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...
Promise Tracker launches in São Paulo
On March 23, the Center for Civic Media and Rede Nossa São Paulo teamed up for the public launch of Promise Tracker and De Olho nas Metas....
Intro to Promise Tracker with Comunitas
On Friday we visited Comunitas to run an introductory workshop with the organization’s program staff and creators of the Brazilian civic app, Colab.re. The group created demo campaigns, discussed potential applications of the tool within the Comunitas network and explored some of the different engagement models between Promise Tracker and Colab....
Monitoring Public Parks in Betim
On Thursday we traveled across Minas Gerais to work with leaders of Nossa Betim and students from a local technical school....
Assessing Public Transportation in Belo Horizonte
We traveled to Belo Horizonte this week to introduce Promise Tracker to civil society group NossaBH and members of their network. ...
Monitoring São Luís
The Promise Tracker team made our first visit to the northeast region of Brazil this past week to run a workshop with members of Nossa São Luís in the capital of Maranhão. ...