 Hi everyone, so my name is Samiroslav Mazel, I'm here to talk to you about Doparazanakla, which is a Czech bike to work campaign. But before I get to this campaign, I want to tell you a bit about the organization organizing it, which is Automat. This is a 20-year-old Czech non-profit organization that promotes efforts to improve the environment in cities around the Czech Republic. Besides this Doparazanakla initiative, they have several other projects. One of these is the Sustainable Urbanism Lab, which makes sure that cities' plans don't conflict with public interests, and that they don't destroy public important public spaces. So this is more of a political effort. Then there's Generation U, which is more of an educational effort, where people from this organization visit primary and secondary schools, and they have talks about sustainable transport. And then there's Zazitne Stojinak, which roughly translates to experience the city differently. And this is really about getting people to know their neighborhoods and livening up public spaces. This is organized locally. There's a day where people from the neighborhood organize workshops, concerts, theater shows, and more to really make sure that people know their environment and have a greater appreciation for their neighborhood. Now as you probably noticed, two of these three projects are centered around modes of transportation. And really this is also one of the main focuses of this organization, and it's the focus of this challenge that I'm here to talk to you about today. So about this challenge, how does it work? So first off, the process is relatively simple. The first step if you want to be an attendee is to maybe ask your company if it wants to participate. It's usually companies that take part of this challenge. And even if your boss or superior says no, we don't want to participate, you can still participate as an individual. So that's possible too. But if they say yes, then that creates an effort inside the company. You get more people maybe competing with you. And there's an initial fee to take part in this in this organization, in this challenge. So it's so better for you if your organization pays that fee for you, supports you in this challenge. For this sign up fee, you get a welcome package with a t-shirt. And once you have that, and once the competition starts, you bike or walk or run to work, basically you can use any non-motorized way of getting to work. If you don't use it, that's somewhat acceptable. You just have to track it. Every day you track your runs or walks or travel to work. And if you happen to take the car or public transport, you track it. It counts against you. But if you use ecological modes of transport most of the time, you're still able to basically win the challenge. And that's the last step. You win prizes. You can win prizes. You get entered into a draw. And then each city has different prizes that people can win from that city. Now, this challenge has been happening for 13 years around various cities around the Czech Republic. There's typically now three challenges during the year. There's a 30-day one in May, there's a 14-day one in September, and there's a 7-day one in January. So showing people that even in the winter, you can still take your bike or run or walk to work. Why are we doing this? Well, it turns out that personal transportation accounts for around 15% of all greenhouse gas emissions. And this is an ecological effort to reduce that. That's one component of it. Some other components are really raising awareness about the possibility to travel to work in a sustainable way. And not just raise awareness, but also make it easier for people to choose these modes of transportation. So showing them that it can be done. Showing organizations, those tend to be involved too, that it can be done. Having people change their habits, having organizations change perhaps the work environment so that it's easier for people to park their bike near work. And also to motivate cities to develop safe infrastructure so that people can use their bikes around the city more easily. Who participates in this contest? Well, it's the civil society. So generally, people from the public. It's the private sector. So companies tend to be involved. As I said, it's usually companies that encourage this among their workers. And people generally ask their companies if they'd like to participate. And it's also municipalities. So it's up to cities to organize events as well as prizes for people in that city. And it's this marriage of multi-sector collaboration that really makes this challenge work. Because when you have collaboration across all of these sectors, then you can have much more impact because everyone and address systemic problems because everyone here is involved. It's not just one sector trying to push the other sectors into making a change. If you look at what's been motivating people to get involved, this is according to a survey. One of the main motivators is really improving the environment, making sure that the environment is better. It's also finding community in the people who participate. It's improving their fitness. It's also nice to bike to work because you're not sedentary the whole day. Even if you work in an office, it's good to get outside a bit and get some exercise. It's about lowering emissions. And also it helps people because it's nice psychologically good to be outside for a bit, breathe clean air. So even the psychological impact is important for people. This makes challenge had 25,625 participants, more than 2,500 companies participating in 52 cities. And that's significant in and of itself because all of these companies and all of these cities are at least showing some interest in making biking work throughout the city. These companies oftentimes make changes such as making sure that people have a place to shower after they get to work after biking or that there is a place to park their bike at the company. But it also has some other forms of impact. So there's an estimated just this May 739 tons of CO2 saved alone. From our survey, it seems that 99% of people who take part in this challenge plan to continue at some capacity to stake that with a grain of salt. But it does show that we're showing people that it's possible to bike to work and that they are enjoying it and see the value of it. And this contest over the years has reached more than 130,000 people in the Czech Republic, which is a relatively sizable portion of the Czech populace. And this is individual people. This is not just attendees. So with duplicates weeded out. So this challenge has quite a bit of impact. The reason why I'm presenting it to you today is because I've been involved with a redesign that's coming to the system. So there's more gamification coming into the system where you record your your travel to work. So that's coming up. And the reason why I thought it'd be good to show at this conference is because it's based around open source. So all of these systems, the back end, the front end, all of that's open source. You can find it here at this GitHub link. They're using the GPL for this system. And if you happen to be from another country, you're more than welcome to try to replicate this challenge in your own country. If you're from the Czech Republic and want to help, you can help develop either as a volunteer using the standard GitHub PR processes or part-time jobs are possible as well. Sometimes, you know, there's work that needs to be done and automatic can afford to pay. Sometimes you just need to be for a deaf project shows up. But either way, let us know about yourself and we'd be happy to collaborate. And this is how you can reach us. Dominika Lentarva is the project manager. So she's the main contact person. But you can, if you visit the website, you can also find contact links there. All right. I think we have a bit of time for questions. Yes? So the question was in general, there can be a problem with a lack of bike lanes. And the question is, how do we collaborate with local governments to make changes in this area? I would say that the factor here is that the cities are involved themselves. So this topic usually oftentimes isn't on the mind of cities by involving them. This at least brings the topic up to them and they see that it is something to think about to consider in future plans. That doesn't necessarily mean that every city that is involved will make huge changes and introduce bike lanes where there aren't any. But it does mean that they're thinking about more and there's more hope for changes going into the future. Also, I should mention that there is another factor aspect to this collaboration with cities because cities can use the data that's collected throughout this challenge and they can use it to make better plans going into the future. So they can better plan on, they can see through the data where maybe they should focus on more which places would be a good fit for better bike lanes. Yes? Sorry, I didn't hear. Right. So the question is what kind of data we collect and if it's public. So right now there's data about how the number of kilometers traveled. There's also data about paths that people can choose to share but there's different ways to record paths. One is you record the precise places where you've been but you can also just record the kilometers. So it's up to people whether they choose to share their path or not. But this is also given to the cities. It's not public per se, but this information is provided to cities. And yeah, after every challenge there's like a final summary of the challenge that collects, that basically showcases data related to, mass data related to the challenge. So how many kilometers have been traveled overall? How many people participated, etc. So data like this. Yes? You get cities to, sorry, companies to compete with each other as well as individuals. So the question was whether we get companies competing with each other as well. Yes we do have, we do have sorting competition amongst not just individuals but also teams within a company, also cities and also companies themselves so people can choose where they rank. Yeah, they can see where they rank and we're out of time. So thank you all for attending. Yeah, and if you have any questions feel free to contact us.