Submitted by Keshy on December 9, 2011 - 17:46
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
Why we are working on this problem:
What we accomplished during the event:
- 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.
What we accomplished during the event:
We created a twitter account capable of automatically retweeting and made a website with limited funcionality.
Progress made since the event:
We've cleaned some scripts, but they're not working properly yet.
Next steps:
We aim to finish an initial beta in january.
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Submitted by pa essa on December 7, 2011 - 03:08
Summary:
GAWFA is the leading and the first Micro finance institution established in 1987 in The Gambia. The total Membership of GAWFA is over 49,000 members and the active borrowers are over 14,780 (96% of who are women).GAWFA has branch offices spread throughout The Gambia.
Why we are working on this problem:
GAWFA has never had an integrated system to consolidate the financial and operational transactions, and has over the years been tracking loans given to members through a manual system that is done in with an excel sheet Due to the methods of data entry and management, a lot of errors crop up, and the generation of reports is a slow and tedious task.
What we accomplished during the event:
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Submitted by boblannon on December 4, 2011 - 14:39
Summary:
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
Why we are working on this problem:
Because while all political ads have to be "true," context matters. Political ads aren't bound to tell "the whole truth," and viewers are not always aware of the context from which quotes and facts were selected.
After the Citizens United decision, interest group spending on ads increased. For House races, between 2008-10 there was a 277% increase in volume of ads aired that were paid for by interest groups. (Source: Wesleyan Media Project). Many experts expect to see a continued rise in this volume as we enter the 2012 election season.
In order to ensure that voters can understand the context of the information communicated in political advertisements, it is important to make coverage available to those voters immediately.
What we accomplished during the event:
During this event, we developed three key components of this application:
- a mobile application that quickly samples a small stream of audio and converts it into an echoprint audio fingerprint
- an api to which the mobile application can submit queries in the form of an audio fingerprint
- a server that recieves audio-fingerprint queries and returns the closest match from a database of advertisment
Traction:
We owe an enormous debt of gratitude to the open-source code made available by echonest at https://github.com/echonest
We have been in contact with two journalistic resources to plan future collaboration:
Next steps:
UPDATE:
As of 2/13, we now have a fully functional application and webservice, complete with submission forms for advertisements. Going forward, we hope to bring on board content creators as well as develop web scraping routines to help curators keep current with the fast-paced world of political ads and coverage thereof.
We'll also be looking at ways to refactor our code and bring the webservice to a more mature state.
Next Steps:
- opencalais integration to parse journalistic resource text
- intergration with more sunlight foundation apis to generate richer content
- a public site for user submissions of advertisements and associated metadata
- developing matching algorithms to pair journalistic resources with advertisements
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Submitted by nealr on December 4, 2011 - 13:01
Summary:
New Hampshire Public Radio would like to provide a mobile app for iPhone and Android to help residents of the state stay on top of the weather and emergency information.
This app would allow for understanding current weather, weather forecasts, receiving emergency weather alerts, contact information for N.H. emergency services, 911, power outage information and link to NHPR's twitter feed, where the updates on latest status of the weather event information would be available.
http://www.slideshare.net/RHoK-Manchester/nh-alert-hub-10458532
Why we are working on this problem:
We are New Hampshire residents that have all experienced the events that this app would address
What we accomplished during the event:
- Established Goals
- Created use cases
- configured database
- created API
- Database + Data sources (NOAA,twitter)
- Example (stand-in prototpe) client
Next steps:
Develop mobile client
Add management interface for emergency services to update alerts and data sources for additional emergencies
What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:
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Submitted by cbure on December 4, 2011 - 12:17
Summary:
Our goal is to collect, analyze and highlight data about bicycle accidents and traffic issues in order to promote safer streets and greater awareness for cyclists, pedestrians and drivers alike.
By identifying problem areas, we hope that city authorities will act on this data to improve bike lanes and safe traffic flow, while citizens will become more aware of how their actions affect others around them.
We are creating a web and mobile application to track incidents and issues after they occur. Information can be uploaded to our site through a mobile-friendly, web-based platform. Information associated with the issue or accident include time & date, location (ex intersection), accident type as well as contributing factors such as road and weather conditions.
Why we are working on this problem:
What we accomplished during the event:
We worked out a technical platform solution, created a website application linked to a twitter and facebook feed.
Traction:
Lots of traction from other cyclists, but also people who are passionate about accessibility issues!
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Submitted by phaas on December 4, 2011 - 12:16
Summary:
Using Sahana building assesments plugin working on mobile app
Submitted by Yaser Alyounes on December 4, 2011 - 11:26
Summary:
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
Why we are working on this problem:
There are generally 3 key target markets that we would like to help with this app:
- People in an area struck by disaster where there aren't enough medical practitioners to traige the wounds. The app would allow physicians from all over the world to assist in triaging patients and quickly directing those at high risk to seek medical attention. This way we would significantly cut down the triage time and make sure to reach everyone before it's too late
- People in remote regions where they do not have access to medical assistance. This could include people who live in remote regions or even people who are camping in the woods.
- Mothers of young children who want to confirm whether they should take their wounded kids to the ER or just receive instructions from pediatricians on how to avoid coming to the ER or what to do until they get to the ER
What we accomplished during the event:
What is done:
- The Physician User Interface was finalized
- The back-end of the system for processing and calculating was finalized
- The initial design and functionality of the phone app (on Andoid) was finalized.
What is pending:
- Connecting the Phone App to the Back-end securely
- Sending back alerts from the back-end to the Phone App.
What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:
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Submitted by tamberg on December 4, 2011 - 09:38
Summary:
SMS Web API, hosted in an Android app that works everywhere with a local SIM card. Enables Web and desktop applications that send / receive SMS.
What we accomplished during the event:
Demo quality (i.e. not product quality yet) Android app
Server requirements:
Any (Client), Android phone (SMS Web API)
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