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Project Details

Website:

  • Cape Agulhas

  • Demo muni

Drive Folder:

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.

https://biz-capeagulhas.openup.org.za/
https://biz-portal.openup.org.za/
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/folders/1B2uqNmFdmO1-I1rmsfie7GzXgiRvLaai
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