Erin Stein

In the winter of 2024, a corporate tech-for-good program was shut down, and with it nearly all its OS projects went dark. In this lightning talk, we’ll cover key lessons of what went right—and what didn’t—to help other OS efforts avoid the same fate.

Climate change’s impact on public transportation tends to focus on improving transit infrastructure to reduce stoppages. While this is important, it does not take into account the effect it has on communities, often already underserved, that rely on the transit system.

Publicly available data tends to be spatially aggregated to administrative units, limiting the feasibility of nuanced analyses that reflect the natural state of communities and provide actionable insights for a wide range of stakeholders.