BKPK is a parking community that aims to reduce the woes of parking around the Brooklyn Hights area. Mike Kelberman and I worked on the concept and website, which aims to crowd source parking restrictions. Use this image above to link to the android web app. Thanks to Si Cho for the graphics!
This is a user scenario where the 2020 social activist will be able to meet with other fellow activists in a virtual space (this is in between second life on steroids and the matrix). I think this is how we’ll experience the internet in the future where the mind will be connected directly to the cloud.
The VR device will connect the user to a secret virtual space where activist will meet under different aliases.
Mike and I gave a presentation for social activism class on October 28, 2009. Here is the link to the pdf:
Our biggest obstacle right now is to get the DOT parking restriction database API. Considering this could time, we are planning on having the actual community to map out restriction zones and parking areas. The Digital Democracy crew came in yesterday to give us their opinion about our midterm projects and presented us with pressing questions about the direction and obstacles of our projects. Mark suggested openstreetmaps to us, in hopes to have bkpk have street mapping parties. The community would be stronger if it is involved from the very start.
The main goal of BKPK is to build a parking community that can sustain, so having the community involved in street mapping parties is a good idea.
Michael Kelberman and I are working on BKPK, which is a system that will encourage neighbors to collaborate in a friendly and safe parking environment.
BKPK = social parking
Currently we have twitter and Facebook Causes as @BKLNBK #BKPK
bklnpk@gmail.com
Our first goal is to create an SMS based service with IMIFIED that can enable users with any mobile phone to use our service. Presentation link below, please comment.
Michael Kelberman and I are working on BK PK, which is a system that will encourage neighbors to collaborate and create a safe parking environment.
Statement:
Social Parking as counter measure, prevention of parking tickets to lessen burden on drivers.
Audience:
Car owners in the neighborhood.
Problem:
Goals:
coordinating a community to create a friendlier parking experience that can:
Strategy:
Concept, Brand, Inform, Test
Software:
System:
Your Community:
DOT database + Google maps Mash-up (to be renamed)
There are different ways of encrypting code. Some extensive, some not. The first way that I thought of encrypting information is by either shifting or substituting QWERTY keys with the letters of the alphabet. Example:
ABCDEFG….can be substituted by QWERTYUI…..
Also using numbers instead of vowels. like AEIOU = 12345.
Wh1ts, 5p!
Using the keyboard we can shift the numbers to the shift symbol I can be so:
12345 = !@#$%
H@ll$, Th#s #.s v@ry s#mpl@ !nd c!n b@ s$lv@d q%#ckly.
If you want to go under the radar with your everyday lingo with some sort of simple encryption can be easy. Changing the context of your conversation is a method I use that works well. Only a few of my friends, close group of friends, know what I’m referring to. This talk is usually encrypted by movie or tv show quotes or simple abbreviation.
Example. “I DON’T ROLL ON SHABBOS!” quote from Big Lewbosky can mean “I’m chilling today” or having certain key words embedded in your conversation like:
“I’m hopping in the yellow submarine with ringo and john, would you like to join?”
You can encrypt names of your party and confirm a situation. Movies like pulp fiction work well, and you can quote the movie loosely.
me: Mmmm! Goddamn, Jimmie! This is some serious gourmet shit!
friend: I don’t need you to tell me how fucking good my coffee is, okay?
The Pulp Fiction lingo can be converted into any sort of way of communication. Now a key is necessary to decrypt this message. Are we talking about coffee? Obviously not. The parties involved need to be clear of the encryption and decryption of the message. You can immediately know of what the conversation is about and respond.
The Bonnie situation in Pulp Fiction is a good example. The context behind this is that, you are in trouble, and you have a certain amount of time to fix it. If you require help, you must call the Wolfe, problem fixer, to come to your aid.
Quote: We run across the path of any John Q. Laws, nobody does a fucking thing unless I do it first. What did I just say?
This is a good quote because they are already using a term to refer to a police officer. Using the Bonnie Situation or any other scene from movie or tv show culture can be an easy way to encrypt your conversation.
My interest in environmental issues, people’s rights, mobile communication, and human networks leads me to this cause: A Chile without dams. The power of organization with mobile phones for particular causes can aid this on going and controversial issue that involves many. Indigenous people and the environment are in peril due to corporations damming rivers in the south of Chile. Mapuches have constantly been in battle with the Chilean government for their rights.
This starts with transnational companies like ENDESA that have taken the rivers of the south of Chile to build hydroelectric dams. The results are obvious: indigenous people are displaced and natural ecosystems are destroyed. The environmental impact of these projects are considerable as well as the the damage done to people’s land, traditions, and way of life.
Not only Mapuche, but many other indigenous tribes are losing their lands due to corporations damming of the Chilean Patagonia.
This cause also extends to politics, involving Chile’s new democracy vs. Old Fascism.
We need socially responsible companies and investors that take inconsideration the impact of their projects on human beings and the environment.
Local movements need to be well organized and networked with larger international organizations like Green Peace. A solid plan needs to be put in effect so that the international community is also aware.
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