Website Platform to Locate and Engage with International Diasporas

摘要

A website platform focused around sharing needs or offers amongst people of similar residence and/or origin allows users to locate and engage diasporas across the world. This global platform provides each user to interact amongst each other through a plurality of communication, and development resources. Some of these resources are: the ability of send and receive messages; the ability to view, organize, and manage a user's contacts list, and the ability to create and join networking groups. One of the most important resources is the ability to create and add needs/offer posts to a common board that can be seen by all users. This allows users to view opportunities on need/offer posts that could connect diaspora users of any residence or origin. This international diaspora platform provides a unique environment that addresses some of the crucial problems associated with human migration or movement across the globe.

主权项

1. A method of locating, engaging, and networking diasporas by executing computer-executable instructions stored on a non-transitory computer-readable medium, the method comprises the steps of:
providing a plurality of user accounts, wherein each of said user accounts includes a user profile and a plurality of contacts; wherein said user profile includes a residence location and an origination location; and wherein said user profile further includes a name, an address, an email, a telephone number, education, a country of origin, a duration at origin, a country of residence, a duration at residence, a country of citizenship, a tribe or culture, areas of interest, a language, an expertise, a job title, an age, and a resume, and information a user is looking for in other users: education completed of match, fields of expertise of match, areas of interest/needs/offers of match, languages of match, country of residence of match, job title of match, years of experience of match, registration category of match, country of origin of match, and the need and offer that the user posts; displaying a plurality of communication resources through a graphic user interface to each of said plurality of user accounts: optimizing interconnectivity between users accounts with similar residence locations and with similar origination locations by implementing said plurality of communication resources; enabling said plurality of user accounts to send and receive messages amongst each other as one of said plurality of communication resources; enabling each of said plurality of user accounts to view, organize, and manage its plurality of contacts as one of said plurality of communication resources; enabling said plurality of user accounts to add need/offer posts to a common board as one of said plurality of communication resources; enabling said plurality of user accounts to create a plurality of networking groups amongst each other as one of said plurality of communication resources; executing a matching process for each of said plurality of user accounts as one of said plurality of communication resources, wherein an arbitrary account from the plurality of user accounts is enabled to add a specific need/offer post to said common board; prompting said arbitrary account to select a category type for said specific need/offer post; extracting user information for said specific need/offer post from said user profile of said arbitrary account; retrieving description information and location information for said specific need/offer post from said arbitrary account; and adding said specific need/offer post with said category type, user information, said description information, and location information to said common board.