Steven Clift   •   about 15 years ago

Leverage our work in low income, high immigrant neighborhoods as well as rural tribal areas

So, what good is an app if you can't connect it to the everyday lives of the people this competition seeks to help the most?
We can help - or you can help that is.
E-Democracy.org's community and neighborhood "Issues Forums" have done the hard work of gathering local people online in a number of very diverse neighborhoods. This has involved hundred of hours of outreach and real trust building. 
Why not leverage our online community in the heavily Somali immigrant Cedar Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis or Hmong, African-American, and White Frogtown neighborhood in St. Paul? Or the rural, tribal area of Cass Lake Leech Lake in Northern Minnesota?
At a minimum you might join those online communities and ask them what they might like an app to do (note that the app better be more than just on a mobile device) with what information or interactivity.
We have rough ideas on what we would do and this brainstorm might be of interest in terms of using Andriod tablets on the city wifi network with Somail youth in housing high rises.
Get in touch if you'd like to use your developer skills and time with us or on top of our work. (You might get that we are technology users and shapers, not developers ourselves.)
Steven Clift