CheckMyMetro sauve Paris, stp !
CheckMyMetro est une communauté sympa d’utilisateurs du métro (parisien) ! Ils partagent leurs coups de cœur et leurs coups de gueule. Ils informent en temps réel sur les conditions de transport : retards, pannes, bagarres, etc. Ils “checkent” les trucs marrants, insolites, intéressants ou utiles dans le métro. Ils signalent même la présence des contrôleurs !
Cette dernière fonctionalité semble être très appreciée des utilisateurs puisqu’elle a sa propre catégorie (en premier dans la liste). Cela dérange la RATP et donne à CheckMyMetro l’image du “vilain petit canard” freinant le dévelopement de cette startup. Dommage car au lieu de çà, CheckMyMetro pourrait sauver Paris !
Sauver l’image de Paris à l’étranger en aidant la police à lutter contre les pickpockets. Des voleurs de plus en plus agressifs ciblent principalement les touristes dans le métro. Ils travaillant bien souvent à la vue de tous, en bandes et sont facilement repérables par un parisien habitué. Un étranger qui aura été dévalisé dans le métro aura peur de revenir en France et propagera une image négative de la France à l’étranger [1,2]. Pour rappel [3],
- La France est la 1ère destination touristique mondiale
- L’industrie du tourisme représente 6,5% du PIB français
- Le tourisme représente génère près de 900 000 emplois salariés directs en France.
CheckMyMetro team, peux-tu créer stp une catégorie pickpocket (#ratppickpocket) pour voir en un clin d’oeil où sont les pickpockets !? Et toi la police, installe l’app CMM sur ton téléphone !
Sauver Paris de la puanteur en aidant les agents RATP à identifier les zones à nettoyer. Les agents propreté RATP font un travail formidable mais des fois… çà déborde ! A l’image de l’app “Dans-Ma-Rue” de la ville de Paris, CheckMyMetro pourrait aider à améliorer la qualité des transports et l’humeur des usagers.
CheckMyMetro team, peux-tu créer stp une catégorie propreté (#ratppropreté) pour voir en un clin d’oeil où il faut nettoyer !? Et toi RATP propreté, installe l’app CMM sur ton téléphone !
Notes
[1] “The rising problem of pickpockets in Paris,” telegraph.co.uk, 12 avril 2013.
[2] “Pickpockets : Le Louvre fermé à la suite d’un arrêt de travail des agents,” lemonde.fr, 10 avril 2013.
[3] “Le tourisme en quelques chiffes,” Ministère de l’écologie, du développement durable et de l’énergie, 21 juillet 2011.
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Online volunteering
I recently posted this on The Internet Wishlist,
I wish there was a website where NGO could ask for what they need (report, program…) and people could work for them from home #theiwl
— ths1104 (@Ths1104) February 25, 2011
I got some interesting feedbacks. Here is the summary:
- Onlinevolunteering.org – This is exactly what I was looking for. It is powered by the UNDP which is a guarantee of seriousness. The interface is rather classical but clear. I really wonder why NGOs are not taking more advantages of this website. I even could find some technical projects I would be able to volunteer.
- Catchafire – It could be what I was searching for but it only serves organizations in the Greater New York City area. Moreover I couldn’t find any technical project.
- Nabuur – It focuses on helping communities by putting them directly in contact with specialists. The projects proposed are not necessarily supervised by a NGO so volunteers should take care when applying.
- Social actions – This is a kind of search engine for online volunteering. Nevertheless, the interface is not clear, a lot of results are linking to donation websites and it is difficult to find concrete projects.
- If I ran the world – The concept behind this site is to connect people who need something and people who want to help. It doesn’t seem that there are projects proposed by NGOs but the way they connect people is interesting. “If I ran the world, I would…”
- Sparked – Similar to Aardvark in the way they identify common interests of people to connect them. They just need more projects/people. Great interface. Have a look !
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3 projects I’d like to see happen
- Genealogy
An online collaborative genealogy tree that would connect all the persons who live or have lived. With photos, biography, maps… The best trial is probably werelate.org.
- History
A Google Earth based collaborative historical atlas with links to sources, illustrations and videos. Should include various maps like frontiers, demography, battles… Something like that :
- Science
A platform for online collaborative science that would allow everyone to propose a project or to join one. Should include wiki, Tex, peer-review system, bug report, photo gallery, etc. I already discussed this here. Colabscience.com could be a good starting point.
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