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Presentation of AgroPlace project. 2nd Competition of Mobile Application Development in Senegal. Outline. TEAM Purpose Beneficiaries Context and social impact of the application Description of the application Main features Technologies Deployment Entrepreneurship Difficulties. TEAM.
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Presentation of AgroPlace project 2nd Competition of Mobile Application Development in Senegal
Outline • TEAM • Purpose • Beneficiaries • Context and social impact of the application • Description of the application • Main features • Technologies • Deployment • Entrepreneurship • Difficulties
TEAM Ousmane NDIAYE Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Faculté des sciences et techniques Tel: (221) 77 635 98 93 ouzdeville@gmail.com
Mohamadou Moustapha SENE Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Faculté des sciences et techniques Tel: (221) 77 635 14 25 Tafsene@gmail.com
Baba Djombéra TANDIA Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar, Faculté des sciences et techniques Tel: (221) 77 549 99 58 babatandia87@gmail.com
The purpose This application will allow farmers to be visible outside their operating that is to say give them the opportunity to sell production at competitive prices on the national market
Beneficiaries This application is aimed at producers agricultural and in any category all areas of production that need national exposure (even international)
Context and social impact of the application In the most remote areas of the country Farmers are facing difficulties diverse as the lack of weather information and marketing. AgroPlace enable small and large farmers to reach a wide audience buyers and be more informed.
Description of the application This application is available to Farmers weather information in a real time, a mapping tools, ease of passing of information for marketing agricultural products and to interact with out from a dedicated page on social networks (facebook and twitter).
The main feature of the application • AgroPlace contains several important functions: • Adress book of potential buyer maintained by the producer • Possibility to broadcast an offer in the same moment to your buyer and in the AgroPlace facebook page • Weather in real time • Senegal map for localization • Possibility to acces an information from the social network facebook page dedicated to the application and maintained by the producer.
Technologies IDE used: NetBeans Language: JAVA ME Library: LWUIT (LightWeight User Interface Toolkit), MidMaps,kxml2. SMS technology, Kannel (SMS gateway) Twitter and facebook API. Yahoo weather RSS
Plans for deployment To deploy the application for the farmers, they should awareness of the possibility of this application improve their productivity and put in free download on the internet to facilitate distribution.
Plans for entrepreneurship A good business opportunity offered to us by the fact that this application could come in assistance to farmers and at the same time we generate profits from deals farmers do. And all this by distributing this application for free.
Difficulties The principal problem lies in the fact that most farmers are illiterate and they will not benefit this application. But we intend to make a version that includes features that would be affordable everybody