(Platform Coop) Meeting with SEWA July 25, 2019

Meeting with SEWA for governance tool

Mohit has been working on this for now
It has a login and password for coops, where they enter their data month to month, which gives them very simple bus analytics
Helps them develop their business plans
Envision as a gov tool, maybe a communication tool going forward as well

We want to figure out how to make these analytics available visually, make it simpler for them to digest the information

All the data is available in the back-end, based on that we can provide the analytics

Maybe real time [cut out]
Where we are hoping you to come in
Help us envision this platform - two way communication portal
I have trouble visualizing how that would happen on the portal
Also, this is something we discussed briefly at the federation, sector-specific, how can we bring in design (artisans), other services (e.g. cleaning work) onto our platform - connect them to customers

For example, we’ve been talking about our coop
The work we’ve been doing is linking consumers to artisans directly - that’s been the role of federation
How do we take that online?
How do we take our artisans and customers linked directly? Take that online
Bring them on sector wise in a more interactive way - to develop their business
I’m not sure if that’s something Mohit will be… we haven’t talked about this with Mohit, we’ve only talked about BA
But that’s the vision moving forward with this platform
Starting with this is just to get them familiar with it

In this data analytics, and pulling data from the database and visualizing it in some way… I guess we want to figure out how we can support the work Mohit is doing
Mohit, how do you think we can support?

Basically, we’re uploading content that has been provided
For the best of my knowledge, this should be completed in the next 10 working days
Back end will be available at that time
Once that’s up and running, we can have a look together at the system
You can have a look right now, but the visual presentation - it needs [inaudible]

What I heard is.. once you have a demo, that we’ll take a look at it and give you feedback on how its functioning
Will that include data vis? Yes
Once you have something, you’ll share with us and we can give you feedback on that?
I can populate with real data so it’s easy to understand
Within a day or two I can share things that have happened already

It would be great if you folks can think more about the sector specific services
I’m very lost when it comes to how to translate digitally

Have a look at it, and identify how much work needs to happen on the interface

using PHP and wordpress! Good!
Ned - building tools as part of a larger labour platform - how can they work well with other tools
Scalability of the system? Any major developments in any other language
Open to working with different tools in different languages
APIs that can talk to each other
Another tool in a another language ok, as long as it can communicate through API
Ned not concerned about that aspect of it
Mohit - no questions yet for now

Actionables:

IDRC to look at form to see how much work needs to happen on the UI
Mohit to email some of his work to us next Monday, we can set up a meeting the following week to walk through it
IDRC to think about how the communication between artisan and consumer can happen - maybe we can pull some sketches of the marketing tool?