Bindou is a multi-channel solution for fishers to register their boat. It was part of Challenge 3 of the Fishhackathon fishackathon.greenwave.org.

1. Bindou
Challenge 3 - Boat registration
Christelle Scharff, Chun Hei Cheung, Chun Fai Cheung
scharffc@gmail.com, davec316@gmail.com, pkoa.
paladin@gmail.com

2. Challenge 3 - Boat Registration
● Governance and sustainability
● Any fisher (wherever) can send a registration request by
mobile phone
● Request -> Approval -> Registration ID generated
● Registration in related databases

3. Things to Think About w.r.t. West
Africa
● Number of mobile phones very high
● Less smartphones, more feature phones
● Frequent use of USSD and SMS
● Access to Internet limited BUT first time on the
Internet through a mobile
● Lower literacy rate
● Language (Wolof, French, Hassanya...)
● Twilio does not have international numbers in all
countries

4. SMS is a Solution!

5. Facebook by USSD

6. Our Solution
● Bindou means registration in Wolof (language of
Senegal)
● SMS
● Mobile Web Site
● Android App
● Backend
KISS
CONTEXT
In < 36 hours
multi-channels

7. SMS
● Interactive SMS services
+1 646-576-7590
● Syntax:
○ Fishermen: bt1*firstname*lastname*idcard*city
○ Boat: bt2*boatname*year*length*port
● Prototype with
● Follow-up using a phone call or visit
● Deployment in partnership with local operators, local
twilios, and short code (e.g., Djanoa in Senegal)
TWILIO
PHP
MySQL

8. Mobile Web Site
● http://bit.ly/bindoumw
jQuery
Mobile
PHP
In addition tablets for
use at the port

9. Android App for Phones and Tablets
jQuery Mobile
Apache
Cordova
PHP
In addition tablets for
use at the port
http://bit.ly/bindouandroid

10. Backend
● Database
● Need of a Dashboard to exploit the data (to
be done) (#boats, list, edit, approve etc)
phpMyAdmin

11. Deployment of the Solution
● SMS - Shortcode and partnership with operators
● Marketing and training during the registration
campaign
● Tablets for use at the port (connected and secure)
● Assistance and training
● What are the incentives for participation?
○ The phone numbers that are collected can be
used to broadcast information (e.g., weather,
price)
● Analytics can be generated (dashboard)

12. Assumptions
● We made assumptions as we did not have
all the required information
○ Necessary information for registration
○ Languages (English)
○ Level of education
○ Connection to Internet
○ etc

13. Thank You
Christelle Scharff, Chun Hei Cheung, Chun Fai Cheung
scharffc@gmail.com, davec316@gmail.com, pkoa.
paladin@gmail.com