38 neighbours have shared what matters to them — in their own words.
“People are all buying SUVs in Goa because the roads are not suitable for any other car. You need off-road driving to drive inside Goa. The roads are in such bad condition.”
Nearby, residents express significant concerns primarily regarding deteriorating road infrastructure and a lack of effective public transportation 🛣️, alongside pressing issues such as inadequate waste management and damaged public amenities like swings. There's also a clear need for better public services infrastructure and more local job opportunities, particularly in agriculture. On a positive note, citizens are proposing innovative community connection solutions like neighborhood potlucks 💡, and some appreciate new infrastructure projects like bridges and coastal highways. Discussions around AI highlight both its potential as a 'force multiplier' and crucial considerations for its responsible governance, ethical use, and environmental impact.
“The conditions of roads here are terrible. Lot of heavy vehicles are going and there are like lot of pot holes and very dangerous for riders. No street lights also and lot of business stops here.”
“We are on Chapora beach. There's a lot of trash and garbage here. Uh there should be some regular clean up and some places at least for uh people to use loo or something like that could be good.”
“I have a solution for building community connections using a regular monthly potluck organised by the people in their neighbourhoods. Anyone is welcome and everyone gets to eat and share each other food, creating harmony and understanding among people.”
“Hello, we need work. We are laborers. We are new here. We also have expertise in agriculture. In farming, and in making all products, farming products.”
“What concerns me about AI currently is that if we are able to use it well, without destroying the environment or disadvantaging you know, people and not spoiling different existing resources, etc. But if we're able to use it well in a balanced way, is the concern. So, a lot of governance on how AI needs to be directed is required. Also, there's a tendency that of disappearing arts and craft practices because AI can do it also is a worrying thing that we don't delegate everything to AI. So, it needs careful consideration.”
“At least in programming and development, I'm able to almost do the work of three to five people at any time. So it's a uh unlike any other time this uh you know, power has been there. So it's it's definitely a great force multiplier and allows us to do multiple many things very powerfully. So the interesting thing is to see what can we do with so much power.”
“Hi, we are reporting a lack of jobs and training here in our constituency. We would like agriculture, organic farming, training in our constituency.”
“Hi, we are thinking of ways where grassroots uh people can report their issues in a very efficient way and can see the synthesis of the community easily.”
“Hello, there should be better infrastructure for public services. People suffer and there are no systems that are supporting public voices. We need infrastructure developed.”
“we keep hearing high energy usage in AI. we would really like to know uh how to reduce the high energy usage.”
“So one another consideration is that currently AI is trained on all data that is known by humans, right? Human generated or different sort of data we know. Uh but considering that is a very small amount of stuff that we know, a lot of things are built on unknown. I'm worried that AI being thought of as an expert is very limited in its ability, you know. So uh so yeah, we still don't know anything about the unknown and that uh is just left out of any new uh thought or innovation.”
“I'm a new farmer here and I'm looking to start farming on a barren piece of land. I need some locally sourced organic inputs and how to make soil and some information on starting a new farm. Please help.”
“individuality and its safety and exploitation of personal data and safety of a person and its his or her family uh seems very uh important and that's a big concern uh when using AI if those things are respected.”
“Goa truly feels like a separate country with all these newly constructed bridges, and the large, fast road leading to the airport feels excellent yet also evokes a sense of loneliness.”
“We need more ways for people to interact. It would be nice to have some jamming circles here. I envision something like that.”
“Damaged swings because of the rain”
“The swings in the colony have been damaged because of the excessive rains. This means the residents cannot enjoy the view of the river as they sip their evening tea.”
“I love my country. I don't feel like I need to live anywhere else. I just get such a nice beautiful feeling when I'm part of this you know and I travel everywhere here.”
“Goa's residency requirements should be consistent with those of other states. Individuals who have resided in Goa for a specified period and have made significant developmental contributions should be recognized for their contributions.”
“This Goa coastal highway is amazing. The time to reach uh the airport south airport from the city is shortened so much. such a lovely drive.”
“There are very few taxis or public buses. How are people supposed to travel in Goa or Panjim? Local taxis are very expensive.”
“We don't have good carpenters, plumbers or uh local technicians here in Panjim or it's not easy to find them. So any service for that would be great. P”
“There's an excellent exhibition going on here with a lot of solutions for climate change and different interpretations of how to deal with climate and loss etcetera. Must see.”
“It's nice and sunny here and the land is tod for the next rice crop paddy to be planted here. So they'll soon start planting I think in a few weeks.”
“People have just thrown garbage here next to this pond and uh I don't know lots of kind of building material construction material all this trash is just thrown away here. It's it's a beautiful natural pond. Somebody needs to report them and find out who did this.”
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“this next planting season to start was also in the early morning they had a ceremony with the bull being run across the field and people were shouting loudly and”
“I don't know.”
“This new bridge in Goa is very pretty with amazing views of the city and with the lights changing and everything. It looks really pretty. Looks like a European city.”
