Preferred learners
- Canada
- Academic experience
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Project scope
- What is the main goal for this project?
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The student will be required to help us to develop a mobile phone-based reporting app for field implementation in Malawi. As a mobile application developer, student can put his/her passion to create effective and cutting-edge mobile app for social change.
About the App: NutritionOps aims to develop a mobile app to monitor and survey the Food and Nutrition security situation in the districts affected by frequent climate events in Malawi. The app will be used for reporting metrics such as the characterizations of markets, price fluctuations, and availability and affordability of a wide variety of food groups. This app will be used by youth leaders to ensure accuracy of reporting and to ensure that results are available quickly. Standard methodologies such as the Food insecurity Experience Scale will be used as the foundation for questions.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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- Understand requirements and how they translate into application features
- Design creative prototypes according to specifications
- Write high-quality source code to program complete application
- Perform unit and integration testing before the launch
- Conduct functional and non-functional testing
- Troubleshoot and debug the application
- Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code
- What is the main goal for this project?
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The student will be required to help us to develop a mobile phone-based reporting app for field implementation in Malawi. As a mobile application developer, student can put his/her passion to create effective and cutting-edge mobile app for social change.
About the App: NutritionOps aims to develop a mobile app to monitor and survey the Food and Nutrition security situation in the districts affected by frequent climate events in Malawi. The app will be used for reporting metrics such as the characterizations of markets, price fluctuations, and availability and affordability of a wide variety of food groups. This app will be used by youth leaders to ensure accuracy of reporting and to ensure that results are available quickly. Standard methodologies such as the Food insecurity Experience Scale will be used as the foundation for questions.
- What tasks will learners need to complete to achieve the project goal?
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- Understand requirements and how they translate into application features
- Design creative prototypes according to specifications
- Write high-quality source code to program complete application
- Perform unit and integration testing before the launch
- Conduct functional and non-functional testing
- Troubleshoot and debug the application
- Develop technical documents and handbooks to accurately represent application design and code
- How will you support learners in completing the project?
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We will be on hand to mentor the student and can introduce them to relevant team members in Malawi.
We will provide guidance and support when it comes to food security issues to help put the project into context.
We are Toronto based and happy to meet in person if the student would wish to.
- What skills or technologies will help learners to complete the project?
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§ currently enrolled in a university computer science or software engineering program with experience in application development or a related field
§ A working knowledge of relevant programming languages
§ Knowledge of application and software development.
§ Knowledge of software design and programming principles.
§ Good mathematical and problem-solving skills.
§ Good communication and team-working skills.
§ Strong self-motivation and initiative
§ interest in helping communities to become more food secure.
About the company
- https://www.nutritionops-ww.com
- 2 - 10 employees
- Science, Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society, Hospital, health, wellness & medical
Nutrition Opportunities Worldwide (Nutritionops) is a network of nutrition consultants who bring nutritional science insights to projects where there needs to be communication across different sectors. Consultants (PhD/MSc food science and nutritionists) have corporate food industry experience and the company aims to work on nutrition development projects which need a commercial lens. As such we aim to help deliver SDG2. We have acted as consultants on a number of USAID projects in various countries. Work done would include literature reviews, market and product reviews, nutrition product innovation research , dietary surveys, project evaluation reports, policy analysis, regulatory assessments and training/knowledge transfer workshops as needed. The goal of the company is to grow from a loose network of consultants into a mid size consultancy business with an international reputation for good work done well.