Story Jam New York/Projects

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Introduction

Here is a list of projects related to UNICEF and OLPC initiatives that have been proposed for the Story Jam. They are all related to the themes of collecting stories and information from around the world and sharing them with others.

We encourage you to work on these projects or other ones that you may have been working on, or just thought up a minute ago - if you come up with new project ideas, please link them here.

Projects

• /Rosco - UNICEF project; radio station "on the go" - plug a USB stick into a laptop, boot, and begin transmitting radio programmes.
• /Mizizi - UNICEF project; software for Our Stories that provides an easy way for people to collect stories and meta-information from their personal computer and upload it to a server where it can be aggregated. Multilingual, platform-independent.
• /UNIWIKI - UNICEF project; a customized MediaWiki installation that is deisgned to address some common wiki usability issues.
• /Community Mapping - UNICEF project; application for mapping villages and communities, a common procedure for identifying public health issues and threats
• /RapidSMS - UNICEF project; a web-based platform for sending SMS messages, and receiving SMS/Audio messages.