A community that leaves nobody behind

The problem being solved here is of exclusion due to information asymmetry and accessibly devoid.

Thus, to solve the challenge of marginalization and exclusion, there is need to re-orient community thinking towards inclusion. This can be done in a number of ways interalia;

• Develop a community centre of excellence where all information relating to social development can be acquired with ease.
• Put up community activities through game theory where the communities will appreciate working together.
• Start a talent identification strategy that pick talent individual who will later work as role models.
• Develop community economic and governance training that will bring together the citizens.
• Offer capacity training to their leaders to appreciate the need for inclusion.
• Develop policies that affect them with their input to avoid creating abstract policies.

The challenge being solved is of inadequate  citizens and communities involvement to improve social inclusion and shared prosperity? We envisage that communities can not develop unless they are involved.

How the innovation will address the challenge;

We aim to develop a community centre where people in a given community will be encouraged to converge for information. This centre will be stocked with information relating to growth and development, besides it will act as a centre for economic activities. At the centre business ideas will be developed and accelerated, civic education and policy dialogue will be scheduled with community leaders and citizens. Debate for children will be organized regularly to change the behaviour of the young ones.

In addition, games of all kinds will be stocked these increases traffic for inclusion are arouse competitive behaviour that can enable building survival instinct among the citizens.  

Besides, we will have a special attention the differently abled people in all aspects particularly in games so that we do not leave any one behind the inclusion and problem solving strategy.

In the community people of various categories children, youth, adults, women, men, differently abled people to mention but a few. Thus, the can be appealed to differently. For the women they tend to socialize around water collection sites, churches and weddings, children at schools and worship places, men in bars and work places, the differently abled people are often left out completely.

The solution is through the provision of a centre of excellence for communication and information dissemination. My view is the centre will reduce information asymtry and encourage and stimulate working together.

We aim to develop a community centre where people in a given community will be encouraged to converge for information. This centre will be stocked with information relating to growth and development, besides it will act as a centre for economic activities. At the centre business ideas will be developed and accelerated, civic education and policy dialogue will be scheduled with community leaders and citizens. Debate for children will be organized regularly to change the behaviour of the young ones.

In addition, games of all kinds will be stocked these increases traffic for inclusion are arouse competitive behaviour that can enable building survival instinct among the citizens.  

Besides, we will have a special attention the differently abled people in all aspects particularly in games so that we do not leave any one behind the inclusion and problem solving strategy.

In conclusion, all the suggested once tested will be automated for example through communication technology one can have e-problem solving up where citizens can always log in for solutions to their challenge and advice to their problems. I envisage this strategy is critical for inclusion because not all the time community must converge but can rather be reached using remote encounter.

What make it unique is its approach of inclusiveness in information sharing with a bias to peculiarity in the community. Information centre in slum environment that combines learning through game theory is a business model that has not been tested as far as my knowledge is concerned and merits implementation.

The technology to be applied is the mobile phone technology coupled with video games. We aim to use evidenced learning to stimulate knowledge transfer through the game theory. Here communities will be senstized about social and economic development strategies in their setting and using local network theory.

This is an idea which is a the development stage. I have no people being served currently but envisage to be servicing over 100 000 people and more because of the nature of our country. Many people are poor and some are disabled (differently abled) thus they need such services to gain inclusion in social and economic programs.

In the next year I hope to start the centre and we will be renting. In the next five years the centre will have its own hope and will be serving more than two hundred thousand. Besides, the centre will have e-programs for the disabled and elderly who may not come to the centre.

The main inhibitor is finance, it is an achillesheel to carry out development with dearth of resources. This will also expose me to the risk of exclusion because I have no official place to kick start the project. In the next five years I envisage surge of service consumers that i may struggle to serve. However, with God everything is possible.

I plan to engage colleague to raise resources and also consult with donor organizations that are interested in serving disadvantaged people. I believe these will create a firm fund foundation to kick start the project. In future my sustainable plan is the get a percentage from those who have succeeded in the project programmes.

Currently we are two people because the idea is still being developed for acceleration. Also, we are financially constrained.

The experience we have is of managing a business lab prior. More so as a lecturer at the University the Chief operation officer has a wide experience in community development initiatives. He is currently a mentor with MasterCard scholars and has a wealth of experiences.

We are partnering with Makerere University as one of its cardinal goal is to do community out reach. Thus, we are able to work with Makerere and it also house our office. However, it does not put in financial resources.

Our business model is to provide valuable information through the community information centre. We envisage to provide a platform for all information both online and face-to-face encounter. The centre will do this through trainings, coaching and mentor-ship on various community initiatives that can uplift the community standard of living.

The sustainable strategy is to create a give back strategy where successful individuals from the resource information centre will be compelled to give back a percentage of their earnings. In addition, outsiders will be charged with a small fee to use our centre for any activity.