Modern society has divided most people into isolated capsules. Many of us do not know who is living next door. The neighbourhood and the community are breaking apart. We need to do something.
A relationship has to begin with communication, connection, and collaboration. The community would not be restored without bringing people together first. However, most people nowadays live in a fast pace and busy world, and many have different lifestyles than others. Which said the traditional way that all the members gather up in person, is no longer working. The solution must be able to adapt to different lifestyles and schedules.
BeTogether
Client
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Year
2021
Together
To make a behavior regularized, there is a need to have a rewarding system to provide positive feedback to people’s actions. Be together embedded with a credit system that only represents value inside the community. The “Community Token” is a digital credit as the contribution of the member to the community, which the user can gain by assisting other member or supporting the community and using it to request assistance.
BeTogether is a software that would be multi-platform, that works as a closed forum for a specific group.
The first thing that the application provided, is an information board, a space that shows various information from the community. With this feature on the homepage, the user will be able to adapt to the community they moved in quickly and smoothly.
The homepage also includes scrolling reminders at the top, to highlight the urgent events in the community.
This also aimed to allow users who do not familiar with the application or do not want to involve too much, to catch up and quickly go through what is important.
A community can not stay active and organized without management, but the current system leaves most of the things that are deeply related to the residents, to companies, or to people who do not live there. When the residents want to make changes, it would go through various processes and time consuming.
BeTogether takes most of the business back to the residents. People in the community need to have major agreements on what kind of teams are needed in their community, then either vote for the members or any other methods to run those teams.
Then residents who work in these teams will receive Community Tokens from the public fund that corrects from the residents.
There is always a limitation. Thus residents can either send messages directly or send them anonymously to the team which can investigate and solve the problem. Users can send a text message or attach a photo for reporting. Problems need to be addressed immediately to avoid arguments and damage to a relationship.
While users can send messages to each other, all the teams can send public messages to everyone to push messages to all residents for information, and community agreement.
Residents can also create channels for different closed or open group chats, which could bring people who have similar hobbies, needs, or topics together, eventually leading to a relationship.
There is also a discussion space that is open to all the residents, to discuss various topics or share information. Also, teams in the community can create voting to put out or update community policy with agreement from most residents.
ToTogether has an urgent request feature, that allows residents to push an urgent request to everyone in the community, and neighbor helps neighbor. Sometimes neighbor who is close by is better than a family that is far away.