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About
M-commerce is a self-sustaining mobile commerce system that empowers the poor and illiterate to make informed decisions about purchasing daily necessities. Unlike the legacy system, which is inefficient and error-prone, M-commerce will use a user-friendly and innovative mobile interface.
Proposal
- Understand user needs on the ground and analyze them to develop system requirements.
- Design and Develop a user-friendly mobile user interface that would enable “Bandhus” and villagers to browse and order goods using mobile phones.
- Do thorough business analysis of the viability of such a system and provide recommendations to prove long term sustainability.
Partners
Project Team
| ROLES | TEAM MEMBERS |
|---|---|
| Students | Anastasios Dimas Michael Gordon Dev SenGupta Anonymous MIT student |
| Video journalists (from Emerson College) |
Sarah Berkovich Kady Buchanan |
Project Documentation
The links in this table go to individual webpages containing videos, along with supporting materials like presentation slides where available. You can navigate through these pages in sequence using the links on the top of each page.
| VIDEOS AND SLIDES |
|---|
| FINAL PROJECT |
| Summary |
| Demonstration |
| Final Class Presentation |
| MILESTONE PRESENTATIONS |
| Milestone 1: Elevator Pitch |
| Milestone 2: Needs Assessment |
| Milestone 3: System Design and Initial Implementation |
| Milestone 4: Sustainability |
| PROJECT EPISODE VIDEOS |
| Episode 1: What is M-commerce? |
| Episode 2: Approach |
| Episode 3: Logistics |
| Episode 4: Team roles |
| Episode 5: Conference with United Villages |
| Episode 6: Clarity! |