Solve for X Design Sprint

On 28th September, 2014, GDG New Delhi organized a Design Sprint along the theme of Solve for X. The goal was to get people of varying skill sets together and have them ideate on challenges faced by different people in India in every day life.

All of the work done by attendees will be provided for others to view and build upon, in the hope that at least a few are implemented by anyone, anywhere in the World, either in their original form or used as an inspiration.

Personas

There were a total of three personas suggested, by Google Developer Group New Delhi, GotStared.at and Haptik.

• GDG New Delhi proposed the persona of a young, middle school student in a Tier-2 city in India, who is excited about science and technology but does not have access to great educational material. She's interested in taking an initiative and learning on her own, but isn't yet comfortable exploring the web (which she has limited time for) on her own, nor does she have a mentor near her.

• GotStared.at proposed the persona of a young working woman in Noida from a middle class family who often faces harassment, eve-teasing and even molestation on her way to her office every day. The police in the city is difficult to approach, lacks sensitivity and typically does not take matters in their hands as they should.

• Haptik proposed the persona of a cancer-stricken patient, whose treatment has been facing issues claiming her medical expenses from her insurer. The situation is causing enormous stress and also leaving her in debt.

Solutions

#####GDG New Delhi

• Smart compression of vidoes from MOOC for faster transfer and lesser storage. Done by picking up key frames from video programmatically in addition to transcribing speech from MOOC, which can later be optionally put back to speech using TTS on the client side.
  Solutions by:
  Saurav Tomar
  Sahil Dhawan
  Akul Mehra
  Shivam Agarwal

• An interactive application with content targeting the demographic distributed not only directly, but also through schools and internet cafes.
  Solutions by:
  Dev Arora
  Ashna Goel
  Radhika Sharma
  Rudra Roy Chowdhury

• Use of mini vans to take teachers and support staff to different regions, where they teach in an interactive class environment at open air theaters. Distribute content electronically on location as well as via the internet.
  Solutions by:
  Kunal Sachdeva
  Barish
  Rahul
  Sachin

• Use of comics to interact with students in a creative and interesting manner which helps to developer their concepts.
  Solutions by
  Yashraj Pandey
  Rahul Ramteke

#####GotStared.at

• Transparent portal where people can track progress of complaints filed with the police, requires police to regularly update the complainant, and also keep the cases open to the public for potential tracking by the media and/or friends/family.
  Solutions by
  Kavneet Kaur
  Karan Mehra
  Arindam Agarwal
  Anshul Jain

• Public kiosks for registering complaints, often installed in more secure areas commonly frequented such as ATMs. Complainants are given URIs to keep track of the case, with a transparent online system that requires police to regularly update the complainant, and also automatically raises concern with higher authorities if action is not taken in fixed periods of time.
  Solutions by
  Sushant Arush Salil
  Aishwarya Pradhan
  Yash Batra
  Apoorv Gakhar

• E-filing of complaints, with systems in place for guiding the less technically aware particularly in rural areas.
  Solutions by
  Surabhi Gupta
  Other teammembers not named, feel free to create an issue for us to add you to it

#####Haptik

• Voice/Text/Video messaging app between patient and insurance agency that helps them find nearest affiliated hospitals, support groups, bring in donations and get agents out of the way with patient dealing directly with insurer.
  Solutions by
  Girish Garg
  Rahul B
  Palash
  Rohan

• App that links insurance companies to the hospitals for quicker approval of claims using unique patient IDs.
  Solutions by
  Niharika Gujela
  Soumya Sinha
  Sahib Sethi
  Chayan Gulati
  Kartic Rakhri

• A centralized portal that keeps track of amount of insurance required, time frame provided by patient, database for patients on basis of previous customer services by Insurance companies, fund transfers via secure gateways amd alternative, cheaper hospital options.
  Solutions by
  Manoj Pandey
  Shashi Kumar
  Gitansh Anand
  Aastha Malhotra