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N2Y4 Mobile Challenge Featured Project

Equobility

Challenges Entered: 
Using SMS and renewable energy technology, Equobility offers people around the world equal access to the information and tools they need to fully participate in the marketplace and improve their standard of living.Equobility is a system comprised of a SMS or text-message based platform and a solar  powered mobile phone charger. As a combined system, Equobility addresses the issue of global poverty by providing access to the information and technology needed to create equitable markets where the greatest number of people can participate and benefit.

Location

Chicago, IL
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Chicago, IL

DatAgro: Increasing the Yield of Latin American Farming Cooperatives

Challenges Entered: 
Promoting the development of rural agricultural communities through access to critical information via SMS text messaging.

Locations

Washington, MD
United States
Chile
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Washington, MD
Impact locations: 
Chile

Local SMS Community Newsletter for Promotion of Self-Employment

Challenges Entered: 
We promote SMS based Free Newsletter in every small locality to alert, inform, update local citizens with social, political, cultural, governmental information.We are trying to develop a Local Micro-Media through which citizens can be weaved together with a thread of SMS - affectionately.This is an integrated, interconnected & interactive community newsletter which is run by local 10th-12th failed, school college dropped out youngster who earns $ 100-200 monthly.

AGRICULTURAL MARKETING INFORMATION SERVICES-CAMEROON (AMIS) PROJECT

Challenges Entered: 
AMISPROJECT presents the problem farmers and consumers face in the rural communities of Cameroon where seasonal roads make it impossible for agricultural field workers to make frequent trips to monitor farmers' activities. We believe that sending SMS text messages to farmers will educate them before and during the planting season.

Locations

Limbe
Cameroon
Cameroon
Project Locations
Project Location: 
Limbe
Impact locations: 
Cameroon

PublicStuff -- The Craigslist for Local Government Interaction!

Challenges Entered: 
PublicStuff’s vision is to enable people to connect directly with their local government in order to keep our elected leaders responsible and accountable to the needs in our local communities. Our mobile application will enable people to submit and check statuses on service requests, gather community and geospatial data, and make meaningful connections with their leaders, community organizations and neighbors 24 hours a day--- not just from 9-5, Monday-Friday.By providing a meaningful connection we are focused on increasing transparency, accountability and civic participation.

Location

New York City, NY
United States
Project Locations
Project Location: 
New York City, NY

The Extraordinaries -- On-demand crowdsourced volunteerism via smartphones. (Got a few minutes free? Be extraordinary!)

Challenges Entered: 
The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. People login to our system from any place on Earth within cell reception, and constructively use small windows of spare time for science, medicine, nonprofits, government, and more. Tasks are accessed on-demand, from anywhere, at any time -- while riding the bus, waiting in the doctor’s office, standing in line at the post office, and more.

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.

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