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Assignment title:          Digital Weather Board Web app and Software Upgradation
Description: Our vulnerable communities need effective early warning systems and climate information, they need increased knowledge and skills about potential hazards, and they need localized weather forecasts so they will be able to make climate informed decisions about selecting the crops, preparing seed beds, or any other agricultural practices.
Every year flood also causes significant devastation in our communities, flood and hazard damaging crops, houses, agricultural lands and livelihoods.
The innovation of weather board provides a range of agricultural livelihood information, together with information to reduce risk of disasters and help flood management in the monsoon season.
Under the Zurich Flood Resilience Project, one of the program activity is installation the digital weather board in the project area and upgrade the existing software.
Location:
Faridpur Sadar and Sadarpur Upazila
Duration and timing:
2nd week of June 2022 to 3rd week of July 2022 (36 days), after contract signing.
Number of working days: 
25 working days for final submission.

Background and purpose of the assignment:

Background

Issues with current web app

The current web app, developed in 2018 is somewhat function. However, now the pages are not optimized, plugins are outdated, localized weather api does not work, input panel doesn’t work, designs do not take into consideration of user experience, making it obsolete. These issues have resulted a compromised system performance and bugs that need assistance to improve.

Objectives

The objective of the assignment to develop a new web app using an updated framework to enable better functionality of the digital weather board. The web app needs to be user-friendly for the application admin whilst create/upload/modify content on a regular basis.

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