Afwan is an on-demand service for providing tourists with local experts. Uber for tourism information.
- (Youth) Unemployment / Underemployment
- Underutilized tourism economy
- Tourist unfriendly mapping solutions
Mobile app to provide tourists a way to pay locals for help. The help is guaranteed to be provided by someone:
- in realtime
- local via gps
- knowledgeable via rating system
- Django - Python, MySQL
- Cordova/PhoneGap
- AWS EC2
- Sama Kanbour (Carnegie Mellon University Qatar, France) [email protected]
- Abderrahmane Melhaoui (Ecole Mohammadia d’Ingenieurs, Morocco) [email protected]
- Jihyun Kim (Stella) (NYU Abu Dhabi, South Korea) [email protected]
- Chien Chen (Masdar Institute, Taiwan) [email protected]
- Areg Karapetyan (Masdar Institute, Armenia) [email protected]
- Izzedeen Ben Khadra (University of Petra, Jordan) [email protected]
Disclaimer: Team members contributed to various parts of the hack. This breakdown is only a generalization.
- Areg Karapetyan
- Abderrahmane Melhaoui
- Izzedien B.Khadra
- Chien Chen
- Sama Kanbour
- Jihyun Kim
- Kartik Mandaville (Co-Founder, SpringRole, USA) [email protected]
- Ghady Rayess (Co-Founder and Managing Partner, FOO, Lebanon) [email protected]
- Ken Leland (Co-founder, Upswerve, USA) [email protected]
- Yassine Karmouche (Web and Mobile Apps Project Manager, Méditel – Orange Group, Morocco) [email protected]
- Projector for 2 mobile devices (one iphone, one android, simultaneously if possible)
- Project laptop for powerpoint style presentation, and possibly a video