goodbot gaming
Preferred learners
- Anywhere
- Academic experience
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Skills
Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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The main goal of this project is to create a mobile and web app for parents to help make informed decisions about what games, social media apps, and other apps their kids use. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:
- Researching existing parental control apps and features that promote kids' safety
- Create a comparison tool to help parents make informed choices about consoles and games
- Create a function for parents to share games their kids are allowed to play with other parents
- Create a parent's conversation forum to share concerns, issues and resources
- Create a resource library of resources and organizations that can help parents navigate issues related to kids online interactions and outcomes
- Designing a user-friendly interface for the app.
- Developing a secure database to store user information
- Researching and implementing other features that may be beneficial to parents.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:
- Design a user-friendly interface for the app.
- Development of a secure database to store user information.
- Create a parent's decision-support tools, conversation platform, and resource library
- Research and implementation of other features that may be beneficial to parents.
Final deliverables should include:
- All source code.
- A written report explaining the design process and outcomes.
- A user manual for the app.
- What is the main goal for this project?
-
The main goal of this project is to create a mobile and web app for parents to help make informed decisions about what games, social media apps, and other apps their kids use. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:
- Researching existing parental control apps and features that promote kids' safety
- Create a comparison tool to help parents make informed choices about consoles and games
- Create a function for parents to share games their kids are allowed to play with other parents
- Create a parent's conversation forum to share concerns, issues and resources
- Create a resource library of resources and organizations that can help parents navigate issues related to kids online interactions and outcomes
- Designing a user-friendly interface for the app.
- Developing a secure database to store user information
- Researching and implementing other features that may be beneficial to parents.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
-
By the end of the project, students should demonstrate:
- Design a user-friendly interface for the app.
- Development of a secure database to store user information.
- Create a parent's decision-support tools, conversation platform, and resource library
- Research and implementation of other features that may be beneficial to parents.
Final deliverables should include:
- All source code.
- A written report explaining the design process and outcomes.
- A user manual for the app.
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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Access to all necessary data and systems, mentorship time with our diverse group of volunteers (software development, tech for good, cyber security, UI/UX design, academic research, etc), weekly touchpoints for feedback and guidance.
Supported causes
About the company
- https://www.goodbot.ca
- 2 - 10 employees
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
goodbot society is an interdisciplinary community of socially-minded professionals working in law, technology, design, social sciences, and policy. Our purpose is to support the development of trusted, accountable, and socially sustainable technology ecosystems by strengthening awareness, research, policy, and practice.
We are a nonprofit organization that engages Canadian on responsible technology issues and norms aimed at strengthening policy and practices to ensure health and resilient digital information ecosystems.
We provide services to help nonprofits technology companies develop and embed measurable social impact strategies into their products and business models and help them navigate a complex and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
We also develop original research on emerging innovation, technology risks and harms, and approaches needed to effectively govern technology and build toward healthy and inclusive digital societies that benefit everyone
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