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Community-Driven Innovation

SeaFind

Team Leader
Anish Budhi
Solution overview
Our Solution
SeaFind
Tagline
All-in-one environmental social media and ChatBot app helping people report environmental emergencies, and create opportunities for change.
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Everyone knows that threats to biodiversity such as pollution by non-degradable plastic pollution, waste dumping, oil spills, wildlife fish and mammal deaths/injuries exist, but no one knows where to start to solve it. With SeaFind we turn everybody into environmental detectives; protectors of biodiversity. 

SeaFind makes creating a difference social and popular. Users of SeaFind can quickly report environmental emergencies right outside their door using the ChatBot feature, and connect with scientists who are making a difference over the app’s chatting feature. It is also an “ideation” platform which people without the proper resources can use to share their protected ideas with investors from around the world who could fund them.

With this app in their tool-belt, they can become an authentic, real superhero. Without an immediate solution linking people in their daily lives to solving environmental degradation, we run the risk of an irreversible, dystopian future.

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What is the problem you are solving?

Disengagement leads to disenfranchisement leads to disillusionment leads to dissolution, where no problems are solved. SeaFind makes it possible for the world to care again because it connects you with a real community in real time that cares about what you want to do offers you solutions to do it. Together, we are able to solve problems which, alone, we cannot. In an environmental emergency, SeaFind is there. We are helping to relieve the anguish of people who come across injured animals and are helpless to do anything about it; we are here to help solve pollution outbreaks, instantaneously, and with real civic engagement. We are solving the problem of apathy and inertia. We banish apathy because we offer a way to solve problems in real time. And we prevent inertia, because it is easy, and convenient, to be the answer to a problem.

Who are you serving?

We are serving biodiversity. We are integrating, nurturing, and protecting all those who interact in a world that’s growing smaller everyday. We also offer a platform to those with ideas to solve environmental problems, but don’t know where to turn to voice them. Green startup businesses are growing exponentially, and we are a central, environmental hub for those looking for partners, investors, and eco-friendly marketeers. We allow people with ideas to buildup small businesses by buying local while thinking global.

But users don’t have to officially join a community, a real-time, global community in their pocket, that they can instantly reach out to and connect with. We are serving the altruism that lives within people who want to do something good, but many times don’t know how. SeaFind will engage our community with up-to-date eco news, incorporated with the ChatBot, so that if our community is just chilling and scrolling, they have the option to view news stories or research papers about things they care about or chat with the ChatBot about what is on their mind or what is immediately helpful to them, such as news on their favorite animal.

What is your solution?

SeaFind links the world, solving problems in real time, giving hope to humanity again that together, we can solve monumental problems. SeaFind is the bridge connecting the world and your dreams of a pristine planet. 

SeaFind’s ChatBot turns us all into super heroes to aid in environmental emergencies,  in real time, with a camera option and instant connection to local environmental agencies, veterinarians, police, animal rescue volunteers. An example of this would be if you saw a bird half dead outside, lying on the ground. You could use the app to take a picture of it, then use the ChatBot to contact local veterinarians or animal rescue volunteers and send them your location. If you want to help yourself, you could ask the ChatBot what to do and it would reply with information on how to best help the bird to survive without endangering it or making the situation worse. Our app uses any sensor on the common smartphone that is helpful to a situation, such as a camera, and location services to connect with agencies in the area to rescue and aid.

SeaFind also provides easy access to news you care about and pressing stories that are important for all of us to know. Its ChatBot is able to share stories on animals you care about. There will be a news tab which shows both popular stories and subscriptions, allowing you to subscribe to specific news providers that you want to hear more from, or a specific topic you want to read more about.

SeaFind creates a social media family which allows you to connect to those who care about the things you care about, and share ideas and solutions to those who can help bring them to life — such as scientists working on resolving the same problems you care about (linking user accounts to allow chatting between users, and a group function). This “group” function connects people to each other over problems they want to help develop solutions to. Specific groups will become manifest with like-themes, such as a local area ocean plastics awareness group, or even something recreational, such as a city wide bird watching group.

This app can be coded in Java, and I plan to release it by October 31, 2019.

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  • Support communities in designing and determining solutions around critical services
  • Ensure all citizens can overcome barriers to civic participation and inclusion
Where is your solution team headquartered?
Princeton, NJ, USA
Our solution's stage of development:
  • Concept
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Solution Team:
Anish Budhi
Anish Budhi
Alexander Balako
Alexander Balako