD, Social Media (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram) and Mobile Application. To enable security encryption is used to encourage citizen engagement

COVID-19 is a global pandemic and the projections released on April 17 include a worst-case scenario of a billion cases and 3.3 million deaths, scenario is assumed if no social distancing are taken. With intense social distancing, the estimates drop to 122 million infections and 300,000 deaths. These staggering estimates are a call to urgent act now, and to apply lessons from its own recent history of battling epidemics such as Ebola and HIV, as well as lessons from countries where COVID-19 outbreaks may now be peaking.  Governments face several challenges in combating corona outbreaks, there is widespread disbelief about the presence of the virus in Africa, this requires educating the masses in a cost-effective way.  There is a limited flow of information due to outdated health reporting systems that Health authorities lack adequate information from citizens to trace, test and quarantine contacts. This requires a voluntary contact tracing system via multiple mobile and social media channels. Citizens can use this to identify who they have had contact with and indicate whether or not they have the virus. Health authorities and governments do not have adequate information in order to make critical decisions.

The NCTACMP is a management tool that comes with a multilayered dashboard which gives extensive information about the virus spread and disease outbreaks. It is cloud based just like Facebook, Twitter thus can be adopted anywhere in the world. The platform also has citizen-facing applications which includes a USSD, Social Media (WhatsApp, Twitter, Facebook, Telegram) and Mobile Application.

The platform will be of immense benefit to the overall fight against the COVID-19 pandemic and future pandemics, particularly in the following areas: The CITIZENRY -  Used by citizens to report issues via text, video or image when the need arises, receive information updates, make donations and engage with experts.  HEALTH WORKERS - Report incidences real time and help monitor those on treatment, isolation and quarantine. GOVERNMENT - Receive information from the citizens and respond to them as quickly as possible via voice, SMS, USSD or Social Media, this also includes any form of misinformation Enable a decentralized means of communication with districts. We intend to implement it in Uganda and Ghana.

The NACMACTP enables governments, health institutions and public health firms access and validate data and information regarding corona virus and can be used in the future to give data about outbreaks like measles and malaria which are already occuring in Uganda and neighboring DRC Congo, NCMACTP makes it easier to  collect data from the district to the national level enabling mitigation strategies thus playing a part in the health and security pandemics by aiding better decision making on public health policies/guidelines.

The solution is cloud based and highly adaptive i.e. can be adapted for different use cases and for future pandemics.  The solution can be used both online (mobile app and social media) as well as offline (USSD) 

Our front end application is built on angular. Back-end application, USSD, WhatsApp and Facebook apps are built on django. Our a native android and ios applications built on java and swift respectively. Our servers are hosted by amazon Web services 

The projections released on April 17 include a worst-case scenario of a billion cases and 3.3 million deaths. This scenario was based on the assumption that no social distancing measures will be enforced. With intense social distancing assumed, the estimates dropped to 122 million infections and 300,000 deaths. These staggering estimates triggered the response to build a solution.  In our research we identified three major challenges that are hindering the efforts of governments to curb/stop the spread of the virus in Africa: 

 There is widespread disbelief about the presence of the virus in Africa, this requires educating the masses in a cost-effective way.  Health authorities lack adequate information from citizens to trace, test and quarantine contacts. This requires a voluntary contact tracing system via multiple mobile and social media channels. Citizens can use this to identify who they have made contact with and indicate whether or not they have the virus. Health authorities and governments do not have adequate information in order to make critical decisions. This required a NATIONAL CORONA MONITORING AND  CONTACT TRACING PLATFORM.  
 
 

The solution is an existing technology with a new application built on top of it. The technology is originally a church CRM that has been used for over five years in Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya and Nigeria with over 100,000 users. we are hoping to at least serve 1,000,000 people in 5 countries respectively, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, DRC as stated above, putting our total at 5,000.000. with the right investment and partnerships to enable profitability, we shall reach at-least 25 million users by fifth the year.

We look forward to being the go-to platform for governments in developing African countries for contact tracing and community engagement/education. We also believe that our solution can help most countries easily engage with their citizens in real-time, either through SMS, Voice, Twitter, Facebook Messenger and Telegram.  They can ensure that everyone is reached via their mobile phones in their local languages in real time.  We hope to enter into partnerships with at least 10 government owned health institutions across Africa, we also seek to raise funds to ensure that these African countries can use the platform at affordable costs.

 With our solution, contact tracing of any type of disease or pandemic will be an easy thing to do.  Our technology will also enable people to voluntarily pass information through multiple channels to the government. For the first time, data will be volunteered to the government by citizens rather than being pulled.  This change will enable quick mobilization of resources in pandemics or disease outbreaks. We look forward to partners who will drive this solution at scale. 
 
 

Inadequate funding to upgrade the capacity of existing server infrastructure i.e. Amazon Web Services. We need to use more resources to deploy the solution across Africa. Inadequate funding to employ more engineers to build and deepen product offering.  Inadequate funding to acquire a dedicated USSD code across sub-saharan Africa.  Regional barriers which hinders to penetration into other African Countries. 

Raise funds to reserve or subscribe to large-scale servers on Amazon Web Services so that the solution can easily be assessed without lags or buffering. Irrespective of the country that signs up for the platform, it should work fast without breaks. 2. Raise funds to bring on more engineers to build and deepen the product offering of contact tracer. Raise funding to secure or acquire a dedicated USSD code across sub-Saharan Africa. This will ensure that when services are accessed via a USSD, the code does not change from country to country. That means a user in Uganda who dials *19# to access contact tracer via USSD, will  dial the same code irrespective of the African country he or she visits. We require introductions and partnerships  to pan-African health organisations that have networks across the continent to enable easier penetration.

1. Nana Opoku Ware Ofori Agyeman-Prempeh, IT LEAD, co founder, +233 (0) 242 561 793 |nana@asoriba.com

2. Joweria Nambooze, INTERNATIONAL COORDINATOR , +256 701193017 ,jngalabuzi@yahoo.com

3. Sam Laryea PROJECT MANAGER & MARKETER +233 27 770 3221

4. Muzaphal Kimbugwe,  IT SPECIALIST, mkimsevil@gmail.com +256 702808026

5. Anthony Watenga, NEGOTIATION SPECIALIST, anthonywatenga@gmail.com, +256700443978

6. Steven Leash , PROJECT ADVISOR. steven.leash@drake.edu, + 1 (760) 851-9461

Nana Opoku Ware Ofori Agyeman-Prempeh is the IT lead and co-founder,he is an IT specialist with experience in IT systems and Engineering. He is an IT entrepreneur who founded the CMC management platform that manages churches. Joweria Nambooze is the international coordinator, she is well travelled and has worked on collaborations with universities in Africa and Asia. Sam Laryea is the programs manager and marketer, he has 8 years of experience of SME program management, he executes the tasks assigned to him efficiently. Muzaphal Kimbugwe is an IT specialist and has worked on projects in Africa, USA and Asia, he is in charge of using his network to recruit engineers. Anthony Watenga has 10 years of experience a contract negotiator with government bodies and big organisations, he is in charge of ensuring that efficient payment structures and proper negotiation protocols are followed. Steven Leash is the project advisor, he has been part of the Mandela Washington fellowship giving efficient business advise to African entrepreneurs and has been engaged in big projects in Uganda.

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we are using a B2B business model, where we shall involve government bodies, international organisations and NGO's. We shall sell the online platform and the governments will have an option of working with development partners to ensure that citizens can access the platform for free.

We will raise capital to develop the platform further, cost per person using our platform is $0.091 USD, this includes USSD,social media,infrastructure and platform charges which puts our average cost per country should we have 1,000,000/Country users at $336,000 USD. We want to work with development partners sponsoring governments through COVID-19 to subsidize the platform or fully pay for it so that it can be used for free by the health institutions across Africa.

our main objective is to seek a partnership with an internationally re-known firm as we are a start up.  We believe that with that right partnership and endorsement the management platform will be easily accepted by the countries, institutions that need it. We also require publicity for the work that we are doing as this will improve our brand visibility. We also need funding and 10,000$ is enough to jump start the project especially in developing the application.

product/service distribution is important to us as our team is not fully well versed in the areas of cross boarder distribution, especially at a time when the boarders have been closed. 

we need a team of board advisors to give us direction as accountability partners and also offer affordable consultancy services in product distribution,legal and regulatory matters,product and service distribution.

we need a team of advisors on legal and regulatory measures to ensure that we are practicing internationally accepted business procedures, platform procedures, and also help with a socially accepted international code of conduct.

Marketing media and exposure is one of the ways in which people can get to know about what we have developed, this will attract government bodies and partners to use our platform.

The projections released on April 17 include a worst-case scenario of a billion cases and 3.3 million deaths. This scenario was based on the assumption that minimal social distancing measures will be enforced. With intense social distancing assumed, the estimates dropped to 122 million infections and 300,000 deaths. These staggering estimates triggered the response to build a solution.  
 

In our research we identified three major challenges that are hindering the efforts of governments to curb/stop the spread of the virus in Africa: 

1. There is widespread disbelief about the presence of the virus in Africa, this requires educating the masses in a cost-effective way.  
2. Health authorities lack adequate information from citizens to trace, test and quarantine contacts. This requires a voluntary contact tracing system via multiple mobile and social media channels. Citizens can use this to identify who they have made contact with and indicate whether or not they have the virus. 
3. Health authorities and governments do not have adequate information in order to make critical decisions. This required a NATIONAL CORONA MONITORING AND  CONTACT TRACING PLATFORM.  

Due to lock down measures and social distancing which have limited transportation to health centers new mothers have not been able to take their children for immunization.  WHO statistics predict that 22.9 million children have missed out on essential vaccines across the world. Ethiopia is already facing a cholera, measles and yellow fever outbreak. The NACMACTP can be used in research by enabling easier universal live data collection in such cases, to assist governments, NGO's to come up with proper intervention measures. The solution can be used both online (mobile app and social media) as well as offline (USSD) 

The prize will be used to hire engineers to develop the a mobile App that can be used by citizens and community health officials to report any information about diseases and pandemics. We shall be able implement it in Uganda and DRC, acquire a universal USSD that can be used across Africa by individuals that dont have access to mobile phones. this will ensure that governments and health bodies can ensure that individuals who possess phones can get information updates.