{"id":7095,"date":"2023-08-14T21:43:47","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/startup.info\/?p=7095\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T21:36:14","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T21:36:14","slug":"thesmartcitizen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/thesmartcitizen\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Citizen: connecting citizens, entrepreneurs and municipal services."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>  <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Zen Ways, a social enterprise, is a new startup founded in 2016 by Dev Sunnasy.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">While studying unemployment of youngsters, possible root causes and consequences, products and services, markets issues, he decided to bring his contribution in trying to find means and possible solutions to this major problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Link to online video (if available)\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zR5ok6FHmc&amp;feature=youtu.be\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zR5ok6FHmc&amp;feature=youtu.be<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your products and services\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Democratic &amp; Collaborative portal.<\/span> www.bbrh.live<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">This portal is made for citizens, entrepreneurs, municipal services as well as utilities in Beau-Bassin\/Rose-Hill, one of the main cities in Mauritius, the city where I live and work. All services are free for citizens and SMEs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your success factors\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">If SMEs and Entrepreneurs sell more, they will have no choice than to create jobs. The project will then be a success for the society where I live. A jobless society brings social instability and insecurity. When people have a job, the economy grows and the society is in general peaceful.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your factors differentiating and disruptive compared to the existing\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">In almost all economies, government look for investments and foreign direct investment to create jobs and grow the economy. Only the happy few reap the fruits from investments and the rich become richer. My model is a bottom-up approach to help the lowest income become more competitive and have access to new markets. My project uses Civic Tech concepts and citizens collaboration to achieve a goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">There are none that connects citizens, entrepreneurs and municipal services.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your business model (how do you make money?)<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Services to municipal services and utilities are provided at a monthly fee.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>A few words about your competitors<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">None has yet moved with an integrated concept based on a moto: \u201cIt is not bad to do Good\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>Your website\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Just beta-launched.<\/span> www.bbrh.live<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Mobile Apps on Apple store and Google Play will be available by mid-January 2017.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zen Ways, a social enterprise, is a new startup founded in 2016 by Dev Sunnasy. While studying unemployment of youngsters, possible root causes and consequences, products and services, markets issues, he decided to bring his contribution in trying to find means and possible solutions to this major problem. Link to online video (if available)\u00a0 https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=1zR5ok6FHmc&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7088,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1804],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":218124,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions\/218124"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bonjouridee.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}