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

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

   

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.

Seed Swap App is a website for exchanging seeds among farmers and hobbyists.

 

People can upload a list of seed quantities they want to share with others, specifying species, variety, quantity and geographic location. People can also add a wishlist of seeds, and will be able to find people offering them in the surroundings, with a geographical search.

Financial statements of Polish parlimentary envoys are publicized yearly, but the information they contain is bothersome to read and process. They are available as PDF files containing scanned documents, which were filled out by hand in the first place.

 

Polish NGO, Stowarzyszenie 61, took the effort to digitize this information yet it still needs to be cleaned up and modelled before anything interesting can be done with it.

 

We aim to clean up those records, put them in a database and provide Stowarzyszenie 61 with tools to do add more data to it by themselves in the future.

 

The secondary goal is to create a website where anyone will be able to easily access this information and create their own queries in a very intuitive manner.

 

My proposed solution to this problem is an aggregator that leverages existing mobile applications and websites to do the tracking itself.

 

A user will opt in by either associating their workout tracking account with the site and having data automatically pulled in, stripped of user information, then added to the pool of available data. Another way a tracking client can participate is by allowing a user to opt in by volunteering their data.

 

An end result of gathering this data is presentation in a filterable way as well as exporting in various formats.

Aggregation and validation of statements about climate change

HaHeatMap is a web GIS for the analysis of the efficiency of public service distribution.

We focused on Haiti health services distribution. We extracted roads, population and health facilities data from OpenStreetMap.

Using Django we built a Web-GIS application that allows the user to have a visualization of the distances from every of the island to the nearest hospital.

Using the population data we'd like to show the service gap among the different places.

The software is as much general as possible and could be used for other analysis.

When an emergency occurs what the redcross needs fool proof method of distributing food in humanitarian emergencies using smart technology.Food distributions today are still done with paper, which leads to logistical losses, loss through dishonesty and makes the system more prone to human error. This is where iRelief comes in, iRelief is not just an application rather it is a platform that can be used anywhere to ensure that Relief distribution is done as quickly and as efficiently as possible. iRelief is comprised of three of applications and one database and all these applications are as important as the previous on. The Database A remotely hosted database holds the mission critical data for the platform, the data it hold is i). The amount of relief stock available at any given point in time that is dynamically updated so as the ensure accuracy and accountability. ii). The relief recipients data and information as to how much relief they need and their location. iii). Minimal employee data such as who is in charge of what, where. The Web Client The web client is mainly built in for managerial and analysis purposes at base level what the web client can do is to provide the Relief data to high level staff so as to help in effective decision making. The Desktop Client This client is made for hotspot i.e affected areas use this client is designed to make the distribution of relief as quickly and as painless as possible it can also be used in the gathering of the data about the relief recipients. The Mobile Client The mobile client is made to combine all the above purposes into one device that can be used anywhere using the mobile client one can view reports that help in the making of day to day decisions. Using the mobile client on can perform the distribution of food in a speed and manner that would be unbelievable if compared to the current method. Using the mobile client one can also register relief recipients and aggregate them with the existing database. Technology Used: Location based services in the mobile phone, or to use an affordable GPS system in the desktop client. Barcode scanner this is what is used to provide the identification of the relief recipient also used to speed up the distribution of relief. Camera often present in modern mobile phones and in the recomended phone for this system always available. we hope to get sufficient support in order to implement this project as it will really help those in need thank you

A web portal where organizations managing disasters can find a help in managing subscribed volunteers: once the organization opens the emergency on the site, nearby volunteers are called for action. If they agree coming, the system automatically assigns them to single tasks according to the task requirements and the volunteers' skills, notifyng them throw e-mails and SMSs about their task.