• 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

The Data Journalism Developer Studio is a 100% open source Linux™-based appliance designed for data journalism developers. It can be run as a desktop or a server and is designed for development of data journalism desktop and server applications.

The Data Journalism Developer Studio is modular. The core appliance consists of the operating system, desktop, browser, and data acquisition / cleaning / analysis / visualization tools. The core appliance is available as a virtual machine in VMware / VirtualBox / KVM format, as an Open Virtualization Format (OVF) appliance and as a bootable LiveCD that can be installed on a desktop or laptop PC.

Additional packages can be installed as required using installation scripts provided. Each additional functional package can be independently installed to match the needs of the users.

Installed Components (Core Appliance)

• openSUSE™ 12.1 32-bit Operating System
• GNOME 3.2 Desktop
• Mozilla Firefox Browser
• gcc-c++ and gcc-fortran
• openJDK Java runtime, development environment and browser plugin
• R patched
• RStudio™ integrated R development environment
• R.rsp R Server Pages, websockets and Rook Web Server Interface

   

 

 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.

A flexible platform for building solutions tailored to the needs of individual organisations working for huamnaitarian purposes, with many powerful modules which can be easily interconnected together.

 

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). 

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.

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

Move Food is a tool for businesses and volunteers to connect and get leftover/unused food that would otherwise be thrown out to people in need on an ad hoc basis. It create the connections required for People/Businesses that have food and volunteers that have the means to help to deliver those food products to persons in need (shelters, homes, camps, individuals). The transaction model of "I Have Resources/I can Help get Those Resources To Those In Need" is universally re-usable for any situation. An upleveled version of Move Food can be used for disaster relief coordination and many other use cases. We chose to focus on the core transaction for this first release: A user registers, can post an item or claim an item. Everything beyond that is gravy. V.01 - Allows either an entity with food or a volunteer that can help to register on the site - Allows a resource to post a food item - Allows a volunteer to "claim" or cancel the pickup of a food item - Allows both to see what they have claimed and a history - Allows a registered user to announce an item is available via sms - Logs all transactions (for analytics and reporting) - Provides Restful API into Move Food data - Announces item submission in short format to Twitter and text

A small script paired with a config file that bulk-uploads information to Person Finder. No hosting required, but it would be relatively trivial to create a basic site with Pyramid or Flask.

Problem: http://www.rhok.org/problems/upload-tool-person-finder

"Person Finder is a searchable public database of missing persons. It was created by Google volunteers in response to the Haiti earthquake in January 2010. It was used again for the Chile earthquake, the Pakistan floods, the christchurch earthquake and the Japan earthquake."