City life can seem like a giant puzzle in need of solving. Which neighborhood pharmacy delivers? Is that hot new restaurant overpriced? Which farmers market has the freshest produce? Where did you get those shoes? Good questions. We happen to know people with the answers. You. The collective you, that is. Each of you holds answers to pieces of the puzzle. Collectively, you’ve got it solved.

Here’s where Povo comes in. Povo provides the means to tap into that collective pool of local information, map it, and make it available to everyone. Povo's wiki platform lets you share your insider’s knowledge in an organized, easy-to-use framework. It’s a collaborative tool that lets everyone in the community create, evolve, and maintain local neighborhood knowledge. It’s the ultimate urban guide – demystifying your city, block by block, street by street.

Collaboration is good, it makes good things better, and better things great. For those of you so inclined, here's an invitation to find new and meaningful ways to help evolve and customize Povo’s functionality and organization to keep it great. If you’re the kind of person who spends their day thinking of ways to make things work better, you’ve come to the right place.

Actually, you are. Povo is Portuguese and, very literally, povo means you: folk, people. It’s a people site; for you, by you, about your neighborhood.