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Proposed by: N.N.
Contact (name, email, phone, skype): N.N. <n@n.n..de>
Best way and times to contact during RHoK 2.0 Dec 4/5 2010: N.N.
What’s the problem?
Citizens don't really know how to best prepare for emergencies, in which they might not be able to get sufficient provision for themselves and their families for a limited period of time there exist recommendations e.g. by the German Federal Agency for Citizen Protection and Desaster Relief, on the needs per citizens but they are widely unknown and hence not followed by citizens desasters which hinder normal provision with food can happen everywhere and anytime, caused by pandemias, earthquakes, storms, floods, terrorist attacks etc.
Whats the solution?
Provide a simple to use mobile (and web) app, where citizens can enter the number of people in their household (adults and kids separately) and based on the recommendation of the Federal Agency, a checklist is provided, indicating the recommended quality and quantity of specific products in quantity and quality to be safely provided in case of desasters the output should enable a check against existing provisions so that a shopping list can be generated and used to stock up on missing goods the checklist which specifies the need per person for 2 weeks can be found in a brochure of the Federal Agency (at page 22)
Who would use it?
What would be the benefit?
In case of desasters, more citizens would be prepared and have stocked up the right goods to survive limited availability of goods provisions the app would help to educate citizens in what they can do to better protect themselves or help themselves in case of desaster.
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Outline one or more short (one paragraph) user stories/use cases/scenarios that describe how someone would use a solution to solve the problem. Alternately outline the scenario for someone confronted by a problem, and provide some options/thoughts for how technology or a hack might help them
e.g. Problem: Ana is at home when an earthquake strikes. Most of the building collapses and she is stuck inside, injured but mostly OK. She has a cellphone with her. She is terrified, and tries to call the police, and then her friends for help, but there's no reception. Eventually her battery runs down and she's worried she can't make any more calls.
After the earthquake stress sensors in the wallpaper of her living room trigger and activate a bluetooth receiver powered by a battery. Ana's cellphone senses via bluetooth and makes an automatic connection (she set it up beforehand). Antenna embedded in the wallpaper gives Ana greater reception and signal strength so she can reach a standing tower and her call goes through.
You can also go ahead and produce detailed use cases for each user story (or on their own) if that's where you're at. e.g.
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What else do they need to know? What constraints
e.g. No AC power. Must cost less than $0.001/unit. Existing code is all 80288 assembler, so hack must use that.
Fabulous extensions that would rock the world if completed
Links to similar projects, background reading, research, designs, existing work, data standards etc.
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How will this work be taken to real users, or further developed? Will this be an ongoing team? Is there a NGO/group that's sponsoring it as an ongoing project? Who/how/when?
Link to RHoK and other solutions projects, including different groups, but particularly the Project pages from RHoK events
e.g. Was worked on by team in Malawi during RHoK 1.0 and they built a working proof of concept, (link to project page). But dev has stalled.