The Energy Policy Institute at UChicago (EPIC) India’s mission is to conduct research in India on environmental policy and economic development. We worked with Rubbish Economics, a project under EPIC India focusing on crowd-sourcing community participation on digital platforms for solid-waste management in Bangalore.
Design a platform to connect and engage community residents and empower them to contribute to bottom-up volunteer-based solutions to alleviate solid-waste management practices in low-income slums in Bangalore. The platform will facilitate this community engagement through three core components: crowdfunding donation pledges from community members, and a place to pledge and post to the community forum to volunteer for clean-ups.
Research Goals:
Interviews
Due to physical and technical constraints, we were unable to get in direct contact with Bangalore community residents. To better understand our users and the problem space, we: