The African Social Development Index : Mobile Application

Abstract

The ASDI follows a life-cycle approach recognizing that people can face different forms of exclusion at different stages of life. As such, the Index aims at estimating the extent of human exclusion in six key dimensions of wellbeing – Survival, Nutrition, Education, Employment, Means of subsistence, and Decent life – over time and disaggregated by gender and location to capture the exclusion within countries and across population sub-groups. The results of the ASDI are key to identify the drivers of exclusion in each country and map out successful policies to assist in reducing exclusion, both at national and sub-national levels. This will help member States in devising more inclusive social policies and support the domestication in national development plans.

(ASDI Measuring Human Exclusion for Structural Transformation, 2015)

The objective of this thesis is to design and develop a proposed system to make ASDI application easily accessible to be a knowledge platform that is available via Mobile devices for Android OS, to raise awareness, advocacy and outreach purpose.