Mobile Projects on Android

Dear Friends

Some of you have already started working on Android and that is great. I would like you to do a project that has a beneficial social impact and will be a great challenge as well.

In the past 2 years in Hyderabad i have thought hard on how to resolve the trash mess we create in the city. Most of us throw our trash on the road, some of us engage waste collectors (who come in rickshaws) to pick up our trash and the rest of us probably use a dust bin provided by GHMC or any other municipality.

But the municipality does not recognize the great role played by waste collectors (also called Rag Pickers) in keeping our city clean and in recycling much of the waste we generate.

I would like an android application that will take the picture of a waste collector, collect basic information from them like a mobile phone number (yes, many of them carry one), ration card number (if any) or aadhaar card (if any).

We will have volunteers in the city download this application and use it to register waste pickers wherever we find them (we will explain to them the benefits of registering).

Once we create the database we can approach municipality (or the courts if the municipality does not listen to us) and present this data. We can then formally register a union of these workers, bring them benefits that are much needed for their families (most of their children are unable to go to school because they accompany them for picking waste).

Who can take this up as an application and work on it.

The most important feature is - once a waste picker is registered, if he or she is located again - the application should take a picture and compare it with the pictures it has on the database to correctly recognize the person.

I will also connect you to some programmers who are working on mobile applications in Hyderabad. You will receive this information soon.