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Papers by Reshawn Ramjattan

BreadTrail, une application développée par Darien Jardine, Nirvan Sharma et Reshawn Ramjattan, pe... more BreadTrail, une application développée par Darien Jardine, Nirvan Sharma et Reshawn Ramjattan, permet d'assurer une traçabilité fiable et incorruptible de la chaîne agrologistique, de manière sécurisée et flexible, au bénéfice de tous les acteurs, de l'agriculteur au consommateur

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022

For those seeking to recruit teammates for a specific purpose, like a project or study group, cha... more For those seeking to recruit teammates for a specific purpose, like a project or study group, challenges quickly arise once they have exhausted their social circle. In the wake of the current pandemic, meeting new people that are right for a specific team is even more difficult than before due to the lack of in-person events. On social media platforms, users often have large networks of connections but have very few close personal relationships within them. This makes it difficult to find compatible people that share the same goal, and are interested in niche groups on those platforms. We present a scalable framework for establishing small online groups that balance two objectives, making the best group recommendations to users and guiding group hosts to the best users for their group. We illustrate this framework using three use cases. Lastly, we evaluate a serverless implementation using a large social media dataset to simulate a production environment and compare our framework to a network flow approach to solving the problem.

4/12 In two separate interviews, John Weru and Henk van Cann emphasise the need to educate people... more 4/12 In two separate interviews, John Weru and Henk van Cann emphasise the need to educate people about using blockchain technology 14 Eva Oakes describes Choco4Peace's experience building a network based on blockchain technology in the cocoa sector in Colombia. 24 Farmshine is rebuilding the agriculture value chain infrastructure in East Africa using blockchain technology.

2021 IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC), 2021

Those that struggle with debt and poor financial management can find many sources of online conte... more Those that struggle with debt and poor financial management can find many sources of online content to increase their financial literacy. However, consumption of educational content often does not translate to behavioural change. Software-based on just-in-time education can make use of nudge theory and gamification to help increase financial literacy while also influencing positive financial behaviour. Using chatbot technology as a conversational interface to this educational software increases convenience and usability, especially among those that struggle with learning to use technology. We present the design for a financial education chatbot that defines core situations for providing suggestions and information to users. We also used a survey to evaluate its usefulness and found that 82 per cent of 68 participants consider the chatbot strongly beneficial to their financial education and behaviour.

2020 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD)

BreadTrail, une application développée par Darien Jardine, Nirvan Sharma et Reshawn Ramjattan, pe... more BreadTrail, une application développée par Darien Jardine, Nirvan Sharma et Reshawn Ramjattan, permet d'assurer une traçabilité fiable et incorruptible de la chaîne agrologistique, de manière sécurisée et flexible, au bénéfice de tous les acteurs, de l'agriculteur au consommateur

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, 2022

For those seeking to recruit teammates for a specific purpose, like a project or study group, cha... more For those seeking to recruit teammates for a specific purpose, like a project or study group, challenges quickly arise once they have exhausted their social circle. In the wake of the current pandemic, meeting new people that are right for a specific team is even more difficult than before due to the lack of in-person events. On social media platforms, users often have large networks of connections but have very few close personal relationships within them. This makes it difficult to find compatible people that share the same goal, and are interested in niche groups on those platforms. We present a scalable framework for establishing small online groups that balance two objectives, making the best group recommendations to users and guiding group hosts to the best users for their group. We illustrate this framework using three use cases. Lastly, we evaluate a serverless implementation using a large social media dataset to simulate a production environment and compare our framework to a network flow approach to solving the problem.

4/12 In two separate interviews, John Weru and Henk van Cann emphasise the need to educate people... more 4/12 In two separate interviews, John Weru and Henk van Cann emphasise the need to educate people about using blockchain technology 14 Eva Oakes describes Choco4Peace's experience building a network based on blockchain technology in the cocoa sector in Colombia. 24 Farmshine is rebuilding the agriculture value chain infrastructure in East Africa using blockchain technology.

2021 IEEE International Humanitarian Technology Conference (IHTC), 2021

Those that struggle with debt and poor financial management can find many sources of online conte... more Those that struggle with debt and poor financial management can find many sources of online content to increase their financial literacy. However, consumption of educational content often does not translate to behavioural change. Software-based on just-in-time education can make use of nudge theory and gamification to help increase financial literacy while also influencing positive financial behaviour. Using chatbot technology as a conversational interface to this educational software increases convenience and usability, especially among those that struggle with learning to use technology. We present the design for a financial education chatbot that defines core situations for providing suggestions and information to users. We also used a survey to evaluate its usefulness and found that 82 per cent of 68 participants consider the chatbot strongly beneficial to their financial education and behaviour.

2020 IEEE International Conference on Technology Management, Operations and Decisions (ICTMOD)