curiousChallenge Explorer
Smart Citiesadvanced~50 mins

Create an integrated city platform that connects transportation, waste, and public services.

City services run in silos that don't talk to each other, wasting money and frustrating residents.

Real-world context

City services run in silos that don't talk to each other, wasting money and frustrating residents. Integrating them is a massive systems-design challenge.

The challenge

Create an integrated city platform that connects transportation, waste, and public services. Study who is affected, dig past the obvious symptoms to the real root causes, and design a solution that could actually work in the real world. There is no single correct answer — what matters is the quality of your thinking, the stakeholders you consider, and how clearly you justify your chosen direction.

Reflection prompts

  • Who is most affected by this problem, and how did you account for them?
  • What is the single biggest risk to your solution working?
  • Which assumption, if wrong, would break your whole idea?