Indigitous US - 7/18/22
Summer Cohort Projects!
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At Indigitous, we’re all about empowering and engaging believers to use their digital and creative skills for God’s Kingdom and in global missions.
Summer Cohort Projects!
We just finished Week 4 of our summer cohort!
We’ve been working on a Miro board, hashing out all the work for the cohort’s students and mentors.
Our 15 students have been broken into 4 pods, and each of them are working on these projects.
Spiritual Topography
What’s Spiritual Topography about?
When we look at a map, we can see city names, roads, etc., but what about spirituality? Our Spiritual Topography project aims to remix map data to signal “Theology of Place” to inform churches & ministries as they serve the cities God has planted them in.
What are we trying to do?
Find and extract church data for your city
Gather demographic/metadata for your city
Remix the data in a map/other view
Explore the Theology of Place
What skillsets are we using?
Researching for church and demographic/metadata
Data scraping in your favorite language (JS/Python/etc)
Mapping (Leaflet, Mapbox, Google Maps, etc)
Analyzing data for insights
Ministry Web of Needs
What’s Web of Needs about?
When you look at ministry and technology, there are many needs, ideas, and people interested in contributing to them. But, there’s not an easy discovery tool to make those connections.
Web of Needs is a digital architecture designed to connect people to ministry projects that match their interests.
What are we trying to do?
Build a prototype UI to help clarify requirements for the system
Set up a working instance of a prototype “Web of Needs” solution for the Indigitous Projects tool
What skillsets are we using?
Coding in HTML, CSS, JavaScript
Working on UI/UX design
Setting up web servers
SIL Quality Bible Translation
What’s SIL Bible Translation about?
Checking the quality of new Bible translations often involves Q&A sessions with the translation team and other language community members.
SIL is using AI to automatically answer comprehension questions for new translations to help human translators identify and address potential problems. The technique has been validated, but questions are only available in a few languages right now.
What are we doing?
Validating and checking current Bible comprehensions
Generating new questions to supercharge AI-enabled translation quality checking
Improving question answering models
What skillsets are we using?
Analyzing data in Python
Gaining fluency in “gateway” languages (English, Chinese, Arabic, etc.)
Visualizing data with front end skills
Upstream Bible Stories App
What’s Upstream’s App about?
Two field missionaries have created 120 highly crafted Bible stories in 5 audio languages and 3 written scripts. We’re putting these resources in an app.
What are we doing?
creating an app featuring interactive stories
enabling “speech-to-text” highlights with story audio
What skillsets are we using?
Working on UI/UX Design
Creating Figma mockups
Developing mobile app in Flutter
Prayer Requests
Pray for the whole project’s process and the students and mentors involved
Pray that students are able to share about this opportunity with their community
Pray for the impact of the projects regardless of results
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