1. Build a bitcoin based, secure methodology for money transfer between individual/institutional NGO donors and end-users (cutting out a lot of NGO middle men and/or Western Union style folks)
2. Build a simple, deployable, open source system for low income countries where SMS is still used to find information on stuff like farmers wanting to know prices at new markets.
3. Micro-services to help young NGOs get setup.
-Find individual/institutional donors which match the NGOs theme
-Help with regulatory process
-Help with introductions to donors
-Write applications
-Admin tasks - website, brochures etc
4. Build a secure, Open Source platform for low-income country government management systems. (With modules, for example: Need a simple health management system? - here ya go...need a simple method of managing education results? - here ya...need a simple method of managing voter registration? - here ya go etc etc)
5. Build a system, ranking etc for measuring digital security risk (on a close to real time basis) on a country-by-country basis. The sort of thing already used on a physical basis for stuff like kidnap and terrorism...So I could travel to XYZ country and see that last week there ABC number of censorship incidents, ABC number of reporting fishing attempts using 123 exploits etc. This is only the first stage, the REALLY hard part is then linking it to tools, behaviour change and processes to mitigate these risks...(We are trying to hack together something a little in a very very simple version in our app, Umbrella but dam is it hard.)...
6. Make PGP so simple my grandma can do it (HERE, TAKE MY MONEY!!! :)
While I appreciate your ideas the point with this thread was to find problems not come up with solutions. Maybe I am reading them wrong but they sound like (great) ideas, but are they actual problems?
For instance do my grandma really care about cryptography?
By turning it around and ask for the problems I am hoping for a more open ended list where the solutions aren't given already.
1. Build a bitcoin based, secure methodology for money transfer between individual/institutional NGO donors and end-users (cutting out a lot of NGO middle men and/or Western Union style folks)
2. Build a simple, deployable, open source system for low income countries where SMS is still used to find information on stuff like farmers wanting to know prices at new markets.
3. Micro-services to help young NGOs get setup. -Find individual/institutional donors which match the NGOs theme -Help with regulatory process -Help with introductions to donors -Write applications -Admin tasks - website, brochures etc
4. Build a secure, Open Source platform for low-income country government management systems. (With modules, for example: Need a simple health management system? - here ya go...need a simple method of managing education results? - here ya...need a simple method of managing voter registration? - here ya go etc etc)
5. Build a system, ranking etc for measuring digital security risk (on a close to real time basis) on a country-by-country basis. The sort of thing already used on a physical basis for stuff like kidnap and terrorism...So I could travel to XYZ country and see that last week there ABC number of censorship incidents, ABC number of reporting fishing attempts using 123 exploits etc. This is only the first stage, the REALLY hard part is then linking it to tools, behaviour change and processes to mitigate these risks...(We are trying to hack together something a little in a very very simple version in our app, Umbrella but dam is it hard.)...
6. Make PGP so simple my grandma can do it (HERE, TAKE MY MONEY!!! :)