Create a WordPress theme provides a business directory with and without Yelp integration for ratings.
Draft KNC10 application:
TITLE
GiveTrack.org
DESCRIPTION
Display updates about humanitarian aid in real time. Pushing back apathy by engaging people in a visual representation of positive change brought by charitable giving.
Aid workers around the globe will provide updates via web, twitter, SMS etc. Updates may include:
100 Inoculations given
Received shipment of food from Red Cross
Installed new water filter
Completed aids education class
Actions are plotted on map showing users where the aid is being provided. We can watch in real time as aid workers improve the lives of people around the world.
Updates come in throughout the day in real time, twitter style. The world becomes a better place before your eyes.
NEWS & INFORMATION DELIVERY TO GEOGRAPHIC COMMUNITIES
Makes visible the daily / hourly work being done around the world by aid workers. Encourages civic engagement and responsibility.
WHAT IS UNIQUE?
Promotes civic engagement of a younger audience by way of mobile technology and web 2.0 style presentation. Provides a new level of trust for all who want to see their money put to good use by charities.
Draft KNC10 application:
TITLE
Community Barometer
DESCRIPTION
Everyblock shows us recent building permits, but does not show us trends. Are building permits down from last year? By how much?
Perhaps we have a database of section 8 housing, and a database of fire department calls. We should be able to calculate the average response time from the fire department database, and compare it to the section 8 addresses to determine if they receive the same level of service.
Community Barometer is a static set of reporting tools designed to address a handful of specific topics like the examples above. Access to data that we feel is beneficial to the safety and well-being of all communities should be ubiquitous.
Basic datasets may include:
Building Permits
Poliece calls
Fire calls
Deaths
Arrests
Violent crimes
Fatal car accidents
etc.
NEWS & INFORMATION DELIVERY TO GEOGRAPHIC COMMUNITIES
Delivers a basic level of historical data, plotted in an interactive chart/map environment.
WHAT IS UNIQUE?
The ubiquitous of the solution. No hardware, software or specialized knowledge is required. More advanced users can even automate data collection.
Draft KNC10 application:
TITLE
Tech co-op
DESCRIPTION
Spot.us but for web development projects instead of journalism.
Need a website that plots a database of traffic accidents on a visual timeline?
Submit your request to the CO-OP and let members vote for their favorite. If your idea is selected by members as most worthy, we develop it.
Every month we will develop the winning idea for free and release it open source.
NEWS & INFORMATION DELIVERY TO GEOGRAPHIC COMMUNITIES
Creates a steady flow of innovative open source software resources to the news community….
WHAT IS UNIQUE?
Innovative ideas are vetted by the community that will use them.
Motivates news orgs to embrace the open source movement. By pooling our resources we can accomplish great things.
Sustainability – During the 2 year grant period, the service is free. After which we may require a monthly or yearly membership fee, AP style. Some web developments will require hosting. We will provide a competitively priced option for news orgs who lack hosting resources.
Draft KNC10 application:
TITLE
ContentMobility.org
DESCRIPTION
Commoditize the technology required to create mobile news applications.
A web-based service that allows the user to create mobile websites as easily as creating a blog. Accepts data feeds (RSS, XML, ATOM, etc.) and produces a mobile version for cell phone browsers. Allows content publishers to create a mobile “collection” featuring data feeds from their own site and aggregates from others. Each site can be customized and branded individually.
Working example of an XML feed from a small community newspaper:
http://mobile.dailyrepublic.com/
NEWS & INFORMATION DELIVERY TO GEOGRAPHIC COMMUNITIES
Allows content providers with limited funds and technical expertise to publish their content on a variety of mobile platforms.
WHAT IS UNIQUE?
Aggregation – RSS to mobile is nothing new but this concept allows for the simple creation of information portals containing feeds from a variety of sources. For example I might publish a feed called “news” that aggregates the local news feeds to from two competing news sites.
Public Good – Small community organizations without the technical resources to pull off a production at this level will be able to utilize this system in a hosted environment. Costs are offset by advertising support.
Sustainability – We’ll use mobile adwords to monetize content. Using the following logic to encentify publishing content, aggregating content and selling local advertising.
1. ContentMobility retains the PPC revenue on publisher owned content.
2. PPC revenue generated on aggregated content is paid to the content owner.
3. The content publisher monetizes their mobile site by selling AdWords management to local customers and with incremental PPC revenue form syndicated content.
