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cinjonon Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

I don't know that there is a connection. What are you thinking of?

cinjonon Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

Link to the relevant posting please?

cinjonon Ask HN: What are some startups working on big problems in the developing world?

"We built the first community cellular network in a rural village in Papua, Indonesia, in early 2013, with support from USAID and the Blum Center for Developing Economies. That first network is still running today, and today we continue to add new networks, constantly bringing connectivity to new users and communities worldwide."

Haven't met the rest of the team, but the CTO, Shaddi, is an awesome guy.

cinjonon Ask HN: Are there any JavaScript libraries for generating maps?

Lightning by mathisonian is a solid library for generating these in python/js. It's an http-based data viz server with additional functionality similar to iPython notebooks. Check out the map demo on the github here:

https://github.com/mathisonian/lightning

cinjonon Ask HN: Idea Sunday

I made something that addresses this: www.seekaizen.com. I haven't advertised it before and it's mostly just friends/me that use it, but it seems like you might like it. Let me know if it fits your use case.