Please describe your proposed solution
The primary objective of this project is to create a comprehensive electronic platform designed to assist the public in recovering lost items efficiently. This platform will offer a variety of features to ensure a seamless experience for its users. Key functionalities include:
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Lost Item Declaration: Users can declare their lost items by providing detailed descriptions and paying a small fee. This fee supports the platform’s maintenance and ensures the quality of service.
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Found Item Registration: Those who find items can register these on the platform, providing information that will help in identifying and matching them with their rightful owners.
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Matching System: The platform will feature a sophisticated matching system that connects lost items with those that are found. Once a match is made, all relevant stakeholders are promptly notified, facilitating quick recovery.
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Search Functionality: Users will have access to a powerful search tool that allows them to look for recovered items using various filters and criteria, enhancing the likelihood of a successful recovery.
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Donation Capability: Users will have the option to make donations, supporting the platform’s ongoing development and enabling it to expand its services to a broader audience. Ada payment will be the initial payment option.
Roadmap:
The solution will be built in small independent modules that integrate together to solve the main problem.
- Identity and access management: IAM will allow us to set the ground for roles and accesses to resources within the platform
- Lost and found item inventory management: The main function of this module will be to collect both lost and found objects, organizing and categorizing them in such a way that they are easily searchable and match-able.
- Search & Match Subsystem. This will be a real time algorithm that runs continuously in the background and try to match lost and found items
- Notification management: This will be a real time solution allowing stakeholders to signup to events of their interest choosing from a multitude of notification medium.
- Payment (digital wallet): We will be implementing a digital wallet that will allow people declaring lost item to pays a small fee and other value transactions within the system
- Verification of ownership: This module will set up tailored challenge questions for owners to pass in order to regain their lost objects. This is something we have thought about quite a lot as it is the area in which we are most susceptible to people playing the system in order to steal identities or other items. For this we have thought of a reputation management system to mitigate some of that risk through community support.
- Donations: Here we will build a module that accept several forms of donation to the system. Crypto money will certainly be one of them. There will be a small fee in order to declare a lost item on the platform, and there will be the option to pay an additional donation once your item is recovered to support the Lost |&| Found initiative.
- Digital token pegged on the local currency coin: This will facilitate the micro-payments transactions that will go through the system
- Marketing and Outreach for dApp launch (T.V. billboards, radio)