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Contents 1 Categories 1.1 Accessibility 1.2 Arts 1.3 Environment 1.4 Energy 1.5 Transportation 1.6 Government 1.7 Gaming 1.8 Humanitarian Assistance 1.9 Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing

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Categories

Accessibility

• Mapping of wheelchair accessibility.
  • Include notices of access disruptions (construction, snow & ice issues, etc.).
    • Ability to report disruptions (including geo-tagged photo upload).
  • Include accessible washrooms.
  • Accessible public transit stops & routes.
  • Report sites incorrectly identified as accessible; add accessible sites.
• Accessibility services directory.
  • Listings of support agencies (sign-interpreters, accessible transit, ...)

Example early implementation: ADA PDX

Arts

1. I'd love to see some transit data from various cities around the world made into some music or a neat visualization

@libertic: check out a french student app representing traficjams in the city of Nantes via a tree with falling leaves

http://www.yohanerent.com/Arbre.html

website here: http://turing.lecolededesign.com/yerent/virtools/

Video here: http://vimeo.com/4879698

Environment

Urban Animal Registry - ever wondered how many skunks live in your neighborhood? Or how they even survive living there? Through the Urban Animal Registry (working title) app, you can use your camera to help track local animal populations, learn more about their habitat, and share stories about they have enriched your neighborhood. By spreading awareness about the small creatures living around you, we can protect and monitor their populations so that they will continue to be a part of our urban wilderness.

Energy

Ward Power - Toronto is comprised of a collection of wards but which ones consume the most energy? While we don't want to spy on our neighbor's individual use, we could share our energy consumption averaged out by ward and learn more about our collective energy use. In the age of alternative energy, it would also be interesting to discover what wards have the greatest potential to harness wind, solar, and geothermal energy sources. This desktop app would consume ward energy and environmental data and present several visualizations of untapped alternative energy as well as estimate cost of conversion per ward so that we could better invest in our future.

Transportation

• Snowplow App - that tells you where snowplows are, which streets have been cleared and when to move your car or clean your driveway.
  • Also identifying the street priority levels, and schedule if available.
  • Include a mechanism for reporting snow & ice related street issues.
  • Include bicycle routes.
• Public Transport Location App - an app that shows the location of public transport, for example, buses.
  • could color code the buses to indicate when buses are running early, on time or late.
• Public Transport Schedule SMS - a service that allows users to retrieve transportation schedule information using only SMS.
  • Particularly useful for areas with low smart phone adoption or no internet access.
  • Could use Google GTFS data in many regions as well as RapidSMS
    • RapidSMS: http://www.rapidsms.org/
    • GTFS data into json: https://github.com/Jasindros/Hamilton-Open-Data

Government

• OpenDataNearMe - a list of all the open datasets covering the area I live in.
• CityWards / MyCouncil - tells you which city/town ward you're in and who your elected councillor is (contact info provided) + interactive ward map. See wiki for the OpenHalton/OpenGuelph hackathon
• WhereDoesMyMoneyGo? -- we will be creating new instances of the site for a number of different countries. If you are interested, please either ping wdmmg-discuss or wdmmg at okfn dot org.
  • http://www.wheredoesmymoneygo.org/
  • http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/wdmmg-discuss
  • http://bitbucket.org/okfn/wdmmg
• Progress Towards MDGs? -- Progress towards achieving these goals has been considerable but progress at the country level is uneven. Only 49 of 87 countries are on track to achieve the poverty target. Check-out this simple visual on progress or develop your own check on progress MDG Progress and check-out these webpages to see resource flows from donors and international organizations to developing regions and how this mashes up with progress fighting poverty. What does this look like at the sub-national level within a country? Check-out this link to sub-national data sets Open Micro-data and International Household Survey Network
  • http://siteresources.worldbank.org/CFPEXT/Resources/299947-1266002444164/index.html
  • http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/projects-portfolio
  • http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/world-development-indicators
  • http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog/africa-development-indicators
• Check-out David McCandless Billion Dollar-o-Gram for inspiration in visualizing resource flows Billion Dollar-O-Gram what might this look like for aid flows?
• Also see these examples of Apps developed already with World Bank data Application Showcase and Open Solutions See how geo-referencing projects at the country level helps to visualize the relationship between projects and poverty Mapping for Results
• Semantifying PDX API Data

• The problem: It is incredibly difficult to get a real feel for the big numbers associated with public expenditures like budgets, aid money, deficits. The difference between a 50 million, 50 billion and 50 trillion is hard to get your head round. We have this problem in aid all the time, where GBP 5.4 bn sounds like a lot for the UK to be spending on aid, but relative to the total budget it isn’t that much etc
  • What is needed: a big number compara-tron, A site where you can type in a number and currency/location (?) And get a selection of units you can convert it into (or add your own.
    • e.g. Westminster council’s budget, or the state of Texas annual expenditure, the average house price in London, or Manhattan, tanks, trident submarines or some such, or per captia in loaves of bread or pints of milk, beer.
    • It could also link it to live data – from tescos or walmart or some such
    • Relevant related more specific sites/inspirations
    • http://wiki.okfn.org/p/Where_Does_My_Money_Go/User_Journeys#Compar-o-tronB.3ABubbles
    • The idea is to allow user to search for any kind of expenditure (one could generalize to any 'figure') and compare it side by side as 'bubble's with any other piece of expenditure.
    • The one off : http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/the-billion-dollar-gram/

Gaming

REAL game of life !

Help anyone learn from the best free educational material using open source software.

Prototype at http://www.WEBiversity.org

Want to make a Drupal or Android app to enable anyone to create their own free university on a subject they love?

If so tweet to @whymandesign

Humanitarian Assistance

Proof of concept: Data warehouse for project proposals in humanitarian assistance:

For the moment nearly every donor and every UN-agency requires project forms to be filled according to their own template. They are quite strict on this, and non-compliance leads to delays in approval or even refusal.

When analysing the requirements however, it is obvious that the content in most forms is for 90 % the same. It should be possible to use a common database, with 90 % common data, and the additional data depending on the needs of the donor.

The application would be a website, where the applicant chooses first the form the donor he wishes to apply for. The webpage will let him fill in the form for this donor, but save the data in a common database. In an official version, it would be possible to submit from the site electronically to the donor.

If the application is unsuccessful, the applicant would be able to choose in a new donor, and fill in only the missing fields, without the need to reformat everything.

When this application would be accepted by the donors and NGOs alike, the project data would authorize learning to a very high degree: most open data efforts only make metadata available, like budgets, and project title. With this data warehouse coordination and comparative evaluation would be much facilitated, as all data are in the same format.

The proof of concept would bring together the forms of the major humanitarian donors: ECHO (European Commission), USAID, DFID, Sida, Germany.

Cheers, Samwise.gardner@gmail.com, or at Osmosis

Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing

Hello People,

I here a lead engineer from Dsign interactive systems, Vancouver wants to present with a hackathon idea, which I would like to share.

This is mainly to have people getting connected in their interested fields. Like for example opendata can be part of just about anything. It can be part of a game, movie, animation, web, hardware gadget and so on. For example this game, http://taxicity.ca/ where David Eaves was mentoring our team. My primary interest out here is in the field of computer vision and human computer interface. I see that David Eaves have been trying to open the governmental data and first place I see its usefulness is in public. Public where there can be mass communication going on at once.

My idea is through the intelligent space that understands individual needs and provides with relevant information. I am thinking of creating a gestural public map (GPM as I would call it) GPM works very similar to GPS. But instead of accessing your position, it focuses on your gestures (Global ones). And based on your gestures it would then present open data information on the map. I can imagine this as a huge public installation in downtown. Or at an individual level I can think of it as some sort of wearable device. And when I say gestures I am not limiting myself to some hand or body gestures. It can be speech and emotion as well.

Cheers,

dhruv@dsigninteractive.com

Dhruv Adhia