Project Overview
Project Description
Resham Sutra designs, manufactures and implements solar-powered textile machinery for activities such as weaving, reeling and yarn production in rural areas. It has introduced a digital platform to provide market-linkages, introduce product certification and branding, and further develop ecosystem partnerships with producer collectives, NGOs, and other on-ground agencies and provide a transparent and always available market connectivity. This project will focus on developing a voice recognition feature on Resham Sutra’s app to increase accessibility for rural customers who are not all digitally literate to type the text.
Impact
Rural textile production employs millions of rural women in India and elsewhere, but as income is stagnating and work is difficult to learn, many people drop out, and the new generation doesn’t pick up these skills. Resham Sutra wants to preserve India’s textile heritage while creating non-farm jobs where they are needed the most. This project will help in Resham Sutra’s goals to enable rural women to become entrepreneurs and earn a living.
Eligibility Criteria
Skills / Experience
- Required:
- API Development
- Back End Programming
- Front End Programming
- Interviewing / User Research
- Desired:
- Human Centered Design
- Multidisciplinary Communication
- Product strategy and implementation
- Project management
Discipline:
- Software engineering or computer science
Preferred fellow local experience (all projects can be completed remotely):
- Any, but knowledge of challenges faced by rural customers in India and understanding of context-appropriate design would be helpful
Time zone compatibility (when the Fellow should be available for meetings):
- IST (UTC+5.30)
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