Detached: Going Off-the-Grid

www.detached.com

Background

Many informative sites that are addressing some of the issues such as renewable energy, clean water, waste management, organic food or health and well-being with different scope, approach and reliability

Only few while not-user friendly, dull design, unpersonalized solutions, hard to find solutions, only presenting information - does not supporting the visitors along the way

"Off-the-Grid" Web Sites

Online Information

Web sites & Online information

What was out there?

Off-The-Grid

Too many people aren’t living responsibly enough to maintain an environment that future generations can inhabit.

“Getting off the grid” refers to living in a self-sufficient manner without reliance on any current public utilities. Many people lack an awareness and understanding of how to live

“off the grid.”

The Challenge

To create a website, app, or visualization to help people learn about and share resources regarding

“off the grid” living.

Our Goals & Approach

1. Creating comprehensive integrative web application, that will:

• aggregate and utilize existing useful data and solutions
• stimulate creation of new missing data and solutions
• combine all of them with the personalized information for the users lifestyles and their goals
• offer specific and usable proposals how to reach their goals
• provide option for continual online and offline support and progress tracking of their efforts

Impact

• Detached will have significant impact on

preserving our mother Earth first and than being better prepared for life at other planets

• Will impact our lives in profound ways, including the way we live, work, commute, play, create, and interrelate; our health and well being, our relationships and family life, our productivity, our spirituality and happiness, in short, our quality of life.
• Will inspire and educate the next generations

Creativity

Our Goals & Approach

• Detached is innovative approach of aggregating data, by various sources, data mining and data presenting for Off-the-grid lifestyle of different social groups.
• Detached gives holistic and user-friendly support for end user by providing online and offline activities for different target groups.

Sustainability

• Detached is offering completed solution designed to provide full service to the end users with estimated launch at September 2013.

WE CRAVE THE DIFFERENT KIND OF BUZZ

• Detached will continue to work after finish of this event and will stimulate a grow of the world biggest community for "Off-the-Grid" lifestyle by involving volunteers, partners, NVOs, financiers, companies and governments.

2. Initiating sustainable world-wide movement, that will educate and promote the benefits of the "off-the-grid" living and will enable continual maintenance and update of the web application

3. Inspiring and attracting support by volunteers, partners, financiers and government actions

4. Stimulating companies that are producing off-the-grid solutions to donate samples for off-the-grid resorts while other companies to support part-time "off-the-grid" lifestyle of their key employees

5. Contributing to reduction of the increased

stress levels among workforce

Our Goals & Approach

Complexity

Team

Active and enthusiastic

collaboration by diverse profiles

Web designer &

web developer

• UI design
• Coding
• MM Interaction

• The Team started nearly from scratch since the existing solution were not even close to addressing the challenge.
• Through extensive brainstorming session the concept and proposed solution was developed.

Business Adviser

System Architect

• Finances involved for going "Off-the-Grid"
• Financial sustainability of the Project

Off-the-Grid

Enthusiast

• Data integration
• Data algorithms

• Research
• New approaches
• Concept testing

Legal Adviser

• Legal aspects of

going "Off-the-Grid"

The next generation

• Children aspects
• Concept ambassador

Marketing

6. Enabling tracking of "off-the-grid" actions, resorts and individuals and communities around the globe

7. Providing platform for connection and interaction of the "off-the-grid" community

8. Stimulate new more efficient and more affordable inventions of equipment for living "off-the-grid"

9. Offer concept that can be used for supporting going "off-the-grid" in terms of other planets

10. Create open and affordable tool that everyone

can use

• Research
• Campaign concept
• Campaign realization
• Evaluation and adaptation

PROJECT

Detached