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Imagine trying to find and keep a job if you don’t own a car. NOW imagine the same thing if you don’t even know how to drive.  The only jobs available would be the ones within walking distance of a bus line – where driving skills weren’t needed.  You couldn’t even deliver pizzas!  No wonder the opportunities for those who don’t own an internet connected computer (or worse, are computer illiterate) are so bleak.  They aren’t on the information superhighway; they're left at the curb as knowledge workers get on the on-ramp.

US Census stats say that 56.6% of Hispanic households (calculating to a 43.4% penetration rate) do not have internet access at home -- the worst percentage of any race/ethnicity. Furthermore 53.7% of unemployed individuals and 66.8% of individuals not in the workforce are without internet access at home. And internet penetration is only 24.8% in Mexico, 22% in Central America, and 34.7% in South America.

Bridge for the Digital Divide (BftDD) is a non-profit effort dedicated to using for-profit business methods and a cutting edge business model to better accomplishing its mission of (1) maximizing the amount of computers, internet access, and training it can donate in the Hispanic Americas, and (2) achieving rapid and financially self self-sustainable growth.

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Our goal is to bring free health care services to the neighborhoods in need through mobile bus. Analogous to Meals-on-Wheels-method, our bus will visit neighborhoods that often suffer significant decrease in the quality of citizens’ lives due to lack of care received. These families sometimes even do not receive most basic health care, and suffer diseases that are easily preventable.

 

Therefore, the mission of “Doc on Wheels” is to reduce the number of people suffering these diseases and to maintain the health of general population by bringing free clinic to the neighborhoods weekly.  Instead of having needy family to invest time and money to receive care from clinics or hospitals, we will bring those services to them through partnership with local medical school and hospitals.

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            My concept is more than focusing in one side of the life and implement it , to make it easier and right .

            Its about having new aspects to live . which will enhance the quality of life from every area .
These aspects refer to everything anyone can imagine  , from economic to business to learning to working etc , and it's based on being fair with every thing and having a solution easier than what we thought with a lot of rewards . 

        Anyone can practice these aspect and adopt it , it's easy and simple. My idea is pretty simple its about opening a company which will offer services and products ,which will make these aspects reachable and understandable for others .

Briefly this company will focus on :

• First choosing aspects and make it understandable easy  and simple to learn .
• Second prove the aspect and how it will improve their life's.
• Third  invent ways how can our generation apply it in their life's .
  
• Forth make these aspects to spread all over the world .
  

           This company will focus in keeping its image alive which is living new , what I mean here by living new is these aspects which we will offer for our clients will methods to make their lives easy and hold much benefits than it was . Moreover , it would make them feel like if it is a heeling to your soul make the satisfaction .

          These aspects are taken from Islam , and because it will benefit many people as what it did with many I know I want to spread and be known . For instance , it's for everyone not just Muslims .

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 The announcement of the Millennium Development Goals Health has turned one of the top priorities worldwide.  The problem gets magnified when one we focus on rural/remote areas where penetration of doctors, health services is very low.

The major constraints in existing system are: Limited manpower and skill set, poor decision making, low compliance among health workers on training about new protocols, accessibility for patients and money.

Due to these factors, the sections of the society, most vulnerable to death are infants under 5 years and expecting mothers. The diseases and scenarios which are responsible for around 65% in both cases are only a handful (Pareto principle, 80-20 rule). These diseases can be easily addressed through timely, effective medical intervention and have well developed protocols and accepted solutions. The area of real concern is implementation using bottom up, technical approach.

This is the pain-point we are going to address through AMRITA. Our primary objective would be to address these avoidable infant and maternal mortality cases through better accessibility and improved healthcare quality. The process works through local diagnosis and referrals. The device would make a diagnosis based upon the clinical history of the patient and basic examination findings (sufficient to address most devastating yet thoroughly understood diseases). Our device of course, does not replace doctors but effectively fills the debilitating vacuum.

 

Our device is expected to provide equally acceptable results as telemedicine at significantly lower technical and monetary costs. (Pilot study is underway and field trials will being in June 2010)

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We propose to produce a documentary  that explores the social, cultural, and environmental factors impacting the health of Filipinos in New York and New Jersey, a growing yet underserved community. Kalusugan means health in Tagalog.  This documentary will include examples of health challenges faced by this community.    For instance according to a study our organization is involved in, 3 out of 5 Filipinos has high blood pressure, and nearly 1 out of 2 does not have health insurance.  Testimonials in the film will come from community members, advocates and clinicians to discuss health challenges, how the healthcare system impacts immigrant health, and recommendations for improving these systems. One example includes following an individual who suffered a stroke, and how a family is impacted by one member experiencing a quadruple bypass surgery.  We will then invite community members to hold film screenings to ensure wide dissemination and engage the community in guided discussions in order to create a platform for identifying opportunities for social action. The change we plan to see is an increased public awareness of Filipino health and underlying social determinants and increased community mobilization to take action to change those conditions.

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URBAN PARKLANDS

The reclaiming of our streets.

The creation of Urban Parklands – public laneways and derelict sites, reclaimed and retrofitted to foster creative, recreational, and sporting activities.

We want to facilitate local communities, particularly those in the dense inner cities (where there are fewer open spaces) in building informal, recreational places for themselves in unused public spaces. This could be a low-maintenance fit-out; a play-ground meets town square meets friendly back-yard, made from post-industrial waste, like recycled wood and metal. Or fold-out bench seats with free wireless so people can sit down, relax and connect in the fresh air. Or it could be the creation of friendly surfaces, so that areas can be used for anything from impromptu sport matches, to picnics, to lying down and reading in the sun. Each Urban Parkland should be unique to the community around it.

We want to invite people back into their streets.

A pilot programme is running in Melbourne, Australia, in Bullens Lane, a small city laneway. Community consultation has been an important part of building a vision for Bullens Lane. 

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How to develop a Complete Health Picture of a country? Is it possible to have comprehensive view of the continuum of the health system at one end and the patient profile at the other at once? If such a database can be developed with proper linkages, how can it be used to design an effective health care policy for a developing country?

 

I have an idea that addresses this issue. For the rural population of India, access to healthcare facilities is primarily through the state-run Health institutions. These institutions are often far away from tribal hamlets and villages. The limited resource setting, combined with low literacy, makes health care fragmented and ineffective.

 

It is my idea to develop a comprehensive database of patients, who accesse public or private health care. It can applied for a pilot project where a million population in a single administrative unit is taken as the target group. The prototype will be a module with essential details such as age, weight, family history, latest tests undergone, medicines used and diagnoses.

 

The data is entered into a net-connected computer database by any medical/para-medical personnel that the patient consults and the chronological number in the list is issued as Patient No. The updates happen simultaneously across the whole spectrum of health institutions in the pilot area.

 

The aim is to develop an inclusive health profile, available wherever the patient goes, perhaps, eventually linking it up with India’s most ambitious Unique Identification Project to be started next year. Harsha Vadlamani110.0

Domestic fires make up only 14% of all fires in UK, but account for 75% of all deaths. Yet, fire prevention, detection and alarm systems are rarely enforced or maintained. We cannot claim not to know of the dangers of fire and smoke, but what is it that holds us back from installing alarm systems in our homes, the very place we spend in sleeping risk with our closest ones? Wariness towards false alarms? The hassle of re-wiring and maintenance? Distaste for industrial-looking contrivances within our homes? Or is it the subconscious reluctance to acknowledge that the safest place that we believe to be is not really so?

The principle of Echo lies in the concept of Prevention — not of fire per se, but of its potential hazards. In the critical seconds immediately following a fire or smoke, Echo is activated — to detect, alert and communicate. Combining smoke- and flame-recognition technologies, the detector can now be wall-mounted without compromising its effectiveness in identifying a potential hazard. This plug-and-play system can tap onto existing electrical wiring networks at home, making installation fuss-free and DIY.

Echo is a sardonic attempt to masquerade the overt association of the fire-alarm with the notion danger, in the very place where we should, really, feel the safest. And so, behind the façade of familiarity, art, indulgence, everyday, or whatever you may choose, the objectionable fire-alarm has been transformed into an innocuous insurance of safety, symbol of assurance.

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Our mission:
Kranti (Revolution) seeks to educate and empower girls (Revolutionaries) who have been trafficked. India’s trafficked girls are an untapped source of collective strength and Kranti seeks to unlock their potential by providing a healing home, comprehensive education, and leadership opportunities. 

Why is Kranti necessary? 
Current anti-trafficking programs in India are ineffective because they fail to educate or empower the girls before returning them to vulnerable situations that often facilitate retrafficking. Therefore, Kranti believes that it is time for a revolutionary approach to anti-trafficking.

How is Kranti different? 
First, Kranti seeks to empower the Revolutionaries by putting their life choices – especially regarding education, careers, and marriage – back in their hands by helping them develop numerous, viable livelihood options. Secondly, Kranti focuses on developing them as activists and leaders for their chosen social causes. For example, one Revolutionary is passionate about environmental issues while another wants to be an activist-artist. 

What will Kranti change?
Most importantly, Kranti seeks, through the Revolutionaries’ accomplishments, to redefine India’s gender stereotypes and value of women – a model where the Revolutionaries themselves address the root causes of India’s gender inequality. Their impact will grow exponentially as their voices spread Kranti’s choice-based models of education, empowerment and leadership for trafficked girls throughout the region. 

 

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Non-profits do a good job mobilizing their members’ political power to elect representatives who reflect their communities’ values, but have been unable to mobilize their members’ economic power to support businesses that support those same values. Networthy is a web-based platform that empowers these organizations to quantify the collective spending power of their membership and direct it towards businesses that support their mission.

 

Networthy builds on a new generation of online financial software to quantify the collective buying power of a non-profit’s members. Non-profits convince their members to join the website where the members grant Networthy permission to view how much each of them spends at stores where their credit and debit cards are used. Non-profits can then launch a campaign asking their members to spend more or less at a target company based upon an issue important to their membership (wages, sustainability, etc.) Networthy tracks how the members’ collective spending changes over time and communicates a credible signal to the target company telling them how much that issue or policy is benefiting or hurting them in dollars and cents. Instead of feeling like isolated consumers who are powerless to impact a company’s behavior, understanding the collective buying power of their non-profit’s membership empowers members make companies listen to their opinions.

 

From fair wages to pollution, the private sector often has the largest impact on social and environmental sustainability. Networthy shows consumers that by acting together we have the power to tell those companies the way they need to behave.

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KIGALI GYM AND NUTRITION CENTER comes as a solution to ladies who need to lead a healthy life through sport and fitness. One hand sports and fitness have been reserved for professional in that area; on the other hand people are leading a sedentary life and having nonproper diet that cause diseases that harm their health such as heart diseases, diabetes, obesity and so on. KiGYN center is made of individuals who made their studies at the National University of Rwanda from different departments. This group of people counts one Applied Mathematician, two General Medical Doctors all opting to promote fitness and healthier diet at large and self esteem among females but mostly among expectant women and upcoming young ladies. These components of the said group are fitness sympathisers where by all of them belonging to at least one sports discipline.

 

The idea of promoting fitness habit among females came after analysing females’ dynamism in sports which was really found to be too critical and poor to leave continuing in the same way. Given the fact that sports and fitness resulting from it is one of the key walks towards success of an individual in particular and collectively in general, this group could not stay cross legged towards this situation.

 

In few words these are turning points that pushed this group to conceive such a project and we are determined to get it running in order to give a substantial hand to the development in sports and fitness.

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Every year thousands of people leave their homes and families with the dream of improving their lives and the lives of their beloved... our idea is to help them to achieve part of their dream by providing them with financing to invest in an asset that will substantially improve their lives.

 

Part of the American dream is to own a house and it is exactly the same in other parts of the world, so our idea is to develop a system of cross-border mortgages. For example, there is a Mexican immigrant in the US. His family stayed in Mexico. Currently, if they want to get a mortgage for a house in Mexico, they can’t because the income is generated abroad. We propose to issue a loan in Mexico, in Mexican pesos, backed by the house and repaid with the funds that the immigrant generates in the US. Additionally, if some family members are able to generate further income in Mexico, we could incorporate this effect in the risk profile and in the pricing.

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The innovation is a company called Stay Cool. They manufacture jackets and pants that utilize nanoparticle coolants, located within the clothes, and run small construction details. The company then sells these clothes to the private and public sectors, focusing primarily on the construction industry. Then for every Stay Cool unit the company sells the buying party either pays more or donates a portion of their workforce to building homes for the poor. If the company chooses to pay the increased cost then Stay Cool puts this money into their own private construction team, who are stationed around the world in hot environments. This team then builds homes in these hostile environments free of charge.

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Our idea is a portable shelter to act as a relief from catastrophic disasters. So often, we find the world being struck by natural phenomena and the locations in their path demolished and torn down. Without any shelter or safe place to stay, survivors have a difficult time staying alive. Our innovation is a portable shelter that can be built by anyone following the directions printed on the shelter. The shelter is made from cardboard, with one side covered in aluminum insulation. When the aluminum insulation is facing outside, it will act as a reflector of the sun, keeping inside the shelter cool is warm conditions. When the aluminum is facing inside the shelter, it acts as insulation to keep the shelter warm. The cardboard is coated with water sealant to waterproof it from rainy conditions. We understand that this is not the sturdiest of conditions, but its not meant to be. This shelter is designed to TEMPORARILY house 4-5 people while they get back on their feet during this hard time. Our plan to get the shelters to location is airdropping if weather conditions and debris do not allow for favorable landing conditions. We will send our shelters with volunteers traveling to the area to help with reconstruction. emilykathryn0850.0

Our idea is a portable shelter to act as a relief from catastrophic disasters. So often, we find the world being struck by natural phenomena and the locations in their path demolished and torn down. Without any shelter or safe place to stay, survivors have a difficult time staying alive. Our innovation is a portable shelter that can be built by anyone following the directions printed on the shelter. The shelter is made from cardboard, with one side covered in aluminum insulation. When the aluminum insulation is facing outside, it will act as a reflector of the sun, keeping inside the shelter cool is warm conditions. When the aluminum is facing inside the shelter, it acts as insulation to keep the shelter warm. The cardboard is coated with water sealant to waterproof it from rainy conditions. We understand that this is not the sturdiest of conditions, but its not meant to be. This shelter is designed to TEMPORARILY house 4-5 people while they get back on their feet during this hard time. Our plan to get the shelters to location is airdropping if weather conditions and debris do not allow for favorable landing conditions. We will send our shelters with volunteers traveling to the area to help with reconstruction. emilykathryn0820.0

Our Background:

Beyond the Campus was born from the success of an entrepreneurial venture by Georgetown University senior Matt Duffy.  After a close family friend passed away from cancer, Matt decided to do something to help stop the disease.  He and some friends drew upon their initiative and started Beyond the Hilltop Tours to give students a taste of life outside the college-bubble, and donated all of the money to cancer treatment.  Their success gave the young entrepreneurs an idea.  If they could start a socially conscious business, why not help others to do the same?

Our Model:

Beyond the Campus (BtC) seeks to create similar organizations on college campuses across the country.  The organization would have two parts, an entrepreneurial business to generate revenue, and a service focused project to help people in need.  BtC would first help young entrepreneurs start a sustainable business, for example a walking tour company styled “Beyond the Campus Tours.” From that business, 70% of the profit will go directly to a social project, while 30% goes to help start up new entrepreneurial ventures.  Projects might consist of tutoring at-risk youth, repairing deteriorating houses, whatever the local community needs.

The benefits to this are that the commitment to a cause is shared by both non-profit and for-profit sides of the organization; important skills such as marketing are shared across the organization; and, as this investment in student entrepreneurship becomes profitable, the new businesses themselves begin contributing, and there’s an exponential increase in the good we can do!

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Globalpedia is a global networking site that will be available for non-profits and other service organizations as well as individual people. 

The non-profits and service organizations will be able to put up a short biography about their organization, pictures, and other links on their page.  They can also put up key words such as “animal rescue”, “eco-friendly” and other descriptive words that people will be able to search by.  There will also be a mapping site that will link to the area in the world where their initiatives are focused.  Another unique aspect of the site is a place to donate monetarily to the specific organization.

An individual person can also create a site and can put up information about what they are interested in (“helping children”, “Cancer cure” etc.)  These will help link them up with organizations around the globe that serve specific interests they are interested in.  Then, a person can either contact the organization directly, make a pledge, or donation through the site. There will also be algorithms established if the person wants to donate a certain amount (for example $1,000) to a certain amount of charities (example: 5).  Then, the algorithm will best match up their criteria for the charities to make sure that the donation goes directly to a charity they will most likely support.  All the organizations that are recognized non-profits through the government will be able to send tax write-off’s to the supporters of that group. 

 

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Every year, organizations lose almost $92 billion dollars in fundraising overhead, almost a third of every donation. Because fundraising is so expensive, fundraisers are forced to focus only on the top 10% of donors for 90% of the donations. Organizations want to fundraise better, but they don’t have the time, the money, or the tools to do so.

Speramus is an online fundraising platform that will revolutionize the way these organizations fundraise, using our proprietary HopeRank system to match individual donors with personalized support opportunities. Our unique fundraising approach breaks down an organization’s work into small, clearly budgeted projects that interact with donors on a personal level.  Relevant donors are then automatically identified through the HopeRank system, a proprietary targeting algorithm developed in conjunction with Decision Science experts at Carnegie Mellon University. HopeRank considers several factors, including the donor’s interests, giving history, and current context to create a portfolio of support opportunities uniquely tailored to the individual donor’s personality.

Unlike all competitors, Speramus’ HopeRank system allows organizations to target donors with a level of granularity never before possible at a cost lower than ever before dreamed. Our combination of small projects automatically matched with individual donors through extensive data analysis allows organizations to fundraise more effectively than any other approach, with Speramus donors giving 60% more than those solicited using traditional techniques. The Speramus fundraising platform uniquely allows organizations to improve the level of service and interaction offered to donors while simultaneously reducing the overall cost of fundraising.

 

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 The objective of this innovation is to detect the presence of surface cracks and hairline cracks in railway tracks to prevent derailment of trains. The proposed solution will detect the presence of surface cracks and hairline cracks in railway tracks to prevent hazardous railway accidents. The presence of cracks will be detected accurately by an ultrasonic sensor and a NI Smart camera. The platform LabVIEW 8.5 is used for image processing in this system.    arunprakash20.0