SMART CITIES FOR EVERYONE the least livable cities

human-centric, iterative

The problem

Rush hour traffic in Jakarta

MEET DHAKA Only 1% of people have cars

15-18 million people 100,000 cars

<1% vehicles per 100 ppl

What do we predict will happen to Dhaka if nothing is done?

The problem

Rush hour traffic in Jakarta

4 pm Traffic Jam in JAKARTA August 2011

9 million people 9 million motorbikes

3 million cars >100% vehicles per 100 ppl

Give 10 million people* access to useful information on car-free mobility options in their city

100 million

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2013 goal

*

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AMAZING INFO-PRODUCTS

DESIGNED FOR BOTH OFFLINE AND

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DHAKA Bangladesh

18 million

data collected; 75% correct

5,000 maps printed; 200 distributed thus far for local feedback

3 flock sign-ups

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first public launch 6 weeks ago

latest issue of Trino

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Mirpur Road

LIVE BUS TRACKER Dhaka

EASY TO DEPLOY

Prime Minister’s Office + BRTC to deploy live bus tracking on 100 buses

LIVE BUS TRACKER Dhaka

EASY TO MONITOR

HYDERABAD India

6 million

coming summer 2013

MEXICO CITY Mexico

21 million

coming summer 2013

Improve non-car ridership by x%, satisfaction by x%, reverse the inevitability of motorization in developing world cities

2015 goal

Albert Ching

San Francisco

Albert is a former researcher in

sustainable transport at MIT and a

Googler who helped Google Maps

become number one in the world

Stephen Kennedy San Francisco

Stephen is an award-winning

designer and urban planner who has

worked on projects helping communities

from Israel to Indonesia

Muntasir Mamun

Dhaka

Muntasir is a Dhaka-based change-

maker and founder of Kewkradong, a social advocacy

group which organizes and

annual thousand person Coastal

Cleanup

Masuk Ahmed

Kampala

Masuk is an innovative change-

maker 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

Chris Zegras Boston

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 int’l agencies in

Chile, Portugal and China

Danny Chiao San Francisco

Danny studies

computer science at MIT. His expertise

focuses on web development with past internships at

Groupon and Google

Kuan Butts Mexico City

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

Subha Gollakota San Francisco

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.

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