MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

Gentether

One-line solution summary.

A platform that acts as a bridge for the younger generations to reach the skills and effective practices of older generations and become creative with the collective knowledge gained.

Elevator pitch

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What is your solution?

Our services include:

A platform that consists of videos of different old people(~60 to 80 years) sharing their knowledge. These videos can be divided broadly into two categories:
- Life Experiences and knowledge
- Skills like cooking, pottery, traditions, health care, etc...
Conduct engaging activities to the old people mainly by collaborating with old age homes, or local societies.
Introducing competitions for different age groups that creatively utilise the older generation techniques and apply in the present day-to-day life.
A personalized consultation service with older generations.

We use a typical website and mobile application development technologies along with crowd sourced services.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

We can see a large gap in the knowledge shared between the younger and the older generations. There are several questions that exist in the day-to-day situations like self-care, infant care, unique effective skills, etc.... for which the solutions are already available with the older generations through the knowledge gained in their life. But, due to the lack of a proper medium, these questions and experiences remain unconnected.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Senior Citizens: People who are retired but couldn't spend time with their children and grandchildren in their busy world would stay lonely in the house recollecting their good old memories. Why not let them share their memories with the world? We are the medium through which they can be heard across generations.

Younger Generations: To learn different traditions that are being avoided, get inspirational life stories, and unique skills from previous generations and learn about their lifestyle, get personalized life suggestions from elders.

With a proper medium, the older generations can avoid loneliness and spend their time lightening the paths of the younger generations. On the other side, the younger generations can approach us anytime with their problems and/or dilemmas and seek personal consulting, and get connected to an older mentor/guide.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

We are surveying the older generations by contacting various old age homes to get a reach of older generations and using social media networks to survey younger generations.

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

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Concept: An idea being explored for its feasibility to build a product, service, or business model based on that idea

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

Currently, We are checking the feasibility of my idea by contacting few old age homes to connect with older generations and the younger generations through social media networks. With the increasing knowledge of internet usage among senior citizens and the urge of younger generations to seek answers for anything on their mobile allowed me to consider that it is a good time to start connecting people online across generations for knowledge and experience sharing. Simultaneously, I am also checking the possible ways of expansion and/or change in the target markets to lower the risk of failure.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India

Team Lead:

Harshitha Sri Boddeda