Project 3: Litterati
People want to help - they just don’t know where to start. Litterati’s Engage harnesses the power of crowdsourced data, helping inspire your citizens, local businesses, and non-profits to take collective action, and contribute to the greater good
What is the project about?
1. Project carriers
- Jeff Kirschner Founder & CEO
- Julie Bottau : Head of Business Development
- Sean Doherty : Chief Technology Officer
- Bhargavi Mantha : Head of Community
- Kush Aswani : Data Scientist
2. Beneficiaries
-Users around the world
-Biodiversity (plants and animals)
3. Users
- citizen
- local businesses
There are 150,000 users in over 116 countries
4. Need
* Help cities better utilize their waste management services
* Convince companies to change their operations to be more sustainable
* Arm individuals and organizations with proof to create government policy changes
5. Principles
* Take a photo of each piece of litter that you collect and dispose of
* Litterati will automatically geo-tag the photo for you
* Our LitterAI tool will add tags to each litter photo for you to confirm or change
* Upload the photos to the Litterati database
* Track your personal impact as well as the total impact of the Litterati community
6. Main technologies involved
- Image recognition: Seek scans its database while the user has their camera open and before they take a photo
- open data : Litterati's goal is to empower people to collect Litter Data & to empower people with access to that data so that anyone can help to create a litter-free world.