Post by account_disabled on Mar 14, 2024 4:15:31 GMT
Technological innovation at the service of NYC citizens: StreetSmart is born When technological innovation takes on features capable of helping or even solving problems that have long afflicted our "civilizations" we are always happy to talk about it in our magazine. The contemporary problem has always been the homeless poor who crowd the streets of New York every year and live in marginal, critical situations at the limits of dignity and who have to overcome challenges bordering on survival due to the prohibitive winter temperatures. Sharing information between different city departments and non-profit organizations will help provide shelter for as many people as possible. The number of homeless people in New York City has reached the highest levels seen since the Great Depression in the 1930s.
This time, the city hopes to use the data to help solve the problem. Wired reports Find Your Phone Number says that the mayor's office is implementing a new tool called StreetSmart, which can use data collected on homeless people and provide service workers and volunteers with data to keep track of the people to be helped, identify their usual tendencies and thus organize more widespread and calibrated interventions aimed at facilitating and ultimately solving the problem. Cross-communication between civilian agencies serving the homeless is critical. The information collected itself is often poorly organised. The reason is the disintegration that exists between groups, which act for different purposes. The fragmentary nature gives no way of knowing, for example, what has already been recorded. Furthermore, obsolete systems often make it difficult to use the collected data later, even visualization on maps can be critical.
Wired states that this unfortunately happens for critical situations such as those of the data relating to the homeless in New York. StreetSmart – the new system – will make it easier for authorized workers from city agencies and nonprofit groups to upload and analyze data on homeless people across the city, how they use shelters and their medical and of work. For example, a person who suddenly shows up in a shelter with a history of her data, the professionals could find out if she had just been discharged from hospital, and therefore immediately assess her vulnerability.
This time, the city hopes to use the data to help solve the problem. Wired reports Find Your Phone Number says that the mayor's office is implementing a new tool called StreetSmart, which can use data collected on homeless people and provide service workers and volunteers with data to keep track of the people to be helped, identify their usual tendencies and thus organize more widespread and calibrated interventions aimed at facilitating and ultimately solving the problem. Cross-communication between civilian agencies serving the homeless is critical. The information collected itself is often poorly organised. The reason is the disintegration that exists between groups, which act for different purposes. The fragmentary nature gives no way of knowing, for example, what has already been recorded. Furthermore, obsolete systems often make it difficult to use the collected data later, even visualization on maps can be critical.
Wired states that this unfortunately happens for critical situations such as those of the data relating to the homeless in New York. StreetSmart – the new system – will make it easier for authorized workers from city agencies and nonprofit groups to upload and analyze data on homeless people across the city, how they use shelters and their medical and of work. For example, a person who suddenly shows up in a shelter with a history of her data, the professionals could find out if she had just been discharged from hospital, and therefore immediately assess her vulnerability.