Hawa
Develop an app or platform to crowd-source information for comparing changes in environmental factors, such as temperature, relative humidity, air pollution, with occurrence of symptoms of allergies and respiratory diseases. Create tools for public entry and grading of symptoms, including but not limited to cough, shortness of breath, wheezing, sneezing, nasal obstruction, itchy eyes; and geographic mapping of symptom frequency and intensity. Create a platform for comparison of symptom map with NASA provided data, with visualization options for web and/or smart phone.
We first thought of creating a real-time app that can read the data from APIs and translate that into a user friendly interpretation to warn users about the negative effects of the bad quality air in a place. This would have been really useful for people travelling to a destination. we planned to provide health and travel tips of that place.
But the data we uncovered was very hard to interpret within the time of two days, so we went with crowd sourcing. We decided to keep the format of the app as it for the places that provide that data and add a crowd sourcing component to the app.
Somebody can post a status about the air around them in facebook, our app would scan the user's facebook feed and find the post made to the app using #hawa and post that status in our app. Users can also check status of the air by using #hawacheck and mentioning the destination like #d-kathamandu. Our app would send notifications to the users in kathmandu and request a reply from them, they can reply from within the app or from facebook using #hawareply.
