The Daily Strike

Ground-breaking App that provides information about upcoming and ongoing strikes. Don't let your life go on strike!

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Description:

When a group of workers goes on strike, they, unfortunately, affect the common population. The main goal of a strike isn't to punish the population, but to punish the contractor. They are protesting to demand better salaries, improve their workplace environment, etc. They are not there to punish their peers. However, when a strike happens, a vast amount of people are caught off-guard and can suffer deeply from the strikes, for example, a strike on public transportation services can result in people missing work, an medical appointment. That is not the objective of the strikes and as such, it is, nonetheless, a drawback.


The Daily Strike is an app or newsletter subscription that aims to provide the common Joe with information about ongoing and upcoming strikes so that the users can make decisions to avoid it and not be caught in the middle of a strike that can have a huge impact on that day. 


To use The Daily Strike, the user should select a group of services or companies they depend on daily and then when a strike is planned or is happening on those services or companies, the user is notified with a pop-up notification or e-mail. In addition, the user could synchronize their google calendar with the app so he can see which events the strike can affect.


Our idea is based on the basic thought that people are dependent on information to make the right decisions about their lives. This type of information can be the dates of future strikes. Strikes can be impactful in terms of jobs, transportation, medical appointments, etc.


Our main goal is to create an app that notifies the user of the occurrence of future strikes.


Motivation:

We love to take part in competitions because we think and feel that it foments our critical thinking and team spirit; This kind of project allows us to challenge ourselves and develop useful skills outside of our academic environment. Furthermore, we are moved by our desire to transform our theoretical knowledge into a practical project. We are even more excited due to the social impact this project will have, and we strive for not only improving ourselves but also the life of people around us.


Scientific Component:

-Web scrapping of the syndicates' web pages, so we can condense every available information about future strikes.

-Web scraping, web harvesting, or web data extraction is data scraping used for extracting data from websites. The web scraping software may directly access the World Wide Web using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol or a web browser. It is a form of copying in which specific data is gathered and copied from the web, typically into a central local database or spreadsheet, for later retrieval or analysis.

-Use of artificial intelligence to detect the dates of the upcoming strikes.

-In terms of technical support, we don't need any components to develop our project.





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