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bhoodan for college / hospital
  • nrega contribution for building the ‘building’ ?
  • hackerspace -type subscription-based / pay-only-if-employed programs ?
  • participatory planning ?
    • college: admin + teachers + community reps meet annually to revise long-term curricula & short-term syllabi, seats & disciplines
    • hospital: admin + doctors + nurses + paramedics + social workers + community reps meet annually to plan specialists needed / ?
media studies
  • lazy publishing — scrape, process & publish common lazy reporting patterns
    • no link reporting — ‘in a report accessed by …’ is a common description used by news websites, but they don’t give the link to a report.
    • twitter feed publishing — articles with a significant portion of the content being social media posts: ‘a user on twitter said __’, followed by an embed post
open knowledge
  • personalms – ‘learning’ management optimized from the learners’ perspective — plan personalized scaffolding, identify possible co-learners / reviewers / teachers,
    • ~~: define bridge course acc to your current level, then start from appropriate level for the course
    • ~~: core scaffolding based on discipline’s learning curve, published with ‘persona’-specific translations/analogies
      • crowd-source definitions of ‘novice > competent > expert’ for specific concepts, match with real-life people
        • dreyfus model: Novice, Advanced Beginner, Competent, Proficient, Expert
        • ‘climate change for mechanical enggs:
        • ‘community mobilization for resident doctors:
        • ‘circular economy for social workers:
  • feedback loops
    • iterate over disciplines: mid-career professionals recommend books, papers, courses, etc for current students > dedicated groups translate open license content, paraphrase licensed content
    • student groups review their teachers’ academic work — books, papers,
integrated research environment
  • pdf browser / (~integrated research environment)
    • research papers
    • govt documents — extract quoted reference letters, designations crossref-ed with people,
  • policy advocates dashboards
    • keyword watch across news, govt docs, social media
    • stats tracking
    • existing m&e reports for social programs — schemes, policies, ngo programs,
    • whos-who directory, social graphs + people / org monitors
HOH
  • mention of burnout in policy + advocacy documents
  • involvement of healthcare professionals in formulating policy + advocacy documents
  • voting / decision making system – https://www.loomio.com/
consumer affairs
  • ease navigating corporate bureaucracy
    • DND check & recommended actions to register across all reqd govt & pvt registries
  • crowd-source issues and file notices / petitions / op-eds
    • phone call spams
      • evasive patterns — call with personal no.s (not regd telemarketing no.s), dark patterns in ivrs, diff depts saying they can’t connect across depts
    • govt scheme websites monitor — uptime, UI/UX benchmarks,
    • recommender & ad algorithm debugging
      • user voluntarily share anonymized demographic info along with web usage, so that one can ‘view the internet’ as a specific demographic
        • e.g. given a youtube vid, see what is recommended to a trans latinx programmer vs an upper caste tamil male economist
self-hosted personal workstations
social *science*
  • understand CasP by applying the data analysis to economies outside the US. build graphs comparable to bichler-nitzan, but for other countries (starting with india)
pluralo-polize
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