iDisagreeBy
Ajanth, Kyo, Ajan, Luca
Mini Elevator Pitch
We are developing a debating app to help encourage younger children in schools to debate about pressing issues such as global warming by making a school friendly interface which has a variety of different topics which
update every week, which can be moderated.
Who- Our target audience is children and teens in primary
schools and secondary schools.What-It is a debating app for children and teenagers.
When- Mostly in school lessonsWhere- Mostly in school
Why- To encourage younger children in schools to start debating.
Problem- A lot of children are
spending a lot of unnecessary time on their phones
Debating app: It is a friendly, social way for children to express their different
opinions and spend less time on other things unnecessary things such as games whilst still having fun and
learning more about politics and other issues which are going on in the world.
Debating app: we are addressing the fact that most younger children and teenagers
are out of touch with important issues such as global warming and other political
predicaments.
Should debate.org have its own app ?Research
Its what the users want. So lets beat debate.org to it.
Clearly yes ...
And lets make it better by offering it to schools and youth groups, full of young people.iDisagree, encouraging young people to debate.
Product DescriptionDebate It - the game where you score points on your opinions!
Play against people around the world by submitting opinions on topics. Then comes the decision on who has made the most of their moment on the soapbox.
Are you ready for the challenge?
• Size: 5.6MB• Version: 1.4• Developed By: David Hollows
• Read only access to device state• Open network sockets• Write to external storage• Access fine (e.g., GPS) location• Access information about Wi-Fi
networks• Access coarse (e.g., Cell-ID, Wi-Fi)
location• Access the list of accounts in the
Accounts Service• Access information about
networks• PowerManager WakeLocks to
keep processor from sleeping or screen from dimming
• Allows an application to receive messages via Google Cloud Messaging
• Minimum Operating System: Android 2.2
• Approximate Download Time: Less than 1 minute
Our app is different to this app because this is mainly focused around a game, whereas ours is moderated and the users will have more freedom to debate about their topics, because they wont be limited by the maximum amount of points scored, which is what the users of this app will mainly be aiming for.
Product DescriptionDebate Live! MortalGuidance is a user to user debate network that lets you debate other users in live chat or offline posts. Create your own debate topic or challenge other users' topics! Earn points by converting users to agree with your premise. Every premise shows how many users agree, disagree, converted or undecided. Popular debate topics include political debate, religious debate, conspiracy theories, live debate and social issues.
Size: 1MB•Version: 1.0.6•Developed By: Earth blood Open network sockets
•Access the vibration feature•Access information about networks
•Minimum Operating System: Android 2.1•Approximate Download Time: Less than 30 seconds
Our app is better than this app because this app isnt moderated, which means that anyone could post malicious/inappropriate comments on other peoples posts. This could lead to flame wars and the debates would just turn into unintelligent insults.
[Home Page]
Home page where you can see the Most Popular and Most recent Debates. This updates weekly so that you can get into debates with a lot of people.
Search bar, if you wanted to see all the Debates with a certain keyword
[Topics Page]
Has a list of topics, so that you can easily see all the debates posted within that topic, For example, The environment, Politics, The future, Technology.
[More]
This page allows you to sign in and out, customize your profile, has a link to our website and shows term of conditions.
Debate Page
This page is a brief mock up of what the debating page would look like after the user chose on a topic.
Feasibility
Data & technical
We have learnt that technically, our app would be quite easy to make, as it only requires a simple (but
effective!) format similar to something like Instagram, so it would not require extra effort to make it user friendly and easy to use without the risk of users losing interest because the app is too complex to
handle. A problem we could run into is that initially when the app is launched we might have an issue with
putting in topics at the beginning.
Business Case
Our business model is free, because we want to make It as easy as possible for schools all over the country to get this app for the students of the app.
Marketing Strategy
We are going to spread our app by social media and we will tell everyone we know about the app.
We will also have a survey to see how many people will actually use the app.
Another way we can spread the app is by making a website with all the information about our app on
it.