
From a social point of view, the World Health Organization warns that 1 for each 10 people in the world, suffers from some mental disorder. This represents approximately 700 million people. However, only 1% of the global health workforce works in this area. Anxiety, for example, affects more than 260 million people. In fact, Brazil is the country with the largest number of anxious people: 9.3% of the population.
From the public manager's point of view, studies indicate that, despite politics-related factors, it is difficult to make evidence-based decisions due to either the lack of data or the disintegration of these bases.
Our solution is based on offering free emotional support services to citizens through a chatting service, with the purpose of acquiring useful information that allows to map the overall mental health of the population of a given area in order to support government decisions towards a better public mental health care. The solution integrates data from open-data portals regarding public infrastructure with the data acquired from the chatting service and provides insightful and interactive charts for decision maker.