# Business Portal

### Project Details

**Website:**&#x20;

* 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<br>

### 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.

### Resources

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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.

[Mockups](https://www.figma.com/file/vdOtyeFK6WD6XcimWiXqHZ/CAM-Business-Directory?node-id=2958%3A479)

[Mockup prototype](https://www.figma.com/proto/vdOtyeFK6WD6XcimWiXqHZ/CAM-Business-Directory?node-id=2958%3A479\&scaling=scale-down\&redirected=1)

[Mockup slideshow](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1M-r2iX8ob7mTJHbZ4jKPBnSyhpxUa1vmyn2GuLsCJf0/edit#slide=id.g3d26f9590f_0_49)

[Inception documents](https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1SnnF5Q-56RsDBgNHoOdWVdV67JRU12wm)
