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Voice4Rural

Connecting Rural People with The Emerging Technologies

The problem Voice4Rural solves

Unique and easy to use simple UI which can be used by rural people without much trouble.
Connect people to nearby vaccination centers to book their places from the available booking slots. Booking is done in the nearest hospital on basis of available slots. A simple setup to assist people who aren’t much familiar with the technology.
Connecting with buyers to facilitate the selling of handmade products made by the village people to make use of their self-learned skills and make some money.
Now it’s easy to find employees by posting the simple jobs
Getting information from Twitter about changes in policy or any existing setups and also the top opinions of different people which everyone should be aware of
Full Crop Profile Details Retrieval so that Farmers Can have full access to details of crops - Like Exporting Countries, Major Price in states and so on
Forecasted Prediction of Crop Prices So that Farmers can have a certain estimation about which crop would be more beneficial to grow and invest
Native Multilingual Support so that user Can use this app with their own native language hassle-free.

Booking is done in the nearest hospital on basis of available slots. A simple setup to assist people who aren’t much familiar with the technology.
Another easy-to-use setup to post the handmade-items along with the negotiable price and the contact details. This will be a really good step up in turning India atmanirbhar and will also in turn help the needy.
Matching jobs based on the user profile and giving updates based on that. Almost everyone in villages are looking for jobs and this would surely help them in the run.
Apart from newspapers, news from social media isn’t accessible by the majority of the rural people. Instead of showing all, if we display messages based on their interests/any major announcements that would surely help the people.

Challenges we ran into

Since we worked on various tech stacks, integrating all of them for serving the frontend was not that easy. We overcame this by choosing fastapi(python based backend framework) for our prototype. The frontend being in React JS, we encountered multiple CORS errors. Managing the database for so many collections proved to be a tedious task. Few dependencies and import errors popped up while integrating all the scripts and deploying it on Heroku which were resolved as we learned the fixes in the process.

But in the end, team effort, dedication, and continuous hard-work helped us complete our “One-stop application for Rural People” which will surely promote rural development to a new level and help our fellow citizens satisfy their needs
Uploading Dynamic Images in Real-Time was quite difficult while hooking it with the API.
Also, Availability of a Dataset for building and integrating chatbot was not feasible given the time constraints.

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