MIT Solve

Solution Overview

Solution Name

Biblobby

One-line solution summary.

Biblobby use geolocation to make easier for people to search for open access information and nearby cultural resources.

What is your solution?

Geolocation app focused in places that promote open access to information to the comunity, showing trought colorful simbols and intuitive interface all the institution and services that could be useful for the members of the comunity, spreading the knowlege about which kind of tools they have access to, and helping to small libraries or cultural centers to reach more public.

What specific problem are you trying to solve?

The ignorance of the free information services directed to the community by theysemlves and the dificuilties of librarians and cultural workers to promote themlselves in the comunity.

Who does your solution serve? In what ways will the solution impact their lives?

Target population is wide as public libraries ones (kids, teens, adults, students, profesionals, whole families, ect), a bit limited by the technology barrier and access to internet, the idea is to resume all the relevant services and public spaces that libraries and cultural spaces offers in a dinamic app that show people and comunities the things that libraries do for help them and all the tools that they have access to near them.

Promoting public libraries as a comunity spaces that work for free access to information would help persons to feel more closer to the libraires and change the concept of them as static and unconfortable places reaching more public and make easier the colaboration between information and cultural centers to serve comunity.

What steps have you taken to understand the needs of the population you want to serve?

Chilean libraries have a very small part of the population as current visitors; culture moves mainly around a few people, and new initiatives among cultural workers are often unknown by a large part of the population, or be sporadic, this application wants to make that separation thinner and bring libraries even closer to the people, being in itself not a generator of initiatives or resources but a record and guide for access to cultural activities so that it reaches its final recipients: the users, in a better way.

Generally, cultural initiatives, access to information and resources available to the public, are only known once you enter the system, but can go completely unnoticed for those who still do not even recognize their information needs, so the app seeks to serve guide and be that space of entry to resources, shortening the distances between virtuality and face-to-face, and helping people to know they information needs.

Which aspects of the Challenge does your solution most closely address?

Improving learning opportunities and outcomes for learners across their lifetimes, from early childhood on (Learning)

Our solution's stage of development:

Scale: A sustainable enterprise working in several communities or countries that is looking to grow significantly, focusing on increased efficiency

Explain why you selected this stage of development for your solution—in other words, what have you accomplished to date?

The idea of biblobby is a remake and explore of one of ours first college proyects called "Bibliomaps" that enclude any information resource even if is not open acces, so still being the early concept, that we are working on expand, for now is reduced to an idea and a visual desing more than a funcional prototype, the creation of the app, the model to keep the data and the information optimal for users still in process.

Where our solution team is headquartered or located:

Santiago, Chile

Team Lead:

Josefa Tello Alfaro