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IDHack - MIT Global Poverty Initiative
http://mitgpi.weebly.com/idhack.html
MIT Global Poverty Initiative. IDHack is an international development hackathon which facilitates collaboration between technologists and NGO field workers to enhance service delivery. Talented programmers, NGOs, and experts from the greater Boston area come together to work on innovative impact projects. Projects range from visualizing the impact of Ebola on world hunger to mapping water flows in Medellin to tracking neonatal and maternal mortality in resource limited settings. Create a free website.
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Poverty Action Week - MIT Global Poverty Initiative
http://mitgpi.weebly.com/poverty-action-week.html
MIT Global Poverty Initiative. Poverty Action Week 2015. Addressing the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. Monday, 2/9, 3-442, 5-6pm. Global Development, An Overview]. PhD in International Development in MIT's Department of Urban Planning. Tuesday, 32-144, 7-9pm. Showcase of technologies in international development from MIT CITE. And MIT Energy Club. Medical and Psychiatric Anthropologist in MIT Anthropology. Thursday, 4-163, 5-7pm. 4pm Saturday - 4pm Sunday, Tufts. Create a free website.
fj-castor.com
Francis Castor
http://fj-castor.com/projects.html
Tinder for Peace Corps. Made at IDHacks 2015. Lend a.k.a. "the Airbnb for things" is a platform for people to post items they want to lend out for money, as well find items for temporary needs. We used the MEAN stack. To rapidly build up a REST API for item posting, searching, etc., as well as a quick front end web app using Bootstrap and Angular. We were also able to put together a native Android app to provide the same experience you get on web. Coming soon!
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HACKATHONS - Tech For Justice
http://www.techforjustice.org/hackathons
Hackatón por la Amazonía. PROBLEM SETS AND SOLUTION DESIGN. Hackatón por la Amazonía. Hackatón por la Amazonía’s. Goals are to create innovative products and technological developments, support the implementation of the products developed in partnership with public or private entities, and create a multidisciplinary and collaborative environment. Justice Hackathon ABA Tech Show’s. Justice : Migration Lab Lesbos. Justice Hackathon New Mexico’s. Mission was to spur the development of technology that would ...
vikparuchuri.com
Vik's Blog - Writings on machine learning, data science, and other cool stuff
http://www.vikparuchuri.com/blog/making-an-app
Making an app as a Valentine's day gift. On android, app, and tulalens. For the past year, my girlfriend, Priya. Has been working on an awesome nonprofit called Tulalens. The idea is to be yelp for low-income people in emerging markets . She did a pilot in October/November 2014 where she and the Tulalens team went into the slums of Hyderabad. Here’s Syed (a data collector on the Tulalens team) surveying a young woman. I’m working on Dataquest. Getting started (8am - 9am). I spent a little bit of time loo...
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