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Data and Communities : PULSE
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Teammates: Andrea Everman, Bryan Terill, Meng Yan.
Co -sponsor: Motorola Solutions, Ed Kaplan Institute of innovation and Tech Entrepreneurship
Won $5000 funding amount to take this project further
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Pulse is an information exchange platform that shows citizens and police officers the main non-emergent issues in their neighborhood, and empower them to work on these challenges together
Problem Framing
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How might we condense the wisdom of the community into actionable information for the police?
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​How might we engage community members “where they are” and create low-friction ways to share information?
Framing the solution: Apply insights to create human centered design solution
Used Package theft as an example to show how it works​
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Aggregated data through all Social Media Platforms
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Offered citizen choice to opt-in for collaboration with Chicago Police Dept.
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Engaged Police participation by showing solvability factors of a particular issue
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Build a Two -way communication platform between Police and citizen to build trust and encourage collaboration
Designed by Andrea Everman
Test hypothesis... Prototype.. Repeat
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Prototype
Designed by Meng Yan
Business Development: Provide value to both the stakeholders - Citizens and First Responders
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