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USING GEOSPATIAL DATASET TO ADDRESS THE CHALLENGES OF HEALTH IN IBADAN

Team Omida is a technology savvy group made up of five people with a common vision to build B2B and B2G technology solutions that can address the ‘right’ problems.

Team Members: Joshua Jumbo (Team Lead and UX Designer), Johnson Adebayo (Data Analyst), Damilare Adeyemo(Data Analyst), Ezerioha Somto (Developer), Joshua Aningene(Developer)

Omida is a platform to help the Citizens of Ibadan better understand and analyze the health standards of the city. For example, a user can visualize data to see the number of functional hospitals to the ones that aren’t functional. They can also learn about road networks to a major hospital during emergency.

Also, the Government can benefit from the platform to help it make meaningful decisions about the kind of investments it should make in the Health sector. For example, it can look at the ratio of the population of Ibadan to the number of working hospitals and decide how many more need to be added and why the ones that aren’t working aren’t.

The vision is to help make the City a more health-conscious environment

From one of the researches we made, we discovered that a lot of LGAs in Ibadan were suffering from a deplorable health sector.

There weren’t enough hospitals. while this is a challenge for the residents, the Government itself doesn’t know where to make proper investments that can help control the spread of inadequacy in the sector. According to Akokuwebe, Monica Ewomazino and co. in their research on the health sector, they realized that corruption was a major catastrophe. With funds not adequately channeled to due courses, living the health sector inadequate.

Given the timeline and the fact that it’s a hackathon, we decided from the onset that we could only work on data available on the internet but luckily for us, we also had someone who had first-hand knowledge of Ibadan in our team.

We began by defining our problem. What really were people in Ibadan saying about the health challenges in the State. What did the Government ‘think’ they said. How was it being handled and a few other questions?

Our data analysts (Johnson and Dami) interpreted the data for every team member, stating the observations they saw from what they were able to get.

Some of the materials we found useful online in aiding in our health analysis were:

With our discoveries documented. We then defined our who or what we could possibly develop a Solution for and how our solution could be beneficiary to them.

1a. User Persona

Who would be interested in working with a flood data or a platform that helps them to see the effect of flooding or the probability of a place to flood within a given time-frame, the flood history as well of that place?

Here we defined our personas and discovered that such a platform will be useful for both the Citizens and the Government.

1b. Focus Group

Luckily, we had someone with the experience of Ibadan in our team.
So here we brought Dami to the spotlight and quizzed him about his experience as a former resident of the city of Ibadan. His insight led us to discover that there was a deplorable service in the health sector with loads of the residents resulting to herbal care.

1c. Design Thinking

Our team members now knowing what the challenges in the health sector were in Ibadan. We resolved to use design thinking as a means to find several possible solutions to the problem. Thanks to Joshua Aningene, who suggested we do use this approach.

We followed the 5 step process made popular by IDEO.

1. We Empathized

2. We Defined

3. We Ideated

4. We Prototyped

5. We Tested our MVP

Having discovered what problem we want to find a possible solution to and with the design thinking process in view. We narrowed down our options as quickly as possible.

And our consensus option became this:

Within the platform, masses can send their feedback and suggestions on how to make the health sector better.

NOTE: However, we decided that since this is a hackathon, we might only be able to build workable MVP.

2. User Journey Map and Site Flow

We defined the experience the user would have with interacting with our platform and seeing how onboarding them could be as seamless as possible.

3. Prototype

We worked on both a low-fi design (paper sketch only due to time) and then an high-fi design (Figma)

High-fi hasbeen shared below:

4. Development

Our Data analysts worked on the map to show a canvas around Ibadan so it can be visually seen from the first glance.

They made use of the grid3 dataset on the settlement points, police station, healthcare and others in Ibadan, they then worked with mapbox to create the canvas and make the map unique to our team in terms of colour.

With the map built in mapbox which showed boundaries, they imported it into power bi and improved upon it, to show LGAs.

The data guys worked concurrently with the Software Engineering guys. Ezerioha who led the latter worked on integrating the map into the platform using Javascript.

So our Development stacks were:

1. Mapbox

2. Power Bi

3. Javascript

We build the platform as a progressive web application. So it could worked as a mobile app as well as it does on the web platform. Knowing there are more mobile phone users that PC users within the city of Ibadan.

5. Testing

Simultaneously, we tested the platform. At this stage, we couldn’t result on guerrilla testing. Our testing was done in-house. No special tools, we just watched the user journey of a few team members and listened to their experience with the interaction. With that we intend to improve on our application after the hackathon, although we managed only a few within it.

Restating clearly, that we couldn’t accomplish our desired application due to the time-frame and due to the fact that for all of us within my team, it was our first experience on Geo-spatial data. However, we intend to improve on our solution afterward the hackathon so we can get the full-scale objective as we believe it will relieve the bitter experience of healthcare in Ibadan. And more people would enjoy settling there which can help expand the culture of the state as well as add more financial growth to the economy of the State.

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