1. Problem and Solution Descriptions

Contributor: Luciana Bacci T

Problem description:

At Uniandes students do not have an organized way to discover and join student organizations or informal communities. From the information we gathered from the interviews, normally students can find the information across Instagram, WhatsApp or by word of mouth, and this normally only reach students that already are part of a network. This makes discovering new groups harder than it should be, and the problem is not the lack of groups, is the lack of a centralized place where students can find and know about groups before joining them.

Solution description:

SENECApp is a mobile application that is a centralized platform where the students communities can be discovered, created and sustained. There are 3 aspects we want to have:

• Discover: Students write what are their interests and the app proposes groups, where they can see the group's activity, frequency of meetings and if there is a level of expertise required.
• Create: Students can publish an interest and do polls to see how many people would be interested in joining.
• Sustain: Group leaders can have metrics, can publish events and have backup leaders so that the consistency of the group maintains even if there are changes. The recommendations of the groups and events feeds vary between the student's interest, program and schedule, so that not everyone have the same lists. We can use the location so show nearby events and have notifications for events.