http://www.harmonyst.org/blog Adam Papendieck - Harmony St. Projects Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:08:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en "SMS to Twitter to Yahoo Pipes to Google Map" This map will display New Orleans street addresses sent via SMS messages on a Google Map, automated and in real time.  The system uses Yahoo Pipes to monitor Twitter hash tags for certain users, parse the address (number and street is all ... http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=78 Example Twitter Map Badge from Yahoo Pipes.  The search is for the term "earthquake" within 500 miles of Rome. http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=69 http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/badgedocs http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=68 http://fibreforafrica.net http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=66 a non-profit organization that has worked since the late 1980s to help develop and deploy networking technology in various projects throughout Asia/Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, the Middle East, and the New Independent States.http://www.nsrc.org/ http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=64 Two-way satellite-based Internet services using very small apertureterminals (VSAT) to connect directly the US or Europe have also beenquickly adopted where ever regulations allow. Namely in DRC, Ghana,Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia which all have ISPsthat are not dependent on the monopoly telecom operator for theirinternational bandwidth. http://www.digitaldivide.net/articles/view.php?ArticleID=322 http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=62 MyExperience may be an open source option for PDA-based data collection. It is a BSD-licensed open source mobile data collection tool developed for Windows Mobile devices (including ... http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=60 http://hoffmantriangle.org/For people and organizations living and working in the Hoffman Triangle Neighborhood of New Orleans. http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=52 Success Measures have posted an outline of their program here, inlcuding a list of their 44 indicators:I. AFFORDABLE HOUSING INDICATORS Set 1.  Measuring Benefits to Residents of New and Rehabilitated Housing H 1. Monthly Housing Cost and Affordability H 2. Quality of Housing H 3. Wealth Creation through Homeownership H ... http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=38 Success Measures is based on a Participatory Evaluation Approach.  The idea is to collect data on smart outcomes and build an outcome chain to produce a narrative of change.Indicators Sets:Affordable HousingEconomic DevelopmentCommunity-buildingNew ToolsLevels of Change:PersonalNeighborhoodBroader CommunityThe Success Measures package includes:A participatory outcome-based evaluation approachSet of indicators and validated data collection ... http://www.harmonyst.org/blog/?p=37