Created in 48 hours as part of the GovHack Hackathon
Winner of the GovHack Social Impact award
video pitch: https://youtu.be/gUHin3yojOg
url: http://govhack-auckland-2020.herokuapp.com/
In a COVID world, where face-to-face contact may not always possible, how do we ensure that individuals can get the support they need in times of uncertainty?
MyMSDChat is a chatbot solution to help Work and Income New Zealand cope with increased demand on their resources, and gather data about specific cases.
The MyMSDChat app has 3 main functions
- It ask’s key fielding questions and provide responses and information
- Provides the user with advice and instruction on what to do
- And gathers data for case workers
Benefit of using MyMSDChat in this situation
- Can feedback to users in realtime without consuming resources
- Can resolve simple to intermediate requests in realtime
- Can aggregate data and save to a case number to take the strain of case workers
This app needs Ruby version 2.6.6 on your computer. If you need help with installing Ruby using rbenv, you can follow this guide.
# clone the repo
git clone git@github.com:erik-trantt/govhack-2020.git
# install dependencies
cd govhack-2020
bundle install
yarn install --check-files
# run app for first time
rails db:migrate db:create
# populate sample data
rails db:seed# starting the server
rails server
# alternatively, can use this shortcut
rails sThanks goes to these wonderful people
 Arie van der Poel |
 Erik Tran |
 Prue Singh |
 Taine Collins |
 Praveen Muthu Elango |
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