MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

IReach

One-line solution summary.

IReach is a mobile app that gathers craftspeople in a specific niche to facilitate communication between users and craftspeople.

Elevator pitch

What is your solution?

IReach is a platform that collects all of the data from craftspeople and displays their locations in relation to ours. This mobile app contains profiles of various workers organized by category. Contact information can be found in each profile to make it easier for people to access all of the necessary information. Simultaneously, in each category, there will be shops where hand workers can sell their old materials or anything related to their field.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

Our daily lives necessitate the use of a carpenter and a variety of other hand-workers, but these workers rarely advertise their services on the internet or on social media, making it difficult for everyone to locate one in their area and even more difficult to select one with a good reputation. I didn't notice this huge lack of communication until I needed a carpenter and wasted a lot of time and energy looking for a good one. In fact, people have difficulty contacting craftspeople who do not have a digital presence or niche, as this creates a significant lack of communication.

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

IReach will first facilitate communication between users and artisans. It will also introduce hand workers to a new segment of clients who are digitally literate. This will eventually assist artisans in expanding their work and client base.

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

To ensure that this need exists, I conducted two surveys: one for users and one for craftspeople. The findings assisted me in understanding that many users want a fluid way to communicate with hand workers as many hand workers want to expand their work by being present digitally.

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

Improving financial and economic opportunities for all (Economic Prosperity)

Our solution's stage of development:

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

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

Our platform is almost completed now. We are entering data for the hand workers and displaying their locations on Google Maps. Then we'll publish it as soon as possible. I intend to expand our community by making "IReach" a national, if not international, mobile app. We are going to test the mobile app for two weeks before finally launching it.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Tunis, Tunisie

Team Lead:

Nour Darragi