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StuffBee - Give & Take for mobiles

The Idea:

What will change in the world because this Project happens?

StuffBee aims to promotes “give and take” on Mobiles

StuffBee gives the opportunity to anybody having redundant objects to avoid trashing them by meeting other persons in need of those objects within the same geographic area, thanks to their mobile and Internet.

Benefits are multiple: increasing interaction between unknown persons, save time and money, avoid recycling.

At first sight, this project may seems exactly the same as "Freecycle Cellular Osmosis" but the application is operational and the project scope is broader:

- Deploy the ultimate "give & take" application in hands of 3 billion users.

- Broadcast the free object database created by mobile users with existing "give & take" websites to unify users of Internet and Mobile communities.

- Help bulky object departments to broadcast reusable stuff to persons living within the publication area instead of recycling usable objects.

- Help local humanitarian associations by increasing visibility of available items and give a better service to people in need.

StuffBee has been designed initially for Android mobiles. It will soon be ported to all other mobiles.

StuffBee is operational and shows an attractive, compelling, multithread design optimized to offer a rich give & take user experience.

Languages available are English and French.
In June, StuffBee will feature 10 Languages scaled to a total of 70 languages in September.

What information will people interact with to make this change?

Users will interact with Real/Virtual objects, their mobiles and other users.

We made everything possible to provide a rich user experience by using animations, colors, game technics while keeping StuffBee smart, efficient and addictive.

Givers and Seekers will play with their mobiles. Givers will use their camera to picture their stuff through the publication wizard while Seekers will browse free objects gallery thanks to StuffBee Intuitive Image explorer.

What else have you done in this Cause Area?

Tech & Smile is participating to other challenges, contacting representatives of “give & take” websites, local and european authorities, potential sponsors/supporters … to make this project a reality.

The Assessment

What kind of help or resources do you need to turn your project idea into a completed mashup?

StuffBee uses already a SOAP Server to establish communication between mobiles and possibly other "Give & Take" websites.

We need help in meeting mobile providers for packaging/deploying StuffBee on all mobiles.

The Team

Additional Project Idea Representative: Guilhem Bonnafous
Project Designer Sebastien Yriarte Sebastien Yriarte
Project Engineer Sebastien Yriarte Sebastien Yriarte

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Cisco

Sponsors

  • Microsoft
  • Yahoo
  • Business Objects
  • Raincity Studios
  • Mozilla Foundation
  • Ready Talk
  • .
  • Adobe
  • Linden Lab
  • Network For Good
  • Wild Apricot
  • Stanford Social Innovation Review
  • L'Atelier North America
  • The Panelist
  • Good
  • Fora.tv
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