Media Coverage
NHK world, TV Tokyo World Business Satellite, Yahoo News, Tech Crunch, CNET Japan and many others.
Awards
Open Network Lab 3rd – Best Team Award
eco japan cup 2012 –Judges’ Special Award (Kokuryo Award)
Eco Summit Berlin Eco Summit Award 2013 –1st Prize
Keio University Municipality App Contest –Grand Prize
Awards and Media Coverage
Pirika – Contact Us
Pirika, Inc. is a start-up created in 2011 in the research facilities of Kyoto University. We aim to solve
environmental problems with the power of science and technology. Our first step is to solve the global litter
problem – for which no effective solution has been found and which affects everyone in the world.
Pirika, Inc.
CEO Fujio Kojima
Open Network Space, 2 Floor, EBISU i-Mark Gate Bldg., 3-5-7 Ebisu Minami, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo 150-0022
Japan
[email protected] +81-50-5582-5878 (Direct)
http://www.pirika.org
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Achievements of Municipal/Regional Edition Pirika
Following the installation of Pirika in September 2014,
over 60,000 volunteers have participated in cleanup
projects and over 16 million items of litter have been
picked up in Fukui Prefecture (population: 800,000).
Individuals and companies that picked up the most
litter have been awarded, and cleanup efforts
generally have been vitalized.
Installation History
• Yokohama City (October 2016 –)
• Fukui Prefecture (September 2014 – )
Installation Costs
Model Case (city with population of 10 m)
• First Year: Approx. USD 20K (development
costs + maintenance costs (6 months))
• Subsequent Years: Approx. USD 15K
(maintenance costs (12 months))
Note: Please contact us for details.
Installation Process
We confirm the client’s needs through a
number of meetings, and thereafter, we will
make a proposal and provide estimates.
As soon as specifications and other details are
agreed upon, installation will begin after about
three months of preparing for development and
installation.
Meetings
(multiple)
Identify
Specs
Prep for
Dev’t/
Installation
(~3 mo’s)
Begin
Installation
Proposals/
Estimates
Agreement