Inspiration
Janaagraha was founded in 2001 and is a non-profit organisation that aims to transform the quality of life in Indian cities and towns. We work with citizens to catalyse active citizenship in neighbourhoods, and we work with governments to institute reforms to city-systems. Quality of life = quality of citizenship and quality of infrastructure and services.
Over the last 18 years, Janaagraha has been working extensively with Schools, Colleges, communities, municipal bodies, civil society groups and corporates, using the power of technology (I Change My City) to bring about two way communication between children, citizens and city governments. We are now leveraging our networks and relationships, providing our technology tools to strengthen the hands of city governments in speeding up the process of real time information dissemination, response management towards effective containment.
What it does
Revamp the feature in IChangeMyCity mobile app(Android / iOS) for citizens to take surveys while traveling through a given location, in order to report the characteristics of the path taken during travel.
How I built it
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Challenges I ran into
The Crowdsourced data we should be able to capture would include:
Walkability of any footpath by ability to report
a. Report broken footpath with location
b. Report encroachment with location
c. Any other obstacles with location
Visibility on any street in dark hours.
a. Measure the visibility/light intensity on a street at a given point in time
b. Geolocate the measuring point
Report Drivability of a road
a. Report and Geolocate the potholes
b. Report and Geolocate Speed breakers
c. Report and Geolocate any other obstacles
With the crowdsourced data, achieve the following:
Ability to showcase data on maps
Analyze data to find out
a. % Walkability on a street
b. % Visibility on a street
c. % Drivability on a road
Accomplishments that I'm proud of
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What I learned
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What's next for Change
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