Utility Data for Social Good...
summary
A grassroots site built in four hours uses Bootstrap and Heroku and free services to match donors to utility accounts, pays bills directly to the Detroit Water Project and utilities, and turns water back on. The project reports over $230,000 paid and about 900 families helped and 40 Baltimore houses saved, and it scrapes utility account histories to detect payment-pattern spikes, prioritize urgent cases, and route people to local legal aid or employment help.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Detroit Water Project intro
- 2:37Building project in 4 hours
- 4:01Impact on families
- 5:51Target interventions with data
- 7:57Policy change advocacy
- 10:45Human rights and shutoffs
- 12:10Call to action
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