§ Field case · 01 · Radio intelligence · Civic tech · Lima
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Context A mining company in Cerro de Pasco needed to know what nearby communities were saying about them, days before unrest could turn into a road blockade that would shut their operation down. Strikes in the Peruvian Andes start as conversations on local radio. Press monitoring missed those stations. Formal reports lagged the airwaves by days. Nobody was listening at the layer where things actually start.
Built Real-time transcription and daily alerts on public radio across Peru. The first deployment caught villagers organising to block trucks coming out of the mine; municipal directors were brought in and the underlying grievance was resolved before the blockade went up. The same engine now serves regulators, news agencies, advertisers, business owners. And, through PeruAcuerda, the Peruvian public.
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- Max HernándezAcuerdo Nacional — the question that became PeruAcuerda
- Daniel ChappelFounder of PIAR — partner on PeruAcuerda