If you are passionate about going to parks in this city where you have just landed or exploring other open public spaces as per the quality of services they offer, here is a tool to go for.
An app and digital platform, currently under process of development, can help locate parks in Bhubaneswar to a traveller to explore the green space and spend some quality time there.
Yes!this digital platform/interface with city map and insights isbeing developedby a team of Smart City Fellows who were in the city to explore public open spaces as part of their visit to the Bhubaneswar Smart City.
This is a pilot project, which is being taken up in Bhubaneswar by the Smart City Mission.
The proposed app can help the user browse through open spaces like parks, markets, heritage precinct, water fronts, transit nodes and streets and let him/her rate the quality of the open space as per the benchmarks developed in the database.
For example, if from among 10 major parks in the city a park near airport scores 6.5 out of 10 score, then city can know that it
needs further improvements, alsocitizens and visitors can enjoy specific facilities offered there.
A user will use the proposed app to know the scores based on comfort, access, safety, inclusivity, resilience, sustainability, culture and identity, citizen engagement and activities offered in the public space so that he/she can know the facilities offered.
The three Smart City Fellows ShubhashwetiSinha, Mansi Naidu and KirtiKawale, who visited Bhubaneswar city and also explored the public open spaces including the parks, streets, heritage precincts and the Smart City projects involving citizens saidRs Rs the design and assessment tool for public spaces will not only help in setting a benchmark across the smart cities under the Smart City Mission, but the digital interface with
citizen feedback and experts’ analysis.
This information can be viewed in a geo-spatial map of all the public open spaces in the city.”
The digital platform/app will be fed by inputs from the users, so that the assessment would be updated and the new inputs in real time would be added to improve experiences shared by a new user.
The app, once made operational could be customised as per the local needs of any ULB/City/Smart City for benchmarking of their open spaces.