The Department of Transportation (DOTr) and partner agencies gather Filipino developers,
IT and digital media talents, and road safety enthusiasts in a national Road
Safety Idea Hack, which also featured workshops using traffic and road safety
data sets at the Crowne Plaza on March 13 and 18.
The Road Safety Idea Hack welcomes people from diverse
backgrounds, whether in app development, digital media, social science, data
sciences, road safety advocacy and all who are excited and interested to learn
more about open data and road safety.
Interested participants form teams to produce ideas, analyses,
methodologies, digital media, advocacy campaigns and app prototypes to improve
road safety in the Philippines, using:
- OpenTraffic data provided by Grab
- Road crash data aggregated by DOTr
- and other datasets, such as jeepney routes and school locations.
Who can join?
Participants can do hacks
in their own, instead of a 2-3 day hacking on one area, the participating teams
are allowed to do their task on their own places, as long as they can submit
the needed requirements on or before 6PM of March 17.
Entries will be judged according to expected impact, creativity,
feasibility, and presentation.
Road safety is a critical
issue affecting the lives of millions of Filipinos, and through the Philippine
Road Safety Action Plan (2011-2020), the DOTr is committed to reduce road
crashes by 50%. While crashes can be mitigated with targeted policy and
infrastructure interventions, these interventions need to be well-informed by
evidence. Hence, the DOTr is enlisting the support of the public to use its new
open data sets to find solutions that will help meet this target.
During the event, secretary they also signed the Memorandum of
Agreement
Alongside with the hacking
event announcement, the DOTr also introduced a new platform called Data for
Road Incident Visualization Evaluation and Reporting (DRIVER), a web-based and
open-source national system for geo-spatially that record and analyze road
crashes. DRIVER can be access at www.roadsafety.gov.ph and is currently
populated with data from Metro Manila, Cebu, and Dipolog.
For more info visit, RoadSafety.gov.ph
For more info visit, RoadSafety.gov.ph
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