OSM Bengaluru's next mapping party is in Vasanth Nagar! And we're collaborating with Safe Yelli?
Details can be found in the poster below (thanks to Safe Yelli)
🗓 Date: 24th February 2024 (Saturday)
🕔 Time: 8:30 AM - 12 PM, followed by brunch at noon
📌 Meeting Point: Mount Carmel College Grounds, Millers Road (geo:12.994,77.595)
The Global Liveability Index 2023, from Economist Intelligence Unit’s (EIU), is available now. It ranks the cities that have the best and worst living conditions and quality of life around the world. EIU’s liveability index quantifies the challenges presented to an individual’s lifestyle and standard of living in 173 cities worldwide. The index measures cities on five broad indicators — stability, culture and environment, healthcare, education and infrastructure. The highest score a city can get is 100.
Bengaluru (Bangalore) secured 148th spot with a score of 58.7. Delhi, Mumbai, Chennai and Ahmadabad have slightly better scores.
I believe Bengaluru (Bangalore) has the competence and the bandwidth to rank much better. All that is required in political will. If somebody has lived in Bengaluru even for few weeks, the first obvious expectation for improvement will be better traffic management, roads, public transport and cleaner city with less pollution. Bengaluru has the highest traffic density of any major Indian city, with close to 12.5 million vehicles for a population of 11 million. This clearly shows that there is lot of scope to improve the efficiency of public transport system which will deter people from using personal vehicles.
#bengaluru peeps, a friend of mine is looking for shelter, they're looking for a trans friendly home. for 5-10 days. dealing with a tough economic/familial situation. DM if you know someone who can help or have a couch to offer.
Hello Bangalore! I’m passing through Bengaluru and would love to meet new friends between Jan 2-8.
I live in Berkeley, California, and run the monthly Berkeley South Asian Radical History Walking Tour.
I’d love to connect with people around public history, digital humanities, open source, tech and activism, transit/urbanism, left/progressive politics, books or bookselling.
@anirvan a lot of what you do sounds super interesting. Intersects with some of our work at the Takshashila Institution. Would love it if you could visit us for a chat. We are on Church Street, where all the cool bookstores are in Bangalore :)