People-First Tourism Marketplace is in the works
This week our colleagues at NC State's ITng accomplished the first step in developing the beta version of the People-First Tourism Marketplace, an open source web-based IT system designed to mediate interactions between networks of tourists and networks of micro-entrepreneurs. With this system, tourists will be able to browse lists of People-First Entrepreneurs online (even with smart-phones) and entrepreneurs will respond to their inquiries using the simplest cell-phones. This step consisted in writing a detailed "Statement of Requirements" that will inform their programming work during the next couple months. This document is available to your perusal at http://bit.ly/jg0LDq Please do let us know what you think by contacting us directly or posting comments to this blog. Cheers, Duarte