Software Development Based on User Centered Design for Rural Self Help Group

Rural empowerment is possible only by empowering the whole community; in this context, women's empowerment is pivotal to achieving rural upliftment. There are several studies on women's empowerment and the role of digital tools in empowering rural communities. In this work, our focus is on designing and developing the software to empower the rural SHG community. Our work also presents details of some of the existing work and introduces a user-friendly software solution to streamline the management and administration of one of the rural Self-Help Groups (SHGs) in India, which works in several hierarchies such as clusters, groups, and users. We adopted a user-centric design of the software solution as it has to accommodate users with diverse digital literacy levels. We used Google Flutter and Node.js framework to develop this software.