Similie Timor, Unipessoal Lda.
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Describe your product and your key goals
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<img src="/icons/apple_blue.svg" alt="/icons/apple_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your product
Our product is an open-source Android mobile app designed to empower coastal communities in Timor-Leste, particularly small-scale fishers, to manage their exposure to climate risks effectively. By providing hyperlocal weather, climate, and marine forecasts and alerts directly to users' phones, the app enables informed decision-making for daily activities, especially fishing, which is vital for their livelihoods. Sourced from Similie's mature weather intelligence platform, Parabl, the app offers real-time updates on extreme weather events and other climate-related issues, initially targeting the Dair community for user acceptance testing and feedback.
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<img src="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" alt="/icons/bullseye_green.svg" width="40px" /> What you want to achieve by March 2025
- Goal 1: The community, particularly the Dair Fishing Group, will have fully adopted the Similie app, using it regularly for decision-making related to their income-generating activities.
- Goal 2: The community will demonstrate increased resilience to climate risks and shocks through better-informed actions based on the app’s weather and marine data.
- Goal 3: The app’s functionality and interface will have been refined through the Product-Market Fit analysis, ensuring it meets the community’s specific needs.
- Goal 4: A strong evidence base will be established for a business case, showing the app’s potential to scale nationally and have a positive impact on other coastal communities.
- Goal 5: Solid collaboration with the government and community leaders will have been maintained, laying the groundwork for national scaling.
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Describe what you need the most
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<img src="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" alt="/icons/bell-notification_pink.svg" width="40px" /> Describe the kinds of help you need the most (funding, expertise, technology, access, etc).
- Expertise in market development and go-to-market strategies for low-income economies.
- Access to opportunities for securing additional funding for market growth and scaling towards the end of the program.
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Describe your customers and the problem you are solving
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<img src="/icons/brain_blue.svg" alt="/icons/brain_blue.svg" width="40px" /> Describe your target customers
- Customer 1: Small-Scale Fisheries
- Customer 2: Women and Girls
- Customer 3: Rural Coastal Households
- Customer 4: Agriculture Workers
- Customer 5: Local governments
- Customer 6: Local NGOs
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<img src="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" alt="/icons/emoji-disappointed_pink.svg" width="40px" /> What pain points are you trying to solve?
- Pain point 1: Timor-Leste’s coastal communities are highly vulnerable to climate risks and shocks, including sea-level rise, coastal erosion, and ocean acidification, which threaten their livelihoods.
- Pain point 2: Communities lack access to tools that help them manage their exposure to climate impacts and make informed decisions to increase resilience.
- Pain point 3: The climate risks are severely impacting agriculture and fisheries, leading to increased poverty, especially among women, and threatening the economic stability of the country, which is largely dependent on agriculture.
- Pain point 4: Traditional coping strategies, based on past climate patterns, are no longer effective in managing the current and future intensity of extreme weather events.
- Pain point 5: The existing impact-based early warning system, which relies on government-managed email and SMS alerts, lacks broad reach and does not empower communities to take action.
- Pain point 6: There is significant demand for hyperlocal weather and marine information services, but no competing products are available to provide timely, community-centric solutions.
- Pain point 7: The resilience and economic success of these coastal communities are critical to the financial stability of the broader Timor-Leste economy, especially in the face of rising climate-related costs.
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