Case study
Dollar Street
Dollar Street allows exploring how people live all across the globe interactively. A team of photographers has documented over 200 homes in almost 50 countries so far, and the list is growing.
Background
We all live with different fears and some of them are completely irrational, like the fear of subways
or pigeons. But there’s a fear that is not just unhelpful but narrows the way people perceive the world and interact
with others. Unfortunately, xenophobia or fear of foreigners and strangers still exists, and Anna Rosling, a co-founder
of Gapminder and one of Bill Gates' Heroines in the Field, has tried to fight this fear creatively – with a Dollar Street platform.
A team of photographers has documented over 200 homes in around 50 countries and collected over 30,000 photos to
show the lives of ordinary families from many different angles. You can see everything from cooking utensils to
toothbrushes owned by people at various income levels. As a result, things appear to be not as strange or different
as they might look from the news or “common” opinions and prejudices.
Valor is proud to be entrusted with building this project from scratch, which took place in 2014, and its further
support and maintenance. Just glad to be part of it!
Deliverables
Development of the Platform and the Admin Panel
Initially, we worked on moving the pictures and the descriptions of each family participating in the project to the database and then – to the AWS cloud. The next step was to create the admin panel for Dollar Street with the three main branches: things, places, and data management.
Alongside the work on the admin panel, we cooperated with the client on the website design creation. They already had some workarounds, and the Valor’s designer contributed to the designs’ finalization and implementation.
Impact
- Simple and user-friendly platform with great navigation
- Easy to manage admin panel that allows updating content effortlessly
- Cool platform’s look and feel
Feedback
Anna Rosling
Mother of Dollar Street
Thanks "Valor Software" for awesome work! I especially liked your openness and desire to share experience. The best of Valor, is that they never say "It'simpossible", they always find a good approaches to satisfy the customers.
