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Ideas for now

Finish MapSh.it prototype
    Map using GeoNames (not yet)
    Try to hack (trace) village level admin layer from http://bhuvan.nrsc.gov.in (not yet)
    Add timeline (not yet)
    Add more layers (not yet)
    Add category for ODF on mSewage map (Ask Clayton?)
    Call with WSP India’s Rural WSS lead (Dan) this week.
Credit Card FAQ
    Top ten issues with credit cards (Sarah)
    Sample 2-20 credit  cards (Sarah)
    Contact CFPB (Sarah) next week
    Automate (not yet)
MapSh.it ~ Beautiful maps for shitty data
    Add invitation to the site offering free maps in return for sanitation data (not yet)
    Search out and add publicly available sanitation data (not yet)
    Add additional layers like income, infant mortality, population density (not yet)
    General consulting for World Bank
        Ask Julia (Dan)
        Ask friends (Sarah)
    Plug into mWater’s pilots?
        Find out what data they’re collecting in Tanzania and Rwanda (Dan)
        Ask John and Annie (Dan)
Grant writing analysis
    Analysis based on failed grants / successful grants
    Testing assumptions on good grant writing practices
    Ask infodev to acquire failed grant applications (Dan)
    Ask Children’s Hospital of Boston to see grants that worked / didn’t (Sarah)
    School applications as a proxy? (not now.. never?)
    Submit FOI request for feberal funders? (Tom)

**Ideas for later **

Water Price Index
    200 + data here. Source is www.ib-net.org
Proximity sensor for determining water flow
    Similar to  http://dontflush.me/ and http://www.sweetlab.org/
    Cf. ideas.mapsh.it for sensors to buy
Filing for unemployment benefits
    Find eligible unemployed
    Find client
    Go through webform
    Automation
    Directions
    Pretty website
Data mining cholera outbreaks
    similar to Global Viral Forcasting, see press: http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/02/02/wolfe.gunasekara.bogue.data/index.html
    contact: Lucky Gunasekara

The Sanitation App Challenge: http://sanitation.hackathome.com/

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