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ICE Raids Rapid Response Network
Challenges Entered:
Give ICE a red card
Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids are a constant fear for immigrants. Even those who are here on a visa or have legal status know that they do not have the same rights as citizens, and are afraid they too might get caught up in immigration enforcement activities by local and federal law enforcement. ICE officers have been known to intimidate and trick immigrants into making self-incriminating statements or signing deportation orders (which they may not even be able to read), even misleading them about their fundamental rights. When they violate immigrants’ rights, we want to give ICE a red card and kick them out of the game.
Location
Immigrant Legal Resource Center
1663 Mission Street, Suite 602
San Francisco, CA 94103United States
37° 46' 20.3844" N, 122° 24' 39.132" W
See map: Google Maps
Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories
Challenges Entered:
Looking to the past to map out a better future
This project uses work that I am doing with yout as well as my own personal reflections on and creations of community history to create multi-media representations of history both online and offline.
Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a collection of stories, a preservation of lives and a reconstruction of histories. Untold stories posses the power to analyze, restructure, and overthrow systems that hold us captive. Communities must unite around stories of common history to seek the roots of oppression and fight the systems that hide those stories in the first place. Re-Mapping Our (his)Stories is a multi-media exploration of his-story, her-story, my-story and your-story.
Locations
Mishkan Shalom Synagogue
Philadelphia, PA
United States
See map: Google Maps
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002
United States
42° 22' 39.5436" N, 72° 30' 11.628" W
See map: Google Maps
GenerationPulse
Challenges Entered:
Social Networking for Social Justice
Mission Statement:
Collaborating in a cross-cultural community with our global generation, GenerationPulse promotes empowerment from knowledge, transformation through relationships, and social action for change.
What is GenerationPulse:
Locations
Hope for Haiti
Port au Prince
Haiti
World Vision
Kampala
Uganda
Boston College
140 Commonwealth Ave
Chestnut Hill , MA 02467United States
42° 19' 19.1892" N, 71° 10' 23.304" W
See map: Google Maps
Change Broadcasting Channels
Challenges Entered:
The 4 main interfaces/data sources that people will interact with - news from http://daylife.com and http://groundreport.com and SMS/messaging capabilities from Twitter and Flurry mobs.CBC 'Pop Demand' allows users to specify keywords of social change that they want to keep track of. Users can submit these keywords, which are evaluated and added to the social channel taxonomy. Once the request for certain keywords exceeds a certain number, this keyword becomes an official channel. Some examples channels:* Crisis & Conflicts * Education * Energy * Social Sector Finance * Microfinance * Women's Rights * Cultural Rights * Child Rights * Human Trafficking * Poverty * Human Rights * Environment * Health * Community Improvement * Arts & Culture * Public & Social Benefit * Safety & Disaster * Employment Issues * Urban DevelopmentA user can subscribe to one or more channels over SMS. CBC continuously polls the news for these keywords, and notifies the subscribers of the respective channels over SMS or twitter with a summary of news of those keywords. CBC uses twitter to send and receive SMS. Twitter users can send a direct message to the daylife twitter user dlfe, to recommend keywords for subsciption (eg d dlfe tax 'microfinance'). The CBC system saves the keyword and adds it to the channel request list. News messages are also sent to the users as direct messages to their twitter user ids.
Location
New York, NY
United States
See map: Google Maps
Your Mapper - Know Your Neighborhood
Challenges Entered:
The core idea behind Your Mapper is to create an easy way to make public information that has long been locked up in internal government databases, and present it to the world in a way that is visually appealing, easy to understand, and local.Examples of these kinds of datasets would be crime, restaurant health reviews, traffic accidents, building permits, sex offender registries, property values, and pollution sources, or anything that can be linked to a physical address or location. Because each government office stores each of theses items internally in very different formats, it would take too many resources to create a relationship with these local agencies and obtain data dumps on a regular basis. Your Mapper empowers concerned citizens to collect and share this information, since they know their town or city and have a good idea of what others living there would want to see made public.I do not believe that altruism alone is enough to encourage local Mappers to load and maintain quality local data, so Your Mapper actually compensates the Mappers based on the amount of website advertising and embedded map revenue generated that is specifically related to their maps. This would empower the Mappers to become "local experts," much like Google's Knol project and Helium.com does.
Location
Louisville, KY
United States
See map: Google Maps
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