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My wife is using a tool for booking meetings at the moment and it’s not the right tool for the job. It doesn’t seem like the right tool exists for this type of person.
1. Smartphone penetration is increasing. This can help with improving access to education when there's a dearth of content in your local language on YouTube, Coursera, edX etc. You can build a platform for teachers to easily create videos / content in your local language and upload them on YouTube.
2. Mobile adoption is on the rise. This can help with infrastructure planning by collaborating with telecom providers and analyzing anonymized data. You can create a tool for planners / ministries to visualize and analyze these datasets.
3. A significant proportion of people use feature phones. You can create a news delivery service or something similar to bring to them what's easily available on the web and would be useful.
It's probably more of a problem of not being able to automate collection of the data sheets.
The great Pacific garbage patch is still out there. I like this passive solution ( https://theoceancleanup.com/technology/ ). Maybe plastic taken from the ocean could be processed and incorporated into the plastic-removal mechanism to make it more effective. I think everyone would feel grateful if you even tried to solve that problem.
The great Pacific garbage patch is still out there. I like this passive solution ( https://theoceancleanup.com/technology/ ). Maybe plastic taken from the ocean could be processed and incorporated into the plastic-removal mechanism to make it more effective. I think everyone would feel grateful if you even tried to solve that problem.
80% of the plastic comes from just 10 rivers (there is a link on here somewhere) maybe focus on stopping it before it gets to the ocean
Find ways to get college-age students involved in government (local, national, etc), especially voting. Young people are a large, yet chronically underrepresented demographic. Just because it's true now doesn't mean it'll always be.
A couple of things:
* Contact your local city or state and see. Colorado has a hackathon: https://gocode.colorado.gov/ See if your local state has something.
* Code for America is another organization with a finger on the pulse of what needs to be done: https://www.codeforamerica.org/
* If you are focusing on a particular technology, reach out to your local meetups around that technology and post a message like you did here.
* Finally, don't get wrapped up in infrastructure or setup. Use something like Heroku: https://www.heroku.com/, AWS Elastic Beanstalk, or Transposit: https://www.transposit.com/ (full disclosure, I work for them) to make sure you can focus on the business problem, not the intricacies of EC2 or ALB configuration. Seen too many good ideas crater on that bikeshedding.
I haven't actually tried it but I've seen https://socialcoder.org mentioned before.
But I'm not sure if it's still actively developed.