Dhriiti (A leading NGO working in the Women Entrepreneurship) and Impact Hub Manila (pioneer in organizing international brands of hackathons) in collaboration with Project Her & Now of GIZ, Nasscom Foundation, Villigro and NuSocia announced the launch of the first edition of Scipt4HER Hackathon.
According to the Sixth Economic Census, women constitute only 14% of India’s entrepreneurial ecosystem. In addition to the regular entrepreneurial challenges, they have to also fight gender stereotypes. For rural women, the challenge just becomes four-fold.
Scipt4HER Hackathon will allow participants to test their passion for innovation, problem-solving, design thinking, and programming skills by solving the pressing problems faced by women entrepreneurs and drive gender-responsive solutions.
Hackoholics
We are friends from the same college and we have been making projects and taking part in hackathons for more than a year now. We have participated in various gender focused hackathons and have won various prizes too. We have built projects that can benefit women and non binary people.
Value-Chain-Study
Value Chain Website provided all the resources needed to know about the business value chain, modularly using diagrams and easy-to-understand details with multi-lingual features. It also has features like a discussion forum and bot to get help and clarify your doubts. We can also search for some event/person who has registered on the site and stay updated with the newsletter subscription.
It has the pages
- Homepage
- About Us
- Training
- Sessions
- Inspirations
- Discussion Forum
- Stay in Touch
And features like:
- all languages - multilingual
- search bar
- newsletter
- diagrams
- Bot
- Homepage: This page of our website shows the basic modules of the Business Value Chain.
- About Us - This is a page dedicated to the creators, i.e., Team Hackoholics.
- Training: To get a more profound knowledge of the concepts, a user can use this page. This page contains relevant articles and videos to help users to get started. If users are interested in sharing their knowledge with others, they can share it on the Training page itself. But due to time constraints, we couldn't show that uploading feature on the website.
- Sessions: To interact with fellow entrepreneurs or get more knowledge from experts, we designed this page so that it's easy for the user to get everything on a single page.
- Inspirations: To keep the user motivated towards her business, this page was designed.
- Discussion forum: This is a forum where people from all over can suggest or talk about improving their business.
- Stay in touch: This is a newsletter page where users have to subscribe to get all new things suitable to their mail.
- ChatBot - To help user when stuck somewhere in the website.
Marketing To enable rural women entrepreneurs to leverage the market to secure their livelihood, it requires a combination of training on business value chain, visibility as well as regular mentoring. Training on understanding business value chain -
- How can we encourage women to understand business value chains and train them on topics which can help them run their enterprise efficiently.
- The topics can range from
- raw material sourcing
- managing a team
- managing cash flow
- understanding market size
- packaging, channels of outreach
- brand building and demand creation
- Design a solution which brings these modules in vernacular, non high bandwidth needing mode to RWEs.
- We have spent 80% of our time only fixing bugs, although we have taken care of them.
- It is less likely that there more bugs, but that's what we can get in two days.
- Remarkably, we have built this project in 72 hours. If we had more time, we could have made this more awesome.
- We can scale this project to serve many people, helping them fill up the knowledge gap in the value chain.
- All project features that we had planned for submissions are complete, and we have also submitted the video!
- Details of market potential of the solution?
- Is this idea going to make money, or at least contribute to the solution that will?
- Is the idea a relevant solution to the given challenge?
- How easy and cost effective is the proposed solutions?
- Did the team solve a significant problem in terms of size and impact?
- this hackathon we pushed ourselves harder than ever.
- we tried implementing lots of features which we havent tried before
- we implemented search also made a working chat bot for the first time
- we also added working newsletter and also implemented email verification during registering
- we learned a lot in the process in these two days
https://github.com/Sushreesatarupa/Value-Chain
After checking all the problem statements, we chose to build our project because we couldn't find a website where a person could quickly learn about the business value chain. Since these business value chain somehow determines how strong will the business stand in future. To make it easier for aspiring rural women entrepreneurs, we thought to include various local languages so that their understanding of the topic would be clear.
This project tries to tackle the problem that Rural Women entrepreneurs face due to a lack of understanding of the business value chain. Our task is intended to fill the knowledge gap in between and help rural women entrepreneurs strive more. Our website provides the solution to this problem. It bridges the knowledge gap. Our website offers learning resources to people who need them. We have kept several modules that together teach about the value chain. We also have options to find events or people and also discuss in a discussion forum. We also have a bot to help anyone on the website and a newsletter subscription to keep the users notified about important events.
We have used HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap for the website. The chatbot was built using Javascript. The discussion forum was built with Wix. And the backend is created using node, express,cockroackDB.
This was our first time working with a chatbot and discussion forum. We also implemented our webpage in multiple languages for the first time. We also implemented a working newsletter and automated email delivery.
Despite all the obstacles, we are delighted that we could incorporate all our ideas into our website. We even learned many new things, and we are proud of ourselves!
Due to the limited amount of time, we couldn't build a polished prototype with good UI/UX and many features. We have thought of extending this to the outside world after making a polished product. We will try to improve the looks and work o this solution and think of new features that we can add.
- HTML
- CSS
- JavaScript
- Bootstrap
- SQL
- Adobe illustrator
- Wix
- Postman
- Cockroach DB
- Node.js
- Express.js
- jQuery
- GitHub
- Heroku
- Porkbun
- Vanilla js
- Canva