• Managed to achieve a good prototype of a semi-real time tracker
• Pulled data off the MARTA schedules to be used as our primary dataset.
• Platform agnostic and user friendly.
• Involves SMS service and use of smartphone technlogies to cater to a wide section of international population facing this problem

This mobile app listens to political advertisements and returns information important for understanding the context of those advertisements.  Information will reference coverage on sites like FactCheck.org and data maintained by the Sunlight foundation and its partners. It will include:

• links to journalists' coverage of the ad itself (when available)
• links to coverage of related issues 
• links to information about the political action committee (PAC) responsible for the ad

• a link to a parody video on the (soon to be live) FlackCheck.org

Technical details: The app makes use of the echoprint software made open and free by echonest: http://blog.echonest.com/post/6824753703/announcing-echoprint

Coordinate is a simple mobile app and database that allows emergency response officials to plot hazards in an accurate and structured manner.  It allows an EOC and other response agencies to receive validated reports from responders out in the disaster area.  Information can be updated out in the disaster area allowing for a better common operating picture of what hazards still need to be resolved.

 

Project Members:

 

Nick Costa

Benjamin Hitov 

Avni Khatri 

Eron Gjoni

Amos Scott

Justin Kates

 

A couple of examples of how Coordinate will be used:

 

 

A major storm has occurred resulting in many trees and power lines being brought to the ground.  The Emergency Operations Center has been established to help coordinate the response.  Roads need to be cleared and downed power lines need to be removed

Fire Engine 4 has been responding to emergency calls since the incident started.  While traveling to calls, the Fire Officer has been plotting hazards on his smartphone with the Coordinate app.  The EOC has been monitoring these hazards as he plots them in the Coordinate Web UI and map displayed in the facility.

A Public Works crew has been dispatched by the EOC to handle a tree across a roadway.  They clear the tree, and the hazard that was plotted is edited to show it being cleared by Public Works at 3:30pm.  The EOC sees this and knows that the road is now opened back up

The Mayor's Office has been receiving calls about downed power lines all across the City.  A phone operator is taking these reports and entering them into the Coordinate Web UI.  All users on Coordinate are seeing these new incidents being plotted in the system.

A citizen, about to venture out after the storm to purchase food, visits the City's website to view the roads that are still closed.  He views a map on the website with information about hazards still out in the community, and determines that he should stay in his home until the roads are cleared.

 

Project Presentation:

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1hj4Vt_Q9DdIBsw48VEOy0pLx1Lt8bTZv...

 

Coordinate was named the winner of the December 2011 RHoK Boston event!

The proposed phone app would allow volunteers to walk through a refugee camp after a disaster and take pictures of those wounded, next to a fixed-length reference object. When an image is taken of a wound, the app would measure its dimensions (height and width) based on manually inputted 4 points on top of the image (top edge, bottom edge, left edge, and right edge), automatically calculate how much suturing and other materials are needed (patient-based and for the entire location), estimate how long it would take for the wound to heal and automatically set a reminder to check on the wound. This would allow the volunteers walking around to take pictures of those wounded, and help them identify which patients should receive immediate medical care. Moreover, it will automate the process of estimating how much supplies are needed (how many sutures, sterilizing alcohol, band-aids, etc). Lastly, Physicians from all around the world would be able to look at the wounds and triage them. If a wound is classified as high severity, an automated alert will be sent back to the volunteer on site with instructions to direct the patient to the physician on site.

 

You can access the presentation for the app here

Teaching financial literacy to kids is difficult, because they dont care. But there are things they do care about, liking going to a concert or buying a pair of shoes. So, we encourage them to maintain a wishlist of things they want to buy and help them with come up with a savings plan to achieve it through their smartphone app

We developed a system to monitor birds migration phenomenon. As a solution, we propose to exploit the crowdsourcing, our target users are birdwatchers. Users can upload to our server a geotagged pictures of migratory bird flocks. Addionally, users can add tag information to the picture (e.g. bird species). 

Presentation Link: http://www.slideshare.net/filippodelfra/bird-game-app-rhok-trento-december-2011

Role Playing Game aiming to fight with financial illiteracy.

Features:

- Web app accessible on any internet enabled device (Inclusive design, Responsive design).

- Educates.

- Very easily extensible.

- Motivates to play due to converting virtual winning in a real prize given my MyBnk.

- Promotes checking you bank account.

- Promotes MyBnk website.

 

Presentation: http://www.codehaha.com/rpg/presentation/#1

 

 Supporting  things globally online is very easy and popular at the moment. There  are Systems like Google+1;FaceBook Like and Flatter - to just name 3.  Offlike  aims to extend this pattern to local "offline" things. By placing  QR-Codes ( or later NFC ) on real places with real problems - and giving  the user the option to support this thing we hope to increase  involvement with problems that matter for you - localy - offline . 

Projekt zakłada stworzenie portalu dla młodzieżowych działaczy, dla osób aktywnych, zaangażowanych w młodzieżowy NGOs. Ma pełnić rolę informacyjną, edukacyjną, społecznościową i być jednocześnie przestrzenią wymiany myśli i doświadczeń. 

The aim of the project is creating a portal for youth activists, people involved in youth NGOs and various youth initiatives. It will have information, educational, and community functions, and it will provide a space for the exchange of ideas and experiences.

Creating an Android app for camp survey mapping through GPS and a rule-based toolset that reflects the international standards established by Sphere, UNHCR, MSF, the USAID Field Operations Guide, and OpenStreetMap. 

 

The donated camp land perimeter will be traversed for GPS map generation, then internal resources will be tentatively placed in a manner reflecting standards. Examples include:

 

AdminCenter

Gates

Water sites

Tents

Latrines

Vegetable gardens

Food distribution

Medical clinic

...and so forth

 

and additional criteria established by the host nation or local priorities can be integrated.

 

The app will take advantage of external feed that provide information on imagery, climate, water table, geology, hazards, and will be dominantly icon-driven, minimizing the need for language literacy.

 

The app will be written in Scala, with particular attention to visually intuitive mapping and export capabilities to PDFs and GIS layers. 

 

Bryn Keller is the dominant coder.