when is the 1st trial
looking good !!
from the pictures I can see u had a prototype 
that’s cool . do u plane on trying it out on a bigger scale . how is that , there r a lot of components in "bos 7awalek " do u think on getting things done on phases or do u plane on working on all the tracks together ?
keep up the good work and thanks for keeping us updated 
Hello Hazem im glad you liked the idea, thank you for your kind words, your feedback guys is very important to us, well the campaign has several layers and dimensions, so i would say we will start with a phase and each one is a milestone but mainly we want to shed the light one an important aspect, and allow people to take note of different views. we want them to use the resources around them, which can save alot of energy, time and its healthy. You mentioned something about “components to boss 7awalek” can you elaborate on that plz
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Hi @MonaMakhlouf welcome on board, happy to meet you!
I think mine and also Hazem’s curiosity is how are you planning to move forward with the project, and if there are specific skills you need to be able to actually implement it, aside from engineers who can get hold of a generator… Communicators? Someone to interface with public authorities? Designers for the visual campaign?
It may be too soon for you guys, but we’re listening
exactly
coz that’s BIG …and it can be broken down to different small stuff like noemi said so what’s ur plans guys
boss 7awalek
hello there @Noemi and @Hazem im really happy you guys are engaged in the conversation, it is a big campaign or initiative let’s say, we want to cover a big target audience online and offline users, because we have a big sector who use vehicles but they don’t use a smart phone, so in order to reach them a national campaign in collaboration with other startups will be involved in this, we wanna create a buzz and get people thinking “teaser campaign” or an awareness campaign let’s say, as for the technical side of the billboard and how it will light up, we got on the team an engineer/architect and i myself am a graphic designer, our team is form of amazing thinkers n change makers n each is an expert in several fields. however we won’t be able to do it all on our own, so we need all the help that we can get, if you would like to join in our round table discussions please let me know so i can keep you updated, we would love to hear from you and tackle the challenges too, maybe we can collaborate on this
opportunity to get more people involved
Hey, yes a concerted action involving more groups and ngos seems much more reasonable.
More than me getting involved in it (i don’t know how I could help personally because I have very little knowledge of similar initiatives), I am wondering if we can get you in touch with others who can advise. For example you might want to start mapping the hot spots crossroads in town where the billboards should be placed, and once they’re on the map, use the data to build the app for drivers. Folks in Georgia are working with Open Street Maps and you could get in touch to learn how it’s done.
Are any of you considering joining the international community gathering in Tbilisi this June? That is a good context to collect more ideas for your project and get support from the bigger Edgeryders network. pinging @douwe-sjoerd to ask what the expectations and timeline for projects are after Make the Future workshops… would it be useful to follow up somehow?
Thank you Noemi
yes @Noemi the " make the future work shop " was great and seemed to be an extension of future spotter workshop at Egypt .
@futurespotter , we talked about our dreams , Ideas , solutions & how to express all of them … then @make the future , we created some kinetic issues , then we had a task that focusing on a problem and what makes it worse then discussing the solution & make a prototype .
the team you may know @Labanita & @Margwah , Mostafa Hussein , Mona Makhlouf , Monica … they supposed to be here … we started to discuss the Idea as a real project and working on the generator which will generate energy from vibration done by car motion on the road . … for the billboards we will use the existing billboards on crowded roads , may be we can rent one of them :)
Thank you Hazem
@Hazem , mmmm we didn’t discuss if we will have a bigger prototype or not but will be more detailed one
phases or all together , we will share the topic with some details as soon as possible … but we started by the energy generator as we have a team of power engineering specialists & studying the ability of manufacturing the generator at Egypt instead of importing it
nice initiative and something i can contribute in as well perhaps! energy, water, waste management, and food seem to be the verticals that much focus and resources (including investment) is being thrown at currently in most of developing countries.
keep us posted!
hi @2mavin im happy to connect, this is music to my ears, we wanna make it as environmental and possibly economically friendly as possible. taking into consideration the design thinking of the whole project. would love for you to join our round table discussion, im sure we have alot to talk about
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news?
Hi Mona,
Happy to help in any way.
so what has been happening re this project except the Edgeryders discussions? any tangible and specific steps forward?
arkeb eh
guys do u know arkeb eh " what to ride (as in transport) " they made an app that tells u what public transport to take from one place to another , I think only in cairo and its buses metro and minibuses but not microbuses ,
may be u can make something like that or even cooperate with them so that u have the other part of the story '"markabsh eh " (what not to ride :D)
out of topic
did anyone mapped the informal micro buses ? it is another issue but it 's interesting and worth a trial
good point Hazem
yes @Hazem , @labanita mentioned this app as an example , but our idea concentrating on " why are you going far from your home , and leave what is near ? " , a person may has services he needs at his neighborhood where he can walk or ride a bicycle , but he used to go to that famous market to buy some thing cheaper and think that he is so smart but actually he spends money on fuel & wastes his time to save may be 10 bounds . also for schools ppl put their children at famous schools even if they are far from home may be 2 or 3 driving hours . so we try to make ppl think about their alternatives .
for Micro buses I don’t know if any one mapped it , but I think it cant be mapped and government should stop them or make more control on them because of their fast driving which I suffer from personally :)
'"markabsh eh "
@Hazem I didnt notice this "markabsh eh " (what not to ride :D) nice funny Idea ,I like it
am kinda pro microbuses
I know they have lots of problems , environmentally and driving ethics wise . but we have to admit that the have a big share of the traffic in Egypt and can’t be stopped , I think we should work together with them (microbuses drivers community) to enhance and get to better solutions and mapping could act as a 1st step to do so .
I also suffer from them but I also use them on daily basis in Cairo …
Metro
I would love to have a metro from where I live to Down Town Cairo. I would love to spend my time reading, sleeping, checking my mail, anything but driving!! I do not like Microbuses.
me to
@Hazem microbuses are the only way that I have to use for going from Banha to Cairo and take Metro after that , but you are right we should cooperate with micro., drivers and spread safety awareness between them …
exactly
@monarezk since there is no other way to get from Banha to Cairo - or they r the fastest way - they have a big share in traffic and can be considered as very important stakeholder in this issue … they can’t be ignored anymore .
i want to check it out
i did not know about arkab eih? how do i download it on our mobile to check it out?
didn’t try it
am new to smart phones didn’t try it actually , but it looks promising
also by2ollak is a good app …hope u guys get to make an app an much more
