Pune : Parvez Shaikh
Pure Trafwatch, conceptulized by Pune Traffic Police and Ground Data Analytics start up ChangeBhia, with support from Pune Smart City and IISc-IUDX, is a one-of-its-kind pilot of a larger City Watch project with thousands of Geotagged Images flowing in datly from a crowdsourced netivork.
Is envsaged to be the largest and most robust collaborative data-based ctizer engagement tool globally.
Reason to launch Trafwatch:
The burning paint that TrafWatch addresses is the complete absence of a platform for citizens to
a. access the city ground data collectively and
b. engage around that data meaningtully to trigger action and not on a one-to-one basis like they do for grievance redressal or on an ad hoc basis on social media.
Rather than looking at issues& complaints as a drop in the ocean, Pune TrafWatch want to give everyone access to the ocean itsolf tor effective solutions.
Pune Traffic Police has recently shilted focus on data based management as it strongls believes effective and long term solutions come through pro-active planning not reactive actions.
Instead of talking about accountability and transparency behind close doors or in meeting rooms, the term strongly believe that the the structured data be put up for clearer picture to together look at the challenge we face and then, let a combinations of algorithms and human interactions bring up clear actions that lead two effective solutions.
Launch Coverage:
Pune TrafWatch is being launched with 47 roads and 265 chowks of Pune City. More data and coverage area will get added as the project progresses and expands.
What do the citizens need to do?
All the citizens need to do on Pune TrafWatch is view data (Map, Image gallery, Analytics section) and start talking about their daily commute issues by inputting keywords or tex (Citizen Enqaqe section). All this data then forms an ‘Action Trigger package’ for the relevant authorities to access and act upon. The images data will keep flowing reqularly providing a clear picture to the citizens at their fingertips. Though we do not depend only or Citizens for the images that form the backbone of the project, if the citizens wish to contribute images from their daily commute route, they can use the Join our Data Network section to do so.