Public parks and transportation in Belém
We returned to the northeast this week to run a workshop in Belém do Pará with The Social Observatory of Belém. The group was fantastically diverse, including reps from the public prosecutor’s office, the secretary for the environment, the informal transportation collective, the community outreach initiative of the military police, architects...
Tracking sidewalk issues in Moema
On Saturday we accompanied a group organized by the residents association in the São Paulo neighborhood of Moema. We gathered in a cake shop with an eclectic group including local business owners, participatory councilors, a representative from the local branch of city hall and residents ages 22 to 70 including lawyers, engineers,...
Trash collection in Jardim Pantanal
We teamed up with Instituto Alana this week to run a Promise Tracker workshop in a region of São Paulo called Jardim Pantanal, located about 40 miles out of the city center near the airport. Alana has had a presence in the community for 20 years and the region is...
Looking at local health facilities in Sé
On Tuesday we ran a follow up session with participatory councillors from Sé region in downtown São Paulo to run a mini data collection campaign to present back to the council as an example of Promise Tracker in action. The group created an opinion survey with local residents and workers...
Monitoring public bus stops in Ilhéus
We had the pleasure of collaborating with Nossa Ilhéus on Thursday to debut Promise Tracker in the state of Bahia. Working with a group of student activists, media makers, professors, and members of councils on education and entrepreneurship, we developed campaigns to assess maintenance of public bus stops throughout the city. The...
Assessing water quality in Ilhabela
On Monday we teamed up with the staff and leadership of the Sustainable Ilhabela Institute to test out Promise Tracker on local sanitation issues. Just off the coast of the state of São Paulo, Ilhabela is home to about 30,000 year-round residents and is major tourist destination for São Paulo and neighboring...
Promise Tracker Intro at the Sustainable Cities Conference
Nossa São Paulo and the Promise Tracker team traveled to Brasilia this week for the first international conference of the International Sustainable Cities network. There were reps from cities across the globe who gathered to share best practices from the 12 different focus areas of the network. We ran an introductory session to...