Desarrollo urbano

a local slum entrepreneur sells leather bags via internet. He receives an order from a customer in Europe. Via a text message from Mpesa, he knows that the money is being paid by the customer. The mobile money will be released when he send the bag. When the bag is ready, he calls TNT for pick up of the package. TNT identifies his location via the GPS coordinates. The package is being collected. If the bag has been delivered to the customer via TNT, Mpesa directly transfers the money to the local slum entrepreneur.
Visa versa, if a local slum entrepreneur orders spare parts for his bike shop, he can use his mobile phone number as address location. He pays via Mpesa. Mpesa holds the money until the entrepreneur receives the spare parts. Then, the money is being transferred. TNT delivers the spare parts to the GPS location that has been registered with the mobile phone number.
Reliable logistics and secure payments stimulate local slum businesses to rise out of poverty by connecting them to the global market place.

Musingini is a community of 2000 inhabitants in rural Kenya and was the first community to benefit from a Grundfos Lifelink system in March 2009. Before, they had a hand pump, but it was broken down, so people walked several kilometers to the river to fetch water.
The pump was installed in the borehole and the entire Lifelink system implemented by the Kenyan Grundfos Lifelink team. Each household got a smart card ‘water key’ and the community received training on how the system works and on the relation between safe water and good health.
The community reports that water is now near and easy to tap, that there is no waiting time, that water borne diseases have gone down and children are more in school. Several young men have started a ‘water distribution business’ and others use the water for growing vegetables and tree seedlings. One year later, the community raised funds for extending a distribution line to the school, the health clinic and the central market place. Since inception, nearly 4 years ago, the community has only seen one day with interruption in the water supply, which was solved by the Kenyan technical service team from Grundfos.

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It eliminates challenges associated with the manual processes associated with field data collection tasks; the field application pre-loaded on a mobile device, facilitates collection of data tied to a given location and associates this with collected data. This information is delivered in real time to the server which becomes available to the back office administrators. The administrators examine trends in the information and can amend the questionnaire structure and have these changes made, reflect on the field device immediately. The web geospatial + data analysis interface provides a user with access to several tools; the primary web interface opens to a geographic visualization space and offers a layout of several user related tools, that enables the user select from MDG frameworks 1 to 8. It also, provides access to analysis tools for stochastic assessments, budgeting and forecasting, project management and resource management as well as accessing platform support tools etc. A user is able to use the web interface to run analysis for actual project planning, visualization of data collected from site and also, can be utilized for monitoring and evaluation of intervention projects being executed. Snapshots of project updates (as maps) can be printed. It also provides the capacity for time related visualization of phenomena and impact of intervention (positive or negative).

It is an innovative solution not only in terms of subject ‘Financial Literacy’ (FL) but also in terms of how it is delivered to masses. Turkey had no national strategy when Para Durumu activities began two years ago now they became the main supporter and even began creating working groups which Para Durumu is a member. Edutainment and 360 degree communication is the key success methods Para Duru use to have the highest impact especially on the unbanked and underserved. To be more specific on how deliver our messages please watch http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQjftmbPR0M&feature=youtu.be

Model:
We are proposing
• To collect an inventory of all the good things about the Surrey and Delta communities using strategies such as, Roving Listener (PAR, Participatory Action Research), Photo-Visioning Mapping and Video-based Mapping.
• We aim to discover the reasons why people place value on the assets in these communities.
• Lead by Self Advocates who will collaborate and strategize with other like-minded citizens, families, municipalities, formal/informal groups, businesses and community leaders about how to build on local community assets in order to sustain and enhance them for the future.
• Ensure the community asset mapping tool is a participatory planning process that is lead by Self Advocates who will be supported to engage with a diverse amount of citizens in exploring the assets within the physical and social environments of their communities.
• Create a concrete output – a map, either in paper or web based format, which can be incorporated into formal and/or informal community planning processes.
• Ensure an “assets based” philosophy is utilized in all of the community mapping processes; rather than focus on problems or deficiencies, focus on identifying the community’s capacities and assets, including those of its residents, and then use these assets to build a long-term action plan.
• Use the mapping as an entry point for engaging citizens in different planning contexts such as, formal and informal groups, municipal planning and actions that individual citizens can engage in that contribute towards more inclusive Surrey/Delta community.

En diversas zonas rurales la mayoría de los pequeños productores no tiene acceso a servicios financieros. Pese a la existencia de una oferta adaptada, las IMF no promocionan sus servicios en sus zonas de residencia y la población desconoce la oferta. A veces se autoexcluyen, considerando que debido a su informalidad ninguna entidad les dará crédito. En algunos casos, se desplazan grandes distancias hacia el centro urbano más cercano con el fin de sólo realizar averiguaciones, pues no saben siquiera cuáles son los requisitos exigidos por las IMFs o los productos que ofrecen. Luego, se ven obligados a regresar otra vez con la documentación. En otros casos, por desconocimiento se dirigen a instituciones que no ofrecen microcrédito, donde sus solicitudes son rechazadas. Esto a su vez genera sentimientos de humillación y auto-exclusión (no se vuelve a solicitar crédito).
La información provista mediante SMS permitirá saber si los productos se adaptan a sus necesidades, si son elegibles, qué documentos preparar, etc., reduciendo la auto-exclusión y la necesidad de desplazarse repetidas veces.
Con el fin de llegar a los usuarios potenciales del servicio, PlaNet Finance contactará a organizaciones sociales de 2 municipios piloto (Chocontá y Kennedy en Bogotá) para convocar reuniones de información. En dichos encuentros se presentará el servicio y se recogerán los teléfonos de los asistentes interesados para el envío de SMS. A su vez, estas reuniones se complementarán con un módulo de educación financiera básica impartido por PlaNet Finance para todos los participantes.

El tomate 30 días antes de la cosecha se paga hasta 11.000 Gs. por kilo, a los 15 dias de haberse iniciado baja a 2.800 Gs., el promedio año es de 5.500 Gs. En el departamento de concepción-paraguay se han tirado hace un mes 3.000 toneladas de tomate.

MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.

This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, supported by office technology and a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.

This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.

MSV’s “Opportunity Centers” will operate a job-bank and skills registry, we will prepare the unsuccessful to form market niche enterprises, to locally in-source the creation, and production of consumer needed goods and quality services, delivering a long-term positive economic impact.

This job-incubator will have work-benches, shop equipment, a wide variety of hand and power tools, and office technology… supported by a wide range of mostly volunteer administrative, management, technical and professional services which the unsuccessful are neither able to obtain nor afford.

This full function idea factory atmosphere will invite free thinking and bold actions; a big open space, where everyone can turn an old craft or a new idea into a wealth-building productive reality; a place to find ways to turn stuff into locally produced “better” stuff; a hands-on place where unused skills are sharpened and shared; a full craft-enhancing place with an openness to tinker and invent what is possible; where a whole new variety of not-yet-successful Gates’ could meet a variety of equally different Allen’s.

“To generate exuberant diversity in a city's streets and districts… there must be a sufficiently dense concentration of people, for whatever purposes they may be there...” Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities (1961)
People make good places great. We believe outdoor ping pong tables will improve sense of community by drawing citizens from a range of ages and backgrounds to enjoy public space. Players will enjoy the benefits of improved fitness, hand-eye coordination, increased muscle reflexes, balance and a big smile through a low injury/ impact sport. This grant will be used to help us bring ping pong tables to our home town and to communities across BC. We’ll be looking to the public, community groups and city councils to help identify ideal locations for their ping pong table. Once installed, we’d like to work with our communities to study the impact these tables make and to better understand what locations make a good fit. In our home city we’d like to host a ping-pong championship open to everyone, a model we'll support other communities to replicate. In year two we'll be expanding on our previous year's success to support citizen groups and local government across Western Canada in acquiring a table for their community.

EstiloE.co is a web platform where registered individuals can upload pictures of the things they don't use anymore and give them a price that only administrators will see. Other registered individuals will find objects they need and like and they will make an offer to the system in terms of price. The app will match the wants and the haves and make the price offer to both sides and they will realize the transaction using a payment system online. This way objects that otherwise would be thrown into the trash can will have a second chance. We have been trying a bartering system for 5 years in Bogota, with a great deal of success. We have carried out more than 40 events with more than 500 attendees and lots of free press. We have been invited to different cities in Colombia and in Latin America to bring the Trueque but we haven't been able to do so for economic reasons. Internet based object exchange is a low transaction cost alternative that gives the opportunity to individuals to have what they want for less than what they expected and resolves the growing dilemma of what to do with the things that people don't want anymore but that are still useful. EstiloE.co will charge a comission to the transaction in order to cover operating and financial costs. In Colombia this costs are approximately 15 - 20% of each transaction.

Our solution makes a huge difference because of the unintended segregation poverty causes in our city. By creating affordable housing in various middle-class neighborhoods, we seek to ethnically diversify our neighborhoods. This diversity will not only positively impact the tenants we serve, but we feel it will also positively impact the community by creating a grassroots movement to decrease the number of homeless, those that are at risk of becoming homeless, and also those who struggle to survive on limited wages and limited access to affordable housing.

Education - Take rickshaw drivers for eg. Research says that there is aversion towards general public as a result of the swollen middle-class pushing the cost of living higher, ousting them to the periphery. This surfaces as apathetic and risky behavior on the road. CoRPS uses social meetings as ice-breaker, with the help of JAAGA, a local community place. Intervention is subtle, creating an artificial vent for this community and identifying those who could lead this change within the community. The program will be supported by public recognition for good behavior, and also introducing knowledge of place with interesting stories so that interested rickshaw drivers double up as tourist guides and are able to charge some extra money.

On the other hand, CoRPS facilitates a market-based approach to funding pedestrian infrastructure. It allows the local government to raise cash by leasing commercial spaces, and manage pavement infrastructure using their existing vendors. The commercial spaces will be leased out initially for a period of time, and then will be available for open bidding as and when they are available. Eventually, CoRPS will introduce this to local corporators as an idea to change their respective locality, and resist anyone who spoils the roads, creating an internal competition among themselves.

The last pillar of first-aid care maps healthcare clinics along the busy roads and standardize first-aid capacity. This will reduce chances of ambulances stuck in traffic, and instead take the victim to the nearest clinic, saving lives.