Giving Compass' Take:

• Papua New Guinea is has a big water accessibility problem and the people behind the mWater app plan to change that by producing and supplying the government with the proper data. 

• People are creating apps as a way to help many global problems, but not all have the funding to do so. How can app startups collaborate best with funders?

• Here's an article discussing the importance of clean water, hygiene and sanitation. 

A new mobile app is set to revolutionize the way Papua New Guinea thinks about water, sanitation, and hygiene.

The unprecedented mWater app gives local district representatives the ability to easily survey the number of people with access to adequate sanitation and record the proximity of clean water to rural communities and hospitals. The logged data is then relayed to a regional interactive map, allowing government officials to review and make precise, evidence-based policy decisions on water and sanitation for the first time.

"Currently there is no data," Tim Davis from WaterAid Australia stated in a WaterAid report. "When officials pull out a map, they can’t point and say 'these communities have access to services and these don’t'."

Read the full article on water accessibility in Papua New Guinea by Madeleine Keck at Global Citizen