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Our Solution

FRANCO

Tagline

Integrating Data for Knowledge and Opportunities

Pitch us on your solution

In a scenario where people do not understand their reality, nor do they trust their governments, we return to the tragedy of the commons. How to overcome this? How to make participatory and effective solutions possible?

Franco comes to promote real participation and inclusion so that it can be monitored and known, reducing economic inequality and corruption. Democratize access to good information and citizen participation in the most accessible and comprehensive way possible. From the distribution of information via messaging application and web data visualization system.

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What is the problem you are solving?

Research shows that population engagement can solve environmental and economic imbalances. But the lack of time, data source and knowledge to use them are barriers that prevent this from occurring.

Who are you serving?

Part of the data visualization solution covers all societies with difficult social engagement in public policy, social ignorance and ecosystem imbalance. This allows us to demystify myths and make processes more democratic.

However, the focus, especially on message automation, is especially developed for the public with low level of education and economic power, since the main affirmative actions occur for this public and they do not come to their knowledge.

What is your solution?

There are two products offered, the Web Interface for Visualization of Open Government Data and automation in the distribution of this data and educational opportunities or jobs of public institutions or not.

The web interface is developed with django, having data consumed with python and javascript with integration with Google Chart for visualization. The DBMS (Database Manager System) that hosts the data warehouse is PostgreeSQL7 and Mondrian8 will act as an OLAP server with the Saiku Reports9 plugin to display the cubes.

Automations, in turn, are done with python script. The information is collected from the initiatives provided from the distribution of the data and the main portals of public, private and civil society disclosure. The push trigger is based on several factors, such as age, location, and schooling. Subsequently, the usefulness of the submission was evaluated, in order to improve the suggestion of machine learning.

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Support communities in designing and determining solutions around critical services

Where is your solution team headquartered?

São Paulo, State of São Paulo, Brazil

Our solution's stage of development:

Pilot

More about your solution

Select one of the below:

New application of an existing technology

Describe what makes your solution innovative.

Marketing automations are recent and we still do not have governments investing in big data and machine learning to distribute information.

Describe the core technology that your solution utilizes.

Where two products were made available, an interface for data visualization, and an automation of data and educational projects or public policies or not.

The web interface is developed with django, having data consumed with python and javascript with integration with Google Chart for visualization. The DBMS (Database Manager System) that hosts the data warehouse is PostgreeSQL7 and Mondrian8 will act as an OLAP server with the Saiku Reports9 plugin to display the cubes.
Automations, in turn, are done with python script. The information is collected from the initiatives provided from the distribution of data and the main public, private and civil society portals. The push trigger is based on several factors, such as age, location, and schooling. Subsequently, the usefulness of the submission was evaluated for the improvement of the machine learning suggestion.

Please select the technologies currently used in your solution:

Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
Big Data
Social Networks

Why do you expect your solution to address the problem?

In Garrett Hardin's 1968 science article, "Tragedy of the Commons," it is argued that commons are bound to destroy the balance of the ecosystem we live in. His argument is that each person will want to maximize private gains to the costs of collective injury. Years later, Elios Ostrom, who was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Economics, demonstrated with a number of examples how the tragedy of the common can be solved. Their arguments are based on breaking this standard brought by Hardin into small communities that act collectively, who understand the importance of resources and the establishment of efficient and sustainable forms of government. This is possible when societies understand their situation and actions to be taken. Franco enters to give this autonomy and knowledge.

Select the key characteristics of the population your solution serves.

Peri-Urban Residents
Urban Residents
Very Poor/Poor
Low-Income
Middle-Income
Minorities/Previously Excluded Populations

In which countries do you currently operate?

Brazil

In which countries will you be operating within the next year?

Brazil

How many people are you currently serving with your solution? How many will you be serving in one year? How about in five years?

In the experimental phase we are currently serving 500 people, we intend to double by the end of the year. We estimate to serve 4,000 next year, and in 5 years we expect to serve 60,000 people (based on population growth and internet usage).

What are your goals within the next year and within the next five years?

My goal is to see an increase in social perception indices. Citizen participation in public policies and more economic equity and social representation.

What are the barriers that currently exist for you to accomplish your goals for the next year and for the next five years?

Initially the difficulty is initial investment for data and website hosting. Also for disclosure to expand contact base.

How are you planning to overcome these barriers?

Partnership with companies and private organizations.

About your team

Select an option below:

Not registered as any organization

If you selected Other for the organization question, please explain here.

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How many people work on your solution team?

Our team of technical and conceptual development is small and formed by only 9 people. We are progressing the articulation and dissemination group for the months after confirmation of our prototype.

For how many years have you been working on your solution?

4 months of development and 10 months for modeling, prototyping and testing.

Why are you and your team best-placed to deliver this solution?

We do not know a team with a brighter eye than we do. We are developers of different airlines, we are politicians, creators of NGOs, companies, doctors, engineers. Our members are honored for their contributions to their communities. And we are all united by a renewal of democracy.

We are a very diverse and well connected youth team. We have important contacts from people who believe in the project.

We really want this project to be freely and easily accessible.

And we know that Solve MIT will be more complete with our team and our solution.

So if you want a youthful solution, a Latin America solution with people who are known and rewarded for their recognition in communities, choose FRANCO.

With what organizations are you currently partnering, if any? How are you working with them?

At the moment we are working with actions within the NGO sowing Education and NGO KM23, where we work sending messages to students attended by their organizations. We are closing a working partnership with the Secretariat of Development of the State of São Paulo for informative activities.

Your business model & funding

Partnership potential

Why are you applying to Solve?

We need Solve so our project has the visibility and financial support it needs to get out of the small scale and amateurish it is today, and reach its full potential.

We are small, but our project to transform and reinvent lives. We believe that, and we need them to believe us.

Solve would bring the necessary visibility to establish the confidence necessary of the general population for the use of our solution.

What types of connections and partnerships would be most catalytic for your solution?

Distribution
Funding and revenue model
Media and speaking opportunities

If you selected Other, please explain here.

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With what organizations would you like to partner, and how would you like to partner with them?

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If you would like to apply for the AI Innovations Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If you are not already using AI in your solution, explain why it is necessary for your solution to be successful and how you plan to incorporate it.

We at FRANCO want to change democracy. Make it more participatory and effective. We do this by democratizing public data and facilitating citizen participation.

We possess an intelligence that from the profile of an enrollee and their interests, we can identify what are the best opportunities and analyzes for that person.

Currently we only do these automations in the field of education. Taking this award would allow us to improve and expand our intelligence to the other areas of opportunity we want to lead.

If you would like to apply for the GM Prize on Community-Driven Innovation, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

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If you would like to apply for the Innovation for Women Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

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If you would like to apply for the Prize for Innovation in Refugee Inclusion, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

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If you would like to apply for the Innospark Ventures Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If your solution utilizes data, describe how you will ensure that the data is sourced, maintained, and used ethically and responsibly.

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If you would like to apply for the Morgridge Family Foundation Community-Driven Innovation Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution.

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If you would like to apply for the Everytown for Gun Safety Prize, describe how you and your team will utilize the prize to advance your solution. If your solution utilizes data, describe how you will ensure that the data is sourced, maintained, and used ethically and responsibly.

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