Aotearoa Food Rescue Alliance
Aotearoa Food Rescue Network needed to capture food waste data across 28 food rescue organisations. There was no shared system, diverse approaches to operations and record keeping and little clarity around what data to capture or how to capture it. I started with the hubs: user interviews, operational and data flow mapping as well as understanding what their funders, regulators and potential customers actually needed. We designed and iterated using a pipeline of Airtable databases and custom cron jobs to design a hub and spoke model, with high level data shared with AFRA and granular data kept in the hubs. We implemented BigQuery for reporting and designed the ability to capture provider specific waste and emissions data.
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