PHLASK Ecosystem

Life-sustaining resources should remain abundant, clean and accessible to everyone. The PHLASK mission is to help people find publicly available resources, and to encourage private enterprises to provide access to excess resources - simply by PHLasking. Hoarding and privatizing access to life-sustaining resources is inefficient, wasteful and inhumane. We hope to help amplify growing efforts to normalize resource sharing and challenge the ethics of enterprises who exploit the public commons for profiteering. A group of Philadelphians are working to build the PHLASK Ecosystem to help all Philadelphians locate and access free resources. The PHLASK App is intended to work on both mobile and desktop platforms, and provide useful information about the availability, location and accessibility of water, food, forageable food and bathrooms. Resource data is sourced through public databases, private databases, and the PHLASK App crowdsourcing tool. The PHLASK team hopes to continue adding more ‘PHLASK Taps’ for the four existing resources, and introduce additional resources as the project grows into the future. There are lots of ways to get involved and contribute to this project. We welcome people of all skills and backgrounds to collaborate and contribute! For more details, please email phlaskecosystem@gmail.com, or contact @seifsekalala (LinkedIn profile), or the CodeForPhilly website! Also the beta Phlask site https://beta.phlask.me/