m-Omulimisa SMS Services
The ubiquitous presence of mobile phones in Uganda presents an enormous potential to transform the lives of small-scale farmers if well leveraged. m-Omumilisa is a mobile and web based platform that allows farmers to interact with extension officers in their local languages effectively and efficiently. This platform allows a farmer to type text messages … Continue reading “m-Omulimisa SMS Services”
- Team Members: Linlin Liang, Daniel Ninsiima
- Food and Agriculture
- Michigan State University
- 2015
Art to Heart: Addressing the Empathy Blind Spot of the Cal Community
Using a three-pronged approach, the project will address UC Berkeley’s empathy blind spot on homelessness by connecting the stories and voices of those who identify with homelessness and poverty and the experiences of the student community with these populations. The first prong, the visual campaign, will include posters displayed on campus about homeless and … Continue reading “Art to Heart: Addressing the Empathy Blind Spot of the Cal Community”
- Team Members: Esther Chung, Justin Kong, Emily Truax, Taryn Erhadt, James Huynh
- Art & Social Change, Creative Expression for Social Justice
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
The Pachamama Project
The lack of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) programs that take into account menstrual hygiene and management (MHM) creates asymmetrical negative impacts on women and girls. The Pachamama Project is the first MHM initiative of its kind in Mexico and Bolivia and builds on the successes and challenges encountered during its initial fieldwork and on … Continue reading “The Pachamama Project”
- Team Members: Rebecca Peters
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
ReMaterials
With more than 1 billion people already living in slums worldwide, concerns for a safe and habitable shelter are growing rapidly. A good roofing system is essential for adequate shelter, but unfortunately it is highly neglected, largely owing to insufficient options in the market.The team’s solution consists of two parts: (a) a unique material … Continue reading “ReMaterials”
- Team Members: Pablo Rosado, Hasit Ganatra
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Ekialo Kiona Youth Radio Initiative
EKR is Africa’s first wind- and solar-powered radio station, reaching 200,000 listeners across Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania within the first year of broadcasting. In 2014-15, the second full year of station operations, EKR intends to “scale-up” the programming by integrating interactive radio technology, starting a Creative Expression for Youth Initiative and expanding community engagement … Continue reading “Ekialo Kiona Youth Radio Initiative”
- Team Members: Charles Salmen
- Scaling Up
- UC San Francisco
- 2014
East Bay Youth Against Trafficking
The Berkeley Anti-Trafficking Coalition (BATC) will expand upon Not For Sale’s (NFS) education outreach program. NFS visits local high schools to give educational presentations about human trafficking, in which they challenge students to use their own skills and passions to take action in the anti-trafficking movement. The presentation includes videos, information on sex and … Continue reading “East Bay Youth Against Trafficking”
- Team Members: Katharine Hinman, Sarah Singh, Chloe Gregori, Joshua Ho, Karem Hererra
- Promoting Human Rights
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Near Zero: Mechanical Flywheel Battery
The Near Zero flywheel battery consists of a magnetically-levitated flywheel, combined with a motor, that can store and output energy like a traditional electrochemical cell. However, this design has almost no frictional losses, uses very little power in the magnetic levitation of the flywheel, and combined with high efficiency electronics, drastically outperforms chemical batteries … Continue reading “Near Zero: Mechanical Flywheel Battery”
- Team Members: Andrew Sabelhaus, Sina Akhbari, Eduardo Wiputra
- Scaling Up
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Transparent Living: Using Data to Bring Transparency
The goal is to build an intuitive website that will use public and crowd sourced data to depict the real willingness to pay for housing by city/street/zip and in real time. The system will allow property owners to electronically collect short profiles of prospective renters, including their monthly income, credit score, references and willingness … Continue reading “Transparent Living: Using Data to Bring Transparency”
- Team Members: Anil Jindia, Vanessa Cordero
- Open Data for Development
- UC Berkeley
- 2014
Sign UP
Today, a deaf person cannot reliably connect with 99% of the people around him or her. The few interactions between deaf and hearing people are usually limited by the difficulty for the deaf person to understand the hearing person and to talk in an intelligible way. Sign UP wants to break this barrier of … Continue reading “Sign UP”
- Team Members: Thibault Duchemin, Achal Pandey, Pieter Doevendans, Justin Harnoss
- Information Technology for Society
- UC Berkeley
- 2014