Sublime

Pragmatic Chaos

When the effort to travel to transit seems daunting because of distance or fear of danger, people will default to the easier decision to drive. The physical environment goes hand in hand with people’s perceptions of the difficulty of tasks. Research shows people are more willing to walk and use transit when streets are more connected, block lengths

The job

Emilie Reiser from our team had built an app that let people take photos and GPS readings and combine the two into annotated, illustrated maps that community leaders could show to local government officials, documenting and analyzing what was wrong with local infrastructure.

placing the weight of government behind the g0v practice of hackathons through the Presidential Hackathon (PH) and a variety of supporting institutions.