Solutions

CuiBono: A truth detector for political ads

Updated 1 week 2 days ago

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:

Bird Game App

Updated 1 week 6 days ago

  • Augmented reality game for smartphones
  • The object of the game is to count birds in the sky by tapping them on the phone's live camera feed
  • The tapped birds will be marked making cute sounds and giving points to the user on screen
  • Image recognition + human intelligence will be used to count the birds
  • The game willl utilize the built-in camera and GPS info to automatically gather data about birds in various locations and send them to a central server
  • The data may be processed there to create maps of bird migrations or in any desired way

Bacteria Detecto-Droid

Updated 3 weeks 16 hours ago

This project provides the infrastructure to take a picture using an Android device (we've heard that they can cost as low as 100$ in developing countries which would need this sort of app) run the picture through some image processing or pattern recognition in OpenCV and then upload the image using POST.

 

 

We are targeting it specifically for the Bacteria Counting app for low-cost water monitoring kit project.

 

 

 

We already have the code for:

  • *accessing Android Camera

  • *taking and saving a jpg

Weather Collector

Updated 3 weeks 5 days ago

Weather Collector is an application geared towards improving Weather Data Collection & Transmission. It uses readily available open source software like gnokii to transmit data through SMS. The collection center receives all the weather data from various stations and keeps a log.

My Skills My Future

Updated 1 month 1 day ago

•A network of professionals to provide career advice and curriculum support to schools through online webinars•During this live collaborative sessions kids will learn about finance through a range of topics and develop their skills and financial awareness

Management of Microfinance Records

Updated 1 month 2 weeks ago

 

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.

 

 

 

 

The Pineapple Express

Updated 2 months 1 week ago

Coordinate

Updated 2 months 1 week ago

Coordinate is a simple mobile app and database that allows emergency response officials to plot hazards in an accurate and structured manner.  It allows an EOC and other response agencies to receive validated reports from responders out in the disaster area.  Information can be updated out in the disaster area allowing for a better common operating picture of what hazards still need to be resolved.

 

Project Members:

 

Nick Costa

Benjamin Hitov 

Avni Khatri 

Eron Gjoni

Amos Scott

Justin Kates

 

Cost of Freedom App

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

Improving public transportation reliability to encourage people reduce their carbon footprint.

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

  • 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

InfoRisk

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

CharityClick

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

CharityClick provides low cost advertising for charities through innovative web technologies.

 

CharityClick capitalises on the moment that a person is emotionally moved when reading an article or watching a video about issues that can benefit from a donation. It does this by vastly reducing the number of steps between desire to help and making a financial contribution.

 

How it works:

Snappy Games: All or Bust

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

SnappyGames is a group of people who met at the London Random Hacks Of Kindness event in December 2011. We got together on a weekend to develop an educational computer game targeted at teenagers, and designed specifically for use in classrooms. The game allows students to explore the complexities and uncertainties involved in purchase decisions, and how these decisions can affect their long-term financial stability.

 

Localization Tools for e-Learning Modules (Numbers and Data Fluency)

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

Public Learning Media, a non-profit organization in the Boston area, has created three open-licence Learning Tools for young students to become more data literate and improve numeracy -- and while the Learning Tools involve data visualization and graphic calculators, the instructions are presented alongside to get started or when they ask for help.

The web-accessible Learning tools have been widely taken up in English speaking countries (USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and the UK) and there is increasing demand in non-English speaking countries.

Heartbeat - An alarm button and dead man's switch to detect unlawful detention

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

"Heartbeat" is a proof of concept. The goal is to develop a system that provides people who are in danger of oppression due to political views with the possibility to be "tracked" in daily life. This tracking makes sure that the person is seemingly still active in his own private environment (and not locked away) by observing twitter and blogs and requiring periodical confirmation. As soon the tracking cannot spot the person anymore (no heartbeats have been received) the system starts informing family members, defined contacts, Amnesty International, etc.

Dew Point Calculator

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

dewpointcalc is an application geared towards implementing Humidity Slide Functionality with Software. An SMS request is made by a user with wet bulb temperature, dry bulb temperature and height. The server does the calculations from input variables and returns Dew Point, Relative Humidity and Water vapor pressure.

Plan Bee—Saving the World One Hive at a Time

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

Understanding trends in beepopulations is critical to decifering environmental and ecological changes effecting the health of the planet.

 

We know the insect Pollinator population is in decline so empowering the new Urban Beekeeper with a tool that educates them, creates standardization and tracks information so patterns and trends can become more apparnet. Hopefully resulting in a rebound of the population or at least an increase in the genetic strains of bees

 

meteorology-gambia

Updated 2 months 2 weeks ago

Program an SMS system to send the Data to the Central Point using the a Data card as a Modem.

Design a MySQL Database to keep record of the data sent, the unique ID, the Date it was received and which number it came from.

Design a User Interface that displays the Data sent by the Data Collectors and the SMS number it was sent from

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