JavaScript

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End user environments:

Mobile

http://code.google.com/p/rhok-gamewithoutaname/issues

Server requirements:

The server must run a tomcat although the configuration can easily being changed to match any other Java running environment.

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Brussels, Belgium

Images and Video:

Seeking people with skills in:

webservers

Websockets

Issue Tracker:

Related Problem(s):

Proverb Game

Loneliness Test

Website/App store links:

http://rhok.vaes.me

Summary:

MWN will launch a new campaign on the 12th of December. With a website, tv-spots, ads in newspapers, ... and also a Loneliness Test (both accessible on desktop and mobile). The test has been developed based on the work of Martijn Engelbregt:

The group worked on both the projects, but the main focus was to get this finished so it's ready when the campaign launches on 12/12/12. The best way to explain what the app does is to show some screenshots:

Startpage

An example question

The 'loneliness profile' you match best with tools ans solutions to help you get rid of that type of loneliness. The profile always matches with a profile of a famous Flemish person. And off course the possibility to share your results on Facebook and/or Twitter.

Why we are working on this problem:

We really wanted to help a local partner. When we got in contact with MWN, we knew right away this was the partner we were looking for. Enthousiastic, helpfull, a good cause and in need of help. They proposed two small projects which could be finished in a weekend.

What we accomplished during the event:

The application is finished, the only thing that is left to do is to add it as a popup to their campaign website which is about to launch on the 12th of December.

Code Repository:

http://code.google.com/p/rhok-eenzaamheidswijzer/

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Status:

Field tested

Programming languages:

Frameworks:

End user environments:

Mobile

http://code.google.com/p/rhok-eenzaamheidswijzer/issues

Server requirements:

The server must run a tomcat although the configuration can easily being changed to match any other Java running environment.

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Brussels, Belgium

Images and Video:

Issue Tracker:

Related Problem(s):

Loneliness Test

The Hive Bee Logger

Summary:

The Ive is a co-working space in downtonw Vancouver. They need a tool for tracking time for hot-desker - they spend about 15% of their time doing admiistrative work related to tracking hot desker who use the space. They want a tool to automate this work to free up this time for more value added activities that they do to support the community.

Why we are working on this problem:

The Hive does a lot of work at the community level, but spend too much of its time doing non-value added administrative activities including time tracking. This app is meant to save time for The Hive so they can do more to support the community.

What we accomplished during the event:

We created a Django app logging user's check-ins and chek-outs, focusing on a really easy and quick interface. All the data collected is available for statistics for the admins, so they can see user's records and credit balance.

Code Repository:

http://www.rhok.org/n/a

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Frameworks:

django

End user environments:

Hive Vancouver: Better tracking resources & people

Server requirements:

Python

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Vancouver, Canada

Images and Video:

Related Problem(s):

The Hive Bee Logger

Summary:

The Hive is a co-working space in downtonw Vancouver. They need a tool for tracking time for hot-desker - they spend about 15% of their time doing admiistrative work related to tracking hot desker who use the space. They want a tool to automate this work to free up this time for more value added activities that they do to support the community.

Why we are working on this problem:

The Hive does a lot of work at the community level, but spend too much of its time doing non-value added administrative activities including time tracking. This app is meant to save time for The Hive so they can do more to support the community.

What we accomplished during the event:

We created a Django app logging user's check-ins and chek-outs, focusing on a really easy and quick interface. All the data collected is available for statistics for Hive adminstrators, so they can see user's records and credit balance. This will automate a significant portion of the work performed by Hive admins.

Code Repository:

http://www.rhok.org/n/a

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Status:

Programming languages:

Frameworks:

django

End user environments:

Hive Vancouver: Better tracking resources & people

Server requirements:

Python

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Vancouver, Canada

Images and Video:

Related Problem(s):

CityZen

Summary:

The general problem consist in finding a quick and smart way to report a general problem concerning your town.It’s possible to divide in more different problems: corruption, asbestos, access for people with some disadvantages and trash.

We decided to work on a Web and Mobile (Android, Windows Phone, iOS) application that allows everyone to report architectural barriers issues, vandalism and incivilities around the city.

Here you can find our presentation with also all the URLs of our repositories: https://speakerdeck.com/nicofromspace/cityzen-rhok-global-december-2012-trento-solution-by-the-citydevs-team

What we accomplished during the event:

During the event we accomplished the following parts of our application:

a working Windows Phone 7.5 application that allows a user to submit a report
also an Android application and iOS application with the same features
the most important part is the web application that was developed using different technologies:
- Django
- jQuery
- Underscore.js
- Backbone
- WebSocket

Next steps:

Mine the data collected from the people to provide statistic data to the local authorities e.g. a map of the most critical areas or a graph of the most reported problems.

Code Repository:

https://github.com/nostalgiaz/cityzen

Category:

Status:

RHoK Global December 2012

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What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Images and Video:

Related Problem(s):

Quick and Smart report for problems in your town

Grow Lulo

Website/App store links:

http://growlulo.herokuapp.com

Summary:

Grow Lulo is a website that addresses the needs of residents in food deserts by connecting local communities with gardens and farmers markets where they can easily access better, healthier food choices. With access in mind, we kept the design and content of the website simple. Users can come to the site to become a grower or become a member of an existing garden community. By becoming a grower they can find information about fruits, vegetables and herbs local to their area and all they need to grow food within their particular living environment. Becoming a member of an existing garden community, exposes users to opportunities to learn, grow and purchase healthier food options.

Our project's motto: Connecting communities with community gardeners!

Team members:

Lulo Grows, growlulo@gmail.com
Andrea Johnson, aejohnson83@gmail.com
Wes Bailey, wes@wesbailey.com
Nigel Williams, nigel.williams4129@gmail.com
Angela Vujic, av.vujic@gmail.com
James Slack, jslackdesign@gmail.com
Justin Borris, justinbborris@gmail.com
David Bassendine, dbassendine@gmail.com

Why we are working on this problem:

Providing a solution to decrease the problem of food deserts in Atlanta, by improving the information access to quality of foods for citizens of food deserts thereby improving their quality of life.

What we accomplished during the event:

Deteremined target audience and desired outreach impact
- Low income, Restricted Mobility, Varied education levels
Designed a website application with associated wireframes and prototypes
Created functioning website where gardeners can:
- Sign up for an account
- Create information about their local farm
- See local farms in their area
- See a sample plant to grow

Traction:

Networking opportunity presented by the Geek's Without Bounds Accelerator program
Potential collaborative efforts with
- The Pineapple Project (http://www.talenthouse.com/creativeinvites/preview/a36246850b573436ef6b4...)
- The Grower's Nation project (http://www.rhok.org/problems/growers-nation-app-development)

Next steps:

Gain access to more uniform repositories of food (farmers almanacs, USDA, etc) that can be added to the site database
Linking the mapping API with the Rails backend
Connecting to Facebook
Providing language support for multiple languages (i.e. Spanish)

Community help:

Subscribe to the website with relevant community garden information
Outreach to communities of individuals who could benefit from the information on the site

Code Repository:

https://github.com/jburris/lulo-connect.git

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Operational

Programming languages:

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End user environments:

http://hospital-map.github.com/hospital-map/

Server requirements:

Postgres, Ruby 1.9.2

Images and Video:

Health Map

Website/App store links:

Summary:

Hospital Map shows halthcare institutions like hospitals, clinics and doctors. Patients, health care workers, journalists or emergency response teams can find out which health care institutions have given property via filtering boolean attributes like wheelchairs/emergency. While displaying the institutions on a map people also see where to find them.

What we accomplished during the event:

Creating a JavaScript only application which fetches the http://overpass-api.de/ API (Open Street Map) for health care institutions. The app renders them on a map using http://leafletjs.com/ which offers mobile friendly maps with layers and controls.

Traction:

For patients, HealthMap offers the ability to find the right health care institution. The see where to find one with accessability for wheelchairs, which offer a dentistry and in the future more fine-grained, custom attributes.

Health care workers, health insurances, journalists and politians can explore the structure of the healt care system und understand it better.

Emergency response teams can use a specialized map that works offline (thanks to Open Streat Map) and on mobile devices (thanks to leaflet) too. If an editor with predefined forms is also porvided, it is much easier for them to quickly edit the map.

Next steps:

Set up a database where people who want to map can store extended, more fine-grained attributes for hospitals. The problem is that the Open Street Map only supports a whitelist of tags. In the long run we want to merge the new attributes (based on the problem owners needs) into the Open Street Map. This will remove the responsibility from our infrastructure.

Community help:

Help convince Open Street Map community to incorporate addional attributes.

Create preset forms for Open Street Map editors to make editing easier for health care mappers.

Code Repository:

https://github.com/hospital-map/hospital-map

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Programming languages:

End user environments:

Comunications - Open Street Map

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Southampton, UK

Berlin, Germany

Images and Video:

Seeking people with skills in:

Javscript

Issue Tracker:

https://github.com/hospital-map/hospital-map/issues

Related Problem(s):

Granular Health Map

Youth and Corruption Hackathon Budapest - TI-KIBU

Website/App store links:

http://enjalot.com/tributary/3852574/

https://gist.github.com/3852574

Summary:

Hi!

This visualization was made at the Youth And Corruption Hackaton (and slightly after) Organized by Transparency International and Kitchen Budapest, within the Random Hacks of Kindness.

You can find out more at http://dib.kibu.hu All code is open source (and ugly :), Fork and have fun!

If you don't know where to start I would suggest you, watching some videos at http://enjalot.github.com/dot-enter/

Special thanks to Enjalot the creator of this awesome coding enviroment, to Mike Bostock the creator of D3.js and to Eszter Bircsak for modelling.

Go on check out the link and hit the hide button and look around!

Why we are working on this problem:

Making stuff is fun, hacking for a purpuse is good.

What we accomplished during the event:

Lots of brainstorming! Some concepts, visualizations and games.

Progress made since the event:

Traction:

Next steps:

Community help:

Code Repository:

https://gist.github.com/3852574

Category:

Status:

Programming languages:

Frameworks:

d3js

End user environments:

Hacks Against Corruption Budapest

Server requirements:

none except for the images.

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Images and Video:

Related Problem(s):

ANTI CORRUPTION ART

Ciudadamos.org

Website/App store links:

http://www.ciudadamos.org

http://www.facebook.com/Ciudadamos

https://twitter.com/Ciudadamos

Summary:

Nuestro proyecto se enfoca en poder graficar la información recopilada desde la fuente "Cuentas Claras", donde se aloja todo el movimeinto de dinero que los candidatos mueven en sus campáñas políticas, en el momento de una aspiración a un puesto público La reseña específicamente muestra los gastos en publicidad de su campaña. Diseñamos el alcance capaz de poder maniobrar informacion de diverso enfoque, fuente y propósitos.

Nuestra labor se centra en tomar la información, generar una minería de datos y componer reportes estadísticos. El entregable que hemos desarrollado, reporta datos como:

Top 10 de los candidatos que más dinero invirtieron en su campaña
Top 10 de las empresas de publicidad que más dinero recibieron de un candidato en su campaña
Top 10 de candidatos que más dinero invirtieron en su campaña política discriminado por departamentos.
Reporte por candidato junto con las empresas de publicidad que más ricibieron dinero
Reporte de empresas en cada departamento que más recibieron dinero en publicidad.

El alcance final del proyecto es apoyar el trabajo de abogacía de transparencia por colombia y de su herramienta "Cuentas claras". El grupo Ciudadamos, nos apalancaremos en la información que ya está apoyada por el marco legislativo colombiano, la haremos más fácil de usar y compartir construyendo discusión y visibilizando la estrategia.

El proyecto inicial se realizó utilizando herramientas tecnológicas de Código Abierto (Open Source), con la finalidad de minimizar costos de infraestructura buscando otorgar esclabilidad en la solución. La única inversión económica que se ha realizado a la fecha, es la compra de dominio junto con el hosting, para alojar y consultar los repositorios por medio de un Sitio Web "http://www.ciudadamos.org". De igual manera, nos hemos reforzado en la popularidad de las redes sociales (Facebook, Twitter, Youtube) generando apoyo y concientización de la ciudadanía, para sellar las irregularidades que se presentan en una jornada electoral. Adicionalmente se creó una aplicación para IPhone vinculando el sitio web, con el mismo propósito.

Es total nuestro firme apoyo al organismo "Cuentas Claras" , otorgando herramientas capaces de logar el cumplimiento de su objetivo principal.

Why we are working on this problem:

Nuestro firme propósito es la transparencia de los candidatos políticos, para que los recursos del estado y el pueblo sean asignados eficientemente.

What we accomplished during the event:

Hemos logrado trabajo en equipo, hacer nuevos amigos, cumplimiento de objetivos y un resultado satisfactorio. De igual manera hemos explotado nuestros talentos de manera eficiente, y una satisfacción genera de grupo

Progress made since the event:

Los progresos que se hab logrado son la entrega de un proyecto con viabilidad y calidad

Next steps:

El siguiente paso es conseguir el apoyo económico del evento, para concluir el proyecto. El objetivo es que sea implementado y de esta manera contribuir con la transparencia.

Community help:

La ayuda de la comunidad es la publicidad y la generación de tráfico en las redes sociales.

Code Repository:

https://github.com/RHoKBog/ciudadamos

Category:

Methodology

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End user environments:

Hacks Against Corruption Bogota

What RHoK event this project is being submitted for:

Images and Video:

Participa

Summary:

Colombian Legislation requires candidates to do their advertisement according to several rules, including expending tops, allowed places to advertise, allowed kinds of media, etc.

This is supposed to make elections more fair and accesible for more candidates, and avoid that over wealthy candidates gain an advantage. However, many of them do not respect this rules, surpass the expending limits, make illegal use of advertisement, or receive in their campaigns money from illegal sources, including terrorist groups or drug capos.

With Participa citizens can submit information they see about the candidates and their expending, whether they are legally placed or not, this information can help know more about the candidate, his expenditure, his benavioural ethics, and raise awareness about them.

Why we are working on this problem:

We believe in a better world, and governmen and governants do play an important role in this, helping make elections fairer chances are better people will arrive at public positions.

What we accomplished during the event:

We have a working demo that when feed with the proper information can show reports and all sort of information.

Citizens can upload information from our mobile app or via the website.

Progress made since the event:

We are still in the event.=D

Traction:

Iea has been spread between our close network, and it has been well accepted.

Next steps:

After winning, and being selected we hope to contribute and maintain the application to help make sure is serving its purpose and include any functionality that could be require to meet this goal.

Code Repository:

https://github.com/senorpasajero/corruptly

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