One of my favorite code for good projects is an old one that's had it's time and a huge positive impact. It's FrontlineSMS, a free, open-source messaging platform that's been used to monitor elections and the work of many NGOs in the field :)
Check it out here frontlinesms.com/, it was built by Ken Banks, twitter.com/kiwanja
I think climate change adaptation is becoming a big thing and I'd like to think of ways of leveraging technology to help. For example, we're seeing wildfires everywhere and we know they're getting worse. But for some reason everybody's acting as if it's not going to happen again and we're all scrambling around when it inevitably comes. Turns out that people have worked out predictive models to figure out how wildfires come and evolve, but they lack a lot of the input data to use it for specific situations. Maybe an interesting solution here would be to hack away at community data input solutions, and those could be replicated in lots of places around the globe. You'd give it to a local municipality and they would ask their citizens to input climate change related data for rewards. This is still just a thought, I just find it fascinating that nobody's working on tech for climate change adaptation even though there's already demand and funding for it !
Bonus points because it matters a lot :)
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I'm glad you liked it Ella :) thanks
One of my favorite code for good projects is an old one that's had it's time and a huge positive impact. It's FrontlineSMS, a free, open-source messaging platform that's been used to monitor elections and the work of many NGOs in the field :)
Check it out here frontlinesms.com/, it was built by Ken Banks, twitter.com/kiwanja
I think climate change adaptation is becoming a big thing and I'd like to think of ways of leveraging technology to help. For example, we're seeing wildfires everywhere and we know they're getting worse. But for some reason everybody's acting as if it's not going to happen again and we're all scrambling around when it inevitably comes. Turns out that people have worked out predictive models to figure out how wildfires come and evolve, but they lack a lot of the input data to use it for specific situations. Maybe an interesting solution here would be to hack away at community data input solutions, and those could be replicated in lots of places around the globe. You'd give it to a local municipality and they would ask their citizens to input climate change related data for rewards. This is still just a thought, I just find it fascinating that nobody's working on tech for climate change adaptation even though there's already demand and funding for it !
Bonus points because it matters a lot :)