#Connecting4Good

A weather-based and crop-specific information system that uses phone messages and awareness campaigns has been helping farmers in rural Maharashtra become climate change resilient. This is how it works.

Science is her favourite subject. She loves to read. And she wants to become an astronomer. Meet Chinmayi Ramasubramanian, a 10-year-old girl who has developed an app to help people in flood-affected areas of Tamil Nadu, and to assist those who want to donate flood relief items.

Have you ever tried sifting facts from opinion in the news you read today? If you are a Union Public Service Commission (UPSC) examination aspirant, or someone preparing for an exam that requires a strong focus on general knowledge, you will know how hard this is. Here’s an app that solves this problem for those who need news, not views.

You spot an open drain in your neighbourhood, or a garbage pile that is slowly growing to be the breeding spot for disease-spreading mosquitoes. What do you do? Where do you complain? A group of friends from Bangalore has developed an app that connects people with the Karnataka government to address such health hazards. And it is already yielding results.

Millions of girls in India become victims of domestic violence, sexual abuse, trafficking, and child labour every year. West Bengal is one such state where girls are at high risk for trafficking and other abuse. GPower, a mobile-based intervention in 20 villages of the state, is identifying the girls in need of help and providing them with much needed and timely support based on their level of vulnerability.

If you think your children, who are hooked to technology and gadgets, can no longer enjoy the outdoors and nature, think again. These apps by iNaturewatch will not only help them identify trees, butterflies and birds in the neighbourhood but will also turn them into explorers in search of new species.

Finding a public toilet, leave alone a clean one, can often prove to be a challenge in India. But this brilliant app helps you find one and also allows you to add new ones that you discover to the database, so others can be helped too.

An Auxiliary Nurse Midwife (ANM) is often the first point of contact between a health centre and a mother or expectant mother in India. She takes care of activities as basic as registration of pregnant women to more advanced interventions like routine immunization, identifying medical complications and providing referrals. An ANM has a lot of responsibilities and this simple, mobile-based intervention, Suyojana, enables her to effectively carry out her duties.

How many of you have planned to file a complaint against a product that does not match your expectations or is different from what the company promised to deliver, and then never actually gotten around to doing it? Here is one simple app that will let you file a complaint anytime and anywhere you want.

ReThink is amazing software that detects cyber-bullying, or hurtful and bullying words – on text messages, emails, social media communications and any app that uses a keyboard – and gives a chance to the person writing them to rethink his or her actions. The developer is a 15-year-old adolescent who deserves kudos for her mature thinking and innovation