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addicts physically and mentally challenged
persons
iii. Contacts for micro financers
iv. Contacts for legal advice
v. Push messages in mobiles of SHG member
regarding health and hygiene in regional
language

NCoRe software framework contains four broad modules;
i) Manage Collaboration, ii) Manage Response, iii)
Manage Reports and iv) Manage Notifications and
Contacts which is illustrated in fig 2. The components,
responsibilities, and functions of each module are
described below.

Figure 1: NCoRe system block diagram
2. The administrative agencies (federation, government
agencies) will periodically interact with SHG through
NCoRe to know how the SHGs can be supported in
different sectors such as the need for vocational
training, market linkage, advisory services, etc. Some
examples are:

 Vocational Training
i. SHG members will express their need for
various livelihood related vocational training
and the location specific summary of their Figure 2: NCoRe System Framework
needs will be generated by the system
ii. The agencies will conduct specific topic-based Manage Collaboration contains four sub-modules; i)
training at suitable time and venue on getting Configure community, ii) Configure questionnaire, iii)
sizeable training demand and advertize that on Manage interaction and iv) Configure User access. Tasks
the system as well as send messages to the of each sub-module are discussed below.
members who expressed their interest for the
said training  Configure community: Since basic objective of
 Market linkage NCoRe is to empower the community, it is the,
i. System will interact periodically with SHG therefore, necessary to feed the system with the basic
members to know if they have any product to contact details of the members of the community so
sell and the seller can send their product that system can initiate automatic interaction with the
specification, the preferred selling price, community on different subjects as and when needed.

quantity and contact details  Configure questionnaire: The questionnaire for
ii. Category-wise Product list of sellable items will interaction with the community is framed in native
be displayed along with contact details in the language and is added to the system through this
web portal section. The questionnaire may be divided into
iii. Prospective buyers may also register in the web multiple subcategories so that community member
portal for buying specific products along with may choose any category for which he/she is
their location and contact details interested in providing information. He will then get
iv. Buyers can check the category wise product list multiple choice based questions from selected
and can contact the seller directly category only. Interaction with relevant community
 Advisory Service associated with a particular domain makes it easier to
i. Counseling related to gather meaningful and authentic information of
 Health and hygiene particular category, i.e., community members
 further studies, associated with farming may feel more comfortable to
 job oriented studies interact on agriculture and farming related matters in
 mental disorder his locality than on any other topics. The questionnaire
ii. Contacts for available Medical support/ is organized in such a way that next question is picked
rehabilitation centers in nearby areas for drug based on the response to the earlier question on a

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