SMART CITIES FOR EVERY ONE human-centric, iterative
the least livable cities
The problem 15-18 million people 100,000 cars
<1% vehicles per 100 ppl
Rush hour traffic in Jakarta
MEET DHAKA
Only 1% of people have cars
What do we predict will happen to Dhaka if nothing is done?
The problem 9 million people 9 million motorbikes 3 million cars >100% vehicles per 100 ppl
4 pm Traffic Jam in JAKARTA August 2011
Rush hour traffic in Jakarta
100 million
-----------Give 10 million people* access to useful information on car-free mobility options in their city
2013 goal
*
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AMAZING LOCAL FLOCKS
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AMAZING OPEN, SCALABLE (MOBILE) TOOLS FOR RAPIDLY COLLECTING BIG DATA
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AMAZING INFO-PRODUCTS DESIGNED FOR BOTH OFFLINE AND ONLINE CONSUMPTION
DHAKA Bangladesh 18 million
data collected; 75% correct
5,000 maps printed; 200 distributed thus far for local feedback
3 flock sign-ups
185 likes
first public launch 6 weeks ago
latest issue of Trino
EASY TO DEPLOY
Mirpur Road
START
Prime Minister’s Office + BRTC to deploy live bus tracking on 100 buses LIVE BUS TRACKER Dhaka
EASY TO MONITOR
LIVE BUS TRACKER Dhaka
coming summer 2013
HYDERABAD India 6 million
coming summer 2013
MEXICO CITY Mexico 21 million
Improve non-car ridership by x%, satisfaction by x%, reverse the inevitability of motorization in developing world cities
2015 goal
Albert Ching
Stephen Kennedy
Muntasir Mamun
Masuk Ahmed
San Francisco
San Francisco
Dhaka
Kampala
Albert is a former researcher in sustainable transport at MIT and a Googler who helped Google Maps become number one in the world
Stephen is an award-winning designer and urban planner who has worked on projects helping communities from Israel to Indonesia
Muntasir is a Dhakabased changemaker and founder of Kewkradong, a social advocacy group which organizes and annual thousand person Coastal Cleanup
Masuk is an innovative changemaker with a passion for adventures and has worked in various projects around Bangladesh and globally with the motive of bringing social change in various communities
Kuan Butts
Danny Chiao
Chris Zegras
Mexico City
San Francisco
Boston
San Francisco
Kuan is a grad student studying City Planning at MIT. He has worked prior as an urban designer in St. Louis, MO, and is interested in the use of technology in fostering municipal and regional contexts within local communities
Danny studies computer science at MIT. His expertise focuses on web development with past internships at Groupon and Google
Chris is a professor of City Planning and Transportation at MIT. His work focuses on sustainable transport in developing cities and has experience advising governments and intâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;l agencies in Chile, Portugal and China
Subha is a software engineer at Google with previous stints at Apple and Intel. She holds a M.A. and a B.A. from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering.
Subha Gollakota
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