VITALLY IMPORTANT ELEMENTS

Social Media apps: In the age of ever increasing communication, the younger generation, more used to technology, has found another way to share their lives, through posts and photos of their daily activities.

Even though this can be a great tool to keep tabs with long-distance relationships and a good way to keep souvenirs, it usually becomes a negative and addictive influence any life, to the point where the first reaction to a beautiful moment can be to capture it with a cellphone, rather than living it. After all, does a tree make noise if it falls with no one around to hear it?

It is vital to our success to be able to understand how these services operate in order to know how their overuse affects our potential clients. Also, it is possible make collaborations with them in order to address the problem.

Governments: Since governments of certain countries can have control or implement restrictions over the network access, their laws in the location we operate must surely be taken into consideration. A very clear example of this is China, with its full ban of social media companies such as facebook. There are also many more specific elements, such as laws that restrict certain contents, or facilitate the removal of personal information if the interested person desires it.

5G: Is the fifth generation wireless technology for digital cellular networks that began wide deployment in 2019. 5G millimeter wave is the fastest, with actual speeds often being 1–2 Gbit/s down. That fact can increase the amount of time of a person using the cell and encourage the techno-dependence.

Zen-mode: When you turn on Zen Mode, your phone goes into a kind of deep freeze for a certain amount of time. During this time, you can’t open apps, send text messages, change settings, or perform most other smartphone functions. The only two things you still will be able to do are make and receive phone calls and take photos.

The zen-mode could be a nice option to help people from disconnecting of the mobile phone and this could result in a decrease of techno-dependence.

Scheduled obsolescence: While most of the origins of technology addiction can be traced back to software apps and the way people’s life revolve around it, the way hardware is made can also be a factor to take into account. Having devices with planned short lives create another layer of consumerism, forcing people to be constantly aware of the next products, since they know theirs won’t last long.

E-Commerce: The opportunity to avoid having to travel to shop can be a big benefit, especially for those physically impaired. However, it must be also taken into account the negative effects that this improvement can have in people’s shopping habits, since making purchasing this easy can empty any wallet and fill a garage with non-necessary products.

Limit Apps: There are lots of apps that help you to get out of your phone, apps that allow you to set time limitations on the use of it.

Domotics / IoT: Now technology is evolving to be involve in everything and make everything easier, and lazier, now you can adapt your house to be able to turn on and of the lights, open or close the door, even control the oven with a single click on your phone. This sounds like an efficient tool but its a huge weight we are putting in technology. Basically we are leaving everything to our phones and that is the problem, this is a tool that makes you to depend on your phone for everything and that is what we are trying to fight.

New Technology: Every day the technology industry is making huge developments that we need to have on mind because each of this products or services that they develop can be a treat or an ally to our goal.

All of the stakeholder are relevant to our company, some of them affect us but others can become an ally. We work through each of this stakeholders to see the impact they have in our company.