- List the top 20 questions your team needs to answer to advance the venture forward. Categorize the questions if necessary.
- Partnerships
- What kind of partnership delivers the most impact and reduces exposure?
- How to find partnerships with related companies?
- How do you adapt partnerships to different phases of the project?
- How do you build trust with AlmaU/residents in Almaty?
- How do we get the most out of our partnerships?
- Community/Behavioral
- Do the citizens use public transportation or companies like uber for transportation?
- How long is the typical commute?
- How to achieve a good representation of survey population?
- What are the steps to create the app?
- Who are the well-known influencers that are willing to change their behavior?
- What steps do residents currently take to reduce exposure or mitigate the health impacts?
- Environmental
- What are the main sources of exposure? Where are they located?
- Where are the main areas of outdoor recreation in Almaty?
- How can we coordinate with companies that monitor air quality for the app?
- Competition
- What efforts are already being made to reduce air pollution exposure?
- Have there been any efforts to reduce air pollution that have failed? What did they do wrong?
- Economic
- What kind of profit will come from our venture?
- What kind of funding is needed/how will we get it?
- Research
- What are the products we want to encourage using?
- How do these products reduce exposure?
- Partnerships
2. Develop and visualize the Theory of Change for your venture.
3. Develop a M&E (Monitor and Evaluation) plan for your venture.
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- Clearly list all assumptions
- Universal access to internet/phones
- There’s accurate air monitoring data available.
- Residents are honest with their survey responses.
- Identify short term and long term success metrics
- Short term
- Number of survey respondents
- Number of app users
- User engagement on the App
- Cost of user acquisition
- Long term
- Increased use of air purifiers, filters, masks
- Number of positive feedbacks
- Number of respondents that take post-test survey
- Behavioral changes in the post-test survey
- Reduced patients with respiratory problems
- Short term
- (Optional) identify specific methods to measure the metrics
- Correlation between increased use of air purifier, filters, and masks with resident feedbacks or the usage of our App
- Survey data
- Data on reduced patients with respiratory problems from local hospitals
- Collect data on downloads, use time, etc. from the app
- Clearly list all assumptions