Celebrating 11 Years
Celebrating 11 Years
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Developing an end-to-end platform to implement Milaan’s flagship
Girl Icon Program across multiple States of India

A custom designed and developed platform that aids Milaan Foundation to digitize the end to end operations of running the Girl Icon Programe every year across multiple states of India.

Services provided

  • UI/UX
  • Web App Development
  • Progressive Web App
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About Girl Icon Program

Girl Icon program is Girl led initiative by which envisions an inclusive and equal world, where every girl is educated, healthy and safe. The program focuses on choosing the girl icon through a self nomination process led by various rounds of selection and training which empowers the Girl Icon to educate others around her.

Key information for the project execution

Technology Stack

NextJS, React, Node.js, AWS, Nginx

Team Size

5 Members

Development Time

~8-12 months

What did we build?

A platform that enables to bring technology inclusion to all the phases of Girl Icon program with a vision to scale it 10x whereas decrease the cost by 50% was the goal with which we started. Today we stand at a place where this is a reality especially in eliminating the operational overheads and technology taking the role of amplifying the impact.

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Progressive Web App

For Girl Icons to apply, view application status and continue their journey until they graduate as Girl Icon

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Admin App

For various roles such as Program Coordinator, SahYogi, Program Manager to manage and perform activities

Driven by one mission - Program Operation Excellence via Technology

There are many decisions which we took where bringing in technology can ease out load on operations for Girl Icon to run. From building a customizable application form to rules to collect and reject applications, tracking of selection process, rich analytics, integrations for doing group selection process, we have tapped into every corner that can make this goal happen.

What we have built is done once, but would run year after year handling the nitty gritty of running Girl Icon Program.

Major Highlights and Key Features

We have built the application in service oriented architecture that makes its very modular and highly customizable for Milaan Foundation’s future programs.

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User Friendly App for School Girls

Be-spoke dashboard and analytics that aids crucial information about the application and the progress of the program catered according to the various roles of the application

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Single Admin App for Various Roles/Permission

Be-spoke dashboard and analytics that aids crucial information about the application and the progress of the program catered according to the various roles of the application

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Scalability for Thousands of Students

Be-spoke dashboard and analytics that aids crucial information about the application and the progress of the program catered according to the various roles of the application

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Zoom Integration for Assessment Process

Be-spoke dashboard and analytics that aids crucial information about the application and the progress of the program catered according to the various roles of the application

Design, Highly Iterative Development with Continous Deployment

Through out the journey of building Milaan Girl Icon Platform, we have engaged in super agile model where product changes and pivots were welcomed throughout and achieving the ultimate goal of the platform.

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

"We are able to see tremendous response on student registrations and there have not been any significant on-field issues in operating the platform so far. Really glad to see the applications going seamlessly. Thanks to Think201."

Mayank Mittal

Managing Director - Oprimes

Module 1 - Aspirants Registration

PWA focusing on holistic experience for the aspirants to apply via form submission and be able to help others to also apply. The application also depicts the results in a clean and concise manner. The application process involves video recording, essay submission and personal details entry which goes through a validation process before submission thereby giving a boost for the whole process.

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Page with enough context of how to apply to Girl Icon Program in different languages

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Form submission that takes in all necessary information

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Video submission with enough feedback and resubmission provision

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Successful submission information for the aspirant

Module 2 - Video Assessment

A comprehensive module that aids the assessor to rate the aspirant applications across various metrics all under one screen. This feature was built to bring operational efficiency via technology.

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Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Module 3 - A multi-step Assessment Form

A comprehensive form builder that allows the user to create forms with custom questions and configure custom answers and logic to cater to the need of GI aspirant assessments. All of this which varies for different states, which is fully automated.

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Module 4 - Sahyogi PWA App

A fully functional PWA Sahyogi app that aids GI aspirants to manage the entire lifecycle from application to selection process that includes training and more. Keeping ease of access for Girl Icons and remote areas in mind, PWA was the best choice to deliver the needs.

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Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Building a full stack solution from groundup starting from design, development and deployment for 3 different states and for the cohort year 2022-23

Module 5 - Dashboard & Monitoring

A visually rich and data centric dashboards for each user roles present in the platform that serves meaningful information with key metrics.

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Onboarding screen for the new student that provides context and a video

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Onboarding screen for the new student that provides context and a video

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Onboarding screen for the new student that provides context and a video

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Onboarding screen for the new student that provides context and a video

Module 6: Dashboard anlytics & monitoring

Be-spoke dashboard and analytics that aids crucial information about the application and the progress of the program catered according to the various roles of the application

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Final Outcome

A custom built web application and mobile application that manages the Girl Icon program from registration to selection process that can be run with ease year on year across states enriched with clean data collection and sanity.

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Full Functional Platform

A full fledged application that addresses every aspect of Girl Icon Program

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Design First & Process Innovation

Taking design first and process innovation approach helped us to help Milaan Foundation to build a product that not only handles the overall process but also to reduce operational overhead issues.

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Super Agile Process

One thing we are proud of is the way we catered and walked the path along with Milaan team delivering in shorter cycles as well as adapting to feedbacks from the operational team.