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Precious PlasticOpen-source system of machines, blueprints and tools that lets anyone start recycling plastic locally.Ushahidi platformOpen-source platform to crowdsource and map citizen reports during crises and elections.MasakhanePan-African grassroots collective building NLP and machine translation for African languages.keralarescue.in: open crisis mapping platform for the 2018 Kerala floodsDuring the August 2018 Kerala floods, hundreds of volunteer developers built a crisis mapping and rescue coordination web platform and app. keralarescue.in (Django/Python, open source on GitHub from day 0) allowed registering rescue requests and locating shelters, camps, water levels and supplies. The Kerala government adopted it as its official site. ~1,500 technologists collaborated for free (some 69 in the main repo) and it received millions of requests. After the emergency the service stopped being maintained and the domain went inactive/for sale; the durable legacy is the open source repositories.Map KiberaParticipatory community mapping initiative that turned Kibera (one of the largest informal settlements in Nairobi) from a blank space on OpenStreetMap into a detailed, open digital map. Young residents were trained to collect geospatial data with GPS and mobile phones, edit it in OSM and produce information on schools, water, sanitation, safety, street lighting and health. It includes Voice of Kibera (SMS/Ushahidi reports) and Kibera News Network (citizen video).PlantVillage Nuru (Kenya)Mobile AI app (computer vision / deep learning) that diagnoses crop diseases and pests from photos of leaves, offline, on low-cost phones. In Kenya it is deployed with small-scale farmers and extension agents to diagnose cassava diseases (CMD, CBSD) and maize diseases, with advice in Swahili and English. Nuru means light in Swahili.