THE SOCIAL ENTERPRISE
PROBLEM
Start ups have enough issues establishing a successful business, but social enterprise start ups sometime have a bigger hurdles to overcome.
Two key factors have contributed to the failure of the social enterprise:
1. Lack of resources and infrastructure, which includes funding and how to obtain funding for social entrepreneurs.
2. Relevant context in which the enterprise will be operating in and how to navigate regulatory and policy impediments.
SOCIAL INCLUSION PLATFORM
SOLUTION
Our hack provides the social entrepreneur the tools to take their idea to concept, helping them with contextual data to understand demand, validate their ideas against market conditions, help connect them with the support and infrastructure they require and providing the quantitative and qualitative data to continually measure their outcomes.
LIFECYCLE
Ideation and Validation
Its starts with an idea but how do you explain your story in a way that is meaningful, relevant and contextual? You do this by providing the complete picture through data sourced from government, industry and research. We provide a demand map to understand where your organisation can best make an impact. We provide time series and predictive data to empower the social entrepreneur to validate their ideas against.
Bringing together our communities
By utilising an open data methodology, it allows small businesses to abstract away the multiple source systems into a centralised platform which they can consume. We can bring Government, Business and Families together to form a local community and extrapolate meaningful relationships to identify cause and effect of the issues that really matter. This platform will provide all the a new social group will need to help kick-start their business. By supplying demographics and demand information about local communities they can target their social campaign to help make a real impact!
Dashboard
The dashboard covers 4 metrics and they are: Social issues in the local suburb, Businesses operating in the local suburb, demand and supply demographics and indicator of success rate and typical revenue range
Demo of Real-time Notification
Typeform
Collecting qualitative and quantitative data through forms about the issues affecting local communities provides a feedback loop to help evaluate the impact of social campaigns.
Walkthrough of Form Filling
Walkthrough of View Results
Build and Operate
The Social API powers the Market Place. It allows developers from government, industry, not-for-profits, advocates as well as the community to extend the platform. It provides the power to create, connect and collaborate with the social enterprise.
Evaluate
Providing quantitative and qualitative data
Architecture
The Proposed Technical architecture of the platform is shown below. It leverages AWS (or any cloud platform) and its various services to optimize cost. AWS API Gateway is used to manage APIs (policies, governance and security). Push notifications are used to send notifications to subscribers. AWS data lake and analytics are leveraged to analyse the effectiveness of the social enterprise. On the machine learning side, we use K-mean algorithm to suggest business to help with patients in the hospital.
Tech Stack
1 React Web framework 16.9
2 Chart JS 2.0
3 Material UI 16.10.2
4 Tableau 2009.2.3
5 Sklearn, Numpy
Demand and Matrix Evaluation
Before an Idea is accepted the current market, demand is evaluated. The output from demand evolution feeds back to the social framework, which can evaluate new ideas.
The Evaluation dashboard gives a graphical overview of the new entrepreneur’s Idea and the current market in the local area which the entrepreneur plans to operate. The visual representation gives a current supply vs demand graph and evaluates the feasibility of the idea against the current market.
Challenges We Aim For
Helping a social impact ‘start up’ (small organisation) to tell their story
To make the social business everyone's business. To make the invisible invisible by helping the most disenfranchised in society.
Helping Start-ups and New Small Businesses in Australia
We examine NEIS businesses being started and their success in local areas and provide insights on potential business focus areas.
Improving the customer experience of government services
We use NSW government open data to identify opportunities to drive customer service improvements subscription services and increasing modes of interactions and improving frequency of interaction.
ATO for individuals
We use ATO datasets so that we can build a demand evaluation dashboard for startups to know where the a demand need for a new business.
Small Business; Big Decisions
We use open dataset son data.vic, to understand demand for services as part of a demand portal and view trends on opportunities in an area.