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INF3708 Assignment 3 2024 - DUE 29 July 2024
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INF3708 Assignment 3 2024 - DUE 29 July 2024 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
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INF3708 Assignment3 2024 - DUE 29 July
2024
QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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,INF3708 Assignment 3 2024 - DUE 29 July 2024
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After Sarita Chatterjee graduated with a BSc in Information Systems from the University of South
Africa, she was appointed as a Business Analyst at Culinary Bargain. Culinary Bargain sells
coupons for use at popular South African restaurants and earns a 25% commission on each sale.
For example, if Culinary Bargain sells a R200.00 meal coupon discounted by 20%, they earn
R40.00 from the R160.00 sale. Recently, Sarita has been tasked with ideating a corporate social
responsibility (CSR) project to contribute to the company’s goal of societal improvement. Sarita
conceptualized two projects, Project T and Project O, to support hunger relief. In the project
charter, Sarita cites Stats SA’s (2023) report on the increasing number of households experiencing
hunger. The report mentions South Africa’s high unemployment rate and energy crisis as factors
that increase the cost of living. According to the report:
almost 17,9 million households in SA in 2021, almost 80 percent (14,2
million) reported that they had adequate access to food, while 15 percent
(2,6 million) and 6 percent (1,1 million) stated that they have inadequate and
severe inadequate access to food, respectively. (stats sa, 2023, para. 4)
In the project charter, Sarita suggests extending Culinary Bargain’s website and app to incorporate
the marketing and selling of meal coupons. Clients, when shopping for discounted coupons, will
be presented with the option to contribute an additional amount (2.5% of the meal price) that is
credited to hunger relief coupons. Hunger relief coupons are to be used by a beneficiary 1
experiencing hardship. Sarita suggests the design of a platform to be used by the beneficiary,
which is integrated into the main payment system. The beneficiary platform will include, among
1 To become eligible as a beneficiary, applicants need to submit a police clearance certificate, present
information to prove income, expenses, and assets, and then undergo an interview.
, other features, an interface that shows the coupon’s progress towards being exchanged for a meal.
See Figure 1 below.
Figure 1. A sample design of a coupon showing progress of benefactor contributions.
When the beneficiary decides to exchange a coupon, they have the option to either collect the meal
themselves or have it delivered by a delivery service. If they opt to have the meal delivered, they
can track the delivery status of the meal in real-time via an interactive map. Project T and Project
O differ in that Project T aims to partner with Uber’s delivery service to handle the delivery of
meals, thus integrating with the existing Uber platform. On the other hand, Project O pursues the
idea of optimizing and converting Google Maps with geolocation services, global positioning
systems, route optimization, and estimated time of arrival technology for a personalized tracking
order service2.
Culinary Bargain hired Telescopic to design the beneficiary platform. Telescopic is an
experienced software vendor specializing in designing and building software applications to meet
specific needs and solve problems. They continuously innovate to improve their product design
2The order tracking and delivery service will also be extended to the main payment site and made
available for use by Culinary Bargain's main client base. Presently, clients can only purchase coupons to
be exchanged in person at restaurants.
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