Ask HN: would an overview of state of the world help you make decisions?
Hi HN,<p>I'm building a website[1] that will basically sum up all the most
important information about current world problems and display it as
an explorable overview (think command and control centers from sci-fi
/ computer games and sci-fi movies, Google Earth, or something similar
to Fate of The World[2]). The idea is for following questions to be
answered by just taking a glance and/or exploring the site for few
seconds.<p>- What needs to be fixed? What's the progress?<p>Especially <i>how many</i> things are broken - do we have ten big problems
problem, or ten dozens of them? And then not just a list of problems,
but a) how close are we to effectively solving given problem, and b)
1'st derivative - is it getting better or worse, and how fast?<p>- Who's fixing it?<p>What solutions are targeting those problems? Which NGO's are working
on them? Just a curated list (think GiveWell) and contact info for
those, who would like to join the efforts.<p>- How can you help?<p>What skills are needed where - for those who want to steer their
development into the area. Who's fixing it - for those who want to
help organizations.<p>Do you, as hackers and/or enterpreneurs, think such tool could be
useful in making decisions about what to build, who to help, or just
to have a better understanding of the world?<p>[1] - a brief description is posted right now on
http://planetstatus.org (in pl_PL; sorry guys, it's mostly parts of my
original idea document uploaded because of TEDxKraków Award workshops
I attended to develop this idea further.<p>[2] - http://fateoftheworld.net/. A great game, but it could use a
better interface and visualisations for statistics.