The use of interactive3d as a tool in municipal planning & delivery ~Innovation in action~

Dave Lockwood the Naledi3d Factory

(The Innovation Hub, Pretoria)

SAFIPA Closing Conference Pretoria, October, 2011

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• It’s a visual experience Builds comprehension

Improved memory retention

• Overcomes literacy barriers

• Overcomes language barriers

Showing, not telling

• Vision is actually our primary sense

Our mind has evolved visually for millions of years

Why visually interactive communication?

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Eli Gudza - World Links Zimbabwe (2008) (our partner in the training of emerging farmers n Zimbabwe)

Example: farming in Zimbabwe

WSIS World Summit Award Award 2009

Bee-keeping

Soil conservation

Water Conservation

Sorghum and Pests

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Example: Water (2006)

• How to build a pit-latrine (Mozambique)

• How hydro-electric power is generated (Senegal)

• Pump maintenance – AFRIDEV

Shona

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Rural hygiene (Nakaseke, Uganda)

River – don’t wash or bathe or else…. Fruit trees – wash fruit

Latrines – cover and smoke

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The real Nakaseke…

Simulation used by the community centre, 24 local schools, churches and the local clinic

Has reduced dysentery and other disease in the district

Used to attract “book-phobic” locals into the community centre (to e-mail / Internet)

Still used in 2011…

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Mine safety

• Haulage-way safety

• Mud rush – consequences

• Off-loading of ammonia

• Conveyor belt safety

• Energy awareness

• Gut-wrenching consequences of bad practices!

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Our work with SAFIPA

Addressing two levels of municipal service delivery:

1. Municipal management

– Adopting SimCity to better reflect a local visual environment

2. Community resource management

– Water wastage (dripping taps)

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Aim: • To produce a SA version of SimCity that can be used as part of Municipal

training programmes (targeting senior management, councillors etc)

How • Create a local context • Substitute American buildings to better reflect local architecture

Why SimCity • Role-play: The Mayor (as decision-maker) has to manage the town and its

infrastructural elements:

– Infrastructure: water, sanitation, refuse removal, electricity, roads and transport

– Commerical: residential, commerial and industrial zones

– Services: Schools, libraries etc

– Responds to decisions made

• Revenues (rates) and expenditure (costs)

• Employment levels, population growth, infrastructure problems etc

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SimCity… objectives

SimCity

Original USA police station – replaced by SAPS police

station

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SimCity… outcomes

Potable Water losses

Aim • Reduce domestic water wastage - by showing how to replace

washers in specific taps (bib; pillar etc) and cisterns

Problem • Huge amounts of potable water are lost through

poor maintenance. – Example: Munsieville (Klerksdorp) a 2007 water audit found losses of

over 16 million litres of water a month, mostly due to leaking taps and cisterns.

How • Create five VR simulations showing how to change washers

in four taps and a cistern

Implementation • Partnership with D Lentle & Assoc. - water training provider

– Piloted at ERWAT - artisan training – Potential for use in other municipal community awareness

interventions

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Outcomes Piloted at East Rand Water Board (ERWAT)

20 trainee artisans

11 < 25 ; 9 older

13 male / 7 female

12 live in a township environment / 4 inner city / 3 rural

How was the VR lesson different from normal?

• “It explains beautifully and the display of it is nice, it gives me more knowledge”

• “It was faster to catch on and even to revisit”

• “We can understand better when we see what we are doing”

• “More of these VR lessons should be provided, they make learning much easier”

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Overall confidence - pre training / exposure to i3dlo’s – taps 2.65

1. The computer visuals make the learning easier 1.32

2. I understand better with the computer visuals 1.37

3. I understand better without the computer visuals 3.32

4. It is the teacher’s explanation which makes me understand 2.42

5. The computer visuals make the learning more enjoyable 1.42

6. The computer visuals complicate the learning process 3.47

7. The computer visuals help me to remember what I have learnt 1.32

8. This VR session cannot help me revise the topic 3.26

9. This VR session fits well with the rest of my lessons 1.53

10. Given the opportunity, I would like to have another VR lesson 1.05

Overall rating – post training 1.3

Overall confidence post training / exposure to i3dlo’s 1.55

Overall survey outcomes

1 - very confident; 2 – confident; 3 - some confidence; 4 - little confidence; 5 - no confidence

Was SAFIPA effective?

Some thoughts…

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• SAFIPA has, in its three years built up a interesting network of projects and colleagues in South Africa

• SAFIPA has engaged with a diverse selection of projects and organisations

• SAFIPA has supported many SME’s

• SAFIPA has left a network that will surely continue post SAFIPA

• Thanks SAFIPA … • And in particular the solid energy of Kristiina Lȁhde,

Lorraine Shikwane and more recently, Thiru Swettenham

“If not us, who? If not now, when?” (Ronald Reagan)

dlockwood@naledi3d.com +082 894 3178

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