Website Development for Universal Versatile Society

Details

Mission and objectives

Universal versatile society is a non-political, non-communal and nonprofit making, non-governmental voluntary social organization registered under Societies Registration Act-XXI of 1860 with Registration No. Maha/514/05/Akola on dated 30/06/2005 by the authority of Govt. of Maharashtra’s Asstt. Registrar of Societies, Akola Region - India. Our Mission: ‘Dedicate to serve the community, nation and world by connecting the donors with community-based projects, coordinate the available resources and expertise to promote sustainable development in accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals.’ Objectives of the organization: 1. To promote socially, culturally, economically, and/or ecologically sustainable goals through our advocacy projects and transform a village Nagthana into eco village. 2. To save the life of farmers in Vidarbha by serving them through Mental Health Project in 128 villages. 3. To reset the agro-economy of rural Vidarbha through deployment of regenerative agriculture practices which further facilitate marketing of produce through ‘Family Farmer’ project. 4. To encourage learning in local environment by rejuvenate public schools through digitalization and Project Based Learning concept which ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote learning opportunities for all. 5. Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all levels. 6. To utilize the potential of women in society and empower them through education and involving them in community development mission.

Context

Universal Versatile Society (UVS) is working on a project 'Socio Economic Initiative for Ecological Agri Food Production and Consumption'. This project demands mapping the needs of the entire village for food consumption, and expenses. budget, etc. so that a proper business model for this project can be developed. The purpose of this platform is to help local farmers supply organic produce using business analytics tools and provide a value chain for linking farmers to consumers. Moreover, re-connecting isolated dots in the local communities within Vidarbha (India) accelerates the rejuvenation of the digital village in the age of AI and business intelligence. Through Dell Pro-Bono Progam, we are developing a digital platform for our project 'Socio-Economic Initiative for Ecological Agri-Food Production and Consumption'. This platform with an innovative business model embedded emphasises “Responsible Consumption and Production” which echoes SDG 12 and answers the call of FAO to build a more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food system for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind. As part of our collaboration with Dell Pro-Bono Progam, we are creating a digital questionnaire for which we intend to seek support from Online Volunteers with the required expertise and experience through this assignment. Specifically: 1) To ensure the effectiveness, efficiency, and smooth operation of this eCommerce platform, through testing and modifying features of the prototype depending on needs. 2) To digitalise the project on 'Socio-Economic Initiative on Ecological Agrifood Production and Consumption, through programming and maintenance of the UVS website (https://www.uvsociety.org/).

Task description

We are looking for 3 Online Volunteers to test, update, and maintain the UVS website and eCommerce platform, which serves as a platform to help local farmers supply organic produce using business analytics tools and provide a value chain for linking farmers to consumers and re-connect local communities within Vidarbha. 1) Main website: a) One volunteer will maintain and update the current webpage of UVS to realise the following tasks: i. No apparent technical issues will show up. ii. Working on Name Server, DNS checking, and Google Analytics needs to be taken care of. iii. Other new modules such as education equity, climate change, etc. will be updated accordingly. 2) Digitalization of our project 'Socio-Economic Initiative on Ecological Agrifood Production and Consumption': a) Two volunteers will work on creating the platform to facilitate our project on Agrifood production and consumption. This consists of preparing an online form for a survey and doing back-end work to get an analysis of the requirements of villagers. Volunteers will get complete guidelines of the tasks through online Zoom meetings, email communications, WhatsApp groups, etc. This will be a good opportunity for volunteers to gain hands-on experience in tech-based work for community development.