Public & Social Benefit
iFriend - The Central System... He who knows all..
Just go through idea. It will make the earth trantor.
From my childhood going through sci-fi stories, i got a common character. CC, Central Computer that knows everything almost and can answer wisely...
For some days i am just running with a theme... and i named it "iFriend".
The theme is:
" Why not to make a system that can read and learn.
And i would throw it in world wide web. then let it learn.
Then use it as my friend...
which can talk with me, understand me
and can give me exactly what i want with alternatives.."
does it sound like funny or impossible? I don't think so. I like to dig deep..
So far i have thought, that is..
Chat robot (To define the problem) + Apache Lucene (search engine) + OLAP (to create the knowledge Base)
Problem:
whatever is happening in world one can define with
Time,
place,
subject,
object,
objective,
reason.. still studying...
I am thinking of a Data warehouse with such dimensions that can define anything.. i don't know yet how much logical it is.
Upto now i can think so far..
1. How fact can be defined so accurately
2. Chat Robot
3. Search Engine
4. OLAP
Its huge.. I need every interested developers
Community Living Connection (CLiC)
The Community Living Connection (CLiC) addresses the need for accessible day program services for people living with brain injuries in rural areas. Through both web-based and person-to-person interaction, this high tech - high touch approach to improving independent functioning of survivors of brain injury focuses directly on building cognitive, social, and vocational skill sets that increase quality of life and facilitate greater participation in the home and community environments.
CLiC will address through computer and assistive technology, the challenges inherent in delivering comprehensive brain injury rehabilitation in a rural environment where geography and distance have traditionally limited access.
Our first step is a pilot program to provide computers, internet connection and program facilitation to allow group interaction with web conferencing ability.
Under the direction of the online facilitator, the program will provide structured rehabilitation services such as cognitive rehabilitation, social opportunities, structured goal setting, discussions, education, vocational skills, and to plan for meeting times for participation in community activities.
A full copy of our concept paper is available upon request to:
CLiC will provide computer and assistive technology and internet connection free of charge to those participating in the pilot program. After initial evaluation, services will be opened to a wider group and based on fundraising addtional participants will be added as possible. Other Brain Injury Services of SWVA services are currently either free (case management)Â or on a sliding scale bases (life skills training). Through this project we hope to be able to offer those services to more individuals
The Jason Foundation was formed to hlep people with brain injuries and their families. In doing this, we have funded the establishment of Brain Injury Services of SWVA that aid brain injury survivors in the Southwest Virginia area. In conjunction with Brain Injury Services, and others, we are continuing to look for ways to help those with brain injuries. Our hope with this project is to be able to not only help those in rural areas of Southwest Virginia, but in other rural areas of the world as well.
We feel this project will have possibilities for many other groups as well.
We welcome comments from anyone having experience in group web conferencing. We are also looking for additional financial support. Our current budget is about $100,000 of which we are about $20,000 short. We plan to start the project in September and are currently setting up a trail run with non-brain injured subjects to try out the connectivity and programs.
Computers for youths
Under the Youth empowerment program of Christian Fellowship and Care Foundation, Computers for Youths aims to close the gap in terms of education and opportunities. In areas where 75% of families do not own a personal computer in their homes, we hope that by establishing a computer center for youths in our community and utilizing educational software this would enhance learning and youth interest in computer age.
The service would be provided free to every underserve youth, only the parent's participation and input in their child's academics.
Besides providing an after-school program that focuses on homework assistance and life skill lessons, CHRIFACAF offers mentoring and counselling, Health care services, and volunteer activities in the community.
In order to reach the goals for this program, we need financial assistance to purchase computers and softwares. Our organization chose to use the educational driven approach and Curriculum for reducational enhacements (reading, math, science), LifeSkills improve socila competencies, and Brief Strategic and web development.
Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center
WOlf Gardens Wildlife Center is loacted in the East Centtral mountains of Alabama. Over half of Clay County is located in the Talladega National Forest.
We are home to a number of endangered adn protected wildlife species.
The completion of Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center which is a Wildlife Rescue, Rehab adn Education Center, animals that have been left to live or die in their own will be able to have help.
Our education program will teach not only about the badly needed conservation needs but will also work to create protected boundaries in National Forest ares for wild release of rehabilitated animals.
Our education orogram will also focus on the ills of breedin gwild animals for pets.
On the up said we will also develop interpretive trails and educational programs on environmental conservation,wildlife conservation and the need for volunteers and interaction through general public interest.
Nature based and wildlife based tourism will be developed in order to make Wolf Gardens Sel Supportive inclding campgrounds and RV parks in order to improved economic community development for our local communities.
By using Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center we will be able to teach other very rural communities how do develop good, strong economies for theri areas without destroying their environments.
Wolf Gardens wants to set te standards for Wildlife Centers not simply follow the standards.
Wolf Gardens Wildlife Center is the community development prooject of the First Nations Outreach Project a 501 (c) 3 Native American Religious Non Prooooofit Organization.
Wolf issues, bear issues as well as many other endangered animal issues and information.
The First Nations Outreach Project started as a grass roots Native American Rights organization which evolved into the First Nations Outreach Project.
The First Nations Outreach Project houses the first Nations Commission on Civil Rights as well as a number of other areas of interest all revolving around community development and protection special programs.
More than anything we need onsite volunteers.
We also need to improve our web presence. We can not compete with organizations liike care2.com but if we were able to compete to a degree it would help us to generate a level of interest that would help us to develop even more frontline efforts.
Funding would be nice and it would take $80,000.00 to put us on a time frame that would prepare us to open to the public within a years time.
But volunteers who are willing to work on site are most valuable.
They will also spreaad a great deal of word of mouth advertising as well as doing something special on a frontline level.
Uganda Economic Intelligence Unit
This project will help highlight a balanced picture of events in Uganda and Africa. The world is rapidly globalizing and unfortunately Africa's momentum in the convergence aspects is slow. The process of drafting young people into responsible community builders is still snail-paced. Using technology, I believe I can tell the Ugandan and Africa story to the world in my own way. Yes, there is the traditional media but technology has provided me with tools to play my role in a quick, low-cost and effective way.
Uganda Economic Intelligence Unit is a media platform that projects the view of a Uganda citizen, a young man who at the age of 9 lost his parents due to civil strife. A young man who lost his childhood to a political insurection by crafting into the military thus dropping out of school in 1981. A young man who went back-to-school 5 years later(1987) and regained his freedom and today wants to tell the story based on his historical perspective.
Uganda Intelligence Unit(UIU) is a solution based media blog. It discusses public policy,IT solutions to common enterprise development, economic espionage, tourism, natural and environmental resource management in Uganda and Africa.
It is the African story of optism.
Uganda Intelligence Unit(UIU) is a solution based media blog. It discusses public policy management,IT solutions to common enterprise development, economic espionage, tourism, natural and environmental resource management in Uganda and Africa.
Visitors will get a citizen-based perception of the Uganda and Africa. The potential of Uganda and Africa in this rapidly competitive world is not in dispute. The free movement of people now requires information for people to make a choice of where the final destination should be. Investment potential and trade opportunities are vital informations which visitors will find important on this site.
Uganda is host to the most endangered species of fauna and flora.It is found at the equator, a tropical country, rain fed-agricultur producing organic foods.Sits right at the top of the larget fresh water L.Victoria.It is the source of the Great River.Nile, a river with one of the greatest Bujagali falls where skiing is the main thrill. We are proud of the many game reserves and parks that have witnessed the emergence of community tourism as a model of improving community benefits in tourism.
The Media Blog has been developed with information that is balanced and constructive aimed at building institutional and community capacity at addressing development needs of the country and the continent. It is a product of the The Harris Group platform whose energy is built around a skills bank. We mobilize professional expertize for community building harnessing our talents to Learn, Develop and Lead.
The initiator of this project also is the Chairman/Founder of
Rockford Harris Group Mr.Shaka Robert envisioned
Enteprise and Institutional Development consortium of young and emerging professionals of various professional fields as a tool for human capital development.
Web Development Support & Hosting. Financial Support for expansion into a fully fledged media House in Uganda both print, electronic and online is our mission objective for the future.
CAMEROON SWITCHBOARD
This project is bringing in a new vision in the relation between government and citizens, government and private sector. It is a different vision from the present one in the sense that it practically opposes the ongoing methods which has brought my country and many others to the summit of corruption world wide in which every form of information related to public and even private services are marketed.  To distinguish itself, the project, will facilitate access to information for both public and private use for free (through our website, telephone calls and sms), to all stake holders and citizens thus abolishing barriers that in the past encouraged corrupt practices, discouraged investors and slowed down development.In a nutshell, this project will bring the world (through information and services) closer to the people, with the aim to encourage investors to partake in the nation building process. This project will be providing genuine information both from the private and public services; involved in establishing official documents in all sectors of life: business, private and public initiatives, micro finance, partnership, opportunities in diverse
This project will be providing genuine information both from the private and public services; involved in establishing official documents in all sectors of life: business, private and public initiatives, micro finance, partnership, opportunities in diverse domains…
In this cause area, I have put in place an association called IVISSION INTERNATIONAL (Information vehicle for sub saharra and international organisations and networks)
with objectives To promote communication between the North and the South, amongst all categories of citizens and stakeholders with view to resolving perceived computer literacy problems., develop an awareness of computer and language concerns worldwide, encourage and foster national and international networks in the Information Technology (IT) field.
To make this project a living reality, I will need assistance in the following domains:
A** TECHNICAL
- I need a software or web based application to send free SMS to those that contact us for any service(s)
- An open telephone system wher people ca, call for free
- An email management software
- A volunteer (Consultant) to work with us for 3-6 months
B** FINANCIAL
- I need financial assistance to puchase computers (1 Lap top, 2 PCs)
- Pay collaborators for the first 12 months
- pay for domain name and hosting for 2 years
GoSomething: Go Somewhere, Do Something
Those who want to contribute while traveling will be able to get the information and support they need; they will also be able to give back information and support needed by others.
The world will change because contributive travel will become easier and more commonplace: more contributive acts -> more good examples, more help given, traveler is better in touch with a community, community is better in touch with the traveler. we all learn, we all improve. Â
why the mashup: because we need to leverage every single technology tool out there to turn what used to be an old-school, slapshod exchange of info into a systematized, easily searchable source of information for travelers and communitiesÂ
 who: engaged travelers, host communities, donors and contributors.
what: make a small contribution of time, skill, goods, effort on every trip; we'll help you make it happen. we all need it to happen.
where: the GoSomething platform, but very much in the real world -- anywhere one goes, and not just North -> South. we all go places, we all are guests, it make sense to get deeper into the community by giving back something (and yes, that includes San Jose)
why: because contributive travel is a way of giving back, of getting deeper into a visited community, of giving a sense of purpose to all travel, of showing one cares, of feeling fulfilment from caring while traveling, and implementing that back home
GoSomething has helped all sorts of travelers achieve their contributive goals by providing them with information, putting them in touch with the right people, endorsing their projects and finding them goods; matching existing projects with volunteers; incubating projects born from contributive acts by travelers.
a way to scrub information on existing projects and include it on a GoSomething project map, a calendar that is cross-referenced to the map and to a forum of information. basically we need to populate the field where travelers can look at pre-existing projects; a secondary necessity is to represent visually and spatially the ongoing projects, make them trackable, add all elements that make the information more valuable to others.
what kind of help: technical, technical. and ideas/concepts are also always welcome.
check out the map on the GoSomething page for a sense of the visualization of the projects.
tweet4good: Donate and fundraise using Twitter.
tweet4good is a mashup that integrates Network for Good's donation processing platform with Twitter, allowing any user of this microblogging service to easily donate to any cause or organization.
Similarly, any nonprofit organization listed at Network for Good's database can start fundraising on Twitter just by creating a profile and tweeting about its cause.
As new social networks arise, reaching online users for fundraising becomes more of a challenge. The key for organizations will be to provide easy ways for people to send their donations, using each one of these networks and services.
How tweet4good works?
For donors:
1) If you are already on Twitter, follow tweet4good.
2) To donate to an organization, tweet $username (i.e. $techsoup). To donate to a cause, tweet $cause (i.e. $genocide).
3) You will receive a direct message with a link where you can place your donation.
For organizations:
1) Confirm that you are listed at Network for Good.
2) Create a Twitter account for your organization.
3) Start tweeting about your cause and invite your followers to donate.
Twitter gives nonprofit organizations the opportunity to share their stories and create a group of followers that later can be the support to a fundraising initiative. tweet4good allows users to easily donate to organizations that they follow and like.
We have a working demo of this mashup that you can test at www.tweet4good.org.
People using Twitter will have access to information about more than 1 million charities listed at Network for Good; and on the other hand, nonprofit organizations will be able to reach an estimated universe of more than 1.5 million users on Twitter.
Since 2001, we have been working on exploring social uses of technology for organizations and communities, to help minimize the digital divide. Last year, our project Yankana was one of N2Y2 featured projects; and recently, we launched nonprofit pulse, a mashup that tracks messages shared at Twitter by people working or related to the nonprofit area, worldwide.
We have a working demo of this mashup that you can test at www.tweet4good.org. Any suggestions to improve it will be very helpful. We need funding for setting up a more stable infrastructure, and also permanent access to the Network for Good's API to launch this initiative publicly.
Network for Good API: Database of more than 1 million charities.
Twitter API: Microblogging platform with an estimated of more than 1.5 million users.
Twurl API: Service for creating short URLs.
HungerMaps.org / NYC Coalition Against Hunger - DonateNow Submission
1.3 million New Yorkers face hunger and food insecurity. This project will combine the nationally-recognized map-making software of HungerMaps.org with New York City's most comprehensive database of over 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries and the Donate Now API to increase the capacity of hunger response in NYC.Â
As a result, users will be able to use an existing Google Maps interface lauded by TechSoup to locate and donate to emergency food providers in their neighborhood. This grassroots fundraising strategy will both address the under-capacity of many NYC soup kitchens and food pantries to feed a growing number of clients and personalize the monumental scale of hunger in NYC, allowing donors to target their contributions at the local level.
HungerMaps.org is the nation’s first GIS mashup to support anti-hunger advocacy and service provision, transforming local data into a national portrait of needs and resources as the basis for direct action. At the heart of HungerMaps is a free, user-friendly GIS mapping interface that enables registered users to upload local data and create interactive, online maps on-the-fly.
The New York City Coalition Against Hunger (NYCCAH) represents the more than 1,200 nonprofit soup kitchens and food pantries in New York City and the more than one million low-income New Yorkers who are forced to use them. The Coalition works to meet the immediate food needs of low-income New Yorkers and enact innovative solutions to help them move "beyond the soup kitchen" to self-sufficiency.
Users will interact with a comprehensive database of the more than 1,200 soup kitchens and food pantries in New York maintained by NYCCAH staff members spread throughout the city and updated via live interaction with open source Sugar CRM software. This database is the only source of information updated daily to reflect the fast-changing environment of charitable hunger response in NYC.
The database is visually presented using the Google Maps API, allowing users to search for local emergency food programs via zipcode, borough and keyword. Results are presented in both map and text-list format. The inclusion of the Donate Now API will allow users to click on existing text results and pop-up balloons to donate to specific agencies, directing them to a database-generated donation page tailored to the agency in question.
HungerMaps has received recognition in the NP Times, Today’s Dietician, the newsletter of World Hunger Year, and Google Maps Mania while working with agencies like NYCCAH, the Seattle Public Utilities and the South Texas Food Bank.
NYCCAH is an award-winning organization that has provided technical assistance to and advocacy on behalf of the hungry for over 20 years. NYCCAH’s executive director, Joel Berg, is a nationally-recognized leader in the fields of hunger and food insecurity.
StuffBee - Give & Take for mobiles
StuffBee aims to promotes “give and take†on Mobiles
StuffBee gives the opportunity to anybody having redundant objects to avoid trashing them by meeting other persons in need of those objects within the same geographic area, thanks to their mobile and Internet.
Benefits are multiple: increasing interaction between unknown persons, save time and money, avoid recycling.
At first sight, this project may seems exactly the same as "Freecycle Cellular Osmosis" but the application is operational and the project scope is broader:
- Deploy the ultimate "give & take" application in hands of 3 billion users.
- Broadcast the free object database created by mobile users with existing "give & take" websites to unify users of Internet and Mobile communities.
- Help bulky object departments to broadcast reusable stuff to persons living within the publication area instead of recycling usable objects.
- Help local humanitarian associations by increasing visibility of available items and give a better service to people in need.
StuffBee has been designed initially for Android mobiles. It will soon be ported to all other mobiles.
StuffBee is operational and shows an attractive, compelling, multithread design optimized to offer a rich give & take user experience.
Languages available are English and French.
In June, StuffBee will feature 10 Languages scaled to a total of 70 languages in September.
Users will interact with Real/Virtual objects, their mobiles and other users.
We made everything possible to provide a rich user experience by using animations, colors, game technics while keeping StuffBee smart, efficient and addictive.
Givers and Seekers will play with their mobiles. Givers will use their camera to picture their stuff through the publication wizard while Seekers will browse free objects gallery thanks to StuffBee Intuitive Image explorer.
Tech & Smile is participating to other challenges, contacting representatives of “give & take†websites, local and european authorities, potential sponsors/supporters … to make this project a reality.
StuffBee uses already a SOAP Server to establish communication between mobiles and possibly other "Give & Take" websites.
We need help in meeting mobile providers for packaging/deploying StuffBee on all mobiles.
