Solutions
Vegetation Analyzer
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
Ourt solution analyzes satellite images to show how the land is used. It visualizes the different surface patterns with different colors.
AmnestySOS
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
Enabling third party witnesses to help refugees in distress and amplifying their call for help
Solution: an sms-based crowdsource mapping platform that notifies relevant networks when a boat of refugees are in distress
OpenBankAnalytics
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
A simple analytical tool with transparency enabled for forward-thinking organisations
Ufahamu
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
Group Members:
1) Antony Oroko - Leader
2) Dennis Munene
3) Samuel Kyalo
4) Racheal Wacera.
Problem Statement
Disaster Risk Reduction Framework
Volunteer Event Signup
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
The Emerald City Programming Group, a sub of the the Atlanta Ruby User Group (AtlRUG), has taken on a solution to this problem as a June 2012 RHoK project, to be followed by a summer of enhancements. The initial solution is a Ruby on Rails server which meets the initial requirements. Over the summer we will polish the site and work on the extra credit components.
Community Policing
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
GROUP MEMBERS:
Joseph Gitau- group rep
Judy Wanjiku
Iruku Kagika
Clara Muthoni
Alex Mutinda
PROBLEM DEFINITION: COMMUNITY POLICING
SOLUTION
This is a mobile, sms and web application that enables the public to report
crimes e.g. Cattle rustling, general crimes, traffic offences etc within their
locality. Users can also donate money towards the initiative that will help in
sustaining the initiative. The police are able to view these reports and take
Disaster Management and Structural Collapse
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
GROUP NAME: RHOK FLAMES
GROUP MEMBERS:
Joel Kagia- group rep
John Nderitu
Wallace Mureithi
Nelson Asugo
Doreen Mwaura
PROBLEM DEFINITION: DISASTER MANAGEMENT AND
STRUCTURAL COLLAPSE
SOLUTION
This is a mobile and web application that enables the user to check in
and out of a building therefore maintaining an account of the number of
people in the building at any one time. The application also allows the
I Wish This Was
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
I Wish This Was is a public art project started in New Orleans in November 2010 that invited local residents to tag the many vacant storefronts in their neighborhoods with their ideas & wants for the community.
Sustainaville - The Game
Updated 1 year 2 weeks ago
Sustainaville is an interactive online gaming platform making sustainable development fun and saving the world child's play for digital natives. Composed of three levels of play that caters to a wide gaming audience, namely casual and hardcore gamers. It aims to educate youth on sustainability issues and equips them with the knowledge and tools needed to take action in real-life.
The three modes of play are: Play, Redesign and Act!
PlayVisualization And Analysis Of Human Rights Data
Updated 1 year 1 month ago
Testimonies. Field investigations. The voices of victims and witnesses continue to be the richest and most central source of information for human rights advocacy and research. Stories form the core of human rights data and the foundation for the human rights community’s demands for truth, redress and justice for the victims of gross abuses.
Virtual Assembly Point -- Incident Commander Module
Updated 1 year 1 month ago
Virtual Assembly Point is a Disaster Management System. This Module allows the incident commander to have an overall report of every activity that happens during a disaster response, Information such as the vailability of Volunteers, the Utilization of ressources as well as people status and the Ability to stay connected with the hospitals and suppliers. It is a web Platform to work on an iPad that the incident commander can use during coordination in a disaster.
Climate Goggles
Updated 1 year 3 months ago
Aggregation and validation of statements about climate change
CuiBono: A truth detector for political ads
Updated 1 year 4 months 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 year 4 months 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 1 year 4 months 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