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Taras KaidanUkraineCurrently living in Kiev, I am a co-founder of the Kiev city magazine Hmarochos (whichmeans Skyscraper). We write about urbanism ideas in our town and successful urbaninitiatives from all over the world. Before that I worked as a journalist for a couple of onlinelifestyle magazines, travelled a little and graduated from the humanities faculty of the KievMohyla Academy.SplaceCreate an app that allows people to donate money and collect petitions for installing smallinfrastructure elements across the city.Our project, Splace, is about giving people the opportunity to change the infrastructure of their city by themselves.It allows people to collaborate, collect money or votes for small urban improvements where city residents needthem, using a mobile app. After the improvement has gathered enough support, Splace implements the project:contacts municipal departments and installs the desired element.Splace is designed for active people who are aware of city problems and want to solve them. It is important forus to run this app because we have many difficulties with city infrastructure in Kiev and, with the help of ourcommunity, we want to change that. We also want to spread the use of Splace to the EU and wider Europe.34