Fullness Social Enterprise Society FSES is a Hong Kong based organization advocating social enterprise SE movement, connecting with more than 200 social enterprises and non-governmental organizations in Hong Kong. Since 2012 every November to December, they have been launching a campaign Tithe Ethical Consumption Month TECM, enouraging the public to allocate 10% of their total consumption spending on buying goods and services from social enterprises, as a means to help under-privileged groups engage in the society.

Since 2013, mindVan Connection has been making use of ourDB Appage technology to build the website for TECM. And starting from 2017, they extend the usage of ourDB by building up an SE directory with the below features:

• group the SE by 5 major categories: personal services, consumables, F&B, fun, others
• also group the SE by their locations
• users can search the SE by the major categories, their locations, and by keying in the SE key information like name, mission, contact etc.
• and using mobile devices, users can locate themselves and find the nearest SE on the map by integrating Google Maps API
• users can sign up as TECM website users and suggest new SE by keying in the addresses and adjusting the pin on the map by making use of Google Geocoding API
• TECM administrators are notified with ourDB workflow management system and then review the information of the new SE. After the approval process, the new SE is then published on the directory

Proposals for the future:

• when more and more SE join the directory, digital coupons can be applied to encourage more people to spend money on SE
• people can start to rate different SE and provide comments, so that SE can improve themselves in terms of operation and goods/services quality