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Designspace sees the time spent riding the transit as a wasted opportunity: nowhere else are diverse groups so randomly chosen. Today I learned is a mobile-based interactive learning application that seeks to transform the often-wasted public transit commute into a dynamic opportunity for community development, art, and fun by creating a mobile platform for discussion among riders. Users of the Today I learned application will be able to send 140 character SMS text beginning with the app’s title anonymously only to other users who are located at the same transit stop. Other users will be able to decide whether a message is “interesting”, “uninteresting”, or “offensive”, directly affecting the lifespan of the text. These words were chosen to highlight provocative and new ideas rather than merely the most popular ideas, with the intention to create a more fertile learning environment. Messages that are most “interesting” will get re-posted at the next stop. A user viewing the interface would experience an “update” every time the vehicle he/she is riding in reaches a new station. Uninteresting ideas will be removed, and interesting ideas from users waiting on the platform and users on connecting transit routes will be added to the scroll of ideas on a user’s phone. Other users will also be able to anonymously reply to these ideas, to encourage human connection and crowdsource innovation. Ideas found most interesting should travel great distances. The program will work by using a twitter-like interface that uses the gps already installed in the phones and trains to transmit messages to the appropriate users. The data pathways of interesting ideas will be colorfully mapped in real time on the main webpage for each region, with an audio component for the visually impaired. Today I learned will revolutionize both public transit and social media, saving the former from tedium and the grounding the latter in place. Today I learned will be the local platform for innovative and engaging user-generated content. What did you learn today?
Comments
10 comments
good luck! :)
check out our vid too: http://challengefuture.org/tea ms/1012/room/solutions/1296
thanks! :)
19th June, 2011 @ 2:44 PM CEST
Ohh... nice project! I voted! check our solution on : http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1022/room/solutions/137 2
28th June, 2011 @ 6:31 PM CEST
Great idea. Go on and win the competition is my wish for you.
28th June, 2011 @ 8:13 PM CEST
Jovana Djurkovic | Action team | CF Chapters
This can be interesting. I'm spending a lot of time in public transport, so if I can learn something new every day while I'm there that can be cool :) Good luck!
3rd July, 2011 @ 4:54 PM CEST
great one and good luck guys =)
also check out our one please: http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/770/solutions/1392
11th July, 2011 @ 2:01 PM CEST
hey well done... :)
Every idea in this competition is meant for a noble cause..
And everyone is running blindly to get more accolades for their own idea.. We all are trying to gather and convince friends to vote for us..
But as a part of this competition, we ourselves should motivate eachother.. for a while we should keep the competition aside.. and we should look into all our felllow competitor's ideas.. and should encourage the idea they came up with for the noble cause..
Lets keep aside the competitive feelings aside.. and lets vote for all the ideas we consider worthy in our perspective...
lets encourage each other ideas.. I will vote for you as i liked your idea.. and for all other ideas as well which i liked..
Join me in this drive of voting and encouraging your those fellow competitors.. WHOSE IDEAS YOU FEEL ARE WORTHY...
If you like mine, you are cordially invited to vote for our idea too....
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1026/solutions/1273
And If you don't like, we would love to have your opinion on how can we improve on our idea :)
Just voted..
14th July, 2011 @ 8:00 PM CEST
What you propose can be a brand-new step in development of UGC. Nice shot! Looks like we have next Mark Zuckenberg in this room )))
20th July, 2011 @ 2:53 PM CEST
I like it.
Check out our idea: http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/993
Congratularion good idea!*/
21st July, 2011 @ 9:57 PM CEST
I learned that we can achieve what we set out to achieve.
Great innovation, looking forward to the realisation.
Best of luck.
I will appreciate if you will check out my team' solution http://challengefuture.org/tea ms/874
11th November, 2011 @ 5:53 PM CEST
Sachi Bansal
Nice work..
Please see our also
http://www.challengefuture.org /teams/1026/solutions/1273
15th June, 2011 @ 3:05 PM CEST