Neighborhood Navigations

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1. What is your project? [1 sentence]

An effort to support low income youth to navigate through dangerous neighborhoods, identify local job opportunities, and find positive activities and connections. 

2. How will your project use mobile tools and approaches? [2 sentences]

The project will leverage mobile apps, GPS, and text messaging to better connect youth with their neighborhoods. The project will leverage mobile tools already in use by the targeted communities. 

3. Who will use it and why? [1 sentence]

Youth living in urban ghettos because they want to find safe pathways to school, find work, and know when fun and relevant neighborhood activities are available. 

4. Please list three ways they would learn about your project.

Community centers and churches, word of mouth, and via Scraper bike teams. (for info on the urban Scraper bike movement see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQGLNPJ9VCE)

5. What connections have you made, or will you make, with others [communities, organizations or networks] about your project? [2 sentences] I have solid connections with leaders in the mobile for good space (e.g., Mobile Active) and with low income and underserved youth in Oakland, CA.

6. What part of the project have you already built? [1-2 sentences, feel free to include links]. None so far.

7. What does success for your project look like? [1-2 sentences]

A neighborhood where kids feel safer to walk the streets and more connected to their local community than ever before.

8. What resources do you need to succeed? [1-2 sentences] Money and connections with experts in location-based mobile technologies. 

Additional details:
Please list who is on your team: TBD
Expected number of months to complete project: 9 months
Estimated Project Cost: $75,000
Name: Paul Lamb
Twitter: @plamb
Email address: pauljlamb@gmail.com
Organization [if applicable]:
City: Vallejo
Country: United States
How did you learn about the contest? through Mobile Active