ABC Project: Combating Social Isolation in the Digital Age

This project, undertaken by ABC charitable organization, aims to raise awareness about the negative effects of increasing dependence on technology and social media, which can lead to social isolation and loneliness, especially among young adults and families. The project follows a planned approach, including requirements gathering, project initiation, implementation, and closure. The project's deliverables focus on generating awareness to reduce reliance on technology. The estimated budget for the project is $312,000, covering resources, salaries, materials, transportation, research, and utilities, with funding from both government and other sources. The project references relevant literature on technology's impact on social isolation and project management techniques.

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Awareness Project on Social issue
of Solitude loneliness and
Isolation in Age of Technology

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 Increasing dependence on technology
although provides a number of benefits, it has
certain negative aspects as well.
 Isolation and loneliness in information age is
a result of increase in dependence on
technology even for simple works.
 Social media is an inseparable part of
technology. The social media or the virtual
friends are isolating people for real friend thus
increasing loneliness.
Introduction

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 The Project is undertaken by ABC charitable
organization
 The charitable organization has been working
with similar project over the years
 The awareness project will be treated as a high
priority project mainly as increasing loneliness
in age of technology is an alarming issue.
 ABC charitable organization will be following a
planned approach for implementation of this
project.
Organization
Description and History

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 The negative effects of increase in
dependence and reliance on technology and
social media has been identified.
 In order to make people aware of the same, an
awareness program has been arranged.
 The program will be lead by ABC charitable
organization with fund and aids from
government
Project Background

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 The project aims generating awareness awareness
among the young adults, youths and family
member of children so increase reliance on
technology in daily life can be reduced
 The awareness program will follow a planned
approach of project implementation and for that a
project plan is prepared
 The project is expected to be successful. Funds for
the project has been raised and the project is
expected to increase awareness about the negative
effects of technology.
Project Description

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 The main deliverables of the project are as
follows-
 Activity #1 :Requirements Gathering and
Planning
 Activity #2 : Project Initiation
 Activity #3 :Awareness Project
Implementation
 Activity #4 : Project Closure
Project Deliverables

 The estimated budget for the project is
represented in the following table-
Project Budget
Expenditure
Category
Government Fund
Request
Funds from other
sources
Total
Resources and salaries $100000 $50000 $150000
Materials and
Resources
$90000 $30000 $120000
Rent of the Project
Venue
$10000 $5000 $15000
Transportation Cost $2000 $1000 $3000
Cost of Research $3000 $1000 $4000
Utilities $15000 $5000 $20000
Total $220000 $92000 $312000

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 Baecker, Ron, et al. "Technology to reduce social
isolation and loneliness." Proceedings of the
16th international ACM SIGACCESS conference
on Computers & accessibility. ACM, 2014.
 Burke, Rory. "Project management: planning and
control techniques." New Jersey, USA (2013).
 Kerzner, Harold, and Harold R. Kerzner. Project
management: a systems approach to planning,
scheduling, and controlling. John Wiley & Sons,
2017.
Bibliography

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