BIRTH RIGHT - UX WINNER

About the Hackathon

"In North America, women are underrepresented in technology. In fact, in an average tech company only 30 per cent of workforces are female. In low-income countries, especially in rural areas, women are underrepresented across an even broader spectrum of education, rights and overall equal opportunities during the course of their lives.

Together with our charity partner Plan International Canada in support of Because I Am A Girl seeks to close this gap in underrepresentation. This event will bring female (and male!) developers in Canada together with Bangladeshi women to work on solutions for the most disadvantaged women in rural communities, using web and SMS tools in innovative ways to connect, empower and provide accessibility to the next potential billion users."

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Inspiration and What it Does

For this project, we wanted to create an app that would reduce mortality rates in Bengali pregnancies by closing the gap between local community workers and pregnant women.

Our app allows for women to provide live updates as to how they are feeling regarding their pregnancy, through an SMS-based system. They can either send their updates using Bengali sentences or emojis for those who cannot read or write. The app also allows for women to ask questions and seek advice to help resolve their immediate problems. At the same time, Twilio will store personalized data into a database, which can be accessed by a local community worker. With this information, the worker will be able to monitor his or her patients and attend to high-risk pregnancies. This will ultimately, help workers close the distance gaps by attending to patients who need immediate care.

The Final Prototype