Website Development for Universal Versatile Society

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Universal Versatile Society (UVS) is working on a project 'Socio Economic Initiative for Ecological Agri Food Production and Consumption'. This project demands mapping the needs of the entire village for food consumption, and expenses. budget, etc. so that a proper business model for this project can be developed. The purpose of this platform is to help local farmers supply organic produce using business analytics tools and provide a value chain for linking farmers to consumers. Moreover, re-connecting isolated dots in the local communities within Vidarbha (India) accelerates the rejuvenation of the digital village in the age of AI and business intelligence.

Through Dell Pro-Bono Progam, we are developing a digital platform for our project 'Socio-Economic Initiative for Ecological Agri-Food Production and Consumption'. This platform with an innovative business model embedded emphasises “Responsible Consumption and Production” which echoes SDG 12 and answers the call of FAO to build a more efficient, inclusive, resilient, and sustainable agri-food system for better production, better nutrition, a better environment, and a better life, leaving no one behind.

As part of our collaboration with Dell Pro-Bono Progam, we are creating a digital questionnaire for which we intend to seek support from Online Volunteers with the required expertise and experience through this assignment. Specifically:

1) To ensure the effectiveness, efficiency, and smooth operation of this eCommerce platform, through testing and modifying features of the prototype depending on needs.

2) To digitalise the project on 'Socio-Economic Initiative on Ecological Agrifood Production and Consumption, through programming and maintenance of the UVS website (https://www.uvsociety.org/).

We are looking for 3 Online Volunteers to test, update, and maintain the UVS website and eCommerce platform, which serves as a platform to help local farmers supply organic produce using business analytics tools and provide a value chain for linking farmers to consumers and re-connect local communities within Vidarbha.

1) Main website: a) One volunteer will maintain and update the current webpage of UVS to realise the following tasks: i. No apparent technical issues will show up. ii. Working on Name Server, DNS checking, and Google Analytics needs to be taken care of. iii. Other new modules such as education equity, climate change, etc. will be updated accordingly.

2) Digitalization of our project 'Socio-Economic Initiative on Ecological Agrifood Production and Consumption': a) Two volunteers will work on creating the platform to facilitate our project on Agrifood production and consumption. This consists of preparing an online form for a survey and doing back-end work to get an analysis of the requirements of villagers.

Volunteers will get complete guidelines of the tasks through online Zoom meetings, email communications, WhatsApp groups, etc. This will be a good opportunity for volunteers to gain hands-on experience in tech-based work for community development.

Based on the task assigned, candidates should ideally have the following skills:

1) For main website maintenance: a) Good knowledge of JavaScript development and NodeJS frameworks as well as HTML5 & CSS3.

2) For eCommerce platform update: a) WordPress Administration and Optimization (Tuning); b) Highly experienced with creating WordPress landing pages using Gutenberg Editor (WordPress Block Editor) as well as Elementor; c) Knowledge of WordPress plugin development with PHP and/or MySQL is a plus.