Zea Tongeman, a 14-year-old from South London, was not a self-proclaimed tech geek. “I used to think technology was just fixing computers and saying things like: “have you tried turning it on and off again?” like in The IT Crowd,” she says.
But when she realized, after a Little Miss Geek workshop in her school, St Saviour’s and St Olave’s in Elephant and Castle (an area of South London), that tech could be fun and a force for good, she changed her mind.
With a friend, Jordan Stirbu, she designed an app called Jazzy Recycling that aims to get people recycling by turning the sometimes tiresome task into a game. “As Mary Poppins says: ‘You find the fun and it becomes a game,’ and that is exactly what our app does,” she says.
Jazzy Recycling helps users find places to recycle, tells them what they can recycle and then enables them to scan, share and get rewards for their efforts. Tapping into the teen mania for sharing even the most mundane titbits of daily life on social media, the game is then shared among friends.
Raj Dhonota, a business consultant is helping the pair build the app and they hope to launch it in 2014. She says: “To have people actually using our app and to know we have made a difference would be incredible, so fingers crossed it all goes according to plan.” – Guardian News & Media.
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