2. Definition of a Refugee
A person who owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of
race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion, is outside the
country of his nationality and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself of the
protection of that country; or who, not having a nationality and being outside the country of his former
habitual residence as a result of such events, is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to return to
it.
3. Problem
• People are fleeing
• get away from conflicts, wars etc
• running away from dangerous situations
• to find protection
• Loosing touch with
• family
• Friends
• Imagine losing your wife or children because you had to flee the country to save your life...
• Imagine loosing your children to save their lives
• Tracing currently is done manually by the NGOs:
• Laborious
• Costly
• Not effective
4. Solution
• We need something to connect each other
• We believe in having an anonymous identity on the web
• After creation of account
• Connect with family
• Connect with friends
• Allows refugees to get key information in a:
• Simpler
• Quicker
• Cheaper way than ever before
• NGOs are more efficient
5. How it works
• Register with the website
• Pinpoint your current location
• Before
• When arriving at a destination
• Contact Family & Friends
• Send username to trusted family & friends
• Approve/Decline Family & Friends to follow you
• Friends & families will follow your journey from the day they have accepted you
• Block
6. Potential Use
• Gathering of data & statistics
• Can be used by NGOs to provide refugees with an online platform for family tracing empowerment
• Analyse data and share it for future reference, knowledge& study
• Family reunite
• Friends reunite
9. Statistics - Mobile Usage
May 2011 to May 2013
17% - 9%
No Cell Phone
SmartPhone
Other Cell Phone
35% - 56%
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48% - 35%
91% of all people on earth have a mobile phone
56% of people own a smart phone
50% of mobile phone users, use mobile as their primary Internet
source
80% of time on mobile is spent inside apps
72% of tablet owners purchase online from their tablets each week
Reference: http://www.digitalbuzzblog.com/infographic-2013-mobile-growth-statistics/
10. Future Enhancements
• Register as a group & automatically get connected with them
• Implement for mobile devices - initially for Smart Phones
• Implement whole process for basic phone:
• user send bank sms
• user will receive username
• Send friend request
• friend will Approve/Decline it from the website
• friend will receive sms saying that someone has asked to share his pin points
• User sends sms including:
• user phone number
• Username
• FriendUsername
• User will receive pinpoints of friend.
• NGOs will register their organisation on the website so that users can search for which organisation
can help them
• Statistics Page - NGOs will use to gather data
• Website Translation in various languages