YouKnow Project

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The YouKnow Project aims to establish a digital interactive platform for web and mobile that solves health care problems leveraging accountability and the right of access to information. Youknow builds bridges between three main groups; decision makers, YouKnow specialists and public, aiming to create environments with enhanced transparency, accountability, and participation, leading to a positive change. People report, YouKnow specialists mange, visualize, analyse data and convert it into CASES. They communicate with decision makers, create advocacy and campaigning, leading to action and better healthcare systems.

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YouKnow Project

Digital interactive platform

Building Bridges between three main groups; decision makers, YouKnow specialists and public.

People report, YouKnow specialists mange, visualize, analyse it and convert it into CASES.

YouKnow Project

Youknow is a project that aims to establish a digital interactive platform for web and mobile that solves health care problems leveraging accountability and the right of access to information.

Youknow builds bridges between three main groups; decision makers, YouKnow specialists and public, aiming to create environments with enhanced transparency, accountability, and participation, leading to a positive change.

People report, YouKnow specialists mange, visualize, analyse data and convert it into CASES. They communicate with decision makers, create advocacy and campaigning, leading to action and better healthcare systems.

YouKnow process

People REPORT

YouKnow specialists monitor, then create

CASES

CASES are communicated with

decision makers

Action is taken

No action is taken

Advocacy and Campaigning

Generate action

Animation

The problem

• Severe Healthcare issues in urban slums are arising everyday.

• The lack of the culture of social accountability and transparency make decision makers unconcerned.

• Absence of monitoring and evaluation system.

• No Action is taken.

• Gap between decision makers and citizens.

Objectives

• To expose medical issues and influence the decision makers to find solutions.

• To create a data pool that is accessible to the public, and that serves as an input for the data analysis and monitoring unit.

• To create means of interaction, bridging the gap between the three main groups.

• Raise youth (16- 35 years) on the culture of accountability and transparency.

• To empower youth participation with effective digital media skills utilizing social media networks in advocacy and campaigning.

Youknow flowchart

YouKnow currently

World Bank, Google, and UNAOC believed in YouKnow vision and therefore ‎agreed to provide us with:‎ • A small amount of seed funding. • Free technical support hosting through partners with the

Code4Africa ‎program (which routinely provides technical advice and support for data-‎driven solutions and platforms around the world). ‎

• Moreover, we are promised to explore additional allocations to offset costs (e.g. ‎SMS, USSD functionality, and more), as well as other forms of support to ‎achieve scale, after the project moves forward and achieves traction.

• Saed Karzoun is a journalist and social media trainer and consultant.

• Omar Abedel Latif is an entrepreneur and multimedia specialist.

• Dana Abu Lail is an activist, working in financial management.

• Ahmad Ghaleb is a business intelligence developer.

• Ahmad Ramahi is a computer systems engineer.

• Thafer Alwanhe: graphic designer

YouKnow Team

Thank You