Project Details

Schoolbuzz


Description

This application was created and developed by three Guatemalans: José Gálvez, Luis Sierra and Hsing-Li Chang. They created this platform that allows to monitor the school bus route, in order to provide to the parents, the opportunity to know and track in real time the trajectory of their children on their way to school. Besides, it allows parents to know the arrival time of the school bus to their home, which allows them to better organize their time. With this application parents feel more confident about where their children are, and also it can help them for avoid delays and the possibility that the kids can be late for take the school bus.
Schoolbuzz is not used just by parents, it is also designed so that schools have a better and greater control in the transportation service they use for transport their students. At the moment, several educational establishment has already joined the project.

Project website

https://schoolbuzz.com.gt/


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Action lines related to this project
  • AL C2. Information and communication infrastructure
  • AL C3. Access to information and knowledge
Sustainable development goals related to this project
  • Goal 11: Sustainable cities and communities

Coverage
  • Latin America and the Caribbean

Status

Ongoing

Start date

2017

End date

Not set


Replicability

the application can be used anywhere


Sustainability

By growing the use of the App


WSIS values promotion

The use of ICTs in different levels and by differnt actors.


Entity name

Schoolbuzz

Entity country—type

Guatemala Civil Society

Entity website

https://schoolbuzz.com.gt/