Afwan

Afwan is an on-demand service for providing tourists with local experts. Uber for tourism information.

Problem Description

• (Youth) Unemployment / Underemployment
• Underutilized tourism economy
• Tourist unfriendly mapping solutions

Solution

Mobile app to provide tourists a way to pay locals for help. The help is guaranteed to be provided by someone:

• in realtime
• local via gps
• knowledgeable via rating system

Software Components

• Django - Python, MySQL
• Cordova/PhoneGap
• AWS EC2

Cordova Installation Instructions

• See Cordova documentation here

Team

• Sama Kanbour (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, France) [email protected]
• Abderrahmane Melhaoui (Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs, Morocco) [email protected]
• Jihyun Kim (Stella) (NYU Abu Dhabi, South Korea) [email protected]
• Chien Chen (Masdar Institute, Taiwan) [email protected]
• Areg Karapetyan (Masdar Institute, Armenia) [email protected]
• Izzedeen Ben Khadra (University of Petra, Jordan) [email protected]

Disclaimer: Team members contributed to various parts of the hack. This breakdown is only a generalization.

iOS App and Android App using Cordova

• Areg Karapetyan
• Abderrahmane Melhaoui
• Izzedien B.Khadra

Server backend with Python, Django, and MySQL

• Chien Chen

User Interface Design and Demo

• Sama Kanbour
• Jihyun Kim

Mentors

• Kartik Mandaville (Co-Founder, SpringRole, USA) [email protected]
• Ghady Rayess (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FOO, Lebanon) [email protected]
• Ken Leland (Co-founder, Upswerve, USA) [email protected]
• Yassine Karmouche (Web and Mobile Apps Project Manager, Méditel – Orange Group, Morocco) [email protected]

Needs for Demo

• Projector for 2 mobile devices (one iphone, one android, simultaneously if possible)
• Project laptop for powerpoint style presentation, and possibly a video