Business Portal
Project Details
Website:
Cape Agulhas https://biz-capeagulhas.openup.org.za/
Demo muni https://biz-portal.openup.org.za/
Drive Folder: https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1B2uqNmFdmO1-I1rmsfie7GzXgiRvLaai
Project Team
Product Owner: Adrian Kearns Project Manager: Adrian Kearns Tech Lead: JD Bothma
Description
The project entails the development of a localised business database that is pre-populated from data relating to businesses in the municipality extracted from the company register. Such a site that is developed for a local government body ie a municipality, is replicable and scalable to other local municipalities with the aim of national implementation. These local databases are accessible to the public, and have a user interface that allows the local government officials to log on and update existing information.
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Objectives
OpenUp's objective with this project
Get the municipality and its residents to talk to one another.
Deliver empowering information to the public.
Empower the municipal staff with data literacy and use.
See whether the municipality can get the local youth to gather valuable data.
Municipality's objectives
Have data on local businesses to be able to report to provincial governmnet on local economic development
Users' objectives
Find businesses
Advertise their business
Measurables/Metrics/Indicators
Opportunities
Strategy
The easiest way we currently believe we can achieve the objective
We can use CIPC data to build a business portal which is valuable both to the public and the municipal staff.
For the muni it helps with reporting to provincial government, and with planning regarding local economic development.
For the public it's an easy way to find local businesses and see what the market looks like if they want to start a local business.
Businesses can submit their information to the municipality, thus starting a dialogue
Other opportunities
People love ice cream. We could get municipal officials to sell ice cream and start a dialogue with patrons and collect their data. (this suggestion is facetious just to demonstrate the point that there are other opportunities and potential strategies)
Principles
Revenue from this should be reinvested in the the local community e.g. through participation in the portal and municipal affairs.
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