SocialPI Then and Now
On February 28th, 2018, I created the first requirement for a product I called SocialPI that would later shape what we now call ParallelScore.
These two artifacts have now evolved to be so intertwined on a common goal of shaping the future. However, before this moments was the true beginning of a young man's obsession with an ambitious goal of creating 1000 jobs in Africa within a decade.
The compelling desire to build in Africa was inspired by a young boy I encountered in Ajegule, Lagos on December 24th, 2015 while supporting an organization in doing some holiday charity. I documented that experience on my previous blog site (https://symplx.com/counting-our-blessings-with-kinnect/).
How it all began
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What is the new SocialPI?
We are currently recruiting at ParallelScore to build the next version of SocialPI with this proposed architecture.
If you are, or know a great engineer, designer, product manager or all around great talent, please reach out to us via twitter using this tag -> #Amplify^SocialPI.
Starting Point - SocialPI v2
The political process in Africa is a very complex one and it lacks transparency. The public opinion is sometimes disconnected from trending data. We want to test the idea against the upcoming Nigeria election by developing a SIMPLE platform that
- Pulled all candidate's profile data into one place
- Process and analyze their social engagement data to provide sentiment analysis
- Compare the official ranking of the candidate to that of our platform using scraped data
- Enable public to unofficially vote for candidate
- and lastly, simulate the process of the public financially contributing to support political campaigns.
