Financial Education for Children

Lean Startup methodology and Design Thinking applied for good

Being developed by:

Danilo Aleixo Gomes de Souza

Supervising Professor:

Alfredo Goldman

Supervisors:

Wang Xiaofeng
Jorge Melegati

Introduction

The idea for the project came up after some reasearch on brazilian economy. I realized that brazilians have some serious financial problems, a research on September of 2016 showed that almost 60% of all brazilian families had debts on that month and even when sometimes this percentage became lower at certain months, at least in the last ten years, not once the percentage was below 50%, so we can conclude that one out of two families have unpaid debts.

So the goal is to help the next generation avoid the mistakes of their elders, and to live financially fit lives, for achieving it they need to be taught the essentials about finance.

Objective

The purpose of the research is to use Lean Startup methodology to study a solution that allow children to have financial education, culminating in the development a minimum viable product of a innotative new solution, using progressive web apps as a software development model.

Schedule

Activies Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov
Technical Study x x
Structuring the problem and idea conception x x
MVP develop x x
User interaction and data analysis x x
Final paper, poster and presentation x x

How to follow the project

Dissertation Thesis

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