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Improving public transportation reliability to encourage people reduce their carbon footprint.

Summary: 
  • 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
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  • A good notion of routes in different countries.
  • A decent working framework to be able to get an idea of approximate time your transport is due in to the stop near you. 
  • A user friendly way of updating information in a crowd sourced framework. 
  • Intelligent route prediction possible once the data sets evolve over time. 
  • SMS service to cater to developing nations. 
  • Potential integration with Google transit as a way to handle deviations from predicted schedules in developed countries. 
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Fair Trade Finder

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A mobile web application to find shops and outlets selling Fairtrade products in your local area, searching by product type and distance. Data is managed at a regional level, to allow local community groups to take ownership of the data, and an open API is provided to allow future client apps to be built on the platform.

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MyBnk RPG

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Role Playing Game aiming to fight with financial illiteracy.

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- 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

What we accomplished during the event: 

Playable game uploaded online tested on various devices.

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Off Like

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 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 . 
Why we are working on this problem: 

The Problem definition "A Real-World "Like" for Campaigning and Advocacy" described an intriguing idea: connect real-life needs to online support. Implementing this is a lot of fun for us, and it seems to be very usefull, because this way you can simply activate your neighbourhood to show their concern for a common problem - locally, and visible globally.

What we accomplished during the event: 

We created a website, an app and mobile-site. All these there tools are necessary for participating in the Off Like button. 

The campaign owner can create QR codes and check statistics on the amount of views and likes. Also there is a map so he can check where the QR codes are used. The app or the mobile site, provide an easy way show their support. By scanning the QR code the supporter can easily like the campaign with the usual social share buttons.

Progress made since the event: 

We started at zero and created all these tool within 27 hours.

Next steps: 

Live happy ever after.

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currently deployed on heroku, may run anywhere where you can: * provide a current JRE * provide a Mongo DB
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Virtual Assembly Point -- Incident Commander Module

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Virtual Assembly Point is a Disaster Management System. This Module allows the incident commander to have an overall report of every activity that happens during a disaster response, Information such as the vailability of Volunteers, the Utilization of ressources as well as people status and the Ability to stay connected with the hospitals and suppliers. It is a web Platform to work on an iPad that the incident commander can use during coordination in a disaster.

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Virtual Assembly Point is at Version 1.1

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Service Delivery in the Water and Sanitation Sector

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A Common Solution Framework which consists of various modules, each of these modules perform a atomic task which in collaboration address each of the above issues. The various modules\parts of the system include * Service Request Handler : Handles all incoming service request of a end user. A Service can be request for delivery of water.* Complaint Request Handler: Handles all incoming complaints.* Scheduler : Handles a schedule for servicing the request.* Service Tracker: Tracks the service request life cycle. And invokes proper methods in-case a service is not catered within a given time. A user can access this system through SMS, USSD or a Native Mobile Application(In-case of a Smart Phone). 
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Early Warning Remote Sensing for Water Table Management

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Early Warning Remote Sensing for Water Table Management. By Shaimaa Ahmed Graduate student at AUC Ground water is a valuable resource that requires a mentoring system to alert decision makers, NGOs and researchers about any pollution or risky head drops. The solution is a development of a sensing ball that is used to create 3d map of the underground cave. The development includes hardware, software and sensors. These developments are: 1-Adding new hardware and Software that calculate the difference in head or change in water quality parameters. 2- Fixed sensors that communicating with a moving sensor and they communicate with the surface of the ground and via satellite connection, the new data reach central servers. 3- create 3d maps on web and cell phone applications 4- part of the energy in the ball is conserved because the head calculation is based on the velocity of the ground water movements. 5- A grid of well is required to manage this real time movement. 6- Collect water samples that assist in water biological assessments. This solution works within the national border of a single country and it assist to manage ground water resources among different countries.
Why we are working on this problem: 
MENA region lacks access to clean water and ground water may be a suitable solution on the short run till researcher finds another solution for water shortage. Some international crisis can be avoided if different countries learned how to manage and share ground water. My solution is my contribution to the global community to find a solution for water crisis and potential political and social conflicts.
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There was no one interested in this subject thus I worked alone but there was expertise who assist me to develop the idea. The contest atmosphere was very helpful thus I suggest more events within the same theme or events that focus on teaching new technologies for researchers or events that combine researchers and engineers from the world that are committed to this problem
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I need to form a team with Hardware architect, programmers and then we have to find a funding to fund this project (incubated project )
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Draw attention to it Funding Provide esperitise in moving sensors Link us with the moving sensor inventors so we can develop their product with them with this idea
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Touch

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Touch is a software that targets 3 main aspects of humanity's vulnerabilities to threats and disasters, both natural and human caused. It permits the free communication of information in the society but also tries to protect the same society by involving the different police departments and humanitarian agencies all over the globe. It was initially designed to solve 6 problem definitions of Rhok3 (http://www.rhok.org) 1. OneCrisis 2. Automatic Geo-Tagging of social media status update 3. All Hazards Search 4. NGO collaaboration Space 5. Urgent Needs Center 6. Disaster Safe but finally thanks to GOD, it came to resolve more than expected. It solves more than 7 problem definitions found in Rhok3. Some of these problem definitions details are given below: For: - All Hazards Search: Citizens typically are unaware of all the hazards where they live, work or play. They need a simple online search to get a map of all the hazards at a certain location as well as a written description of each. Emergency Management can then provide information on how the citizen can mitigate those hazards and reduce their risk. - NGO collaboration Space: NGOs would have either a widget that they could integrate into a cloud-based logistics management application or an easy to access website where they could quickly provide information per sector on where they are operating or what they are doing. Entering this information could take place from either a mobile device or a website, and needs to be extremely easy. - Another problem: Person Finder via Voice & Image: In case of japan earthquake, this system could help.a lot of missing people could found via this system.if someone find any person that needs help and seems to be missed, simply must record his voice and take a picture from his face and then upload to our website.we test these voice and image files with created models of every profiles and if any match occurs, we'll give the profile information to the uploader of the voice and image.we can get uploader 's email and send an email whenever we had a match in our models in future. Thanks for the time you have taken to read this summary, I hope it inspired you. Be blessed. Rweze Florian, Software Developer and Business Entrepreneur
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Netention

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Netention is a tool for describing one's current life situation (“is”), and potential future situations (“will be”) – as linked data objects. A semantic "story" of human life consists of statements detailing the aspects about which an individual is concerned or interested. Netention collects a community of peoples' stories, and interlinks them with automatically discovered opportunities that are mutually inter-satisfying - essentially suggesting to its participants how they could realize the desired futures they have described.
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Disaster Felt System

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This application lets victims of disasters upload their location and other information from their GPS enabled device. The data is stored in a server. This data could be retrieved by rescue workers to locate the user using GMap and find distance using Vincenty's Inverse Formula. Also included is a general manual on what to do before, during or after a disaster.
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