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Live Climate

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Berkeley, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
Berkeley, CA

Automating Data into 4D Maps

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Environmental, Health, Education, Political, and Economic data -- local and international.We can handle any data with a location and a time!

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

We Greenwash You

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The photos, videos, and maps for this project are largely user-generated. People will share or find the latest examples of greenwashing, and go from there.

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

Global Wealth

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Per capita wealth information for countries, cities, etc. Google mapsCurrency calculators

Lebanese NGOs - Online

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A three-layer mashup consisting of: A map of LebanonPoints plotted where NGOs are working and what types of projects they’re engaged in (with links to their websites/contact people)Relevant and available social/infrastructure indicators such as literacy and illness rates, electricity outages, and internet access points.

Social and Economic Justice Indicators

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Government data, news feeds, and User-generated content.Users will also post their own stories about issues in their communities and workplaces, which will be tagged by issue, location, and corporate or political decision-makers who can change the situation. Once others have also posted their stories, they will be able to see their issues, the broader context of what's going on in their state or neighborhood or industry and occupation. They will also see others who have a related issue who live in the same area, work in the same industry or occupation, or have problems that are generated by the same corporate entity. The can then get together and work to change these circumstances.

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CA
United States
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Project Location: 
CA

Envirovents Global Environmental Events Calendar

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All environmental events across the world. They will be able to add events or full calendars of selected region/category and add it to their own personal calendars, their online social network, individual websites, organization website, etc. Anywhere which excepts widgets and apps.Organizations will be able to add a calendar of local or selected events to their website through a simple rss feed syndication.

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

Map This!

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HealthyCity.org currently offers users access to over 120 demographic and community characteric variables, from 9 different data sources. Our data and sources are described in detail at: http://www.healthycity.org/c/help/sc/indicator. For the proposed national service, some of the California-specific data sources may not be available nationally (such as data from the California Health Interview Survey or from the WIC program), but their functions may be replaced by other data sets. There are a number of health and economic data that state and federal offices use that are only available at the county level (so they cannot be displayed on our current site); offering a national view will make comparisons and disparities between counties and states accessible to users. Users will be able to:- Upload their own data sets- Overlay data points on top of demographic and other data- Map and analyze data within a radius around an address, or within a ZIP code, city, legislative districts or other jurisdictions- View core demographic and other data for the selected geography in tables and charts- View assets, such as schools, parks, fire and police stations, on an interactive map, with types of service (identified by icons)- Identify information about assets or service providers by scrolling over their icons- Cut and analyze data by over 60 demographic, health and other indicators

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Los Angeles, CA
United States
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Project Location: 
Los Angeles, CA

Anti-Genocide Action Tracker: Genocide Scores for Every Legislator and State

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GenocideScores.org would provide four main assets to the anti-genocide community: Aggregate anti-genocide data. Not only records on Darfur legislation, but on any anti-genocide bills relating to our areas of concern, or recognition of historical genocides such as in Armenia. Each state would also display its status on divestment and genocide education. Subsequent campaigns could also be added.Clear illustrations of legislative status. Instead of simply being an entry on a scorecard, each bill would have its own graphical timeline, and members would be able to track progress of a bill through e-mail alerts or RSS feeds.Most importantly, cross-indexing, allowing specific alerts to be generated for members based on location. When a bill is coming up for a vote in Congress and a senator from Connecticut is the key vote, Connecticut members automatically receive an alert. When a divestment or genocide education rally is planned at the Nevada statehouse, all Nevadans on the site know about it. This information — where geographical power lies in each case — is viewable on the bill's timeline, so members can notify their friends in CT or NV of the need to take action.Finally, embeddable badges to allow people to display the current genocide score of their state and district.

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Washington, DC
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Washington, DC

Text a Farmer, Support a Farmer, Alert a Farmer with CellAlert.net

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We would like to offer a site that offers our text alert services in Rwanda and/or Uganda where the Grameen Foundation has made inroads with Village Phone and offer them a text-based marketplace alert system. We want to send marketplace and micro-loan opportunity-alerts to cell phone users across Bangladesh, Uganda and Rwanda.We want to couple our opportunity alert service with Fair Tracing; creating a Fair Trade Alert mashup to ensure international business accountability.Done correctly, CellAlert.net could notify thousands of people oversees about requests for proposals and goods needed. For instance, oil-based agricultural crops essential to biodiesel production appear to be a potential world-changer for Africa, which is poised to become the #1 producer of biodiesel worldwide.CellAlert.net could create connections for vegetable oil buys directly between socially responsible companies and farmers in developing countries for their fuel needs. For instance, the Safeway Corporation recently switched their entire trucking fleet to biodiesel. We want to connect the developing world farmer to the Safeway type corporations ready to buy from developing markets for a fair price.Once the project is complete, we have plans to expand CellAlert.net as follows: EMERGENCY ALERTS, MEDICAL SUPPLY ALERTS, FREE ITEM ALERTS, LOAN ALERTS, LOCAL INNOVATION ALERTS, ENTREPRENEUR NETWORK ALERTS, REGIONAL NEWS ALERTS VOLUNTEER ALERTS

Location

Arlington, VA
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Arlington, VA

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