I’m here today to represent the china urban transport team.We have over 30 urban transport projects – the largest portfolio in the Bank.Big team in Beijing/DC – used to include Shomik (at the time that we started this project)
Two workshopsOne at Tsinghua UniversityOne at the World Bank80+ in person participantsBiked, mapped, testedClear interest on Weibo (Chinese twitter)
Partner agency focus was planningLong standing relationship with Bank (ideal for trust and project implementation) …But day-to-day feedback and problem correction not the core mandate
Tool used (Ushahidi) not tailor made for urban serviceseasy to use, versatile, free…but maybe not ideal for this applicationTool: in the meantime – lots of tools (datea.pe, seeclickfix, fixmystreet, etcetc)Civic hacking is now a crowded marketplace (good thing for us)Going early means often being wrong – but iterating to better solutions