Calamitigator

Team Name

Hackers @ A'beckett

Team Members

Project Description

Calamitigator, as the name suggests is an interface to mitigate the costs associated with calamities which have become ever so frequent.

The approach we take works on 3 fronts:
Government or Authorities
Citizens
Community

Using historical trends and real-time data, along with counting for factors such as distribution of emergency services, Calamitigator aims to provide a vulnerability score to regions to assist the government to focus their resources towards high risk areas, ones which are likely to suffer the most.

We also aim to provide a simple and user-friendly interface to the citizens to openly share any data they might have through a chatbot interface. We also aim to facilitate the communication between authorities and the public during distress so that a more cohesive and coordinated response can be articulated.

It also provides the citizens an opportunity to be aware about the potential risks or hazards that might be coming their way, via a dashboard. The citizens (clients) are divided into volunteers and possible dependents at the time of sign-up
Using the prediction algorithms used by leading scientists and the datasets and warnings issued by them (to be implemented at a later stage), we will be providing a probabilistic analysis of the calamities that may be around the corner.

Subsequently, we use the client’s location and contact details, which we collect during sign-up, to inform them once any calamity has reached a threshold probability in a radius of 11km (flexible). Once such a message is issued, both the volunteers and dependents receive a prompt to ask for/ provide volunteering services. Those who answer in affirmative are then matched according to their proximity and last known locations and contact numbers are changed, hence empowering and bringing together the community.