Monitoring school lunch in Santarém
On June 21st, middle and high school students in Brazil’s northern city of Santarém, Pará took to the streets in the city center to raise awareness about a crisis with school lunches. The event was organized by the Student Movement Pact for Education in Pará in partnership with the...
Kicking off a new pilot to assess impact
We are very excited to announce a new partnership with Humanitas360 that will support a second pilot phase of Promise Tracker in Brazil starting this month! Over the course of 2015, we had the opportunity to work with Nossa São Paulo and civil society groups throughout the country that...
Project Case Study by DataShift
We were excited to see the following case study of Promise Tracker written up by DataShift. DataShift is an initiative of CIVICUS in partnership with the engine room and Wingu that aims to build the capacity of civil society to produce and use citizen-generated data to monitor sustainable development progress, demand accountability and campaign...
Citizen sensing: Mapping data on sound levels in Boston
Over the past month, our team has been developing the first prototype for integrating low-cost mobile sensors into the Promise Tracker platform to expand the range of information that citizens can collect and map with our toolset. We are excited to work with partners at Safecast and the the Media Lab’s Responsive...
Citizens & City Hall Monitor Sanitation in Belém
This past week in the northern Brazilian city of Belém do Pará, we had the pleasure of commemorating the first official collaboration between a civil society group and local government to monitor city issues using Promise Tracker. During a 2-day sprint, we teamed up with the Social Observatory of...
Recovering Play Spaces in Jardim Pantal
On Saturday we returned to Jardim Pantanal on the outskirts of São Paulo to run a second workshop with leaders of the Residents Association, staff of the Alana Institute and local youth. Our goal for the day was to develop a pilot campaign for the Association and explore how monitoring...
Monitoring Paraty with the Nucleus for New Media
This weekend we traveled to the city of Paraty on the coast of Rio de Janeiro to run a workshop with the Nucleus for Media, Art & Technology and professors from the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP). Officially launched in January 2015, the Nucleus was created to provide training...
Councillors monitor WiFi Hotspots in São Paulo
This week we returned to São Paulo to work with participatory councillors from 3 different regions of São Paulo to monitor projects included in Mayor Haddad’s goals plan for the 2013-2016 period. Rather than focusing on projects specific to their districts, participants selected a goal that called for the...
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,...