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GeoJozi Developer Challenge picks ten startups to solve the city’s address accuracy issues

Milcah Lukhanyu by Milcah Lukhanyu
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GeoJozi Developer Challenge, the City of Johannesburg’s first location-based developer challenge has selected top ten contestants developing digital location solutions which will best solve Joburg’s street address issues.

Supported by the City of Joburg, Wits University’s Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) and mapping software company, Esri South Africa, the challenge will narrow down to three who will walk away with R150 000, R100 000 and R50 000 respectively.

The three will also receive membership to the Digital Innovation Zone at the Tshimologong Precinct in Braamfontein for a year, giving them access to working space and support by leading technical experts.

According to Prof. Barry Dwolatzky, Director of JCSE, “It’s been a tough journey for our ten shortlisted contestants following a rigorous series of briefings, pitches and shortlisting since entries closed at the end of August 2016, with 80 submissions.”

The ten finalists have all completed an intensive period of Geographical Information System (GIS) training, as well as professional software practice, start-up and business modelling, and social media training.

Street addresses that are not clearly displayed or not displayed at all make it difficult, and sometimes impossible, to deliver essential services to residents of the city. In some informal settlements, in some areas street addresses don’t exist at all so  Prof. Dwolatzky says the top ten, showed the entrants had more deeply understood street address challenges in our city were the ones that stood out.

Director for Corporate Geo-Informatics for the City of Johannesburg Marcelle Hattingh says, “Street addresses specify points of service delivery. They are essential for electricity, water, refuse, sewage, emergency services, land ownership, parcel deliveries, safety and security, being able to vote and countless other critical services and functions.

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Solutions in the running for the GeoJozi Developer Challenge prize money include:

  • A property game similar to Monopoly but which only uses real addresses
  • A system that helps to identify and name locations within informal settlements
  • The quick harvesting of crowd sourced addresses to enhance address databases
  • An app which allows users to navigate to locations without knowing the address or GPS co-ordinates
  • A voting and reporting system for people to vote for street names or to report address issues they encounter
  • An innovative address plate which is the key element of a system that sources and validates addresses and displays them on the address plate device
  • A system that provides verifiable and identifiable addresses located in informal settlements
  • A system which creates a unique code for a point in time which is shared and linked to a map layout to locate an address
  • The ability to use geo-caching to link a home owner’s identity to a set of coordinates specific to their address.

“Choosing the top three of this Challenge will not be easy,” says Dwolatzky.

Hattingh adds that, “Contestants that did not reach the final rounds will be far more aware that addresses and location are essential for a high-functioning city. Many were not even aware of GIS, the power of location and the vital importance of accurate street addresses when they began. We hope they will be advocates in rolling out solutions to solve our street address issues.”

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Patrick McKivergan, managing director of Esri South Africa, says: “It has been a refreshing and inspiring experience to see the innovation these young developers have brought to the challenge.”

 

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