STREETWYZE - MAPPING COMMUNITY INPUT
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Oakland - Downtown Specific Plan Berkeley, CA Newark, NJ Denver, CO Cleveland, OH Memphis, TN Location Oakland, CA Status Beta-testing Type Urban Planning Size Tags Community, Restorative, Justice, Equity, Planning, Public Interest, Technology, Communication |
People-Powered Place-making
ISEEED is a national research, education, and technology institute working to ensure racial justice, equitable development, and just sustainability for all. When one meets with the ISEEED team, their energy is infectious. It is clear, they are committed to communities and community voice. At ISEEED, Aekta Shah is engaged in research and development on issues including technology, GIS mapping, education and sustainable community development. This expertise in education, health, environmental science combined with technology and mapping brings robust talent to organizing direct democracy.
Among ISEEED's many products is Streetwyze. Co-developed by Dr. Antwi Akom and Aekta Shah, the Streetwyze app empowers communities of color to better understand, articulate and visualize their local environment. Therefore, communities are better able to securely participate in civic decisions.
Streetwyze is cool! It's Yelp for Urban Planning but better. With capability to embed video, Streetwyze brings us to the location, we see the broken public toilet or the amazing new art pop-up with a local following. City administrators are beginning to see the value of Streetwyze. The team from ISEED are consultants brought to the City of Oakland Downtown Specific Plan. The goal is to bring a more equitably reflect the cross-sectional dynamism that is Oakland.
Among ISEEED's many products is Streetwyze. Co-developed by Dr. Antwi Akom and Aekta Shah, the Streetwyze app empowers communities of color to better understand, articulate and visualize their local environment. Therefore, communities are better able to securely participate in civic decisions.
Streetwyze is cool! It's Yelp for Urban Planning but better. With capability to embed video, Streetwyze brings us to the location, we see the broken public toilet or the amazing new art pop-up with a local following. City administrators are beginning to see the value of Streetwyze. The team from ISEED are consultants brought to the City of Oakland Downtown Specific Plan. The goal is to bring a more equitably reflect the cross-sectional dynamism that is Oakland.
Streetwyze was designed to bridge the gap between ‘top down’ geospatial data and ‘bottom up’ local knowledge in order to elevate the community voice for the world’s most vulnerable populations...The missing link in the data revolution is how to integrate official knowledge and local knowledge in ways that make data more valid, reliable, authentic and meaningful to everyday people in order to get at the truth or ground-truth," information about a place.
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STREETWYZE is still being beta-tested. But if you participated in the www.eqtdto.com/Oakland Downtown Specific Planning effort, you should have received access. Make your voice heard.
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Professor Dr. Antwi Akom was invited to present at the White House-sponsored Frontiers Conference] hosted by President Barack Obama Oct. 13 at Carnegie Mellon University. It was one of President Obama’s final public conferences before the end of his term. Dr. Akom spoke about the “Streetwzye” [http://www.streetwyze.com/] platform an innovative new data tool designed to connect communities to opportunity in their neighborhoods. He is a nationally recognized leader in the field of social innovation, mobile tech, people powered place-making, human centered design, 21st century digital organizing, data visualization, health information communication technology, and health literacy for vulnerable populations.
- Antwi's TEDx Talk "Innovation out of Poverty": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvrLFgikLZQ
- Antwi's article "Turning Adversity into Opportunity": http://plus.usgbc.org/turning-adversity-into-opportunity-ghettos-and-slums-as-hotbeds-of-green-innovation/
- Akom, Antwi Trump Admin Moving to restrict data on racial disparities and fair housing http://www.citywatchla.com/index.php/be-green/12916-trump-gop-moving-to-restrict-info-on-racial-disparity-and-fair-housing
- Grady, Barbara. “Urban Resilience? There’s an App for that.” Green Biz. March 2016 https://www.greenbiz.com/article/urban-resilience-theres-app (Feature article)