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Community Improvement

SeeClickFix: report non-emergency local problems and collaborate to solve them

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SeeClickFix is a free mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space. Issues that are reported are recorded on a map on the web for everyone to see and interact with. Anyone can receive email alerts on the issues based on a filter by geographical area and keyword.

Take a government run 3-1-1 system, put it on the web and democratize it. Put the issues on the map and allow the community to manage it like Wikipedia. Now you have a sense of what SeeClickFix can do.

An Example Story

T-evelopment

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SeeClickFix: report non-emergency local problems and collaborate to solve them

Challenges Entered: 
SeeClickFix is a free mobile phone and web tool that allows citizens to report and document non-emergency issues to communicate them to those accountable for the public space. Issues that are reported through the website are recorded on a map for everyone to see and interact with. Anyone can receive email alerts on the issues based on a filter by geographical area and keyword.

T-evelopment

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Connecting poor people and rich through a SMS network in order to supply labour to rich for various community development services like cleaning, road marking, painting, security guards, etc

Location

Bangladesh
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Bangladesh

The Haiti Connection's Haiti Health Coalition

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 The Haiti Health Coalition will provide opportunities to communicate and collaborate between organizations that provide health care. We will sponsor conferences, establish a web site directory of 1.000 organizations, and initiate a referral network for children with cleft lip and palate, club feet, and burns.  

Location

Raleigh, NC
United States
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Project Location: 
Raleigh, NC

Community Living Connection (CLiC)

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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) or on a sliding scale bases (life skills training). Through this project we hope to be able to offer those services to more individuals

Location

Radford, VA
United States
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Radford, VA

Lobby Congress! Vote on legislation, send your vote to your reps, track your votes, and build grass roots support for issues

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You'll get access to all the legislation, voting records, analytic tools, district maps, charts and graphs. You'll get to connect with other members, discuss issues, and rally for support.

Location

San Francisco, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
San Francisco, CA

Repertory Theater Film Listing Database for SF Bay Area

Challenges Entered: 
Every organization does its own promotion and listing. This information would need to be aggregated into a common format. All the PR people would have to be "on board" with making timely and consistent updates. We'd need to show that doing this one "data entry" would propagate across the internet, resulting in numerous listings for their showings (as Eventful does). Then we would need to let potential client organizations know that we have built a better mousetrap.

Live Well

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How it works: Mrs. Jane Hammond, an 87 year old widow, lives alone and assisted by neighbors. A neighbor creates a Live Well profile for "Mrs. J" that enables the neighbor to locate a home health aide to come in on weekdays as well as to help Mrs. J when she can't get to the store. The Live Well profile links to "neighborhoods" on facebook(FB) where a FB neighbor with a pet 2 blocks away learns Mrs. J needs cat food; the FB neighbor goes to the pet store and picks up cat food for Mrs. J. Later, a young professional uses his iPhone to check grocery store needs from Live Well and sees that Mrs. J, up the street, needs a quart of milk; his grandparents use it in Ohio so he helps other folks out locally. Reimbursement would be integrated directly to the stores interfacing with Medi-aid/Medi-care. Community service effort may be credited through a "time bank" system, employer recognition for companies as "in kind" donations, or simply in the spirit of a "good deed."Live Well uses technology to facilitate meeting social support both through virtual connections and "live" connections. Live Well innovates the way we live in and think about our "communities" by bridging virtual community with our residential community, that bridges the communities of needs with the resources for benefits, and that brings people together to care for our community wellness.

Location

San Francisco, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
San Francisco, CA

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