• 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

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Problems can be hard to solve. Games make problem solving fun.

 

D2020 is a platform to inspire people to code, build games, and save the world.  

 

D2020 aims to train 2020 new game developers to make 2020 games by 2020, each one confronting one of the many pressing problems humanity faces. 

https://docs.google.com/present/edit?id=0AQBBRPvbNgsXZGM1NHh6emhfNmNoNmhjdmdk

 

What is LandTrackr?

Landtrackr is a platform for encouraging transparent discussions between communities, developers and civic government.

Notice, Contribute, CreateNotice

In a literal sense, Landtrackr connects to city data sources to import the building permits of active projects by land developers. These building sites are then populated on a map for easy reference and act as the focus point for conversations.

Communities may also take notice of changes or opportunities in their community and draft their own proposals of what to do with “soft sites” and areas of interest or concern within their geographically designated region.

Land developers may also monitor the overall values of a community, as well as test out proposals for feedback for potential projects.

Contribute

After setting up a personal scoring criteria and a public profile, Landtrackr’s users can contribute in the following ways:

• They leave feedback, through discussion, and marking proposals as something they’re in favor of, not in favor of or indifferent, on both proposals and active permits.
• Community animators work with external agencies to create proposals and questions that encourage continued participation.
• Take the discussions into other forums by referencing public links of proposals/permits and aggregated data.

Create

It’s the goal of Landtrackr to create forums that allow voices that are not only heard, but representative of their values for their community. With that in mind, users may:

• Create reports reflective of participant’s true feelings on a decision, including printed reports that are suitable for presentation during public consultation.
• Analyse reports through the filters of their own interest.
• Create their own proposals to dig deeper into issues and opinions.

Tools for communities and civic engagementCommunity animators

An administrative role in the site that can be designated by a LandTrackr local initiator, a municipal government or appointed by a community group, has an important role in the community building of the site.

• They help set the standard by maintaining the baseline, persistent questions that are available to all, regardless of the status of current permits or other proposals.
• They can review and process more of the site’s raw data to generate blog posts and reports that can create discussions that are important to cities and their residents.
• They can facilitate learning sessions and signups for Landtrackr in more traditional community settings like town halls; ward and business association meetings.

City consultation

City’s can benefit from both the personal discussions, the regional data and “social barometer” data collected from the site.

By offering a realtime, continuous platform for residents to discuss the building and land development issues affecting their lives, the efficiency of designated review and consultation periods can be increased thanks to the more active and measurable participation of the people it affects.

Just the beginning

Landtrackr is currently be developed by a small team in conjunction with Toronto’s Random Hacks of Kindness event.

The platform is currently being tested with data supplied by Toronto Open.

Thanks to the development platform, Daimio, the platform is flexible enough to work with many different data sources, along with generating its own API for others to work with.

Over time, the data that is generated may be analyzed further by site administrators and combined with other data to create powerful information sources that can help shape the future growth, protection and integrity of any municipality.

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.

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.

We developed a system to monitor birds migration phenomenon. As a solution, we propose to exploit the crowdsourcing, our target users are birdwatchers. Users can upload to our server a geotagged pictures of migratory bird flocks. Addionally, users can add tag information to the picture (e.g. bird species). 

Presentation Link: http://www.slideshare.net/filippodelfra/bird-game-app-rhok-trento-december-2011

Warsaw Food Cooperative is an informal group of consumers, which got together to satisfy (some of) their needs through direct contact with producers.

 

The idea is very simple: members of Cooperative get together to buy directly from local food producers or on the wholesale food market. Because we buy directly, we avoid the middlemen and by doing this we gain better control of quality of purchased goods. Members of Cooperative work rotationally and without any gratification, and because of this our operation costs are close to “0”. Buying food is important, but it’s not our only activity. We’ve created a fund spent on members’ Social Fund, Discussion Club, variety of workshops and other social activities.
We believe that it is in our best interest to create close relationships with suppliers, based on mutual respect, dialog and fair trade rules.  In our activities we try to reach goals of cooperative movement, developing democratic, full open, horizontal, and transparent organization.
Currently our Cooperative has 30 – 40 active members, who participate in cooperative purchases organized every two weeks. From the beginning we support establishing new cooperatives because our goal is to expand democratic control over chains of production, distribution and trade itself.